The Village Voice archives review of Robert Downey Sr.'s 1972 film, "Greaser's Palace," as well as 12 full pages of cinema ego-stroking.

The Village Voice recommends getting out of the Solstice chill to head into La MaMa's warm environs of poetry and art.

The Village Voice reviews the scintillating two-person exhibition "Actual Queers Kissing!" at Elliott Templeton Fine Arts, in Chinatown.

In that same issue, Robert Downey, Sr. himself sat down with Jonas Mekas, the Voice ’s expert on (and maker of) underground cinema. During the interview, Mekas muses that perhaps Downey is getting too ...

Having trouble sleeping? Try Bi Gan’s slow cinema experiment, Resurrection. Side effects may include drowsiness, boredom, and increased sense of confusion. Ask your doctor about Bi Gan’s Resurrection ...

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 ...

Who defeated Charles Van Doren? / Which movie won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1955, and why did Herbert Stempel have to pretend that he didn’t know? / What did President Eisenhower call “a terrible ...

With its cheesy boardwalk settings and beatnik ambience — bongo player “Chaino” gets singled out in the credits — writer/director Curtis Harrington’s Night Tide (1961) proves an apt first-time star ...

There are few art forms as demanding or as mesmerizing as glass art. Molten sand and other raw materials are transformed through breath, fire, and human intuition into objects that appear to capture ...

Gateway drug? Copy of “Junkwaffel” #1, purchased under false pretenses half a century ago. R: Paperback remnant of a stage career cut short. It was sometime in 1974, and I was extremely nervous ...