The Village Voice back issues from November 2007:
Correction
Nov 07, 2007; ... Because of an editing error, last week's cover story, 'No Skeletons In My Closet!', incorrectly stated that Verizon had turned over 94,000 records to the National Security Agency, "many without a court order." The 94,000 records were turned over to various ...
Rousting the Cops
Nov 07, 2007; ... VERDICTS One man stands up to the NYPD's apartheid-like trespassing crackdown On a hot August night last summer in the South Bronx, David M. was walkingtoward the front door of his friend Dee's high-rise public-housingbuilding. As he approached die door, he saw an NYPD paddy ...
Dead Men Win No Lawsuits
Nov 07, 2007; ... GOLDEN YEARS Why ambulance-chasing attorneys won't go near your grandpa's demise When sculptor Richard Lippold died in 2002, he left behind a breathtaking body of work, including huge wire-and-metal installations at the Met Life Building. Lincoln Center, the Four Seasons, and ...
Fred W. McDarrah, 1926-2007
Nov 07, 2007; ... Veteran Village Voice photographer Fred W. McDarrah died in his sleep at home in Greenwich Village early Tuesday morning. He was 81. Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city's postmodern art movement, its politicians, and its social ...
A-Rod U-Turn?
Nov 07, 2007; ... BARRA Torre's gone, but the slugger may return We may not know who exactly is running the New York Yankees right now-Hank Steinbrenner, Brian Cashman, orwho-is-Randy Levine-but we at least havean idea how they're not running the team: like George used to. If a younger George had ...
Tale of the Tape
Nov 07, 2007; ... REWIND: THE STORY BEHIND MY STORY OF THE FBI MURDER CASE Now it can be told, the real story ofhow the twisted murder case against a decorated law-enforcement officer falls apart: First, the old cassette tapes of the old interviews with the crucial prosecution witness are ...
All Sold Out at CBGB
Nov 07, 2007; ... HOW MUCH IS THAT MDSH PIT IN THE BOUTIQUE WINDOW? My friend Haoui Montaug used to live in a loft on the corner of the Bowery and East 2nd Street, where Kelley and Ping now has the ground-floor restaurant Haoui, a locally famous downtown-club doorman, was also a self-styled impresario ...
Bush's Man Mukasey
Nov 07, 2007; ... WILL THE SUPREME COURT ALSO BOW LOW TO THE PRESIDENT? As I noted last week, at last there's a growing rebellion in the lower federal courts against the president's claim that he must be the sole decider in how to combat terrorism. But hanging over this is the shadow of the Roberts-Alito ...
THE MiLLiON-DOLLAR JACKPOT
Nov 07, 2007; ... A BROOKLYN DOPE DEALER HiD iT iN A CLOSET. A ROBBERY CREW FOUND iT. ONE GANGSTER GOT SCREWDRiVERED TO DEATH. ANOTHER ONE JUST GOT SCREWED. Word started circulating in certain nefarious circles in Brooklyn in early 2006 that 40-year-old John Allen Davis was a mere shell of his former ...
Things to Do in Rabat When You're Dead
Nov 07, 2007; ... Arts Things to Do in Rabat When You're Dead The CinemaEast Film Festival unreels the latest crop of Middle East movie makers BY SAUL AUSTERLITZ Ghosriace Killah rhyming over sped-up images of a city in decay. A mockumentary on urban ills. A comedy about a small ...
Not to Be
Nov 07, 2007; ... Not to Be TheWooster Group plays someone else's Hamlet, and both teams lose Hamlet By William Shakespeare Public Theater 425 Lafayette Sheet 212-967-7555 BY MICHAEL FEINGOLD O Hamlet, thou turn'st mine eyes unto the VCR, and there I ...
Talk Shows
Nov 07, 2007; ... Cyrano de Bergerac ByEdmond Rostand translated by Anthony Burgess Richard Rodgers Theatre Broadway &46th Street 212-221-1211 Speech and Debate By Stephen Karam Roundabout/Laura Pels Theatre 111 West 46th ...
Dial T for Torture
Nov 07, 2007; ... The Receptionist By Adam Bock Manhattan Theatre Club 131 West 55th Street 212-581-1212 Dial T for Torture More strange doings in an Adam Bock workplace BY ALEXIS SOLOSKl On March 10,1876, Alexander Graham Bell conducted the first ...
Eastern Unstandard
Nov 07, 2007; ... 1001 By Jason Grote Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Aven ue 212-352-3101 Eastern Unstandard Jason Grote adapts The Arabian Nights-his own way There once was, praise Allah, a Jason Grote. This Grote lived in the utmost wilderness ...
Hoodoo Love
Nov 07, 2007; ... Sightlines Hoodoo Love ByKatoriHall Cherry Lane Theatre 38 Commerce Street 212-239-6200 If living poor in the 1930s Mississippi Delta wasn't enough reason for a young AfricanAmerican woman to sing the blues, the determined Toulou (Angela Lewis) ...
Spain
Nov 07, 2007; ... Spain By Jim Knable Lucille Lortel Theatre 121 Christopher Street 212-279-4200 Playing with imaginary friends may be cute for children, but less so for dramatists. Inhis labored comedy Spain-a 2006 Summer Play Festival entry now produced by MCC-Jim Knable ...
Crossing Brooklyn
Nov 07, 2007; ... Crossing Brooklyn By Laura Harrington and fenny Giering The Connelly Theatre 220 East 4th Street 212-352-3101 Certainly a 90-minute musical about 9/11 posttraumatic stress disorder requires a certain suspension of disbelief-ever been taunted by a ...
Vapid Transit
Nov 07, 2007; ... Vapid Transit At 'The Incomplete,' an art scene amuses itself into obsolescence The Incomplete' The Chelsea Art Museum 556 West 22nd Street Through January 12 BY CHRISTIAN VIVEROS-FAUNÉ In our time, progress shops at thrift stores. How else ...
Terminal Condition
Nov 07, 2007; ... In the Future No One Will Have a Past KanishkaRaja Envoy 131 Chrystie Street + Tilton Gallery 8 East 76th Street Through November 17 Terminal Condition Kanishka Raja boards at the gate marked "Dislocation" BY ALAN ...
Moving Pictures
Nov 07, 2007; ... 'Georges Seurat: The Drawings' The Museum of Modem Art 11 West 53rd Street Through January 7 Moving Pictures This comprehensive exhibit of drawings by Georges Seurat (1859-91) reveals an artist redefining painting amid the hurly-burly of early modernism ....
The Ugly Stick
Nov 07, 2007; ... The Ugly Stick Severed heads, devouring monsters, Marilyn Manson-Umberto Eco gazes at the grotesque On Ugliness Edited by Umberto Eco Translated byAlastairMcEwen Rizzoli, 455 pp., $45 BY RICHARD B.WOODWARD Umberto Eco is 75 and has entered the autumnal stage of intellectual ...
Game Effort
Nov 07, 2007; ... Kissed By By Alexandra Chasin University of Alabama Press, 174 pp., $17.95 Game Effort The pleasing puzzles of Alexandra Chasm's experimental fiction BY KAREN SCHECHNER An artist's sketch of a woman narrates the first line of the title ...
The Recycle of Life
Nov 07, 2007; ... John Jasperse Company BAM Harvey Theater October 31 through November 3 The Recycle of Life A choreographer pulls a treasure from the trash BY DEBORAH JOWITT John Jasperse speaks softly and smiles at us, but he's clearly worried. In the ...
Sweeping It Clean
Nov 07, 2007; ... Gamelan Cudamani Skirball Center October 27 and 28 Sweeping It Clean A Balinese dance company transforms a New York stage Not many New York dance performances begin with the sound of frogs, stray birdcalls, and the swish of grass brooms against the floor ....
Fire in the Hole
Nov 07, 2007; ... Counter Culture New Isaan cafe charges into southeastern Astoria spewing chilies Poodam's Thai Cuisine 44-19 Broadway, Astoria, Queens, 718-278-3010 Fire in the Hole Food from the Isaan region has become the holy grail of Thai cuisine. But who can explain ...
Family Meal: Stomach-Ticklers
Nov 07, 2007; ... Eat for Victory Joining the Goodies staff for some tasty innards A little after nine o'clock, Ricky Ker sits down for dinner at a back table of Goodies, his restaurant on fast Broadway, with a waitress or two. The only other customers in the plain, small dining room are a young ...
Beers and Bloggers
Nov 07, 2007; ... Liquid City Readers of food and nightlife websites breathlessly track the openings and closings of restaurants and bars as though they were following pro-baseball players; now, as you're preparing to unveil a new brew pub, you can start a blog and get people talking months before your ...
Revelation
Nov 07, 2007; ... Revelation Richard Kelly leaves nothing behind in his pop-packed apocalyptic pageant, Southland Tales Southland Tales Written and directed by Richard Kelly Samuel Goldwyn Films Opens November 14 BY J. HOBERMAN A doom-ridden pulp cabalist ...
Panoramas at MOMA
Nov 07, 2007; ... The Cine Phile Panoramas at MOMA Downstairs at the Museum of Modern Art, avant-garde filmmaker Ernie Gehr has put together a five-screen installation bringing the 19th-century magic lantern into the 21st century. Panoramas of the Moving Image draws on artifacts he's collected, ...
Badlands
Nov 07, 2007; ... No Country for Old Men Written and directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Miramax Films, opens November 9 Badlands Coen Brothers transcend themselves with No Country for Old Men BY SCOTT FOUNDAS 'Hold still"-it's what the hunters say to the ...
World Beat
Nov 07, 2007; ... Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival November 9 through 11 American Museum of Natural History World Beat Margaret Mead doc fest takes pulse of the global music scene BY ED HALTER The Margaret Mead Rim and Video Festival, the Museum of Natural ...
Dull Roar
Nov 07, 2007; ... Lions for Lambs Directed by Robert Redford United Artists, opens November 9 Dull Roar The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest, utterly terrible war drama BY ELLA TAYLOR Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers, Robert ...
Ugandan Idol
Nov 07, 2007; ... War/Dance Directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix ThinkFilm, opens November 9 Ugandan Idol A spoonful of sugar helps the atrocities go down in War/Dance BY JIM RIDLEY In a just world, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix's documentary wouldn't exist-at least not ...
Fred Claus
Nov 07, 2007; ... Tracking Shots Fred Claus Directed by David Dobkin Warner Bros. Opens November 9 Vince Vaughn delves into the pre-teen demo, hoping that parents will enjoy the added value of seeing their favorite wise-ass wreaking havoc in Toyland. Vaughn plays Santa's ...
Bee Movie
Nov 07, 2007; ... Bee Movie Directed by Steve Hickner and Simon J. Smith Paramount Pictures Now playing After making a mint off a series about nothing, Jerry Seinfeld apparently decided that his first feature film ought to be about something-in the case of Bee Movie, the ...
Divorce, Italian Style
Nov 07, 2007; ... Tracking Shots Divorce, Italian Style Directed by Pietro Germi November 9 through 22, Film Forum The capstone of Film Forum's Pietro Germi mini-retrospective is the director's most popular work, his mid-career turn to wheeling commedia all'italiana (this movie ...
Cocalero
Nov 07, 2007; ... Cocalero Directed by Alejandro Landes Opens November 9, Cinema Village In the midst of this consultant-polished election season, Alejandro Landes's inside look at Evo Morales's successful 2005 run for the Bolivian presidency is both refreshing and just plain fun. Morales, ...
Steal a Pencil for Me
Nov 07, 2007; ... Steal a Pencil for Me Directed by Michèle Ohayon Seventh Art Releasing and Red Envelope Entertainment Opens November 9 Not your mother's Holocaust movie, Michèle Ohayon's gripping documentary asks you both to weep for and celebrate a Dutch Jew who ...
The Sacred Family
Nov 07, 2007; ... The Sacred Family Directed by Sebastián Campos November 9 through 15, Quad Cinema It's a good thing Antoni Gaudí, architect of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia church, is already dead, or Sebastián Campos's new film might have killed him. La Sagrada Familia (The Sacred ...
My Name Is Albert Ayler
Nov 07, 2007; ... My Name Is Albert Ayler Directed by Kasper Collin November 8 through 14 Anthology Film Archives Though he polarized critics in his prime, African-American avant-garde saxophonist Albert Ayler has come into favor as a cult hero and jazz pioneer long after his body ...
P2
Nov 07, 2007; ... P2 Directed by Franck Khalfoun Summit Entertainment, opens November 9 After being KO'd in the underground parking garage of her Manhattan office building, Angela (Rachel Nichols), a workaholic executive, wakes to find herself chained to a table. It's Christmas Eve, the ...
Holly
Nov 07, 2007; ... Holly Directed by Guy Moshe Opens November 9, Clearview Cinemas Shot concurrently with a "raising awareness" documentary on child prostitution in Southeast Asia (by the tellingly named Priority Films), Holly snatches images out of soiled Cambodian red-light districts, ...
The Fey Highwayman
Nov 07, 2007; ... The Fey Highwayman On Sufjan Stevens's indulgent, hula-hoop-plagued BQE symphony Down in Front All my friends who don't live in New York hate New York. Near as I can tell, they imagine the city as one giant, loathsome American Apparel ad, a crass, joyless, narcissistic, ...
A Hardcore Troubadour in the East River Twilight
Nov 07, 2007; ... A Hardcore Troubadour in the East River Twilight Hemming and hawing with the vulnerable, ethereal, enigmatic Phosphorescent BY ROB TRUCKS Matthew Houck, the Alabamanative who records under the name Phosphorescent, is awfully hard to pin down. Our meeting is rescheduled ...
Domino Effect
Nov 07, 2007; ... Domino Effect The resurgence of Fats Domino mirrors his hometown's BY LARRY BLUMENFELD It's been more than 20 years since Antoine "Fats" Domino traveled to New York as an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's inaugural class. It's been nearly 60 since he and ...
The Harlem Renaissance
Nov 07, 2007; ... The Harlem Renaissance Jay-Z's heroin-soaked retro moves push things forward Jay-Z American Gangster Def Jam BY AMY LINDEN You'd think hip-hop was one nation under a trap, what with everyone firing up the Oven Chef and talking about weight more ...
Sigur Rós
Nov 07, 2007; ... Sigur Rós Hvarf/Heim XL Iceland's finest bluesmen kick out more vapor-trail jams Over the past decade, Icelandic musicians have proven they're amazing at doing essentially the same two things early bluesmen mastered: religiously honing their idiosyncratic voices, ...
Bottomless Pit
Nov 07, 2007; ... Bottomless Pit Hammer of the Gods Comedy Minus One Grieving Silkworm members regroup, balancing anger and acceptance Silkworm drummer Michael Dahlquist's 2005 death in a car accident was doubly tragic, destroying indie rock's most gloriously enigmatic band, which ...
Britney Spears
Nov 07, 2007; ... Britney Spears Blackout Jive Much, much better than you had (justifiably) feared Britney Spears's title as leader of 1999's teen-pop surge can make you forget that she's never made a good album. She's made singles, but her records have never cohered, which became ...
Sightings
Nov 07, 2007; ... Sightings Through the Panama Load/Ecstatic Peace Scuzzy and catchy jammers, with a big assist from Andrew W.K. Einstürzende Neubauten, electro, the Jesus and Mary Chain, minimal techno, Suicide, Iannis Xenakis, and electric Miles-what a list, right? Not only is ...
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
Nov 07, 2007; ... The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir Bloodshot Poppy, erotic, and even choral on occasion This oddly named band isn't from Scotland (although it's obvious they've listened to more than a few Belle and Sebastian albums), nor are they especially religious, although a vague ...
The Scrunchie Invasion
Nov 07, 2007; ... The Scrunchie Invasion BAM's all-night fete flaunts bands, burlesque, and a 'Lindsay Lohan mid-career retrospective' Dirty Blonde The only lock-in I ever attended was in seventh grade, some youthgroup-sponsored affair. We snuck through the narrow hallways after the ...
Help Me Insult My Friends
Nov 07, 2007; ... SOME MEXICANS NEED TO BE PUT IN THEIR PLACE Q Dear Mexican: I like to think that I'm an open-minded sorta quy for a teenager. I fervently oppose racial stereotypes, though I do think that they're good for a laugh or two sometimes. I have several Mexican friends, and none of them live up ...
Mommy Dearest
Nov 07, 2007; ... THE RISE OF MILFS AND MOMMIES IN SEXUAL-FANTASY MATERIAL No one has nailed down the origin of the acronym MILF ("Mom I'd Like to Fuck"), although American Pie is credited witii popularizing the term, which is most closely associated witii teenage boys lusting for a friend's hot mom. In ...
Free Will Astrology
Nov 07, 2007; ... ARIES [March 21-April 19] Read these lines by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, translated by Chana Block and Stephen Mitchell: "A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my ...
Neo-Nazis Lose a Clubhouse
Nov 14, 2007; ... EVICTION After a Voice article describes a white-power picnic, heads roll Soon after the Voice exposed a group of New Jersey white supremacists earlier this year ("A Neo-Nazi Field Trip to the Met," June 13), the racists found themselves locked out of their usual meeting ...
Sri You Later
Nov 14, 2007; ... SUCCESSION A guru's followers ponder eternity without him Sri Chinmoy is everywhere on Parsons Boulevard in Queens, up the hill from the F train and kitty-corner to Hillcrest High School. The guru gazes from the menu at the Smile of the Beyond luncheonette and plays the flute, ...
Stilled Voice
Nov 14, 2007; ... OBIT Remembering Norman Mailer, whose $10,000 started this rag Norman Mailer, who co-founded The Village Voice 52 years ago, and who, as a writer, was perhaps best known for his walloping roundhouses, arrogant, despairing egocentrism, and tough-guy panache-as well as for having ...
Remembering Fred W. McDarrah, 1926-2007
Nov 14, 2007; ... Nat Hentoff on the man who defined the look of the Voice For many years, Fred W. McDarrah was a key and vivid element that differentiated the Voice from other publications. Often, when I'd call him for a photograph to go with my column, he had anticipated the request and, more often than ...
Glamour Do
Nov 14, 2007; ... IS THERE ANYTHING MODERN-DAY PINUP DITA VON TEESE CAN TEACH US ABOUT THAT MOST ELUSIVE QUALITY? When a box decorated with a pair of formerly alive crimson roses arrives at my desk-you get all kinds of things in this job-I pray, Please let it be candy. But it isn't Instead, it contains an ...
Blood Brothers
Nov 14, 2007; ... MOB MISTRESS LINDA SCHIRO TOLD ONE MURDER TALE THE SAME WAY TO EVERYONE. DESPITE THE HOLES IN HER STORY. Murder was just a cost of doing business in the Bensonhurst household of late mobster Greg Scarpa Sr. And as Linda Schiro, the winsome brunette with the button nose who shared the ...
Crisis-Mode Rudy
Nov 14, 2007; ... VOLCANISM Just wait till the rest of the country sees Giuliani unhinged With this 9/11 thing continuing to work for former mayor Rudy Giuliani, we can't help wondering how President Giuliani might handle a crisis before the arrayed minions of the White House press corps. Of ...
BUS KILL
Nov 14, 2007; ... IN THE CROSSWALK, NEW YORKERS FIND THEMSELVES IN THE CROSS HAIRS On September 6 of last year, a speedingbus rollingtoward Brooklyn on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge slammed into a tractor trailer, sending 14 riders to the hospital. The NewYorkCity Transit bus driver had been going ...
How We Delight Our Enemies
Nov 14, 2007; ... A FORMER LIGHT UNTO THE WORLD, WE, THE PEOPLE, HAVE BEEN DARKENED BY THIS ADMINISTRATION The terrorists were targeting us, George W Bush asserted after 9/11, because "they hate our freedoms." Within just a few years, however, those very freedoms were under siege by the Bush ...
Neocon Job
Nov 14, 2007; ... Body Parts By Ishmael Reed Nuyorican Poets Cafe 236 East 3rd Street 212-465-3167 Neocon Job In Ishmael Reed's new play, blacks serve as guinea pigs 'This is no way totreata future Pulitzer Prize finalist! "exclaims a black intellectual, ...