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VOICE Mail
Aug 06, 2008; Anonymous ... School doze Re Nat Hentoff's 'No Child Left Unhealed' [July 30-August 5]: I don't remember United Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten speaking much about the kids when I was teaching at-risk students in Brooklyn. She mostly spoke about teacher pay and always seemed to work ...
WOMAN-ON-WOMAN RAPE CLAIM AT RIKERS
Aug 06, 2008; Rayman, Graham ... RIKERS WATCH NEW ALLEGATION AT SCANDAL-RIDDEN JAIL A new crisis is roiling the scandal-plagued city Correction Department, the Voice has learned: A female inmate says she was sexually assaulted by at least one other woman in her cell in the Rikers Island jail. A reported ...
A DEVELOPER STRIKES BACK
Aug 06, 2008; Tucker, Maria Luisa ... PROTEST MOVEMENT MICHAEL ROSEN-EVIL EAST VILLAGE DEVELOPER, OR TARGET OF CONSPIRACY NUTS? "I am not scum!" exclaims Michael Rosen, a onetime developer and member of the East Village/Lower East Side rezoning task force, who is also the owner of a penthouse at the luxurious ...
Having a Riot at Tompkins Square
Aug 06, 2008; Yaeger, Lynn ... On the 20th anniversary of the mayhem, a walking, talking tour of the neighborhood IN 1986, WHEN THE PHOTOGRAPHER Q. SAKAMAKI MOVED TO THE EAST VILLAGE FROM JAPAN, HIS STREET COULD GET VERY NOISY-GUYS ACTING AS LOOKOUTS FOR DRUG DEALERS WOULD YELL WHEN THE COPS WERE APPROACHING, NOT TO ...
Chuck's Club
Aug 06, 2008; Robbins, Tom ... A veteran progressive legislator faces the Schumer steamroller IF CHUCK SCHUMER WERE A BRAND, HE'D BE WAL-MART. NOT SO MUCH THE COMPANY'S ATROCIOUS LABOR POLICIES (SEE THE POWERFUL NEW BOOK THE BIG SQUEEZE, BY THE NEW YORK TIMERS STEVE GREENHOUSE, FOR DETAILS), BUT THE RELENTLESS, ...
The Way of the Word
Aug 06, 2008; Soloski, Alexis ... The Way of the Word Welcome to the language club! An evaluation of the new breed of playwrights. In The Typographer's Dream, a play by Adam Bock that premiered at the Ohio Theatre in 2002, a stenographer, a geographer, and a typographer stand before the audience, discussing their ...
The Fringe Binge
Aug 06, 2008; Anonymous ... Here we go again! NYC's big-ass theater fest returns. At year 12, the New York International Fringe Festival may now be said to be entering puberty-though both supporters and detractors might agree that with its traditional mix of attention-getting stunts and in-your-face ...
School's Out
Aug 06, 2008; Hentoff, Nat ... What has become of all our school dropouts? Has the chancellor even tried to find out? LAST WEEK, I SKETCHED THE PROMISED LAND OF RANDI WEINGARTEN'S "COMMUNITY SCHOOLS" PROJECT, THE MOST THOROUGHGOING REGENERATION OF ANY CITY'S PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM I'VE SEEN PROPOSED. BUT WHILE WE WAIT ...
ANDY'S KIDS
Aug 06, 2008; Barrett, Wayne ... How Andrew Cuomo gave birth to the subprime-mortgage crisis that threatens to bring down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac By Wayne Barrett There are as many starting points for the mortgage meltdown as there are fears about how far it has yet to go, but one decisive point of departure is the ...
Best in Show
Aug 06, 2008; Baker, R C ... Asako Marahashi Yossi Milo Gallery 525 West 25th Street Through August 22 The Terminal Beach Floating in an ocean or lake, 49-year-old Japanese photographer Asako Narahashi partially submerges her camera and aims the lens back toward shore. The resulting ...
The Moon Mountain Man
Aug 06, 2008; Lipinski, Jed ... The Moon Mountain Man Lands of Memory By Felisberto Hernandez Translated by Esther Alien New Directions, 190pp., $14.95 Meet the Uruguayan father of magic realism The Uruguayan writer Felisberto Hernandez (1902-1964)-considered the father of magic realism for his influence on ...
Gimme Prefab Shelter
Aug 06, 2008; Camhi, Leslie ... Gimme Prefab Shelter 'Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling' The Museum of Modern Art 11 West S3rd Street And outdoor space to the west of the museum Through October 20 The Museum of Modern Art surveys-and builds!-some curious experimental ...
Read Book, Wash Hands
Aug 06, 2008; Baron, Zach ... Read Book, Wash Hands Erotomania: A Romance By Francis Levy Two Dollar Radio, 162 pp., $14 Are golden showers the blowjobs of tomorrow? Just ask satirical novelist Francis Levy. 'Once I let go of the slim tethers that tie me to so-called reality and I'm in that VlP room, I'll be ...
Tell Mama
Aug 06, 2008; Sietsema, Robert ... Counter Culture Tell Mama Keur Marne Diarra 2401 Frederick Douglass Boulevard 212-866-0014 Comfy Harlem Senegalese turns out dependable chops and cheb Just inside the front door stands a fat and frowzy Italian chef dressed in whites, nearly six ...
Cake Mix
Aug 06, 2008; DiGregorio, Sarah ... A guide to the curious world of Chinatown bakeries Fork in the Road Manna House Bakery 212 Grand Street, 212-274-8816; three other locations in Chinatown, one in Flushing Dragon Land Bakery 125 Walker Street, 212-219-2012 Lung Moon ...
Duo Dardenne
Aug 06, 2008; Foundas, Scott ... Duo Dardenne Swimming Upstream: Films of the Dardenne Brothers August 7 through 10 Anthology Film Archives Anthology ignores the early days, but still pays worthy tribute to the Belgian brothers The eastern Belgium industrial town of Seraing (pop. 60,000) ...
Daddy's Man
Aug 06, 2008; Kaufman, Anthony ... Daddy's Man The Films of Azazel Jacobs August 11 through 15 BAM On the eve of their Momma's Man opening, Jacobs father and son talk shop and family By most measures, the films of Azazel Jacobs, screening this week at BAM, are on the offbeat end of the ...
(Another) Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
Aug 06, 2008; Pinkerton, Nick ... (Another) Rock 'n' Roll Suicide What We Do Is Secret Written and directed by Rodger Grossman Peace Arch Entertainment Opens August 8 Biopic Secret kills what's cool about the Germs Secret? Not anymore it ain't In my day, you had to visit a dozen ...
Elegy
Aug 06, 2008; Taylor, Ella ... Elegy Directed by Isabel Coixet Samuel Goldwyn Films Opens August 8, Lincoln Plaza andAngelika It's May-December time again, and for an aging dude who scores one of the ripest young lovelies in cinema (Penelope Cruz), Ben Kingsley looks mighty down in the mouth ....
True Bromance
Aug 06, 2008; Wilonsky, Robert ... True Bromance Pineapple Express Directed by David Gordon Green Columbia Pictures Opens August 6 Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love in Pineapple Express On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a ...