The Village Voice back issues from August 2007:
Hoop Screams
Aug 01, 2007; ... BARRA A crooked ref? Commissioner Stern's got much bigger problems For New Yorkers old enough to remember Harry Truman, the sight of Columbia Law School grad David Stern standing in front of TV cameras and looking pale and shaken for the first time in his career as NBA ...
His Dream Deferred
Aug 01, 2007; ... BEATEN PATH East Harlem man dares to build greenway. DOT commish dares to cork it. Seventeen years ago, Richard Toussaint, black man of Harlem, educated in its schools and schooled in the effects of society's indifference, sat down at a kitchen table and sketched a plan for a ...
Hot Dog With Relish
Aug 01, 2007; ... HIGH CYCLONIC The Cyclones put Markowitz on a bobblehead doll. Now he'll pop up even more. Abe Beame never had a bobblehead. Nor did Donald Manes, Charles Barren, or Ruth Messinger. So what is it about Marty Markowitz? "I wish I knew," says the 62-year-old Brooklyn ...
The Pooch Wins
Aug 01, 2007; ... EXONERATION A jury dismisses claims that police sicced a dog on helpless defendants If every dog has his day, July 24 was DJ the German shepherd's-because that's when a federal jury cleared the NYPD K-9 of police-brutality allegations. On August 6,2004, the Czech-born DJ ...
Watered Down
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE TRUTH BEHIND HAIRSPRAY I was so disappointed by the current movie of Hairspray. Not that I didn't enjoy myself-I'm a total sucker for the story of Tracy Turnblad, the chubby Baltimore girl with a mom who is really a man, who dances on the Corny Coffins Show and gets the hot guy and ...
Mike's Well-Armed Pal
Aug 01, 2007; ... ANTI-GUN BLOOMBERG BUYS AMMO FOR PRO-N.R.A. BRUNO By all rights, battered Joe Bruno should have been waiting in line at the state Crime Victims Assistance Board last Wednesday, seeking the redress that is rightfully his. The governor's men had tried to get him, hadn't they? Set him up, ...
THE DEATH OF DISCO
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE FRANTIC RISE AND FALL OF HIP-HOP PRODUCER DISCO D DAVE "DISCO D" SHAYMAN LOVED Instant Messenger. He frequently broke day in front of a Mac in his loft/studio in Brooklyn's hipster capital, Williamsburg. The ascendent hip-hop producer often rocked a blown-out Jewish Afro, wire-rimmed ...
Whose Nostalgia?
Aug 01, 2007; ... Whose Nostalgia? No R.I.P for the rock album just yet-Sonic Youth's seminal Daydream Nation rises again at McCarren Pool If I'd fallen asleep in fifth-period English class of my junior year in high school for, let's say, 15 years and woken up just this summer, I would've found ...
Relatively Foreign Affairs
Aug 01, 2007; ... Relatively Foreign Affairs Theater from abroad: different from ours, but just as confused about what comes next Hokaibo Heisei Nakam ura-za Lincoln Center Festival De Menstrues y Prodigies (Of Monsters and Prodigies) Teatro de Ciertos ...
The Ice Crean Man
Aug 01, 2007; ... Tom Craan: Antarctic Explorer By Aidan Dooley Irish Repertory Theater 132 West 22nd Street 212-727-2737 The Ice Crean Man Aidan Dooley's solo show sails down to the bottom of the world BY ALEXIS SOLOSK Antarctic lore has it that in ...
Home-Brood Drama
Aug 01, 2007; ... Two Thirds Home By Padraic Lillis Michael Weller Theatre 311 West 43rd Street 212-352-3101 Home-Brood Drama Mom had a lesbian lover-alert 1955! Every month, magazines tout new ways to look and feel younger. If a return to youth is indeed ...
L.E.S. Soundsystem
Aug 01, 2007; ... Sightlines 33 to Nothing By Grant James Varjas Wild Project 195 East 3rd Street 212-352-3101 L.E.S. Soundsystem For those about to rock, we review you 33 to Nothing may do its bastard subgenre-the rock-and-roll-rehearsal play-as ...
The Floating Books
Aug 01, 2007; ... Art of Memory By Tanya Calamoneri Ontological-Hysteric Theater 131 East 10th Street 212-352-3101 Closed, series runs through Septembers The Floating Books Dark fairy tales at the Ontological's Incubator series In Tanya Catemoneri's ...
What a Meth
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Ted Haggard Monologues By Michael Yates Crowley Collective Unconscious 279 Church Street 212-352-3101 Closed, festival runs through August 5 What a Meth Religious scandal kicks off the Undergroundzero fest In The Ted Haggard ...
Lincoln Center Festival
Aug 01, 2007; ... Shen Wei Dance Arts New York State Theater July 24, 28, 29 Mongolia: Music, Dance & Ballad Clark Studio Theater July 22 through 29 Slow Dancing (exhibit) Façade of New York State Theater July 10 through 29 Lincoln Center ...
The Anxiety Maze
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Anxiety Maze Magic capitalism meets crazy Russian typewriters in William Gibson's new Spook Country Spook Country By William Gibson Putnam, 384 pp., $25.95 BY NATHAN LEE It begins with a woman far from home, rising from a strange bed in an immaculate space. Detached but ...
The Wood Demons
Aug 01, 2007; ... Quinnehtukqut By Joshua Harmon Starcherone, 233 pp., $16 The Wood Demons Wilderness, darkness, and drink in a debut novel BY ALEXANDER NAZARYAN Some three decades before the slave-holding states of the South formed their Confederacy, a rugged swath of New Hampshire ...
The Icon's Icons
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Icon's Icons Chuck Close, Bill Viola, and 80 others do up the Dalai Lama in a double group show The Missing Peace Rubin Museum of Art 150 West 17th Street Through September 3rd School of Visual Arts Gallery 601 West 26 Street, 15th ...
The Again Men
Aug 01, 2007; ... "Summer 2007: Philip Akkerman, Francis Alys, Stephen Bush" Goff+Rosenthal 537B West 23rd Street Through August 3 The Again Men Three painters who enjoy repeating themselves BY DANIEL KUNITZ In art as in life, repetition can be a bore, a ...
Dumb Question
Aug 01, 2007; ... 'What Is Painting?' The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street Through September 17 Dumb Question Best in Show Recommendations by R.C. Baker This big, brightly didactic survey of painting movements since roughly 1965 feels a bit like the ...
Georgia Rule
Aug 01, 2007; ... Tamada 1724 Avenue Z, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, 718-769-2909 Georgia Rule A forest of phalli at a Georgian restaurant on the beaches of Sheepshead Bay Counter Culture By Robert Sietsema Four of us were hiding from the burning sun around two in the ...
Tom Colicchio's Last Meal
Aug 01, 2007; ... Eat for Victory He's debonin' the spatchcock We hounded Tom Colicchio relentlessly about his last meal until the Top Chef judge took a break from opening Craft in L.A. to chat on his cellphone. Then we basically had no idea what he was talking about as he rattled off a fantasy ...
Borderline Inducktrination
Aug 01, 2007; ... Liquid City Borderline Inducktrination Living nearby, I took note when Duckduck (153 Montrose Avenue), a garage turned bar, recently set up shop on the Bushwick/Williamsburg border. But I kept my distance. "Don't go in," I would tell myself whenever I passed by. "You'll get ...
A Star Is Bourne (Again)
Aug 01, 2007; ... A Star Is Bourne (Again) Amnesiac-spy trilogy culminates in a mind-blowing, head-spinning Ultimatum The Bourne Ultimatum Directed by Paul Greengrass Universal Pictures Opens August 3 BY NATHAN LEE The Bourne Ultimatum opens in Russia as the ...
Thou Shalt Not Be Too Funny
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Ten Directed by David Wain ThinkFilm Opens August 3 Thou Shalt Not Be Too Funny And on the seventh day, God created sketch comedy BY ROBERT WILONSKY It's impossible to write about David Wain's The Ten without first making passing ...
No More Drama
Aug 01, 2007; ... No More Drama Pedro Costa's latest doesn't need actors for emotion, or a script to tell a story Colossal Youth August 3 through 12 Anthology Film Archives BY NATHAN LEE The funny thing about minimalism is its endless variety: Like "realism, " the ...
Shining (Dim) Light in Dark Corners
Aug 01, 2007; ... Still Lives: The Films of Pedro Costa August 3 through 12 Anthology Film Archives Shining (Dim) Light in Dark Corners Overdue Costa retro comes to Anthology BY ED HALTER With Colossal Youth, Anthology indulges local screenheads with a full Pedro ...
Rock Me, Amadeus
Aug 01, 2007; ... New Crowned Hope August 3 through 29 BAM Rock Me, Amadeus Mozart fest honors the composer with its mission of truth and reconciliation BY ED HALTER 'We're in a middle of avery annoying generation of Hollywood filmmakers that just want to tell you ...
European Vacation
Aug 01, 2007; ... Summer' 04 Directed by Stefan Krohmer Opens August 1 Film Forum European Vacation Lolita crashes a family's peaceful seaside retreat BY MICHELLE ORANGE As much a bulls-eyed survey of contemporary German attitudes toward youth, aging, sex, ...
Hot Rod
Aug 01, 2007; ... Tracking Shots Hot Rod Directed by Akiva Schaffer Paramount, opens August 3 The Saturday Night Live comedy trio of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer-collectively known as the Lonely Island-shot to the heights of Youlube celebrity with their parody ...
The Willow Tree
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Willow Tree Directed by Majid Majidi New Yorker Films Opens August 3, Lincoln Plaza The Willow Tree is the first film from Iranian director Majid Majidi to deal primarily with adults rather than children, but its mahi character-an awkward, laconic college ...
Bratz
Aug 01, 2007; ... Bratz Directed by Sean McNamara Lionsgate, opens August 3 Inspired by the eponymous, semiskanky dolls that launched a thousand parental protests, this tween comedy does a good job rebranding the Bratz as wholesome do-gooders you'd want to take home to mom-especially if ...
Becoming Jane
Aug 01, 2007; ... Becoming Jane Directed by Julian Jarrold Miramax Films, opens August 3 Next to nothing is known about what actually passed between Jane Austen and Irish lawyer Tom Lefroy, but that hasn't stopped director Julian Jarrold (KinkyBoots) from working up a head of romantic ...
If I Didn't Care
Aug 01, 2007; ... If I Didn't Care Directed by Benjamin and Orson Cummings Artistic License Films, opens Augusts A summer movie for those who parse "summer" as a verb, filmmakerbros Benjamin and Orson Cummings' modem-noir thriller suitably sets its stage within a community of believable ...
El Cantante
Aug 01, 2007; ... El Cantante Directed by Leon Ichaso Picturehouse, opens Augusts Director Leon Ichaso, already responsible for mucking up a made-for-TV Jimi Hendrix biopic, is back at it with this turgid film about salsa star Hector Lavoe (Marc Anthony), which doesn't so much go behind ...
Blame It On Fidel
Aug 01, 2007; ... Blame It On Fidel Directed by Julie Gavras Koch Lorber Films Opens August 3, Cinema Village While her Mends play cops and robbers, broodingly precocious nine-year-old Anna (Nina Kervel) is asked by younger brother François to play "Allende and Franco," the late ...
The City Is Their Laboratory
Aug 01, 2007; ... Pratt students invent the next New York-for real. Justin Kray recently spent months walking around Cypress Hill, Brooklyn, carrying a camera and a clipboard. Kray was scouting vacant or underused lots that might be suitable for affordable housing. His efforts were at once an academic ...
Your Own Personal Blackboard Jungle
Aug 01, 2007; ... Fresh from the front lines, New York Teaching Fellows tell all. The subway ads promise inspiration, fulfillment, and the kind of career satisfaction rarely found in an office cube. "Your spreadsheets won't grow up to be doctors and lawyers," one gently chides. "You remember your ...
Muppet! at the Disco
Aug 01, 2007; ... Muppet! at the Disco On the endless Donna Summers of Escort, Brooklyn's finest disco orchestra Down in Front By Rob Harvilla 'If you wanna sex me, give it up, "sings esteemed Muppets bandleader Dr. Teeth in a rare uncouth moment, a plume of smoke billowing behind ...
High on Life
Aug 01, 2007; ... Band on the Street High on Life The intimate, danceable D.I.Y. psychedelia of High Places BY MIKE POWELL One night, someone threw a beer can at Mary Pearson of Brooklyn indiepop duo High Places. She laughed. Thinking back on it, her bandmate, Rob Barber, stares ...
Evil Empire Strikes Back
Aug 01, 2007; ... Rock the Bells July 28, 2007 Randalls Island Evil Empire Strikes Back A rap-nostalgia bonanza feels like a rock show and sounds like a resurrection BY JASON GROSS We were an army of white men, decked out in cargo pants, T-shirts, and baseball caps, ...
Hasta La Muerte
Aug 01, 2007; ... Hasta La Muerte Vintage thrash metal is back with a vengeance, and it's speaking Spanish BY PHIL FREEMAN My Space is a baffling labyrinth-it'll consume your whole day if you let it, and you'll usually come away depressed by what y ou hear and see. But click the right ...
Ghost in the Machine
Aug 01, 2007; ... Ghost in the Machine The Mozart of electronic music re-emerges. Maybe. BY BENJAMIN PHELAN In early May, an unknown artist calling himself Brian Tregaskin launched a MySpace page featuring some extremely accomplished acid techno, outtakes from a pair of imminent releases ...
Common's Simple Denominator
Aug 01, 2007; ... Common's Simple Denominator His avant instincts dulled, the Man of the People gives the people what they want Common Finding Forever G.O.O.D./Geffen BY MILES MARSHALL LEWIS Early in the aughties, when progressive rap ensembles like OutKast and the ...
Stars
Aug 01, 2007; ... Stars In Our Bedroom After the War Arts & Crafts Melting the hearts of bedroom romantics and Bit Torrent criminals alike To anyone still mewling about how the download smote the album, meet the definitive, indisputable rebuttal: Stars' In Our Bedroom After the ...
Jah Cure
Aug 01, 2007; ... Jah Cure True Reflections ...A New Beginning VP Reggae's cause célèbre celebrates both his new record's release, and his own When Jah Cure sings that "prison a nuh bed of roses," it's tough to argue. Having spent the last seven years on maximum-security lockdown ...
Korn
Aug 01, 2007; ... Korn Korn Virgin They've evolved, honest. It's a testament to Korn's credibility among misunderstood metalheads that 2005's platinum-plus see You on the Other Side, which the long-running California rap-rockers made with Avril Lavigne's old pals the Matrix, didn't ...
The Rad and the Beautiful
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Rad and the Beautiful Secret text messages, models, whiskey, and a latecomer's regret BY ANNIE FISCHER Since 2004, tight-lipped tastemakers LVHRD ("Live Hard") have been throwing mostly monthly parties intended to facilitate interaction between the creative ...
Praise Allah, By Jehovah!
Aug 01, 2007; ... DOUBLING DOWN ON THE BIG GUYS IS A GOOD BET Q I'm a former chola from East Los Angeles who works In Washington. D.C.. as a lobbyist. I wear power suits, pearls, and have three college degrees. My friends are Incredulous when I show them the 30-year-old photo of me In thick false ...
Born to Make Porn
Aug 01, 2007; ... THIRD-GENERATION PORNOGRAPHER HOPES TO CHANGE INDUSTRY Imagine growing up in a clan where the family business is porn. Oren Cohen came of age in the 1970s, at the end of what is often called "The Golden Age of Porn"-when adult movies were shot on film and played to the mainstream in ...
Free Will Astrology
Aug 01, 2007; ... ARIES [March 21-April 19] Would you like to shed your soul's baby fat without having to go on a diet? Do you want to supercharge your immune system, improve your memory for the events that really matter, and build the spiritual power of your sexual feelings? Arc you interested in postponing ...
'Lady Vengeance'
Aug 08, 2007; ... DADDY DEAREST How Brigitte Harris asphyxiated and castrated her father and won over politicians It's rare that an accused murderer elicits much sympathy, but Brigitte Harris, the 26-year-old goth who is accused of killing her father and then choppingoffhis penis, has politicians, ...
The Killing of a Journalist
Aug 08, 2007; ... ASSASSINATION Voice reporter Chris Thompson recalls a fallen colleague and his own days on the run Last week, a man in a ski mask confronted Oakland, California, journalist Chauncey Bailey as he was walking to the downtown offices of the Oakland Post. The man raised a sawed-off ...
His Name Is Mud
Aug 08, 2007; ... POWER PLAYER Despite Con Ed's disasters, its CEO still rakes it in Here are a few items that Con Edison boss Kevin Burke probably won't include on his curriculum vitae: * The 11.6 percent electricity rate hike that the utility asked for in May. * The June 27 black ...
Arms and the Men
Aug 08, 2007; ... BARRA Righties with the fate of the Mets and Yankees in their hands The postseason fortunes of New York's big-league baseball teams hinge on two right arms belonging to the once and future kings of the sport The Mets' Pedro Martinez, 35, for years regarded as the best starting ...
A Hire Calling
Aug 08, 2007; ... ON THEIR HONOR, IT'S POLITICS AS USUAL IN BROOKLYN Politicians often speak of answering "the call to public service." Usually, this is invoked to suggest enormous sacrifice, as in, "If I wasn't running for this crummy elective office, I could be making megabucks at a big law ...
Fat Chance
Aug 08, 2007; ... DO YOUR FRIENDS MAKE YOU CHUBBY? OR IS IT THAT MCFLURRY IN YOUR HAND? Got a pleasantly plump friend who e-mails you from Sri Lanka? Have a rotund pen pal who lives in Timbuktu? Dump them at once. According to the latest scientific research, just published in The New England ...
Rudy Giuliani's 5 Big Lies About 9/11
Aug 08, 2007; ... On the stump, Rudy can't help spreading smoke and ashes about his dubious record Nearly six years after 9/11, Rudy Giuliani is still walking through the canyons of lower Manhattan, covered in soot, pointing north, and leading the nation out of danger's way. The Republican frontrunner is ...
The Super Fun of It
Aug 08, 2007; ... David Lynch's Inland Empire comes out on DVD this week. Nathan Lee chats with the director about digital video, putrefied movies, and tapioca. In the fall of 2006, David Lynch published a book called Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. "Ideas are like fish," ...
World's Fare
Aug 08, 2007; ... World's Fare From Spain and China, works that actually feel Spanish and Chinese Divinas Palabras By Ramon del Valle-Inclán Centro Dramático Nacional de Espana Lincoln Center Festival (Closed) Second Visit to the Empress By Shen Wei ...
On the Couch
Aug 08, 2007; ... The American Living Room Here Arts Center 145 Sixth Avenue Festival continues through September 2 On the Couch The American Living Room returns to Here, sofas intact BY JOHN BEER With its comfy chairs and amiable atmosphere, Here's American ...
Welcome to the Fringe! Now Where the Hell Is It?
Aug 08, 2007; ... Scattered venues, weak plays, Urinetown wannabes: How can we improve the NewYork Fringe? These days, a skyscraper towers over Ludlow Street, a Whole Foods gleams on the corner of Bowery, a Starbucks dispenses lattes on Delancey. But the Parkside Lounge on Attorney and Houston remains ...
Paris Is Yearning
Aug 08, 2007; ... Paris Is Yearning From porn stars to little Jesus-the fantastical work of French art duo Pierre and Gilles Pierre et Gilles: double je (1976-2007) Jeu de Paume, Site Concorde 1, place de la Concorde, Paris Through September 23 If you ascend the ...
Body Work
Aug 08, 2007; ... Linda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois: Circa 70 Cheim and Read 547 West 25th Street Through August 31 Body Work Bourgeois and Benglis show us their phalluses Just what was happening around 1970 to make Louise Bourgeois and Linda Benglis reach for a ...
Best in Show
Aug 08, 2007; ... Best in Show Recommendations by R.C. Baker 'Easy Rider' Yancey Richardson 535 West 22nd Street Through September 8 No Exit A high sun paints a receding chevron of blacktop with light; the title of this 1938 silver print, The Road West, by ...