In 1976, longtime Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff looked at the state torturing and killing its own citizens under the Shah of Iran.

A 1976 article from the Village Voice archives looks at a Star Trek convention held in midtown, 10 years after the show debuted on TV.

The day after the German Reichstag was severely damaged by fire, in 1933, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party, which had received only one-third of the popular vote a few months before, rammed through a decree ...

February is Black History Month, and while certain autocrats in power would like to undo that celebration, the Brooklyn Museum is honoring BHM in the return of “First Saturdays, ...

But you can leave all such bluster behind this Monday by joining fellow New Yorkers in honoring the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This 40th-annual MLK event will ...

The Village Voice's September 5, 1963, eyewitness report on the March On Washington and Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.

Before there was a Robert Downey Jr., there was a Robert Downey Sr. — who was originally just Robert Downey. The elder Downey (1936-2021) made some wild films, one of which, Putney Swope, drew high ...

From the moment Caireen starts talking, you’re not sure if she’s here to seduce you or just absolutely roast your prudish Aunt Linda. She does that very Canadian thing of acting wholesome while saying ...

Not M.C. Escher puzzles but di Chirico enigmas. L: “Grand Degré”; R: “The Rock,” both 2025, oil on linen, 16 x 12 inches. Mary Corman paints interiors that are empty but not deserted, ethereal but not ...

Block party: Jean Foos’s painted block interacting with the public, 34th Avenue and 79th Street, in Jackson Heights, Queens. Public art has often brought out heated controversy, particularly when ...

Plaster casts of Leonard Nimoy’s head crowded one display table. Life-sized posters of William Shatner striking various heroic poses covered the walls. The air was filled with a cacophony of ...