The Village Voice back issues from July 2001:
Letters
Jul 03, 2001; ... THE MADONNA AND THE GODFATHER I was dismayed to find the pastor and church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel tarred with the broad brush of Mafia association in Wayne Barrett's "Dark Angels of a Bogus Catholic Museum" [June 19]. This is the parish that was the subject of Robert Orsi's ...
Correction
Jul 03, 2001; ... The musical transcriptions that accompanied Matt Glaser's article "Satchmo, the Philosopher" (June 12) were by John McGann. Letters should be brief, and phone numbers must be included. All letters are subject to editing for ...
Shelter: Apartment in former cocktail lounge
Jul 03, 2001; ... APARTMENT IN FORMER COCKTAIL LOUNGE Location Red Hook, Brooklyn Rent $1400/mo. (market) Square feet 1300 Occupants Olivia Barry (industrial designer); Kiersten Armstrong (video producer, Thinking Pictures; artist) So here we are in your apartment, ...
Trading taters
Jul 03, 2001; ... Andean Fare in Sunnyside Altiplano Who invented freeze-drying? Some scientist at Kraft or General Foods, you think? Wrong! This seemingly high-tech endeavor was perfected millennia ago by South American Aymara Indians, who cultivated over 200 varieties of potato on the Titicaca altiplano. Newly ...
Free will astrology
Jul 03, 2001; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19): You remind me of a hippopotamus floating in a river, the top of its head jutting up through water hyacinths. Why? Because my astrological analysis reveals that you currently possess both brute strength and quirky beauty. You look dangerous but probably won't hurt ...
Just following orders
Jul 03, 2001; ... COMPARING THE TACTICS OF NYPD OFFICIALS TO THE INFAMOUS NAZI DEFENSE 'EXPOSED IN THE JUDGMENTS AT NUREMBERG' (THEY WERE JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS), A FEDERAL COURT JUDGE IN MANHATTAN LAST WEEK ORDERED THE DEPARTMENT AND THE CITY TO HAND OVER MORE THAN $2 MILLION TO A FORMER POLICE OFFICER AND HER ...
A consultant's near and dear
Jul 03, 2001; ... THE BUILDINGS CONSULTANT WHO PLEADED GUILTY TO BRIBING CITY COUNCILMAN THOMAS OGNIBENE WITH GIFTS AND MEALS IN EXCHANGE FOR HELP WITH CITY AGENCIES ALSO DEALT WITH ANOTHER INFLUENTIAL COUNCILMAN, COURT RECORDS SHOW. 11 CONSULTANT RON LATTANZIO DETAILED HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH OGNIBENE IN HIS ...
Who did kill Christ?
Jul 03, 2001; ... LENNY BRUCE USED TO TELL, IN HIS ACT, ABOUT A JEW WHO WAS WEARY NOT ONLY OF BEING CALLED A CHRIST KILLER BUT OF OCCASIONALLY BEING PUNCHED IN THE MOUTH BY DISCIPLES OF THE PRINCE OF PEACE. FINALLY, THIS BELEAGUERED JEW PUT A NOTE IN HIS CELLAR, WHERE IT COULD EASILY BE FOUND. HE WANTED TO ...
Mr. Hot Potato
Jul 03, 2001; ... MONDO WASHINGTON California Lawmakers Keep Condit at Arm's Length ALL LAST WEEK, THE MORE THAN FOUR DOZEN MEMBERS OF THE CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION KEPT SILENT AS THEY WATCHED THEIR HAPLESS COLLEAGUE GARY CONDIT CHASED THROUGH THE CAPITOL HALLS BY REPORTERS, DODGING ...
A dull knife poised
Jul 03, 2001; ... NATION Docs Find III in Chinese Organ Trade, and in Bill to Stop It Dr. Thomas Diflo's Hippocratic oath has taken him from the operating room to Capitol Hill. Diflo, director of renal transplant surgery at NYU Medical Center, will testify Wednesday before the House of ...
Drug war on the Web
Jul 03, 2001; ... PRESS CLIPS 'Narco News' Ready for Libel Suit in New York LAST MONTH, WHEN CITiGROUP BOUGHT BANAMEX, THE SECOND LARGEST BANK IN MEXICO, THE DEAL WAS PRAISED AS GOOD FOR THE MEXICAN PEOPLE AND GOOD FOR THE BANKS. CITIGROUP VICE CHAIRMAN ROBERT RUBIN TOLD THE PRESS THAT THE DEAL ...
Nobile intentions
Jul 03, 2001; ... >>Journalist Philip Nobile has been dogging Don Imus for years, taping his radio show and vowing to put an end to the man's "relentless racism and homophobia." Until recently, Nobile's complaints have been confined to venues such as TomPaine.com, which plans to run an Imusrelated ad in The ...
Kind bud
Jul 03, 2001; ... Uncle Sam's Medical Pot Project Is Light on Research, Heavy on Compassion Lake Palestine, Texas--George McMahon knows he hasn't got much time to live. On this spring day, he sits in his car beside a crowded beach and opens a shiny metal canister filled with marijuana cigarettes. McMahon ...
Guess who's coming to Dharma
Jul 03, 2001; ... BLACK WOMEN EMBRACE WESTERN BUDDHISM In the half-century since Buddhism re-entered American pop culture via the Beats (having first enjoyed a passing vogue during the 1890s), more and more black femaleschildren of the civil rights movement, champions of black nationalism, feminist ...
The woo-hah!!-ing of the age of Aquarius
Jul 03, 2001; ... 'HAIR' COMPOSER'S TANGLED, SPANGLED, AND SPAGHETTIED BEATS LET THE SUNSHINE INTO HIP-HOP Galt MacDermot lives in a restored schoolhouse in Staten Island with his wife, Marlene. He has the financial resources to live anywhere he wants, but he chooses this drowsy borough for the very ...
Ambulance wars
Jul 03, 2001; ... HOW PRIVATE AMBULANCE CREWS STEER PATIENTS AWAY FROM PUBLIC,HOSPITALS THIS WEEK, COMPTROLLER ALAN HEVESI'S OFFICE IS FINALLY RELEASING A LONG-- AWAITED REPORT SHOWING THAT AMBULANCES FROM PRIVATE HOSPITALS TEND TO TAKE PATIENTS BACK TO THEIR OWN RATHER THAN THE NEAREST EMERGENCY ...
Sex & negrocity
Jul 03, 2001; ... JOHN SINGLETON ON SHTUPPING, SHAFT, AND SPIKE Black people can be found #!@$ing in John Singleton's Baby Boy. Rawdog, pardon our French. Your usual euphemisms need not apply Not your having sex making love makem whoopee or knocking boots nor your beast with two backs gettin' it on ...
Death in Astoria
Jul 03, 2001; ... AN EYEWITNESS TO FLAME AND FRENZY On June 17,2001, the day three firefighters perished in a conflagration at Long Island General Supply in Astoria, Daniel Forbes, a reporter, who lives in the area, was behind police lines. This is his eyewitness account. (A shorter version of this ...
Rite for the wronged
Jul 03, 2001; ... Smbolic Tribunal Tries U.S. for Crimes in Korea "The GIs took away my arms and hands," said Oak Hee Lee of North Korea, describing the tragedy she suffered as a child during the Korean War. American soldiers, she said, shot off both her hands when they caught her foraging for food for ...
Bonjour Bourget
Jul 03, 2001; ... At the Paris Air Show With the New `Merchants of Death' PARIS-Eight senators, headed by Ted Stevens of Alaska, and 16 congressmen vying to win lucrative defense contracts for their districts visited the biennial Salon du Bourget-the world's largest air show-here last week accompanied by ...
Cracking eggers
Jul 03, 2001; ... Sizing Up the Latest McSweeney's CRACKING EGGERS TIMOTHY MCSWEENEY'S QUARTERLY ATTEMPT #6 Edited by Dave Eggers McSweeney's, 206 pp., $25 If Dave Eggers keeps going at this rate, the next McSweeney's is going to have to come over to your house and cook you a ...
Raw material
Jul 03, 2001; ... Steelworkers Tell Their Tales RAW MATERIAL THE HEAT: STEELWORKER LIVES & LEGENDS Edited by Jimmy Santiago Baca Cedar Hill Publications, 157 pp., $15 paper In 1968 there were more than 650,000 steelworkers in the U.S., laboring at scorching hot ...
Panic attack
Jul 03, 2001; ... Navigating the Venice Biennale's Sprawling Interzone Sequels rarely live up to anyone's expectations, and megacurator Harald Szeemann's second Venice Biennale in a row-the 49th incarnation of the contemporary art world's most venerable supershow (through November 4)is no exception. Two ...
The uses of diversity
Jul 03, 2001; ... Spring Heat in New York's Small Spaces "Go" is an apt name for the 11-year retrospective that Sarah Skaggs presented at Danspace St. Mark's in mid June. Skaggs is a going choreographer. She likes feet to stride, scamper, skitter, hop, skip, race. When a piece finishes, you half expect ...
Royal treatment
Jul 03, 2001; ... Watching London's Royal Ballet, you're in the presence of eternal ballet verities. Delicate, precise, almost prim, excellent dancers performing two all-- Ashton bills packed balletomanes into Washington's Kennedy Center (June). Dozens of New York critics made the journey, since the Royal, which ...
The duke of hazard
Jul 03, 2001; ... Shakespeare Frets Over Vienna; Music Springs From Berlin MEASURE FOR MEASURE By William Shakespeare Delacorte Theatre, Central Park 212-539-8655 WATCH YOUR STEP! By Harry B. Smith, music and lyrics by Irving Berlin Musicals Tonight! ...
Making the best of castration
Jul 03, 2001; ... The Summer Festival Season Begins DE MONSTRUOS Y PRODIGIOS (LA HISTORIA DE LOS CASTRATI) By the National Theater Company of Mexico The International Hispanic Theatre Festival The Duke 229 West 42nd Street 212-239-6200 LYRIKAL FEARTA ...
Mash culture
Jul 03, 2001; ... Eurodisco Descendants Remember What Hip-Hop (and Rock) Left Behind BASEMENT JAXX Rooty Astralwerks Here are some things Basement Jaxx's new album, Root, makes me think of. the long-- range viability of classic song form; hip-hop's aesthetic hegemony and how it ...
Sounds like music
Jul 03, 2001; ... After the Future, a Non-Gesture That Just Is RADIOHEAD Amnesiac Capitol The prop plane circled the ballpark, trailing the type of banner you might also see at the beach. The message, though, was not what you usually see at Dodger Stadium. "Radiohead Amnesiac" ...
Undead Zeppelin
Jul 03, 2001; ... Hotter Than 'Hotter Than Hell' THE DEAD END KIDZ D.E.K DEK "Oh, the humanity!" wailed the radio announcer from Lakehurst, New Jersey, as the Hindenburg burned and crashed not 200 yards from him in 1937. Yet compared to the loss of life in modern air disasters, ...
Mood swings
Jul 03, 2001; ... Tom Harrell Samples the Bitter With the Better Tom Harrell's unevenness as an improviser and composer has generated one of jazz's most consistent dramas over the past 25 years. When the planets come into alignment in a Harrell solo; when all is focused and driven and he knows where he ...
Pay no mind to what they say
Jul 03, 2001; ... Though they quit after three short years, the five pinups who were the Go-Go's never disappeared completely. There were tours promoting best-ofs and new-wave nostalgia, plus a few solo efforts. Still, releasing their first album of original material in 17 years took guts, and performing it ...
Kind of blue
Jul 03, 2001; ... I'll describe first, and decipher later. Tears for Fears' "Pharaohs" instrumental fades as dark 'blue lights bathe the Irving Plaza stage. After some random postmillennial beats, the Eurhythmics-like synth groove of "You Don't Wanna"(a track from the brand-new Blowback) takes over. Her ...
Dueling with symphonies
Jul 03, 2001; ... Branca Goes for the 100-Guitar Mark In the late 1970s, Glenn Branca and Jeffrey Lohn invited Rhys Chatham to play bass with their band, Theoretical Girls, for a couple of gigs. Chatham was then music director of the Kitchen, and the aim was apparently to get the band a Kitchen gig, ...
Mister magic
Jul 03, 2001; ... Monica, a fly, thirtysomething, master's-degree possessing, denim-and-camouflage-sporting speech therapist hailing from Fort Washington-"south of Southeast," she says-is scribbling the names of her crew ona scrap of paper on Friday like she's once again a 10-year-old out past curfew on a hot ...
The mommy returns
Jul 03, 2001; ... Spielberg Regressed and Lumumba Remembered A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Written and directed by Steven Spielberg, from the story by Brian Aldiss Warner Bros./DreamWorks Opens June 29 LUMUMBA Directed by Raoul Peck Written by Peck and Pascal ...
Southern comforts, northern songs
Jul 03, 2001; ... Young and Restless BABY BOY Written and directed by John Singleton Columbia Opens June 29 THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS Directed by Rob Cohen Written by Gary Scott Thompson, rik Bergquist, and David Ayer Universal QUADROPHENIA Directed by ...
Gay trippers
Jul 03, 2001; ... Incredibly True Adventures COME UNDONE Directed by Sebastien Lifshitz Written by Stephane Bouquet and Lifshitz Picture This! Cinema Village Opens June 29 THE CLOSET Written and directed by Francis Veber Miramax Opens June 29 Though ...
Tsai Ming-Liang opens the floodgates
Jul 03, 2001; ... Still Waters Run Deep URBAN GHOSTS AND LEGENDS: THE CINEMA OF TSAI MING-LIANG Walter Reade June 29 through July 12 Balancing reticence with boundless compassion, despondency with deadpan absurdity, debilitating inertia with a visceral urge for escape, Tsai Ming-liang's ...
Repeat offenders
Jul 03, 2001; ... Blood and Circuses THE CRIMSON RIVERS Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz Written by Kassovitz and Jean-Christophe Grange Tristar Angelika Opens June 29 DR. DOLITTLE 2 Directed by Steve Carr Written by Larry Levin Twentieth Century Fox The public-relations pitch for Mathieu ...
Alt.uniforms
Jul 03, 2001; ... Twenty-two of the 30 Major League Baseball teams currently feature at least one alternate uniform design, a situation that has led to much gnashing of teeth from assorted traditionalist parties, Uni Watch among them. But are alternate unis really such a new phenomenon, blasphenously running ...
Nike's poster child
Jul 03, 2001; ... For a little-known quarterback from out west, the University of Oregon's Joey Harrington sure casts a large shadow over the intersection of 33rd and Seventh. But it's the shadowy forces behind the $250,000 bannerwhich touts Heisman hopeful Harrington-that are angering many of his fellow ...
Looking out for no. 1
Jul 03, 2001; ... The Washington Post headlines called Cal Ripken Jr. "The Ultimate Team Player" and "The Most Respected Player in Baseball." The normally level-headed Thomas Boswell gushed, "Cal Ripken is worth these final cheers and deeply felt farewells because he's exactly what he seems to be. Only more so." ...
Mixin' it up
Jul 03, 2001; ... Shane "the Dribbling Machine" Woney, longtime streetball point guard, dribbled down the left wing like a rocket. Rather than take the open finger roll, however, Shane slowed up, turned halfway around, and bounced the ball between his legs. Suddenly, from the opposite wing came Waliyy "the Main ...
Up against the wall
Jul 03, 2001; ... Handball, the City's Most Popular Game GHETTO PRESIDENT DIVED FOR A BALL STREAKING OUT OF BOUNDS, GOT HIS FINGERTIPS ON IT, AND JUST BEFORE TUMBLING TO THE ASPHALT, PUT UP A BEAUTIFUL SHOT THAT TURNED ACE'S MUG REDDER THAN THE JACK OF DIAMONDS. 'GODDAMMIT!' BARKED ACE, JUMPING IN THE ...
Letters
Jul 10, 2001; ... POLICING THE POLICE Re Peter Noel's article on the ruling upholding an award of over $2 million to former police officer Gloria Gonzalez ("Just Following Orders: The NYPD's 'Nuremberg' Defense," July 3]: The NYPD has been extremely successful in thwarting and subverting institutional ...
Correction
Jul 10, 2001; ... In James Ridgeway's Mondo Washington column (July 3), it was reported that the missing Chandra ...
The liars club
Jul 10, 2001; ... NY MIRROR HIGHER ED An Indiscriminate Organization We have a right to expect consistency in scholarship. Integrity, honesty, good faith-without these qualities we have only more fiction. Of course, there are those who say that historiography is, in some sense, fiction, ...
Can can
Jul 10, 2001; ... NY MIRROR TABLE TALK How Did Zagat Lose Track of This One? I first wandered into Can five or six years back to grab a quick bite with a girlfriend. The Asian-French menu looked promising, recalling the late and lamented La Maison Japonaise, which introduced ...
Plague years
Jul 10, 2001; ... 2001 Marks the 20th Year of the AIDS Epidemic. Are You Vigilant? ERICA NICOTRA Age 27 Resides Manhattan Occupation Artist Do you practice safe sex? By its strictest definition, probably not. I'd have to say no, even though I'm in a long-term and monogamous ...
Free will astrology
Jul 10, 2001; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19): Let's get mythical, shall we? For aeons, the command post in your psyche has been harassed by a pretender to the throne, a/k/a the Teenage Egomaniac From the Prettiest Part of Hell. This poor thing, who in some ways is a naive savage and in other ways an over-civilized ...
Shelter: Apartment over candy store
Jul 10, 2001; ... APARTMENT OVER CANDY STORE Location Greenpoint, Brooklyn Rent $845/mo. (market) Square feet 500 Occupant Tami Lee (visual manager/stylist, Anthropologie) Now, let's take an inventory of your apartment: one taxidermied bear, full-bodied, one taxidermied bear head, 20 photos of ...
The banker who broke the law
Jul 10, 2001; ... CITYSTATE Should the Board of Ed's Bill Thompson Advance to the Next Grade? WILLIAM THOMPSON, THE EX-BOARD OF EDUCATION PRESIDENT AND INVESTMENT BANKER WHO'S RUNNING FOR CITY COMPTROLLER, CELEBRATES HIS 'REAL WORLD FINANCIAL EXPERTISE' IN HIS CAMPAIGN LITERATURE, CONTENDING ...
High-priced consulting for a low-service HMO
Jul 10, 2001; ... Most of Bill Thompson's "financial consulting" clients are not revealed on his Board of Ed disclosure forms. The most disturbing one that Thompson did list, however, was Managed Healthcare Systems Inc., where he earned a total of $65,000 in 1997 and 1998, according to his tax returns. A ...
Warning: Gentrification in progress
Jul 10, 2001; ... A Case Study in Displacement on Elizabeth Street WHILE GILLIAN JABIN SAYS SHE'S HAPPY WITH THE MOVE SHE MADE TO A DOWNTOWN APARTMENT ON ELIZABETH STREET, SHE FINDS ONE THING TROUBLING. AFTER LIVING THERE FOR NEARLY A YEAR, SHE STILL GETS LETTERS MEANT FOR THE TENANT WHO LIVED IN THE ...
What's next for the left?
Jul 10, 2001; ... Politics Beyond Rhetoric The Democrats, who always want black Americans to think that they are our best friends at election time, don't live up to their promises with much more consistency than their Republican counterparts. -E.R. Shipp, Daily News, February 4 The ...
See George wiggle
Jul 10, 2001; ... Team Bush Treads Skinny Middle on Microsoft With the appeals court ruling on Microsoft last week, the Bush administration finds itself caught between two conservative factions and one mighty big billionaire. On one flank, Bush and company are contending with free-marketeers who argue ...
Foot-in-mouth disease
Jul 10, 2001; ... Judge Jackson's Loose Lips.Make Trouble Again Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson must have thought he had every right to discuss the Microsoft case, while it was still going on, with reporters who agreed to file their stories only after his decision had been handed down. But in doing so, he ...
When Slobodan squeals
Jul 10, 2001; ... Milosevic Points Finger at NATO Powers In his upcoming war-crimes trial, Slobodan Milosevic,a/k/a the Butcher of Belgrade, will try to portray himself as a secret partner with NATO powers, who he says gave him a "green light" for the use of force that ended in genocide, reports the ...
Screened at NASA?
Jul 10, 2001; ... Derbyshire Housewife Captures UFO on Tape A British housewife recently sold a homemade video of what she thinks was a flying saucer to a Hollywood film producer. The BBC reports officials at NASA want to look at her tape because they think it might be the same kind of craft the agency's ...
Montesinos's revenge
Jul 10, 2001; ... PRESS CLIPS Extra, Extra! CIA's Drug Warrior Was a Thug! IT'S A CINEMATIC THRILLER, MAYBE EVEN A 'VANITY FAIR' PIECE IN THE MAKING. ON JUNE 23, VENEZUELAN POLICE ARRESTED VLADIMIRO MONTESINOS, THE FORMER CHIEF OF PERU'S CIA AND THE EVIL MASTERMIND BEHIND ALBERTO FUJIMORI'S ...
Legalize it
Jul 10, 2001; ... >> You don't read 'much about Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the States, but the septuagenarian novelist is now Mexico's champion of independent journalism. After surviving a bout with cancer, Garcia Marquez surfaced in Mexico City last month with Cambio, his new weekly news magazine ....
Stalking the stalkers
Jul 10, 2001; ... Most of the men in Judge Bert Bunyan's Brooklyn courtroom on a recent Thursday were there for physically attacking their girlfriends or wives. They had shoved these women to the ground, punched them in the face, broken their arms or legs or, in one case, a jaw. Not Igor Yakunkov, though. Not ...
Fearless Jones
Jul 10, 2001; ... FEARLESS JONES By Walter Mosley Little, Brown, 312 pp., $24.95 In Walter Mosley's noir universe, the smudged lines scantly separating the good guys from the bad are further confounded by the existential slippage of racism. Mosley's latest mystery, Fearless Jones, is ...
Smell
Jul 10, 2001; ... SMELL By Radhika Jha Soho Press 307 pp., $24 Smell is a book about immigration, pungent odors, and animal sex. It's not often that a reviewer gets to write a sentence like that, but Jha's debut novel is a strange and mostly pleasing concoction of contrasting elements. Leela is a young ...