This YouTube video (above) has been up since October, but it's pretty interesting if you haven't seen it already. Charles Nesson invited Nick Sylvester to his Cyber One class at Harvard Law School recently. In the clip, you can see Sylvester get asked if his Village Voice piece was an assertion of art, cheating, or a mistake. Mostly Nesson wants to know why he apologized the way he did, Sylvester's answer was a bit confusing, as is most of what he says. He stated, "when you have rent to pay...and the most incredible girl you've ever met in New York with you and you sort of want to take her to nice dinners once in a while, and when your entire life is in New York City...". more ›

Those folks at JellyNYC (also responsible for the free Sunday shows at McCarren Park Pool this summer) booked a great lineup for the 2007 Plug Awards. The awards will take place on February 10th at Irving Plaza, and so far the lineup looks like this: more ›

• Chris Ott starts verbal slapping match with The Decemberists Colin Meloy. more ›

• Sasha Frere-Jones took first place in music criticism for his work in the The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Village Voice and others. We like his blog, too. more ›

Day 1 was long, but we managed to get a few hours of sleep and gear up for the rest of week. Last Thursday we started off our day at the South By Stereogum party. Brisket on white bread was served, Fat Tire beers were distributed and Aziz Ansari was hosting the show, which had a solid lineup: Aloha, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Thunderbirds Are Now!, Rogue Wave and Ted Leo. more ›

Having trouble reading that napkin over there? Allow us to translate: Doug Simmons, managing editor of the Village Voice, has been fired over the Nick Sylvester incident. more ›

Listen up aspiring comedians...Eugene Mirman has a few tips for you. On his blog at the Village Voice Mirman lists things that every comedian does, or should do, in order to have a successful stand-up act. Unlike Nick Sylvester, we're sure Mirman put some actual research in prior to writing this piece (oh, zing! Yeah, we should read these tips.) more ›

The Voice just published a bunch of letters to the editor about, who else, Nick Sylvester. They still have him on suspension, however maybe they'll listen to their own readers, who are pretty clear on what they want... more ›

After being suspended from the Village Voice for writing a fabricated cover story this week, Nick Sylvester has just been forced to quit his other job as associate editor at Pitchfork Media. more ›

This week the cover story in the Village Voice was about some stupid book called "The Game" (currently #71 on Amazon's list of books), which supposedly revealed secrets used by juvenile fratboys to ensnare female prey. The entire piece read like a press release for the book-- when we read it, we wondered how much money Nick Sylvester was taking to sneak it into the magazine. Read a couple of paragraphs that we've chosen at random: more ›

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