The Village Voice back issues from April 2007:
CORRECTIONS
Apr 04, 2007; ... Last week, in a side-by-side comparison of statistics between Mets player José Reyes and Yankees player Derek Jeter as each was going into his fifth year of major league play, it was incorrectly stated that Jeter was a year younger at that point in his career. In fact, it is Reyes who enters his ...
TB OR NOT TB
Apr 04, 2007; ... [HACKS] A nurse's cough turns into a public health crisis in the Bronx For three weeks beginning in January, about 700 workers and patients at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, including 238 infants, were exposed to tuberculosis by an infected nurse. During that time, ...
COFFEE CLASH
Apr 04, 2007; ... [BUZZ] It's war between baristas on wheels Parked just outside a subway stop on Astor Place, the Mud Truck draws a constant line of coffee addicts in a city already choked with Java joints (a second vehicle dispenses beverages at Seventh Avenue South and West 4th Street). The ...
REVENGE OF THE MOUSE COFFINS
Apr 04, 2007; ... [BAD KARMA DEPT.] Gentrifiers, beware! The home you bust up may be your own Filmmaker Michel Gondry-director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep-has taken over my old East Village apartment. I'm talking about the large, run-down Avenue B loft we got ...
Five Cents a Right-Wing Dance
Apr 04, 2007; ... PRESS CLIPS After a long day of shopping at Gimbels, nothing beats an icy highball at McHale's, then heading home on the Ninth Avenue El with the newspaper you bought for a nickel. Well, at least one of these things you can now do again. The New York Post recently began offering ...
COCAINE MAKES A TOWN SAFER
Apr 04, 2007; ... [DRUG DEALS] The DEA shares its cash stash with a Michigan burg The small Michigan village of Hamburg Township owes New York City drug dealers a thank-you note. A few weeks back, John Gilbride, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Agency's New York office, ...
Joe Frederick, First Amendment Idol
Apr 04, 2007; ... Will the Supreme Court hold high the banner 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus,' or crush free speech? "In our system, students may not be regarded as closed-circuit recipients of only that which the State wishes to communicate. They may not be confined to expression of those sentiments that the State ...
High Fashion
Apr 04, 2007; ... Styles come and go, but the glamour of drugs endures Say what you will: Among the fashionable elite, some bad behavior is considered completely, utterly glamorous and some is not. Throwing your cell phone at an employee? Decidedly non-glam, even if you show up to serve your eventual ...
MiAMi ViCES
Apr 04, 2007; ... NYCDJs invade the beaches, yachts, and Radio Shacks of South Beach's famed Winter Music Conference "You must be out of your mind," DJ Reborn says flatly, as the emcee of her show case at the Marlin Hotel in South Beach-part of this year's Winter Music Conference, the largest electronic ...
FROM HIS BIG HOUSE TO THE BIG HOUSE
Apr 04, 2007; ... A CHOP-SHOPKING BUILT HIS DREAM MANSION. THEN AN INTERIOR DECORATOR TOOK HIM DOWN. When Suffolk County auto-theft detective Robert Petro first saw the hulking 14,431 -square-foot mansion on Long Island's Gold Coast in February 2003, he recalls thinking, "Apparently crime ...
Collective Memory
Apr 04, 2007; ... Nostalgia fever continues as the experimental-film community looks back at its 'lost generation.' But what's next? The past of experimental cinema may be overtaking the present. Two of the longest-standing local microcinemas devoted to contemporary filmmaking-Williamsburg's Ocularis and ...
Time Travelogues
Apr 04, 2007; ... Time Travelogues Playwrights Terrence McNally and Adam Rapp look back to catch a glimpse of the future Some Men By Terrence McNally Second Stage 307 West 43rd Street 212-246-4422 Essential Self-Defense By Adam ...
Grief Encounter
Apr 04, 2007; ... The Year of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion Booth Theatre 222 West 45th Street 212-239-6200 Grief Encounter Joan Didion's stages of mourning At leastin its stage adaptation, the sole subject of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking is ...
Rescue Remedy
Apr 04, 2007; ... Prometheus Bound By Aeschylus Classic Stage Company 136 East 13th Street 212-352-3101 Stay By Lucy Thurber Rattlestick Playwrights Theater 224 Waverly Place 212-868-4444 Rescue Remedy Ancient Greeks and ...
Class Action
Apr 04, 2007; ... Sightlines Widowers' Houses By George Bernard Shaw Adapted by Ron Russell and Godfrey L. Simmons Jr. Kirk Theatre 410 West 42nd Street 212-279-4200 Class Action The Epic Theatre Center moves Shaw to Harlem This ...
Orested Development
Apr 04, 2007; ... The Exiles By Theodora Skipitares, adapted from Euripides's Orestes La MaMa Annex 66 East 4th Street 212-475-7710 Orested Development Greek tragedy, if the Greeks liked video and puppets In Theodora Skipitares's productions (where ...
Bed Lines
Apr 04, 2007; ... Scituate By Martin Casella TBG Arts Center 312 West 36th Street 212-868-4444 Bed Lines Emotional pain stays under the covers If the only suspense in a play is whether its hero will ever get out of bed, then you can probably bet the dramatic ...
Charnel Knowledge
Apr 04, 2007; ... Charnel Knowledge Carroll Dunham's wounded beasts get medieval on their own asses Gladstone Gallery 515 West 24th Street Through April 21 BY JERRY SALTZ By now I no longer know if I like Carroll Dunham's paintings because we're friends or if we're ...
Optic Nerve
Apr 04, 2007; ... Karel Funk 303 Gallery 525 West 22nd Street Through April 7 Optic Nerve Karel Funk turns inward For this alluring, transitional follow-up to his outstanding debut at this gallery three years ago, Karel Funk, 36, who lives and works in Winnipeg, ...
Pulp Valhalla
Apr 04, 2007; ... Andreas Hofer: 'Only Gods Could Survive' Metro Pictures 519 West 24th Street Through April 21 Pulp Valhalla This mash-up of Teutonic bombast and lurid pop culture begins with a dimly lit gallery of sketchy oils in clashing colors and mismatched frames ....
Total Recall
Apr 04, 2007; ... Total Recall Is Clive James's effort to save Western civilization beautiful, stupid, or both? Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History and the Arts By Clive fames Norton, 876pp., $35 BY GARY INDIANA Clive James is the quintessential critic at large, what someone who ...
Fight Club
Apr 04, 2007; ... Fight Club Allison Smith: The Muster By Allison Smith. Tom Ecoles, et al. Public Art Fund, 127 pp., $15.95 Allison Smith's project inspires protest BY LD BEGHTOL On a sunny Saturday in May 2005, Allison Smith and a ragtag crew of revolutionaries stormed Governors Island-a ...
Brits Recapture New Jersey
Apr 04, 2007; ... Vincent Dance Theatre Alexander Kasser Theater Montclair State University March 22 through 25 (closed) Brits Recapture New Jersey As Charlotte Vincent dances to divorce BY DEBORAH JOWITT Rows of wooden chairs fill the stage. There must be ...
Wine Whine
Apr 04, 2007; ... Centovini 25 West Houston Street 212-219-2113 Wine Whine More than just panini and prosciutto, but less than we might have hoped Wine bars were rare a few years ago, but now loom large on the dining landscape. Restaurateurs love them, because these joints ...
Giuliano Bugialli's Last Meal
Apr 04, 2007; ... Eat for Victory ... will be very unpleasant Giuliano Bugialli, the Italian cookbook author and teacher, is a stickler for what's appropriate, traditional, and natural. He's not the sort of man who would think it fun to make Christmas cookies in June or eat imported brussels ...
Gimme a Break
Apr 04, 2007; ... The city has plenty of dives in which to reenact the dingy dance scene from campfire flick Indian Summer. If, you know, you thought that might be something you might want to do sometime. Maybe. With Kabin in the East Village, Gramercy 's Black Bear Lodge, and Buck's Lodge in Cobble Hill (where ...
Rachel Stein, Showgirl
Apr 04, 2007; ... Rachel Stein, Showgirl Back home in Holland, Paul Verhoeven uses his basic instincts to craft a slick Holocaust thriller Black Book Directed by Paul Verhoeven Sony Pictures Classics Opens April 4 BY J. HOBERMAN Holland's gift to world ...
Fassbinder's 14
Apr 04, 2007; ... The Cine Phile Plus: Best of 2006 The culminating work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's foreshortened career, Berlin Alexanderplatz had its premiere on West German TV in 1980; it opened here theatrically in 1983, a year after the filmmaker's death. Adapted from the 1929 novel by ...
Zombie Slasher Love
Apr 04, 2007; ... Grindhouse Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino The Weinstein Company Opens April 6 Zombie Slasher Love Match made in grindhouse: Rodriguez's undead meet Tarantino's psychopath Stuntman in splatteriest double-header BY NATHAN ...
The TV Set
Apr 04, 2007; ... Tracking Shots Directed by Jake Kasdan ThinkFilm, opens April 6 Writer-director Jake Kasdan and executive producer Judd Apatow-both veterans of the brilliant-but-canceled NBC series Freaks and Geeks-know a thing or two about the Sisyphean struggles to do quality, personal ...
The Reaping
Apr 04, 2007; ... Directed by Stephen Hopkins Warner Bros., opens Aprils Those two age-old foes-science and blind faith-tango yet again in this noxious slice of Biblical horror about a series of Old Testament plagues being visited upon a Louisiana bayou backwater. Hilary Swank stars as the ...
Are We Done Yet?
Apr 04, 2007; ... Directed by Steve Carr Sony Pictures, opens April 4 One year (in movie time) on from the action of 2005's Are We There Yet?, sports memorabilia salesman Nick Persons (Ice Cube) has sold his business, launched a magazine, and moved his newlywed bride (Nia Long) and two ...
BookScam
Apr 04, 2007; ... The Hoax Directed by Lasse Hallström Mimmax, opens April 6 BookScam In The Hoax, a lying prez (Nixon) begets a lying author (Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today. BY ELLA TAYLOR Lest we imagine that the publishing industry went to hell only ...
Hoaxster
Apr 04, 2007; ... A chat with con-man Clifford Irving BY SCOTT FOUNDAS Clifford Irving almost got away with it. It was exactly 35 years ago that his sham autobiography of Howard Hughes nearly made it into bookstores, before the reclusive billionaire granted a rare press conference (via telephone) ...
Got Your Goat
Apr 04, 2007; ... Los Muertos Written and directed by Lisan dm Alonso April 6 through 12 Anthology Film Archives Got Your Goat Los Muertos may shock with its animal mutilation, but it's also at one with nature BY NATHAN LEE If we're going to talk about Los ...
Africa Speaks
Apr 04, 2007; ... New York African Film Festival April 4 through 12 Walter Reade Theater 14th annual film fest challenges Western view of war-torn continent BY ED GONZALEZ Fourteen years strong, the New York African Film Festival resonates as a rallying call. Flaunting ...
Blades of Glory
Apr 04, 2007; ... Tracking Shots Directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck Paramount, now playing Having moved on from the anchor desk and NASCAR, Will Ferrell at long last ridicules a hallowed profession. 1 refer, of course, to men's figure skating. Who until now has dared to mock the ...
Whole New Thing
Apr 04, 2007; ... Directed by Amnon Buchbinder Opens April 6, Quad Cinema Half-new at most, this Running With Scissorstype tale of a precocious, effeminate teen who gets hot for teacher while prepping for a life in the arts isn't evidently autobiographical. Neither is it funny-or poignant or ...
Ping Pong
Apr 04, 2007; ... Directed byFumihiko Son Opens April 6, ImaginAsian In Japan, high school table tennis players are treated with the same reverence that Americans reserve for football stars: Girls want to date them; boys want to be them. The exception is Tsukimoto, the hero of Fumihiko Son's Ping ...
Dry Season
Apr 04, 2007; ... Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun April 6 through 12 BAM African director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's austere, hypnotic third feature explores the legacy of Chad's decades-long civil war. When Chad's government grants amnesty to civil war criminals, 16-year-old Atim (Ali Bacha Barkaï) ...
The Bored and the Beautiful
Apr 04, 2007; ... The Pierces are enjoying themselves a little more than their biggest hit would suggest In the wee hours of a recent Thursday night, the Pierces popped my cherry. I'd never done karaoke before. While super-foxy sisters Catherine and Allison strut down New York City's streets like a ...
Addendum
Apr 04, 2007; ... Addendum: Like a desperate date, I called them. Next Tuesday, the ladies are headlining Fly Life's five-year anniversary ...
Still Tryin'
Apr 04, 2007; ... Macy Gray soldiers on where her formerly mighty neo-soul cohorts fear to tread BY MILES MARSHALL LEWIS Mayhap your iPod has shuffled a Maxwell or Lauryn Hill tune into your mix lately, and led you to question, "Where they be?" The neo-soul giants of the late 1990s have been ...
We Perverted the Remix
Apr 04, 2007; ... Singles Going Steady We Perverted the Remix Ominous menace via distended fun-house mirrors Faze Action "In the Trees" (Carl Craig C2 Remix 1) Juno Records 12-Inch When U.K. house music entered its first golden age in 1996, it was still mislabeled as ...
Bards of the 'Burbs
Apr 04, 2007; ... Reviews Bards of the 'Burbs The Fountains of Wayne craft resonant pop-punk by focusing on boring people like you Fountains of Wayne Traffic and Weather Virgin BY NATE CAVALIERI Fountains of Wayne songwriter Chris Collingwood towers over the ...
Elana James
Apr 04, 2007; ... Elana James Snarf A Dylan co-conspirator swings out of the past When East Village-conceived, Austin-based swing trio hot Club of Cowtown broke up in 2004, co-founding fiddlervocalist Elana Fremerman was soon called by Bob Dylan to be the point person Ln Cap'n D's ...
Stephen Marley
Apr 04, 2007; ... Stephen Marley Mind Control Republic Inventive dancehall crossovers honor Bob by not merely aping him Being an S.O.B. (that's reggae-speak for "Son of Bob") can mean one of two things. It's either a license to laziness-imitate Daddy and sit pretty as ...
Ozomatli
Apr 04, 2007; ... Ozomatli Don't Mess With the Dragon Concord More melting-pot jams from jovioI L.A. hip-churners If you're a giddy optimist like me, you hope to one day hear Ozomatli's cheerfully rebellious politi-pop wafting from every car radio in New York City. Don't Mess With ...
Tales of Apathetic Oceans
Apr 04, 2007; ... Band on the Street Hell, call Titan prog if you want, they're too busy playing Resident Evil 4 BY MICHAEL CRUMSHO 'Somebody can call us 'solar-horseshit-core' and they'll probably be right," offers Titan guitarist Josh Anzano during a lunch break from his Manhattan day ...
Vaya Con Dio
Apr 04, 2007; ... The Sound of the City Heaven and Hell March 30 Radio City Music Hall Vaya Con Dio The other Black Sabbath whips Baphomet's ass at Radio City BY DAVID MARCHESE They came for the resurrection, these women with their black leather ...
Cred Sheet
Apr 04, 2007; ... Stuff you need to know this week to avoid cultural ostracism * CINEMATIC MASTERWORK Adam Sandler's profoundly disturbing resemblance to Bob Dylan in Reign Over Me. Though it isfun to imagine Bob singing "It's cool to pee yo' pants." * SOCIETAL ...
Screw You
Apr 04, 2007; ... TINA TYLER AND BOOTS BOCCALEONE CREATE NEW KINDS OF MASTURBATION PORN The first time I ever saw people masturbating on video was in Betty Dodson's Selfloving: Portrait of a Women 's Sexuality Seminar. The film documents one of Dodson's infamous masturbation workshops, where a group of ...
Free Will Astrology
Apr 04, 2007; ... ARIES [March 21-April 19] On April 1, 1976, British astronomer Patrick Moore told his radio listeners that a rare configuration of Jupiter and Pluto was occurring. So dramatically would it affect Earth's gravity, he said, that they might feel lighter than usual, and perhaps even be able to float ...
press clips
Apr 11, 2007; ... Scoopable litter: How Rudy's campaign helped the Post snatch the news from the News Rudy Giuliani's fundraising may not be presidential yet, but his campaign's seat-of-the-pants media manipulation-another requirement for contendersis looking pretty good. The result: Giuliani grabbed the ...
A Different Kind of U.S. Attorney Scandal
Apr 11, 2007; ... BUTT-KISSING How to stay in the good graces of Karl Rove New York's two United States Attorneys-Roslynn Mauskopf, who runs the Brooklyn-based Eastern District, and Michael Garcia, the head of Manhattan's Southern District-have gone unmentioned in the weeks of news coverage about ...
Black Flag Holiday
Apr 11, 2007; ... TACTICS Celebrate life on the Baltic Sea with the mighty GB Riot porn played as the crowd filtered in for the meeting at Time's Up last Thursday. The activists playing on the big screen showed how it's done, grabbing long poles and punching in the store windows of Prague, setting ...
Do the Dew
Apr 11, 2007; ... MONEY-CHANGING Prophet and loss in Harlem 'Outright robbery," says Pastor James David Manning about the building being renovated across the street from his Harlem church at Lenox Avenue and 123rd Street. That was his reaction, he says, when he learned from one of his ...
Saving Free Speech and Jesus
Apr 11, 2007; ... Religious and conservative groups support the 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' banner under fire at the Supreme Court " Virtually any student speech that school officials find controversial or offensive hangs in the balance on how the Supreme Court decides 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus.'" David Hudson, ...
CONEY ISLAND'S LAST RIDE? THE BULLDOZER!
Apr 11, 2007; ... Behind the scenes, a scary game of chicken between the city and a developer who dreams of high-rise condos that won't amuse you The season's first visitors to Coney Island can already see that the batting cages and the go-karts along Still well Avenue are gone, as is a miniature golf ...
GIRLS TO MEN
Apr 11, 2007; ... Young lesbians in Brooklyn find that a thug's life gets them more women At the Lab, a Brooklyn nightclub and rental hall, a petite Hispanic bartender sporting braids down the middle of her back and a baseball cap is taking a break on a recent Friday night. Then she spots something in the ...
Some Balthus With Your Mao, Sir?
Apr 11, 2007; ... Painter Wei Dong's East-West, sex and stuffed animals free-for-all A first encounter with the paintings of Wei Dong includes a few double takes. You feel an odd displacement, as if you've stumbled into an art-history dream where timetraveling European masters, eager to shuck off age-old ...
Stairs to Transcendence
Apr 11, 2007; ... Stairs to Transcendence A William Inge classic gets a 21 st-century makeover The Dark at the Top of the Stairs By William lnge Connelly Theatre 220 East 4th Street 212-352-3101 BY MICHAEL FEINGOLD In Transport Group's stunning new ...
Sink and Swim
Apr 11, 2007; ... Sink and Swim Hart & Berlin outlive a numbing Irish stew Pirate Queen By Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Richard Maltby Jr., and John Dempsey Hilton Theatre 213 West 42nd Street 212-307-4100 Face the ...
Paradise Now?
Apr 11, 2007; ... The Brig launches the Living Theatre's newest NYC home Astounding as it may seem, this year the Living Theatre, that crucible of counterculture and standard-bearer of youthful rebellion, will turn 60 years old. Co-founder Judith Malina will be 80. Unlike some companies that stay ...
London Orphan Seeks Home, Gruel
Apr 11, 2007; ... London Orphan Seeks Home, Gruel Noted urchin faces street gang and theater critics BY ALEXlS SOLOSKl Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens Adapted by Neil Bartlett Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College 899 Tenth ...