The Village Voice back issues from June 2005:
Sauce for the gander
Jun 01, 2005; ... Lush Life Blend all ingredients, shake mightily until frothy (the drink, not you), and serve "up," dusted with fresh nutmeg and powdered sugar: 1 oz Gosling's rum 1/2 oz each fresh-squeezed lime and lemon juice 1/2 oz simple syrup 1 egg white After ...
Correction
Jun 01, 2005; ... The photo of Johnny T, Justine D, Michael T, and Georgie Seville (the Motherfucker ...
Picture this
Jun 01, 2005; ... Many know BILL RICE (left) as a legendary performer in downtown experimental theater and independent film; most recently he graced Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes with hisdroll repartee with Taylor Mead. But Rice's visual artistry hasn't been seen in manyyears, making a one-day-only ...
BLESSED BE
Jun 01, 2005; ... Step over the glass boxes glistening with silver relics sunk into the wooden floorboards, past the Depression-era gowns, and into the back room, where chalkware religious statuettes greet you from atop theVictorian curio cabinet. Within these walls adorned with dozens of pairs of antique ...
Troubled double
Jun 01, 2005; ... The O'DEBRA TWINS celebrate the second anniversary of "Show & TeII," their off beat open-mic night, this Monday, June 6, at the Bowery Poetry Club (308Bowery, 212-614-0505)at 10p.m.; $3. They'll be handing out awards like Best Unwed Mother, Most Abortions, and Best ...
Secret church
Jun 01, 2005; ... IT'S CHEERFUL ON FIFTH: "HEY, BOB, I'M JUST COMING OUT OF THE BARBERSHOP" LOCATION Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn PRICE $475,000 in 2004 [$340 common charges] SQUARE FEET 1,050 plus balcony [loftlike condo in reconverted1904school] OCCUPANT Callie Hirsch [artist; ...
P.I.'s bad-boy pals
Jun 01, 2005; ... A FORMER FUNDRAISER FOR D.A. CANDIDATE NAMED IN STOCK FRAUD PROBE For those who need an introduction to him, Richard "Bo" Dletl Is New York's private eye to the stars. The toughtalking ex-NYPD detective Is a regularon Don lmus and the cable talk show circuit, where he has proudly turned ...
A sorry mess
Jun 01, 2005; ... Press Clips BAGHDAD STILL ISN'T SECURE? THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION BLAMES THE PRESS. It's two years and two months since we invaded Iraq to bring down its dictator. Saddam Hussein. Our military quickly rolled into Baghdad, sent the government oppressors fleeing, and shortly ...
I Was a Really Young Real Estate Mogul
Jun 01, 2005; ... Generation Debt - THE NEW ECONOMICS OF BEING YOUNG Can't Afford Rent? Buy Instead-but Carefully At 22, Cindy Umanzor is already tired of New York City rents. She came from San Francisco four years ago to attend the New School, where she graduated this May. Although her ...
Busted for blackness at Middlebury
Jun 01, 2005; ... How a Bronx senior with a sterling record got kicked out of a tony Vermont college Supporters of 21 -year-old O'Neil Walker label his predicament a disgraceful case of racial profiling. Just before graduation this spring from Middlebury College in Vermont, the African American senior ...
FOURTH ANNUAL BROOKLYN ALTERNATIVE SMALL PRESS FAIR
Jun 01, 2005; ... Pressing the point: DIY publishers gather in the Slope FOURTH ANNUAL BROOKLYN ALTERNATIVE SMALL PRESSFAIR Saturday from 10 a.m. tO 4p.m. Camp Friendship 339 8thStreet, Brooklyn 718-832-2310 What do The Joys of African Sex have in common with The ...
ALIADA
Jun 01, 2005; ... COUNTER CULTURE The very best lamb chops in Astoria are not exactly Greek ALIADA 29-19 Broadway Astoria, Queens 718-932-2240 STINKY HERB One distinguishing feature of Greek Cypriot cooking is the use of cilantro. Native to the Mediterranean area, ...
SHORT STORY
Jun 01, 2005; ... Imposition exhibition: Snow's latest Story folds in on itself SHORT STORY Directed byMichael Snow Through June 25, Jack Shainman Gallery Michael Snow's new movie Short Story-a title that really should be printed with one word placed over the other-is installed at ...
LORDS OF DOGTOWN/CINDERELLA MAN/THE LONGEST YARD
Jun 01, 2005; ... The modern American sportsman, as skate punk, ringside messiah, and prison bitch MAN SHOWS LORDS OF DOGTOWN Directed by Catherine Hardwicke Columbia, opens Junes CINDERELLA MAN Directed by Ron Howard Universal, opens Junes THELONGEST ...
MILWAUKEE, MINNESOTA
Jun 01, 2005; ... TRACKING SHOTS MILWAUKEE, MINNESOTA Directed by Allan Mindel Tartan, opens June 3, Angelika Champion of more than a dozen ice-fishing tournaments, but still living with his domineering mother (Debra Monk), twentysomething Albeit (Troy Garity) is what's politely ...
NEWFEST 2005
Jun 01, 2005; ... Mighty hermaphrodite, boozy floozy headline LGBT fest NEWFEST 2005 June 2 through 12 Loews 34th Street and Loews State According to the British writer Christopher Booker, all films adhere to one of seven basic plots. But what would Booker make of Both, the story ...
APRÈS VOUS
Jun 01, 2005; ... APRÈS VOUS Directed by Pierre Salvadori Paramount Classics, opens June 3 Praised be the gods that this rom-com is French. If not, we'd be haunted by visions of a Focker-ish Dustin Hoff man rescuing a suicidalTony Shalhoub then orchestrating theTV germophobe's ...
THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS
Jun 01, 2005; ... THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS Directed by Ken Kwapis Warner Bros., opens June 1 Mailmen will have a field day calculating the postage spent by Sisterhood's four teenage gal pals, as they send a single pair of jeans across the globe.The titular trousers ...
ROCK SCHOOL
Jun 01, 2005; ... TRACKING SHOTS Rock of underages: Kids get Zap-tized by tyrannical tutor ROCK SCHOOL Directed by Don Argott Newmarket, opens June 3 The short-fused motormouth who runs the Paul Green School of Rock Music, an after-school program for nine-to-17-year-ol'ds ...
CATERINA IN THE BIG CITY
Jun 01, 2005; ... CATERINA IN THE BIG CITY Directed by Paolo Virzí Empire, opens June 3, Metro Twin Junior high is often so terrible because it's a preview of adult life's internecine struggles for power. In Paolo Virzí's dark comedy, a Roman middle school presents in microcosm the ills ...
THE JUDGMENT
Jun 01, 2005; ... THE JUDGMENT Directed by Fantham Thongsang June 3 through 9, ImaginAsian Adapted from an award-winning novel by Chart Kobjitti, producer-turned-director Pantham Thongsang's The Judgment harks back to a more modest time in Thai cinema-the 1980s-when fewer than a dozen ...
L'Argent
Jun 01, 2005; ... L'Argent New Yorker Robert Bresson's final film-made when he Was 81-is a harrowing scour of ideological cinema, based on a sermonic Tolstoy story about greed but turned by Bresson into a pantomime stations of the cross, so completely focused on sensuous minutiae, ...
OPEN ROADS: NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
Jun 01, 2005; ... OPEN ROADS: NEW ITALIAN CINEMA Walter Reade, June 1 through 9 Is Italy a glossy land of shopping malls and corporate headquarters or a wilderness of ruined industrial spaces and crumbling social services? Both sides are on display in this series of 12 films. The documentary A ...
LITTER BOX
Jun 01, 2005; ... Ssssmokin' Attention, trend editors: Barbecue restaurants are hotter than a pig's ass in an electric blanket these days. The Chelsea crowd has been coherent and wearing shirts while indulging in death-defying ribs at RUB Barbecue, and over in the East Village, I just ate like a ...
SONGS FROM AN UNMADE BED
Jun 01, 2005; ... SONGS FROM AN UNMADE BED New York Theatre Workshop 79East4th Street 212-239-6200 Mark Campbell's lyrics and an army of composers make distant bedfellows For good or ill, the most striking fact about Songs From an Unmade Bed is that it is all of a ...
TERRORISM
Jun 01, 2005; ... New drama turns terrorism into a metaphor for modern ails TERRORISM BythePresnyakovBrothers CIurmanTheater/Theatre Row 410 West 42nd Street 212-279-4200 BONBSAWAY "The Pit Inside Us." That was the title of my Voice article on the theater ...
PARTING GLANCES
Jun 01, 2005; ... Dark, brooding, intimate, elegantly sexy, infinitely suggestive of the possible-no, don't mean five minutes with Colin Farrell, but close-the gorgeously mysterious photographic works of Tear Sheet contributor ALLEN FRAME are as beautifully elusive as they are defiantly straightforward. Or maybe ...
Page maker v4.0
Jun 01, 2005; ... Almost four decades ago, London artist TOM PHILLIPS bought a flea market copy of W.H. Mallock's 1892 novel A Human Document, which he has since evolved into an ever expanding artwork of drawings, paintings, and - collages done directly onto its pages. A thick, colorful tome, Phillips's AHumument ...
HOCKMAN, HOGAN & HOWARD
Jun 01, 2005; ... HOCKMAN. HOGAN & HOWARD Arts@University Settlement Closed Sounds like a stodgy corporation, dances like a dream What if Hockman, Hogan & Howard really were a lawfirm, not three mature dance veterans sharing a show? Laurie Hockman and Katherine Howard would ...
SOLO/DUO
Jun 01, 2005; ... SOLO/DUO Japan Society May2oand2i DANATAISOON BURGESS & CO. Asia Society May21 and 22 TIMELY AND TIMELESS Some Asian choreographers ride the pop culture bandwagon; others plumb their traditions Japan Society titled its spring ...
Sun Shine Kitchen
Jun 01, 2005; ... MORE, PLEASE Sun Shine Kitchen * * 695 St. Nicholas Avenue, 212-368-4972: Monday through Friday. 10:30 a.m. to IO p.m.; Saturday. 5 to IO p.m. Jamaicans don't cotton to the Trinidadian roti, preferring to eat the curried meat or poultry filling plain, or jazzed up with ...
HOW TO BE IDLE
Jun 01, 2005; ... HOW TO BE IDLE By Tom Hodgkinson HarperCollins, 286pp, $18.95 DAY DREAM NATION Slack happy: A Brit weighs in on wage-earning (none), sex (some), and drinking (lots) Memorial Day marks the official start of summer, that blissful cluster of months when activity slows down ...
Spoke, memory
Jun 01, 2005; ... THE CONNECTIONS If the glorious spring weather isn't reason enough to break out the trusty Schwinn, consider it yourcivicduty. DavidV. Herlihy casts the engrossing Bicycle: The History (Yale) as a tale of Utopian vision and social progress. The author glowingly idealizes ...
TAKE FIVE: ANNETTE O'TOOLE
Jun 01, 2005; ... ANNETTE O'TOOLE is a shockingly versatile actress whose career includes appearances on The Partridge Family, The Outer Limits, and Law & Order, as well as the role of Clark Kent's mom on the WB's Smallville. She's married to veteran actor Michael McKean as famous for his portrayal of Lenny, ...
SCHWARZENEGGER SYNDROME: POLITICS AND CELEBRITY IN THE AGE OF CONTEMPT
Jun 01, 2005; ... SCHWARZENEGGER SYNDROME: POLITICS AND CELEBRITY IN THE AGE OF CONTEMPT By Gary Indiana The New Press, 140 pp., $19.95 California screaming: Gary Indiana takes aim at Ahnold DEMOLITION MAN Months have passed and I'm still scared to lift the pillow from my eyes. The ...
PARKING PERK
Jun 01, 2005; ... Cop landlord gets a freebie Officials of the city's police pension fund were so grateful to their landlord at the historic Woolworth Building on lower Broadway that they handed him a much prized park-anywhere placard that he used for his luxury sports cars. Woolworth Building ...
Theater of forgiveness
Jun 01, 2005; ... The Essay THE LATE PHILOSOPHER ASKS: IF THE WHOLE WORLD CONFESSES, WHO'S BEHIND THE SCREEN? Toward the end of his career, the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida became increasingly focused on the problem of religion-not merely as a cultural phenomenon, but as a unique ...
Post-Bop Shopping
Jun 01, 2005; ... For fans in general and collectors in particular, a crucial social locus enters the virtual age. A friend of mine of mine who took a jazz history course taught by Archie Shepp at SUNY Buffalo in the late '60s recalls one class in particular. After playing a track by Charlie Parker, Shepp ...
Covering Expenses
Jun 01, 2005; ... A who, what, why, where, when-and how many-of the uncharted world of independent jazz labels It takes two to make new jazz records: an artist to create and a businessperson to cover expenses. Although small jazz labels proliferated in the early LP era, by the '60s and '70s the record ...
Protection racket
Jun 01, 2005; ... QUESTIONS ABOUT ALBANY'S CUT OF NEW YORK'S HOMELAND SECURITY MONEY It's accepted wisdom that New York State gets shortchanged by federal homeland security funding programs-that the residents of such terror targets as Wyoming, the Dakotas. and yes. Montana, get more cash per capita than ...
Wayne's World 3
Jun 01, 2005; ... SITE SPECIFIC THE MOST INSCRUTABLE EXPERIMENT IN RADIO SINCE 'WAR OF THE WORLDS,' BROADCASTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO On Monday, the San Francisco airwaves began to quiver with the most inscrutable experiment in corporate radio since Orson Welles's "War of the Worlds." ...
The New Apprenticeship
Jun 01, 2005; ... Learning the real-world lessons of the jazz musician's life in a university setting * by D.D. Jackson The academic year is nearing its end at the New School's undergraduate Jazz and Contemporary Music Program, where students in master trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah's Sun Ra Ensemble class ...
DAMIAN 'JUNIOR GONG' MARLEY/I-WAYNE/JAH CURE
Jun 01, 2005; ... DAMIAN 'JUNIOR GONG' MARLEY "Welcome to Ja mrock" TuffGong/IDJ I-WAYNE "Can't Satisfy Her" VP JAHCURE Freedom Blues VP REGGAE'S RETURN TOROOTS Just in time fox summer, the Jamaican crossover pendulum swings ...
Bush's moral guide
Jun 01, 2005; ... Liberty Beat PRESIDENT TRADES SILENCE ON DARFUR FOR TERRORIST INFORMATION FROM MURDEROUS SUDAN Wehavenot taken adequate measures given the enormity of the crimes because we don't want to directly confront Sudan [on Darfur] when it is cooperating [with us] on terrorism. * ...
EDDYTOR'S DOZEN
Jun 01, 2005; ... The excellent soundtrack to the Discovery Kids-NBC TV show Darcy's Wild Life (which, judging from its cover, appears to be some sort of takeoff on the famous reality show featuring Paris Hilton and Lionel Richie's daughter milking Green Acres cows, except starring one Sara Paxton as the next ...
YING YANG TWINS
Jun 01, 2005; ... YINGYANGTWINS : "Wait (The Whisper Song)" ' "Pull My Hair" TVT Call the porn-rap lover scum at your own self-revealing risk Ying Yang Twins' whispered-in-your-ear "Wait," for better or worse, is a crass flirt mistaken for a date rape anthem by people who ...
One more cup of CD for the road
Jun 01, 2005; ... STARBUCKS BOLDLY MARKETS ITS MILD MUSIC BLEND It's a cool night In mid May at the Supper Club In mldtown, and the place is crawling with industry reps-of both the music and coffee varieties. "I'd like to give a shout-out to Starbucks and all the baristas and partners here!" Kristen ...
BOTTOM
Jun 01, 2005; ... BOTTOM you'rNext Small Stone MAPOUEST Three-woman desert session mines metal's shifting sands Hidden somewhere deep in the caves along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, so far from civilization that a primal scream is blown away with the tiny glass ...
CLUB CRAWL
Jun 01, 2005; ... CLUB CRAWL I love that Rothko is so equal opportunity. While the venue seems to be more associated with rock, the booking agents and the owners are just as dedicated to the electronic stuff we rave on about. They turn one year old this week and are celebrating not with a lineup of indie ...
Kamikaze Jeanine
Jun 01, 2005; ... Pressed by GOP Bigs-Karl Rovel-Pirro Considers a Run Against Hillary Clinton Not long ago, Jeanine Pirro, the Westchester County district attorney, was swatting down any talk of a Senate bid, brushing aside questions about whether she'd challenge Hillary Clinton in 2006. As recently as ...
Exposure
Jun 01, 2005; ... Pucker Up A TRIP TO THE NEW YORK EROTIC EXPO INSPIRES ADVICE FOR PORN NEWBIES Please do not touch, lick, stroke, or mount the exhibits," read a sign at last week's Erotic Expo (eroticexpony.com). (What about the performers? Why were there no instructions about interacting with ...
SHORTLIST
Jun 01, 2005; ... WEDNESDAY 1 Art 'Reliable Disappointment': Megan Foster Megan Foster's second solo show in New York is about as far from the "reliable disappointment" of the title as one could possibly get. Foster's paintings open windows and knock down walls on scenes of domestic tranquility of ...
PICK HIT
Jun 01, 2005; ... 'Birdie Blue' A tough-minded woman's reflections on love and marriage are at the center of Cheryl L. West's new play, directed by Seret Scott. Since West is the author of far the Floor and Before It Hits Home, the event is notable enough already, but ...
RAPTURE LOUNGE
Jun 01, 2005; ... LIQUID CITY Queens' nights: Celebrate college-like antics in Astoria RAPTURE LOUNGE 34-27 28thAvenue, Astoria, Queens 718-626-8044 No fights tonight," said the bartender, whose latest brushes with "violence" include being pelted by bottle caps and having ...
CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
Jun 01, 2005; ... Dedicated to Ozu, Hou's eloquent, meditative mood piece dreams its own Tokyo story CAFE LUMIÈRE Directed by HouHsiao-hsien June 4, BAMcinématek June 10 through 19, Anthology Film Archives TRAVELING LIGHT We'll have to wait for the New York Film ...
WITCHFINDER GENERAL
Jun 01, 2005; ... CLOSE-UP WITCH FINDER GENERAL Directed by Michael Reeves Museum of Modern Art, June 1 and 18 You never know what might turn up in "To Save and Project," MOMA's annual festival of recently preserved films, but it's always satisfying to find an obscure, late-'60s ...
EUGENE GREEN: A BAROQUE WORLD
Jun 01, 2005; ... His living world : A French director redefines direct cinema EUGENE GREEN: A BAROQUE WORLD June 5 through 10, BAMcinématek To the frenzied and talky world of French auteur cinema, the films of Eugène Green are a vital reminder of just how radical simplicity can feel. "I ...
THE WHITE DIAMOND
Jun 01, 2005; ... Dread, zeppelin: Herzog flies the manic skies in new quest THE WHITE DIAMOND Directed by Werner Herzog June 1 through 14, Film Forum THE AVIATOR Any day in which I'm able to step into the gaze path of extreme, globe-trotting seeker-of-otherworldliness ...
OR (MY TREASURE)
Jun 01, 2005; ... TRACKING SHOTS OR (MY TREASURE) Directedby Keren Yedaya Kino, opens June 1 Parent trapped: Hard-luck Israelis in a heartless world With a cool head and level gaze, Keren Yedaya's stark first feature attempts a Bressonian trajectory of tragic inevitability ....
DEEP BLUE
Jun 01, 2005; ... DEEP BLUE Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Andy Byatt Miramax, opens June 3 Convinced that the life aquatic holds infinite aesthetic potential, this British doc has all the characteristics of an oceanographie IMAX-swooping helicoptershots, impossible close-ups, ...
Eyes Wide Shut
Jun 01, 2005; ... VOICEOVER Eyes Wide Shut Ideal a lot with the way people look at other people," says Keren Yedaya. The Israeli director's full-length debut, Or (My Treasure-see review above-won the Camera d'Or at Cannes last year and screened at the New York Film Festival. Yedaya chose her ...
BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Jun 01, 2005; ... BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL June 3 through 12, Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn International Film Festival aims to popularize its borough as a refuge for cinephiles and to provide a safe haven for the latest in independent cinema-two goals that aren't exactly compatible, ...
INVISIBLE
Jun 01, 2005; ... INVISIBLE Directed by Konstantin Bojanov June 1 through 7, Two Boots Pioneer A documentary of degradation, Konstantin Bojanov's Invisible interviews six heroin addicts in Sofia, Bulgaria, over a three-year period. It disposes with social concerns and lets the individuals ...
SEANCE
Jun 01, 2005; ... Doppelgängers: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's elusive double visions SEANCE Charisma HomeVision It continues to be a rewarding year for fans of Japanese cinema's foremost enigmatist, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, thanks to Home Vision's DVDs of two of the director's post-Cure works. The ...
The Phantom of Liberty
Jun 01, 2005; ... The Phantom of Liberty Criterion "I'm sick of symmetry," declares a character early in Luis Bunuel's penultimate feature, and though the director was never much a stickler for it either, The Phantom of Liberty is his own La Ronde-or his own Monty Python installment. Middle-class ...