The Village Voice back issues from October 2007:
Seen Acting in Concert
Oct 03, 2007; ... BEAT COPS The Hip-Hop Cops materialize in the West Village There have been stories about the NYPD's Hip-Hop Cops, most recently Sean Gardiner's "The Game's Bad Rap" in last week's issue. But who has seen these cops, except for the rappers they've tailed? It was a rare ...
The Yanks Got Balls
Oct 03, 2007; ... SQUEEZE PLAY City documents show team billed taxpayers for souvenirs, bar tabs Billing the city for the lobbyists he hired to push his new stadium (now taking shape across the street from the be-demolished House That Ruth Built) was, it turns out, the least of George ...
Fall Guy
Oct 03, 2007; ... NEW RELEASES In a shocker, aging rogue cop and Knapp rat Bill Phillips finally wins parole in a murder case he says was a frame-up Bill Phillips has spent the past 32 autumns in a series of picturesque upstate towns but has never seen one leaf turn or picked a single apple. The ...
Son of a Pitch!
Oct 03, 2007; ... BARRA Looking for answers to the Mets' pathetic collapse There's a rumor going around that when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was refused a chance to lay a wreath at Ground Zero, he offered instead to bring one out to Shea Stadium. If so, it should have been delivered directly to the ...
Pedicabs Don't Work with Big Wheels
Oct 03, 2007; ... THE USUAL SUSPECTS SNUFF A PEOPLE-POWERED INVENTION Unless you're one of the combatants, New York's Great Pedicab War has passed most of us by, and not unreasonably. Surely, in the age of Iraq and Guantánamo, this is one fracas you could afford to simply sit out The battle ...
Eat This, Skinny Bitches!
Oct 03, 2007; ... AND HERE I AM, IN AN EXPANSIVE MOOD AFTER FASHION WEEK 'OK, so they had regular Fashion Week a few weeks ago, right? So I decided this week is Fashion Week for plus sizes!" the owner of Lee Lee's Valise tells me. "We have two designers here tonight-it's actually a trunk show. We're ...
Protecting Police Against Complaints
Oct 03, 2007; ... A NEW WATCHDOG WILL HAVE TO CONFRONT A BROKEN COP-COMPLAINT SYSTEM New York's Civilian Complaint Review Board has a new executive director, Joan Thompson, who will hear plenty of complaints-particularly from New Yorkers who argue that charges against Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's ...
WaYne Barrett's NORTH BY NORTHWEST TO ALBANY
Oct 03, 2007; ... A capital melodrama starring Eliot Spitzer, Joe Bruno, and Andrew Cuomo The only news in New York politics that's mattered for three months (and counting) is the bizarre hype surrounding the ho-hum charge that new white-knight governor Eliot Spitzer tried to plant a story about Senate ...
CUOMO'S GAL FRIDAY
Oct 03, 2007; ... PLENTY KEEPS ALBANY'S POLITICAL ODD COUPLE, ANDREW AND JOE, TOGETHER If "Choppergate" has illuminated anything, it's the developing political alliance between Andrew Cuomo and Joe Bruno. Like father, like son-Andrew's dad, Mario Cuomo, in the 1980s and 1990s was in bed with both ...
Death to the Unchaste
Oct 03, 2007; ... Death to the Unchaste Europe's Muslim women-and the men who murder them. Two Islam-themed plays at St. Ann's Warehouse. On the November night in 2003 when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was stabbed to death by an Islamist extremist in Amsterdam, Nazmiye Oral was in a tiny Dutch town ...
Family Devalues
Oct 03, 2007; ... Three plays by white men track America's slipping standards Dividing the Estate By Horton Foote Primary Stages 59East59th Street 212-279-4200 American Sligo By Adam Rapp Rattiestick Theater 224 Waveriy ...
French Tickler
Oct 03, 2007; ... The Misanthrope By Molière, translated by Tony Harrison New York Theatre Workshop 79 East 4th Street 212-239-6200 French Tickler Ivo van Hove's Misanthrope really cuts the mustard In a scene early in The Misanthrope, Paris's chief wits ...
Power-Chord Euripides
Oct 03, 2007; ... Sightlines Power-Chord Euripides Sightlines eyes the New York Musical Theatre Festival Sherlock Holmes (The Early Years) By Jared M. Dembowski, Susannah Pearse, Kate Ferguson, and Robert Hudson Theatre at St. Clement's 423 West 46th ...
The Rockae
Oct 03, 2007; ... The Rockae By Peter Mills and Cara Reichel Hudson Guild Theatre 441 West 26th Street 212-352-3101 To paraphrase Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel, there's a thin line between genius and stupid, one that Peter Mills and Cara Reichel walk with flair in The Rockae, ...
Maccabeat!
Oct 03, 2007; ... Maccabeat! By Harvey Shield, Richard Jarboe, and Chayim ben Ze'ev Acorn Theatre 410 West 42nd Street 212-352-3101 Maccabeat! may be the hammiest Jewish enterprise since the invention of fakin' bacon. This NYMT fest retelling of the Hanukkah story centers ...
The No-Year Plan
Oct 03, 2007; ... The No-Year Plan Hungry flies, sculpted ashes, beds of ice - the peculiar world of Chinese art star Zhang Huan Zhang Huan: Altered States Asia Society 725 Park Avenue Through January 20 If 20th-century Western art was jump-started by a urinal ...
Voyeur in Tokyo
Oct 03, 2007; ... Kohei Yoshiyuki The Park YossiMilo Gallery 525 West 25th Street Through October 20 Voyeur in Tokyo Infrared sex from Japanese photog KoheiYoshiyuki A pair of lovers, even in bed, is never really alone; beside them lie the ghosts of past ...
Enjoy Every Scapula
Oct 03, 2007; ... Best in Show Recommendations by R. C. Baker Enjoy Every Scapula It was a glorious afternoon - light breeze, sunny, the slightest bite in the air. Autumn in New York. One doesn't usually whistle and skip through the Chelsea warrens, but even those austere blocks felt like ...
Hearst CEO Sues His Mommy
Oct 10, 2007; ... PARENTING Esquire's owner isn't playing nice with his Florida retiree mother Victor Ganzi has done well for himself, so why is he suing his mom? The lawyer is president and CEO of the Hearst Corporation, which is headquartered in the zigzag-shaped Hearst Tower on West ...
Amber Waves of Pain
Oct 10, 2007; ... PROPERTY VALUES A black arts center will get bulldozed for a paler version Todd Triplett and his two partners, Shaun Jenkins and Philip McKenzie, wanted to create a sort of modern-day Cotton Club right in the middle of downtown Brooklyn. And the three African-American businessmen ...
Ignorance Is Bris
Oct 03, 2007; ... Ignorance Is Bris The Deity replies to Foreskin's Lament, Shalom Auslander's fall-from-Ofthodox memoir Foreskin's Lament By Shalom Auslander Riverhead Books, 310 pp. $24.95 BY YHVH Shalom, Shalom Auslander. It's YHVH. Remember me, the spiteful deity you love to hate? The ...
Iran to Cali
Oct 03, 2007; ... Iran to Cali Sons and Other Flammable Objects ByPorochista Khakpour Grove Press, 398pp. $24 A first-time novelist gets her hands wordy Porochista Khakpour's debut novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects, begins with a page full of epigraphs: two sentences from Sadegh ...
The Price Is Right
Oct 03, 2007; ... Fall for Dance Festival City Center 131 West 55th Street 212-581-1212 Through October 6 The Price Is Right Ten bucks a dance (concert) at City Center When cultural institutions bemoan the graying of their audiences, they surely realize that ...
Earth Movers
Oct 03, 2007; ... Tere O'Connor Dance The Chocolate Factory 5-49 49th Avenue Long Island City 212-352-3101 Earth Movers From found materials, a choreographer builds a house of dreams Build a wooden frame and fill it with dirt and water. Stir. Tamp down hard ....
Ancient Grease
Oct 03, 2007; ... Counter Culture Plaka Taverna 406 86th Street BayRidge, Brooklyn 718-680-3056 Ancient Grease Beware of sand sharks in downtown Bay Ridge Nobody's sure who made the first moussaka. The Greeks claim the Arabs brought it to Greece in the ...
Currying Flavor
Oct 03, 2007; ... Eat for Victory Padma Lakshmi's last meal In some unexplainable way, Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi is pretty even over the phone. She's like the goodlooking girl at school who you want to hate, but then it turns out she's really friendly and laid-back, and you almost hate her more ...
Spirits of the ordinary kind
Oct 03, 2007; ... Liquid City At first, the idea of a sports bar in Fort Greene seemed slightly odd: In the midst of all the lounges and ethnic eateries, it's clear that one of these things is not like the ethers. But now the neighborhood has one, in the form of the rookie joint Mullanes Bar & Grill ...
Pro-Debate
Oct 03, 2007; ... Pro-Debate 17 years in the making, Tony Kaye's epic abortion doc Lake of Fire. Plus: Gays and God Lake of Fire Written and directed by Tony Kaye THINKfilm Opens October 3, Film Forum For the Bible Tells Me So Directed by Daniel ...
Brian De Palma Explains Himself
Oct 03, 2007; ... NYFF 45 The divisive director's new film is, he says, just one man's attempt to stop the war Brian De Palma - known for his perverse tales of voyeurism and violence, from Body Double to Scarface - may have found his dream subject in the Iraq War. Frustrated with the lack ...
New Orleans or Bust
Oct 03, 2007; ... Two directors looking for a meaty project found it on the road to Katrina E d Pincus and Lucia Small are clearly not accustomed to being on the other side of the camera. The day they finished editing their first film together, Th e Axe in the A ttic - a raw examination of misery and hope ...
Filming the Merchant of Venom
Oct 03, 2007; ... John Landis talks about his subject, DonRickles, and some other putz Animal House director John Landis was an 18-year-old assistant when he met actor-comedian Don Rick- les on the set of 1970's Kelly's Heroes. Decades and a few collaborations later, Landis has chronicled the "King of ...
The Fix Is In
Oct 03, 2007; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes text stops here in original.) The Fix Is In Watch your back, Grisham: Michael Clayton's no ordinary legal thriller Michael Clayton Written and directed by Tony Gilroy WamerBros., opens October 5 It will no doubt be said time ...
Desert Bayou
Oct 03, 2007; ... Tracking Shots Desert Bayou Directed by Alex LeMay Opens October 5, Cinema Village Alex LeMay's Desert Bayou makes a fitting sequel to Spike Lee's opus When the Levees Broke. The film opens by reprising the indelible and shameful tableaux of horrors that unspooled ...
Finishing the Game
Oct 03, 2007; ... Finishing the Game Directed by Justin Lin IFC First Take Opens October 5, IFC Center It's 1973. The dirt has barely settled on Bruce Lee's grave, and the exploitation rush is on. A producer with some priceless footage, tbe only existent fragment from Lee's ...
Nina's Heavenly Delights
Oct 03, 2007; ... Nina's Heavenly Delights Directed byPratibha Parmar Regent Releasing, opens October 5 'A difficult choice, between perfection and heavenly delight," crows the announcer at an Indian-cooking contest during this movie's climax. Sadly, Pratibha Parmar's Nina's Heavenly ...
In the Dark with Kurt Cobain
Oct 03, 2007; ... Kurt Cobain: About a Son Directed by A.J. Schnack Opens October 3, IFC Center In the Dark with Kurt Cobain The voice of a generation talks like a regular guy in About a Son Pity the fool hired to scribble the DVD-jacket copy for Kurt Cobain : About a Son - ...
The Wunderkind That Wasn't
Oct 03, 2007; ... My Kid Could Paint That Directed by Amir Bar-Lev Sony Pictures Classics, Opens October 5 The Wunderkind That Wasn't Basic but fascinating questions of art and authenticity in My Kid Could Paint That An irresistible subject for a documentary: The charming ...
TV Makes You Smarter
Oct 03, 2007; ... Michael Haneke: A Cinema of Provocation October 3 through 15 MOMA TV Makes You Smarter The small-screen pleasures (and pain) of Michael Haneke's other career I don't know why, but we're all rather incapable of dealing with one another. - dialogue from ...
MOMI Does Desplechin
Oct 03, 2007; ... The Cine Phile MOMI Does Desplechin Plus: Cranes flies at BAM The least predictable and most interesting of younger French directors, Arnaud Desplechin may also be the most film-intoxicated. Desplechin 's movies are remarkably generous; his interviews give evidence of ...
Strange Culture
Oct 03, 2007; ... Tracking Shots Strange Culture Directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson Opens October 5 Cinema Village On the morning of May 11, 2004, Steve Kurtz woke to find his wife dead of a heart attack. Hope Kurtz was a healthy woman in her mid-forties and, like her ...
The Good Night
Oct 03, 2007; ... The Good Night Directed by Jake Paltrow Yari Film Group Opens October 5 Director Jake Paltrow's feature debut has all the hallmarks of an earnest young man's feature debut, and while that is not necessarily a bad thing, I can only imagine that it fit Sundance like ...
Broken
Oct 03, 2007; ... Broken Directed by Alan White Truly Indie Opens October 5 Quad Cinema It's hard to say who suffers most after boy meets girl at the beach. Is it Hope (Heather Graham), who turns to heroin and can't get a singing gig because of those damned track marks? Is ...
The Charm Offensive
Oct 03, 2007; ... Down in Front The Charm Offensive Beirut's pleasant globe-trotter landscapes are wide-eyed but not terribly deep A rock band's ability to hold an audience in thrall, to sustain attention and enthusiasm and rapture , can be measured in text messages-the fewer, the merrier ....
The Treading
Oct 03, 2007; ... The Treading The Boss evokes those glory days but doesn't exactly push things forward Bruce Springsteen Magic Columbia The E Street Band last convened around Bruce Springsteen on 2001's The Rising; since then, the Boss (who looks finer as he gets older) ...
Siouxsie
Oct 03, 2007; ... Siouxsie Mantaray Decca A punk icon masterfully plays peekaboo with goth expectations On her recent Out of the Woods, Tracey Thorn, singing about artists who awed her early on, mentions "Bobby D in '63." But she also name-checks Siouxsie Sioux, the suburban ...
Chuck Prophet
Oct 03, 2007; ... Chuck Prophet Soap and Water Yep Roc Smart-ass rocker crafts another #1 Record Every aspiring guitarist who taped a copy of Big Star's Radio City went on to start his own band. That's conventional wisdom, but what about the misfits who scrounged a burn of Alex ...
PJ Harvey
Oct 03, 2007; ... PJ Harvey White Chalk Island Tense, confessional, and excruciating in every sense No closing answering the question she posed on 1998's Is This Desire? Polly Jean Harvey has watched it shed its rhetorical drag and assume declarative force. Although 2000's Stories ...
Miles Smirks
Oct 03, 2007; ... Box Elders Miles Smirks Charting the genesis of the seething On the Corner across six sprawling discs The title of the six-CD Miles DavisComplete "On the Corner" Sessions box set is misleading, and that's good. So far,only one of his Complete Sessions packageshas lived up ...
Joni Mitchell
Oct 03, 2007; ... Joni Mitchell Shine Hear Music A fine complement to your next Frappuccino Joni's love of jazz and jazz's love of Joni are no secret: Consider occasional collaborator Herbie Hancock's recent tribute record. But Shine, her first record in five years and debut for ...
Restraining the Lizard
Oct 03, 2007; ... Restraining the Lizard A (slightly) kinder, gentler, less naked David Yow resurfaces Back in the day, when Bill Clinton was still president and World War III wasn't a foregone conclusion, a noisy post-punk band called the Jesus Lizard ruled the rock underground with its noisy ...
Why Larry Tee Bothers
Oct 03, 2007; ... Jolting New York nightlife-again-with his latest Invasion DJs and dance music are constantly threatened in New York City these days, by cabaret-law chicanery and club-hopper apathy alike. Promoter/producer Larry Tee explains that we should all care more-or at least check out his latest ...
The Collage King of Queens
Oct 03, 2007; ... The Collage King of Queens A walking tour and songwriting lesson with Fiery Furnaces guru Matthew Friedberger We begin by inviting Matthew Friedberger, one-half of hometown art-rock darlings the Fiery Furnaces, to perform solo, acoustically, anytime and anywhere, on the highways, ...
Minding Mencia
Oct 03, 2007; ... SURE, CARLOS IS A HACK, BUT IS THAT A REASON TO HATE HIM? Q Dear Mexican: I'm a minority, and I know we can be overly sensitive sometimes, but I just can't stand Carlos Mencia. Not only are his jokes asinine, but I feel they are actually racist. Whereas Dave Chappelle tried to make fun ...
Free Will Astrology
Oct 03, 2007; ... ARIES [March 21-April 19] Vegan Erotica is a company that sells s&m bondage gear suitable for vegans. Its whips, harnesses, collars, cuffs, and restraints are made of fake leather. So if s now possible for you to conduct puckish experiments with sexual power dynamics and yet not be ...
Jail Watchdog Caught Snoozing
Oct 10, 2007; ... HOLDING PATTERN Underfunded, inept board just lies there while Bloomberg implements draconian rules in city's huge system Most of the time, no one who hangs around City Hall cares a penny about the Board of Correction, the supposedly independent watchdog overseeing New York's ...
Time to Cash In Cashman
Oct 10, 2007; ... BARRA Looking for a goat after the Yanks' defeat? Don't blame Joe First of all, let's leave aside, for the time being the question of how much of the blame for the Yankees' recent postseason debacles can be put on Joe Torre. Presumably, that question will be addressed soon and in ...
The Ad Blitzers' Façade
Oct 10, 2007; ... A CITY POL SHEDS HER GRACE ON A CAMPAIGN BACKER. HOW UNSIGHTLY. Money being the lifeblood of politics, one of the top tycoons in the outdoor-advertising business did his part this summer, collecting almost $70,000 for a favored politician. The donations to Melinda Katz, the City ...
Bleaker Street
Oct 10, 2007; ... IT'S NOT THE SAME OLD BLEECKER SINCE MARC, RALPH, TOMMY, CYNTHIA, AND STEVE SET UP SHOP 'That used to be a wonderful Indian-owned supermarket called Strawberry Fields," Robert Sietsema says, gazing wistfullly across Bleecker Street into what is now a pitch-black expanse called Reiss that ...
The Bruno File
Oct 10, 2007; ... Somebody should have kept this state senator down on the farm Last week, the Voice cast a skeptical eye on the scandal that has kept New York insiders swooning for months. Call it Troopergate or Choppergate, the focus has been on Governor Eliot Spitzer and his aides, whose attempt to ...
Lee Bollinger's Triumph
Oct 10, 2007; ... WILL PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD INVITE PRESIDENT BOLLINGER TD SPEAK IN TEHRAN? With his achievements including the execution of women for alleged adultery, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent visit to Columbia University unsurprisingly kicked up a furor here and around the world, much of it aimed at ...
HILLARY'S INFIDELITY
Oct 10, 2007; ... There's a missing piece in the apple pie that Hillary Clinton has been serving up to Americans on the campaign trail. "Americans from all walks of life across our country may be invisible to this president," she says. "But they won't be invisible to me." They won't be, that is, unless ...
Stacks of Surprises
Oct 10, 2007; ... Stacks of Surprises This week's hot new plays? They're all rediscoveries from yesteryear The Power of Darkness By Leo Tolstoy Mint Theater 311 West 43rd Street 212-315-0231 Night Over Taos By Maxwell Anderson Theater for the ...
Queer Factor
Oct 10, 2007; ... Queer Factor The Hourglass Group adapts '50s lesbian pulp fiction The Beebo Blinker Chronicles By Linda S. Chapman and Kate Moira Ryan Based on the novels of Ann Bannon The fourth Streei Theatre 83 East 4th ...
The Talking Cure?
Oct 10, 2007; ... The Talking Cure? Anesthesia can't stop Deb Margolin from monologuing O Yes I Will (I will remember the spirit and texture of this conversation) By Deb Margolin Dixon Place 258 Bowery (Closed) During a public demonstration in 1846, dentist ...
Farewell, Dionysus!
Oct 10, 2007; ... medEia By Dood Paard P.S. 122 (closed) Caravaggio Chiaroscuro By Gian Marco Lo Forte La MaMa 74A East 4th Street 212-475-7710 Farewell, Dionysus! Two plays display the evolution of the avant-garde The tumultuous ...