Best Way To Read A Best Of NYC List

The Village Voice released its yearly Best of NYC 2009 list, just in time for all of you looking for ridiculously specific things like the best tattoo parlor straight out of "Cry Baby," the best mini-golf in Bushwick, or the best erotic bloodletting. Here are a couple of notables:

Best Bacon: Karczma where they serve "...a weirdo appetizer...which features a bread dip called 'peasant lard'—a pool of molten fat dotted with smoky bits of bacon."
Best Rapper Twitter Feed: Fabolous— "In the past six months, Fab has spent frantic days asking his 200,000-plus followers where he might find weed in Miami; passionately feuding with the singer T-Pain over a Tweet that turned out to be fake; and, more ignominiously, making #uknowhowiknowuregay a No. 1 trending topic on the site for the better part of one particularly slow news day."
Best Response to the Question "What's for Dinner Honey?": Dick Chicken—"...other times, Mr. Chicken shows up stenciled as a pornographic rotisserie bird, with a conversation bubble that burps random insults like, 'NICE SANDALS, DOUCHE!'"

Also, congrats to Miss Heather for NewYorkShitty being named Best Neighborhood Blog.

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By Ben Yakas in Arts and Events on October 21, 2009 5:10 PM

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ides_of_march

Well if you like to read the rantings of aging red diaper babies, the Voice is your paper. Having said that, I always enjoyed Nat Hentoff's writing.

NannyState

Read the Voice personals lately?

Neither has anyone else.

NYCSniper

Eh, people have been saying the Voice is dead since practically the second issue. Fact is new yorkers still pick it up.

thefacts

"Eh, people have been saying the Voice is dead since practically the second issue. "

'Fraid not. It used to be relevant.

NYers "still pick it up"?

Yeah, for free! It used to cost. New Yorkers would no longer pay for crap. "New Yorkers still pick up" free toilet paper too.

NYCSniper

We could hash about the decline of print for days. But if no one was reading, they wouldn't still be in business. As someone who has read the Voice since the 60s, I think it's more the case of the paper people love to hate.

More interesting is their desperate appeal to get people to "pick up a print copy of the paper for a change?":

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/archives/2009/10/check_out_the_f.php