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News >> National News | Blogs The Year in Protests by Voice Photographers As we began to look back on 2014 for our last issue of this year, we found it awfully hard to see past the demonstrators. more >> You Can Now Try Hangover-Curing IV Drips on a Bus With Other Hungover People If you're going to pay $500 for bottle service anyway, what's $75 to cure your hangover the next day? That's the logic behind the Hangover Club. more >> Music >> Top Picks Mac DeMarco's Old Sneakers Are Getting Crazy Bids on Ebay by Kai Flanders Retail value for a pair of Vans Authentic sneakers is $55. Canadian rocker Mac DeMarco's tattered, road-worn set are worth roughly 200 times that amount. The singer is auctioning his self-described "sexy shoes" on eBay for charity. With several days to go, bids have topped $20,000. more >> The Best Noise Music in 2014: The Year's Top 36 Noise Cuts Here and now we arrive, whole but not necessarily unscathed, at the end of a very, very heavy year. The sounds cataloged below feel representative of the lowest psychic lows 2014 had to offer and the highest heights we were elevated to. As ever, anybody complaining that our modern era is lacking in exciting, adventurous music simply isn't looking hard enough. Dig in, and better yet, jam all this noise concurrently -- because, after all, you can. more >> Restaurants >> Our Food Critic Cleanses His Palate by Zachary Feldman Maybe it's because I ate in so many of them with only infrequent quibbles, but 2014 felt like a banner year for New York restaurants. more >> Ten Great Places for New Year's Day Brunch, 2015 If you've yet to make your New Year's Eve plans, we suggest you head on over to our list of spots to celebrate. You might also check out our list of the 10 best winter cocktails and the 10 best new bars in NYC for further possibilities. If your plans are, indeed, locked down, then you might preemptively consider where you'll be killing your holiday hangover come Thursday. Here are 10 great places serving a New Year's Day brunch. more >> Movies >> Showtimes A Most Violent Year Never Quite Summons Rough Old New York by Stephanie Zacharek The world needs fewer tasteful movies about distasteful things. It definitely doesn't need J.C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year, in which Oscar Isaac plays a nouveau-riche heating-oil baron in early-1980s New York, striving to maintain his principles amid industry corruption and generally scummy behavior. Isaac's Abel Morales skulks through most of the numbingly wayward two-hour runtime in a black turtleneck and camelhair coat, the trappings of a guy who, after working hard for years, has only recently been able to enjoy the finer things in life. more >> The Search for General Tso Breezes Through Chinese-American Cuisine Though it does ultimately get around to relating the origin of the chicken dish named for the 18th-century Chinese general, most of The Search for General Tso is a breezy survey of the history of Chinese-American cuisine. more >> Arts >> Our Favorite NYC Art Shows of 2014 by R.C. Baker, Jessica Dawson, and Christian Viveros-Fauné Another year in the books, another kajillion art exhibitions installed and taken down. For this, the Voice's final issue of 2014, we asked R.C. Baker, Jessica Dawson, and Christian Viveros-Fauné to share with readers their picks for the five best art shows of the year. more >> Every Brilliant Thing Succeeds Via Audience Participation I like this audience — good people here tonight," says performer Jonny Donahoe as he warms up a Friday-night crowd at Every Brilliant Thing. Generating goodwill is essential: Audience members don't just watch this play -- they perform it, too. The production, jointly created by Britain's Pentabus and Paines Plough theater companies, is billed as a "solo" show. But it calls for a highly effective collaboration between the actor and the people in the seats. (Somehow the term "audience" doesn't suffice when attendees have lines and play roles.) more >>

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