The Village Voice back issues from April 2005:
Living in dreams
Apr 06, 2005; ... Lush Life Living in dreams 1.5 ounces absinthe One teaspoon castor sugar The white of one egg Frappe with ice, serve in a coupette (margarita) glass Absinthe-the drink of 19th-century romantics and sly moderns who manage to smuggle it in from ...
Property, theft-whatever
Apr 06, 2005; ... Property, theft-whatever Do you have friends who sometimes download music for free? Do these friends experience occasional pangs of guilt, then rant about how much they love music, and want to support the bands they listen to, but that sometime they just con't resist? Since you ...
'AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL'
Apr 06, 2005; ... TS DVD 'AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL' iPAIMKOUNI HOME ENIERIAINNEKI) If there's a formula for making great reality shows, it's smart casting and peppy editing. And no show does it better than America's Next Top Model. The casting is top-notch: lesbian Ebony, irritating ...
LITTER BOX
Apr 06, 2005; ... Chow fun? In his raucous, high-end Kung Fu Hustle, STEPHEN CHOW turns cartwheels, eyes a-bulging, as he indulges in chop-socky-to-me hilarity. But in person, at his premiere party at Oceana last week, he was reserved and almost dour as he bore into me with doleful eyes. Who does he ...
Clear and present Darger
Apr 06, 2005; ... Clear and present Darger Outsider artist HENRY DARGER-the subject of Jessica Yu's acclaimed documentary In theRealms of the Unreal-was born in Chicago 113 years ago this week. To commemorate his birth, the AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM (45 West 53rd Street, 212-265-1040) is inviting the ...
Rencher's Crab Inn
Apr 06, 2005; ... MORE, PLEASE Rencher's Crab Inn * * 407 Myrtle Avenue. Brooklyn. 718-403-0944: Sunday-Wednesday. 1 -9 p.m.. Friday and Saturday, noon to midnight. Though not particularly large, the shrimp at Rencher's-an old and forgotten institution in Clinton Hill-stand with the best ...
The woman who did
Apr 06, 2005; ... The woman who did MARCH 10.1979: Gloria Gaynor's disco anthem "I Will Survive" topped the chorts and stayed there for three weeks. Her Grammy-winning signature tune has been adopted by gay men and ...
stage fright
Apr 06, 2005; ... stage fright JULIAN FLEISHER has some nerve! If he thinks he can get up in front of a 12-piece band with his two backup singer girlies, belting out songs with that four-octave voice of his, dragging out those old disco ditties and overlooked show tunes-you've never heard a snappier ...
G.I. joke
Apr 06, 2005; ... The Essay A REAL-LIFE YOSSARIAN ON THE COMIC EFFICIENCY OF A SOLDIER'S LIFE IN IRAQ BAGHDAD, IRAQ The Iraqi people don't have to tell me what it's like to live in a dictatorship. I've spent over 16 years in the Army. "Listen up. Today, your favorite color is blue. Any ...
Win one for the gyppers
Apr 06, 2005; ... WITH A STRONG PUSH FROM CITY HALL, MTA MOVES THE BALL FOR THE JETS The strongest boast that Team Bloomberg brought with It Into office three years ago was Its business skills. Coach and captain Mike Bloomberg, a multlbllllonalre. made his own fantastic fortune with a keen eye for ...
TAKE FIVE
Apr 06, 2005; ... WESLEY STSCE, a/k/a British pop balladeer John Wesley Harding is the author of Misfortune, out now from Little, Brown. Store's outrageous 544-page debut novel is the picaresque tale of Rose Lovell, a beautiful young English aristocrat who discovers that she's actually a he. Set in ...
Shelter
Apr 06, 2005; ... Falling ceilings WHAT HAPPENED TO THE JOURNEY? WHERE DID IT GO? WORLD AT STANDSTILL. LOCATION West Village RENT $1,625[morket] SQUARE FEET 420 [one-bedroom in pre-warwalkup] OCCUPANT Wendy Lau [lawyer] Fascinating the way your doq leans over. Now ...
Tab war
Apr 06, 2005; ... PRESS CLIPS THE POST AND THE NEWS DUKE IT OUT, BUT CIRC PROBE IS THE MAIN EVENT The long-running barroom brawl between the New York Post and the Daily News spilled onto the street in recent weeks. Both papers landed stinging blows. Trouble is, their real fight might be with ...
TEAM PLAYERS
Apr 06, 2005; ... Doctoroff's developer posse Immediately after winning the MTA vote last week, the Jets held a victory rally at the Terrace Room of the nearby Roosevelt hotel. On the stage. Jets president Jay Cross made a point of singling out Steven Spinola, the president of the powerful Real Estate ...
The courting of Bill
Apr 06, 2005; ... Mondo Washington GOP DREAM PLOT: SHUT OUT HILLARY BY APPOINTING HUBBY TO SUPREME COURT WASHINGTON, D.C. The right-wing political community remains haunted by the specter of a "President Hlllary Clinton" turning the Patriot Act on their own leaders, marching them off to ...
I'm bait, bitch!
Apr 06, 2005; ... SITE SPECIFIC WHEN REQUESTING TERM PAPER HELP VIA IM, DON'T FORGET THAT YOU MIGHT BE FUCKING WITH A COMEDY WRITER Bitch didn't know she was fucking with a comedy writer," gloated Nate Kushner in last week's chart-topping blog entry "Laura K. Pahl is a Plagiarist"-"bitch" being, ...
Whitewashing Rumsfeld
Apr 06, 2005; ... Liberty Beat CIRCLING THE WAGONS AROUND THE DEFENSE SECRETARY AND HIS COMMANDER IN CHIEF I'm perfectly comfortable in telling you [that] our country is one that safeguards human rights and human dignity. * Georqe W. Bush to a Russian reporter in Slovakia, February ...
RECIPE FOR TROUBLE
Apr 06, 2005; ... CITY SCHOOLS' NEW FOOD PLAN FAILS TO DELIVER Among institutions in the United States, only the military feeds more people than the New York City schools, where cafeterias serve 800,000 meals every day of the school year.-Getting all that food from the companies that produce it to the ...
Time for a prayer circle
Apr 06, 2005; ... Clinton and Kerry launch an unlikely crusade for religious freedom at work Anew bill co-sponsored by senators Hillary Clinton and John Kerry would seem, on the surface, the perfect chance to carry out the Democratic Party's fresh-minted strategy of getting religion. Supporters of the ...
Report from the Upper West Bank
Apr 06, 2005; ... HOW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BECAME THE LATEST MIDEAST BATTLEGROUND When Kristin Hickman took Professor Joseph Massad's Middle East studies course last semester, she tried to visit him during office hours and remembers being discouraged by the line of students gathered. "It was too ...
THE FRENCH ARE COMING
Apr 06, 2005; ... THE FRENCH ARE COMING Keren Ann and Nouvelle Vague open up New York ears to the chanteuse nation On a somewhat sunny day in September last year, the French singers Camille and Mélanie Pain pulled up in a yellow cab at the meatpacking district salon Bumble and Bumble with French ...
PICK HIT
Apr 06, 2005; ... PICK HIT Bloc Party+the Ponys+Chromeo Until the Cure tour with Bright Eyes, this double bill will remain the pinnacle of frantic post-punk bands fronted by yelping boys on the verge of tears. Bloc Party beat Franz Ferdinand at their ...
SHORTLIST
Apr 06, 2005; ... WEDENESDAY 6 Art Rachel Feint tain It takes nerve to create a body of work based on Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, but Rachel Feinstein's series of aging models, painted in rococo-era fashion on oval mirrors, does exactly that. Comprising a Picture of Rachel Feinstein, ...
Greed Aid
Apr 06, 2005; ... Generation Debt THE NEW ECONOMICS OF BEING YOUNG Big Banks Do Billions in Student Loans-and That Means Less Honey for You The Student Aid Reward Act (STAR Act) introduced in both houses of Congress March 15 provides an unusually clear test of our national priorities. Do ...
THE CHOCOLATE ROOM
Apr 06, 2005; ... LIQUID CITY Willy Wonka goes Sideways: A decadent bar sets the standard THE CHOCOLATE ROOM 86 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn 718-783-2900 Spanish aristocrats used to drink their chocolate boiled in wine, the concoction spiced and sweetened, before the severely ...
KUNG FU HUSTLE
Apr 06, 2005; ... Kicks and giggles: Hong Kong king of comedy's kung fu send-up delivers the action goods KUNG FU HUSTLE Written and directed by Stephen Chow Sony Pictures Classics Opens April 8 PERSONAL VELOCITY Those who monitor popular cinema don't have a ...
ALEXANDRA
Apr 06, 2005; ... COUNTER CULTURE Restaurant space evolves as Village property values rise ALEXANDRA 455 Hudson Street 212-255-3838 HO'SOR HAMBURGERS? No address better symbolizes the current era of culinary gentrification than 455 Hudson Street. Not long ago, it ...
NYC GRASSROOTS MEDIA CONFERENCE
Apr 06, 2005; ... Be your own pundit: Skills for combating corporate media NYC GRASSROOTS MEDIA CONFERENCE Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. New School, 65 Fifth Avenue 212-420-9045 nycgrassrootsmedia.org $8-$20 Don't hate the media, become the media." So sayeth punk pundit Jello Biafra, ...
MATCH GIRL
Apr 06, 2005; ... CLOSE-UP MATCH GIRL Directed by Andrew Meyer April 9 and 16, MOMA The most heartrending as well as the pithiest of Scandinavian bummers, Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" is the tale of a child who freezes to death on New Year's Eve, her ...
THE KICKUP ARTIST
Apr 06, 2005; ... Hidden master's oeuvre a hybrid of humor and homage THE KICKUP ARTIST In real life, I am nothing,' says Stephen Chow, 42, the star, director, writer, and producer of Kung Fu Hustle. (Of course, that's exactly what a hidden master would say.) That's why I want to do something ...
HAPPILY EVER AFTER
Apr 06, 2005; ... TRACKING SHOTS HAPPILY EVER AFTER Written and directed by Yvan Attal Kino, opens April 8, Paris Theatre If there is any doubt as to whether French cinema is in a state of free fall, Yvan Altai's Happily Ever After should put such uncertainties to rest. This ...
EROS
Apr 06, 2005; ... Omni-bust: Wong's early climax can't make up for a spent Soderbergh and a flaccid Antonioni EROS Directed by Wong Kar-wai, Steven Soderbergh, and Michelangelo Antonioni Warner Independent Opens April 8, Landmark ...
A HOLE IN MY HEART
Apr 06, 2005; ... A squalid Swedish porno drama punishes its audience A HOLE IN MY HEART Written and directed by Lukas Moodysson Newmarket Opens April 8, Cinema Village Kung Fu Hustle is not the week's lone self-reflexive genre bender. Operating in an even more popular mode ...
MAJOR DUNDEE
Apr 06, 2005; ... Major improvement: Peckinpah's westernized 'Nam-era parable returns in bloody recut MAJOR DUNDEE Directed by Sam Peckinpah Sony Pictures Repertory April 8 through 19, FilmForum, BACK IN THE SADDLE Play it again, Sam. A blustery, madcap preamble to ...
MIX18: 18TH NEW YORK QUEER EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA FESTIVAL
Apr 06, 2005; ... MIX18: 18TH NEW YORK OUEER EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA FESTIVAL April 7 through 12, Anthology Clocking in at under 25 minutes, Jennie Livingston's Who's the Top?cou\d have been called Dude, Where's My Feature? Arriving a decade and a half after Livingston's legendary Harlem drag ball doc ...
DAVID HOCKNEY: THE COLORS OF MUSIC
Apr 06, 2005; ... TRACKING SHOTS Light motifs: Hockney hosts an opera-scored tour of his art DAVID HOCKNEY: THE COLORS OF MUSIC Directed by Maryte Kavaliauskas and SethSchneidman April 6 through 19, Film Forum When I go to the opera I want to have something to look at, " ...
IN SATMAR CUSTODY
Apr 06, 2005; ... TRACKING SHOTS IN SATMAR CUSTODY Written and directed by Nitzan Gilady April 6 through 12, Two Boots Pioneer These days, on the sidewalks of leafy enclaves in upstate New York, bearded men sporting black hats and long, curling side locks pass women with covered ...
AMITABH BACHCHAN: THE BIGGEST FILM STAR IN THE WORLD!/MASTERS OF INDIAN CINEMA
Apr 06, 2005; ... Two film series spotlight Indian cinema's dual traditions AMITABH BACHCHAN: THE BIGGEST FILM STAR IN THE WORLD! April 8 through 19, Walter Reade MASTERS OF INDIAN CINEMA April 8 through 14, ImaginAsian With some high-profile releases in the past few years, ...
WINTER SOLSTICE
Apr 06, 2005; ... WINTER SOLSTICE Written and directed by Josh Sternfeld Paramount Classics, opens April 8 WhileTV shows like The Wire have no problem simply air-dropping us into complex plots with minimal exposition, lots of movies still insist on having intimately acquainted characters ...
Deep Crimson
Apr 06, 2005; ... Deep Crimson Home Vision Arturo Ripstein's Deep Crimson is a dark tango transposing the true story of the Lonely Hearts Killers-inspiration for the cult classic The Honeymoon Killers-to 1940s Mexico. A fading gigolo and the obese nurse who adores him ruthlessly prey upon a ...
EATING OUT
Apr 06, 2005; ... EATING OUT Written and directed by Q. Allan Brocka Arztical, opens April 8, Quad Way back when, friends, Jim Verraros used to be as much of a household name as Kelly Clarkson, Justin Cuarini, and in certain circles (maybe just mine) Ryan Starr. Now American Idol 2002's ...
The Sword of Doom
Apr 06, 2005; ... The Sword of Doom Criterion Kihachi Okamoto's landmark modernist antisamurai saga has a sneaky agenda: We meet expert swordsman Ryunosuke (Tatsuya Nakadai) amid a seemingly senseless act of violence, the mystery of which we presume will be revealed to us. Soon it becomes clear, ...
THE FRIEND
Apr 06, 2005; ... THE FRIEND Directed by Elmar Fischer Films Philos, opens April 8, Village East Preparation for the 9-11 attacks largely took place in Al Qaeda cells acting as Islamic student groups, including the one in Hamburg, Germany, headed by tactical commander Mohammed Atta. Elmar ...
JULIUS CAESAR
Apr 06, 2005; ... Faint praise for Caesar: It's better than a thousand recycled pop-catalog Broadway musicals JULIUS CAESAR By William Shakespeare Belasco Theatre 11 West44th Street 212-239-6200 CHOPPERS OVER PHILIPPI Most of Shakespeare's plays require an ...
DOUBT
Apr 06, 2005; ... SIGHTLINES DOUBT By John Patrick Shanley Walter Kerr Theatre 219 West 48th Street 212-239-6200 Moved from Manhattan Theatre Club to the higher, broader, and pricier reaches of a Broadway house, John Patrick Shanley's Doubt is, if anything, more ...
VOICES IN WARTIME
Apr 06, 2005; ... VOICES IN WARTIME Directed by Rick King Cinema Libre, opens April 8 This poorly organized mishmash of archival war films, scholarly chatter, and literary quotations looks at the age-old relationship between war and poetry. At its best no more than standard History Channel ...
JÉRÔME BEL/SHLAMMER
Apr 06, 2005; ... Everyday life as vaudeville and vaudeville as coming-of-age in Jewish heritage (ha-ha) JÉRÔME BEL Dance TheaterWorkshop March 24 through 26 SHLAMMER ByDanFroot Dance TheaterWorkshop March 30 through April 2 LAUGH YOUR HEART ...
NOT ON THE LIPS
Apr 06, 2005; ... Lip service : Alain Resnais adapts a buoyant 192Os operetta NOT ON THE LIPS Wellspring The French New Wave's great, forlorn meta-physician Alain Resnais has not seen his stock rise in his dotage; art film meteors like Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad have ...
ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET
Apr 06, 2005; ... ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET Joyce Theater Closed Out of the West come classical dancers who make ballet easy to watch Aspen Santa Fe Ballet could never be accused of purveying art for aifs sake. A 10-year-old chamber group directed by Tom Mossbrucker and Jean-Philippe ...
PANEGYRIC 1 & 2/SELECTED PROSE
Apr 06, 2005; ... Guy Debord hits the sauce, and John Ashbery gives you some Poundage, sans asshole PANEGYRIC 1 & 2 By Guy Debord Verso, 181pp., $25 SELECTED PROSE ByJohnAshbery Michigan, 326 pp., $29.95 PARIS IN THE '50s There is more and more to say about Guy Debord; one can ...
Spiritual Voices/Confession
Apr 06, 2005; ... Spiritual Voices/Confession Facets What a world-this five-hour-plus, five-chapter Alexander Sokurov documentary never had a chance at theatrical distribution even in Europe, but thanks to digital technology, you can already buy this double DVD on Amazon for less than 30 bucks. In ...
RACK FOCUS
Apr 06, 2005; ... RACK FOCUS The Crook (MGM) In Claude Lelouch's clever adventure, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays an escaped thief tracking down his hidden loot. More (Home Vision) Barbet Schroeder's debut is mostly a mess, but the Pink Floyd soundtrack and Nestor Almendros photography add to this ...
SEXUAL METAMORPHOSIS
Apr 06, 2005; ... TABLE TALK SEXUAL METAMORPHOSIS Edited by Jonathan Ames Vintage, 336pp., $13.95 Novelist Jonathan Ames explores sex changes as the editor of Sexual Metamorphosis, gathering pieces from photographer Loren Cameron, former Bond girl Caroline Cossey, and professor Jenny ...
DAMIEN HIRST
Apr 06, 2005; ... Hirst: Another symptom of the hype, the hubris, and the money swamping the art world DAMIENHIRST Gagosian Gallery 555 West 24th Street Through April 23 THE EMPEROR'S NEW PAINTINGS The 31 paintings in Damien Hirst's sad new show at Gagosian are not ...
TIERNO BOKAR
Apr 06, 2005; ... A meandering Brook tells a murky parable of intolerance TIERNO BOKAR Text by Marie-Hélène Estienne Barnard Hall 3009 Broadway 212-239-6200 The theater Peter Brook has created in recent years is a serene place, an open space spread with rugs or ...
PORTRAITS OF AN AGE
Apr 06, 2005; ... SHOW WORLD PORTRAITS OF AN AGE Neue Galerie 1048 Fifth Avenue Through June 6 This splendid survey of photographs from Germany and Austria opens in 1900 and cuts off in 1938 with the beginnings of World War II-a period "that prompted both radical aesthetic ...
SHOCKHEADED PETER/HOUSE/LIGHTS
Apr 06, 2005; ... Two agile revivals make fresh comedy out of creepy menace SHOCKHEADED PETER Little Shubert Theatre 422 West 42nd Street 212-239-6200 HOUSE/LIGHTS St. Ann's Warehouse 38 Water Street, Brooklyn 718-254-8779 DARK ...
TORI AMOS
Apr 06, 2005; ... TORI AMOS The Beekeeper Epic An open letter from, a goddess, on giving the spirit world what it wants Tori Amos! This is the ancient goddess, uh, Gargamel talking! As we learned from your new autobiography, Piece by Piece, a defining point in your artistic ...
BLOC PARTY
Apr 06, 2005; ... Next Big Thing tames Marxist innovations to rock the party BLOC PARTY Silent Alarm Atlantic ENTERTAINMENT! What are you left with when you strip the social context from music born of alienation and frustration and create something sexy and cool? This time ...
AMALGAM
Apr 06, 2005; ... With the Brit avant-garde, rust-belt saxophone, Braxton standards, Dylan standards RITUALS OF GETTING ACQUAINTED CONSUMER GUIDE Pick Hits AMALGAM Prayer/or Peacelice [1969] FMR The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz have a soft spot for the ...
BETH SOLL & COMPANY
Apr 06, 2005; ... BETH SOLL & COMPANY Merce Cunningham Studio Closed Veteran choreographer remains most striking as a dancer Beth Soil began making dances a year after Valerie Anderson (1964-2004), to whom she dedicates her new Running/Mourning, was born. In this piece Soil ...
RAOUL BJÖRKENHEIM/LUKAS LIGETI
Apr 06, 2005; ... RAOUL BJÖRKENHEIM/LUKAS LIGETI Shadowglow TUM τ mprovised guitar and drums, sometimes L prepared, sometimes something else (trisonic steel guitar? electric viola da gamba? Chinese tam-tam?). Each piece ...
KATHY WESTWATER
Apr 06, 2005; ... UPCOMING KATHY WESTWATER Joyce SoHo 155 Mercer Street 212-334-7479 Friday through Sunday Twisted, tack, broken is Kathy Westwater"s Vulcan fantasy. She coins the term "neo-romantic melodrama" for this 70-minute dance in which the natural and ...
CLAUDIA QUINTET
Apr 06, 2005; ... CLAUDIAOUINTET I, Claudia Cuneiform John Hollenbeck's pieces are all rhythm and tone: the former from drums and vibes, the latter from accordion and clarinet, all pastel-colored instruments that ...
FRANK HEWITT
Apr 06, 2005; ... FRANKHEWITT We lovedYou Smalls Hewitt was one of countless guys who spent their lives playing in obscure dives, never lucking or bulling into the spotlight. For nine years up to his death in 2002 he worked and sometimes lived at Smalls, an after-hours club in NYC, ...