This weird, mythic-post-Cold War, junior-James Bond paradigm, a childishly preposterous Rube Goldberg fantasy of faux-espionage so many decades out of style, probably simply boils down to Tom and his distractingly boyish hair. #missionimpossible #TomCruise villagevoice.com/review-mission…

In the early ’70s Whitten retained a pointed consciousness in his work, but he also began pushing the technical boundaries of painting using a rake-like tool of his own design that he christened the “Developer." #abstractart #abstractpainting #acrylicpaint villagevoice.com/jack-whitten-n…

Robbins’s investigative legacy is etched into the very fabric of New York journalism. villagevoice.com/newshound-extr…

Settles’s leftist syllabus leads her deeper into the unknown, into the quandaries of her own decision-making, like a real-life dawning of political consciousness. villagevoice.com/painter-dianna…

Between the covers of “Everything is Now” you’ll meet such luminaries of bohemia as “the chain-smoking, coffee-swilling, already boozed-up” Jack Kerouac preparing for a spoken-word appearance at a jazz club, which, Hoberman writes, was “judged a disaster.” villagevoice.com/party-like-its…

Jill’s songs had a “for the people” effect because the melodies were so easy to remember and repeat, but the content was powerful, smart, and deeply unapologetic. She had an amazing ability to create a sense of community. Joe’s Pub Tracy Bonham villagevoice.com/jill-sobule-wa…

Quint is the classic tough guy, who, with his harpoon and fishing tackle, aims to simply kill the thing. Hooper embodies intellect, and the belief that knowledge equips us to outsmart our predators. Brody is the everyman… #JAWS #1970s ##thriller villagevoice.com/rewatching-jaw…

“To enforce orders for repression — whether on racial, religious, or political grounds — fascist leaders need a lot of help, particularly at the lowest levels.” #NoKingsProtest #LosAngelesProtests villagevoice.com/the-disappeare…

The patriots of today must persevere, just as civil rights marchers did throughout the 1950s and ’60s, despite the hateful invective — and much worse — constantly hurled at them. #NoKingsProtest #NoKingsInAmerica villagevoice.com/nycs-no-kings-…

As fireworks lit up like giant peaches in the sky, it became clear, on the corner of 12th Street NW, how little space was actually being taken up by all this sound and fury. villagevoice.com/potuss-militar…

This is a character-based pop novel done right: accessible, unpretentious, hard-hitting. Too universal to be literary fiction, too well-written not to be. Gideon Leek #ModernLiterature #novels villagevoice.com/portnoys-under…

After hearing Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention perform “Trouble Every Day,” their song about the Watts Riot of 1965, Wilson was ecstatic at signing “the ugliest White blues band in all of Southern California.” #bobdylan #velvetunderground #sunra villagevoice.com/you-should-kno…

“O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, today, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.” #4thofJuly #patriotism #FrederickDouglass #IndependenceDay #HistoryMatters villagevoice.com/back-to-the-fu…

Vaughn Bode didn’t live to see his creations as literal outlaws, but then again, in his heart, that’s what they’d always been, or they would never be so vivid on the page. #cheechwizard #vaughnbode #junkwaffel #wizards #TimotheeChalamet #beastieboys villagevoice.com/50-years-gone-…

A visceral sense of bodies that live beyond their death or are transformed into other creatures imbues a number of the images in this small, concise Cameron exhibition Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery. villagevoice.com/marjorie-camer…

If you’re looking for an evening of comedic lit as the dog days descend, one of the events celebrating Ed Park’s witty story collection, “An Oral History of Atlantis,” might be just the ticket. McNally Jackson The Korea Society Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 #shortstories villagevoice.com/tales-for-our-…

“We were serious Catholics; we believed in apparitions. My heart had been broken since my father’s death. Anything Flanagan told me about my father speaking to him from the grave was like hearing it from the voice of God. I believed everything he said.” villagevoice.com/unspeakable-ac…

Love or hate the choices, they came not just from the heart but from a group of editors and writers with decades of experience tuning in radio stations, spinning albums and singles, surfing streaming services, and listening to boom boxes here in Gotham. villagevoice.com/the-60-best-so…

Milhazes’s muscular studio process creates movement in the layers she generates, a sort of physical concrete poetry wherein the way she paints mimics the wildness of fertile nature. Guggenheim New York villagevoice.com/beatriz-milhaz…

If you think huge law firms, immensely wealthy colleges, and gargantuan media conglomerates caving to the bullying tactics of powerful politicians is something new under Trump 2.0, this show The New York Historical might give you pause. villagevoice.com/blacklisted-an…