The Village Voice back issues from August 2008:
VOICE Mail
Aug 06, 2008; ... School doze Re Nat Hentoff's 'No Child Left Unhealed' [July 30-August 5]: I don't remember United Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten speaking much about the kids when I was teaching at-risk students in Brooklyn. She mostly spoke about teacher pay and always seemed to work ...
WOMAN-ON-WOMAN RAPE CLAIM AT RIKERS
Aug 06, 2008; ... RIKERS WATCH NEW ALLEGATION AT SCANDAL-RIDDEN JAIL A new crisis is roiling the scandal-plagued city Correction Department, the Voice has learned: A female inmate says she was sexually assaulted by at least one other woman in her cell in the Rikers Island jail. A reported ...
A DEVELOPER STRIKES BACK
Aug 06, 2008; ... PROTEST MOVEMENT MICHAEL ROSEN-EVIL EAST VILLAGE DEVELOPER, OR TARGET OF CONSPIRACY NUTS? "I am not scum!" exclaims Michael Rosen, a onetime developer and member of the East Village/Lower East Side rezoning task force, who is also the owner of a penthouse at the luxurious ...
Having a Riot at Tompkins Square
Aug 06, 2008; ... On the 20th anniversary of the mayhem, a walking, talking tour of the neighborhood IN 1986, WHEN THE PHOTOGRAPHER Q. SAKAMAKI MOVED TO THE EAST VILLAGE FROM JAPAN, HIS STREET COULD GET VERY NOISY-GUYS ACTING AS LOOKOUTS FOR DRUG DEALERS WOULD YELL WHEN THE COPS WERE APPROACHING, NOT TO ...
Chuck's Club
Aug 06, 2008; ... A veteran progressive legislator faces the Schumer steamroller IF CHUCK SCHUMER WERE A BRAND, HE'D BE WAL-MART. NOT SO MUCH THE COMPANY'S ATROCIOUS LABOR POLICIES (SEE THE POWERFUL NEW BOOK THE BIG SQUEEZE, BY THE NEW YORK TIMERS STEVE GREENHOUSE, FOR DETAILS), BUT THE RELENTLESS, ...
The Way of the Word
Aug 06, 2008; ... The Way of the Word Welcome to the language club! An evaluation of the new breed of playwrights. In The Typographer's Dream, a play by Adam Bock that premiered at the Ohio Theatre in 2002, a stenographer, a geographer, and a typographer stand before the audience, discussing their ...
The Fringe Binge
Aug 06, 2008; ... Here we go again! NYC's big-ass theater fest returns. At year 12, the New York International Fringe Festival may now be said to be entering puberty-though both supporters and detractors might agree that with its traditional mix of attention-getting stunts and in-your-face ...
School's Out
Aug 06, 2008; ... What has become of all our school dropouts? Has the chancellor even tried to find out? LAST WEEK, I SKETCHED THE PROMISED LAND OF RANDI WEINGARTEN'S "COMMUNITY SCHOOLS" PROJECT, THE MOST THOROUGHGOING REGENERATION OF ANY CITY'S PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM I'VE SEEN PROPOSED. BUT WHILE WE WAIT ...
ANDY'S KIDS
Aug 06, 2008; ... How Andrew Cuomo gave birth to the subprime-mortgage crisis that threatens to bring down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac By Wayne Barrett There are as many starting points for the mortgage meltdown as there are fears about how far it has yet to go, but one decisive point of departure is the ...
Best in Show
Aug 06, 2008; ... Asako Marahashi Yossi Milo Gallery 525 West 25th Street Through August 22 The Terminal Beach Floating in an ocean or lake, 49-year-old Japanese photographer Asako Narahashi partially submerges her camera and aims the lens back toward shore. The resulting ...
The Moon Mountain Man
Aug 06, 2008; ... The Moon Mountain Man Lands of Memory By Felisberto Hernandez Translated by Esther Alien New Directions, 190pp., $14.95 Meet the Uruguayan father of magic realism The Uruguayan writer Felisberto Hernandez (1902-1964)-considered the father of magic realism for his influence on ...
Gimme Prefab Shelter
Aug 06, 2008; ... Gimme Prefab Shelter 'Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling' The Museum of Modern Art 11 West S3rd Street And outdoor space to the west of the museum Through October 20 The Museum of Modern Art surveys-and builds!-some curious experimental ...
Read Book, Wash Hands
Aug 06, 2008; ... Read Book, Wash Hands Erotomania: A Romance By Francis Levy Two Dollar Radio, 162 pp., $14 Are golden showers the blowjobs of tomorrow? Just ask satirical novelist Francis Levy. 'Once I let go of the slim tethers that tie me to so-called reality and I'm in that VlP room, I'll be ...
Tell Mama
Aug 06, 2008; ... Counter Culture Tell Mama Keur Marne Diarra 2401 Frederick Douglass Boulevard 212-866-0014 Comfy Harlem Senegalese turns out dependable chops and cheb Just inside the front door stands a fat and frowzy Italian chef dressed in whites, nearly six ...
Cake Mix
Aug 06, 2008; ... A guide to the curious world of Chinatown bakeries Fork in the Road Manna House Bakery 212 Grand Street, 212-274-8816; three other locations in Chinatown, one in Flushing Dragon Land Bakery 125 Walker Street, 212-219-2012 Lung Moon ...
Duo Dardenne
Aug 06, 2008; ... Duo Dardenne Swimming Upstream: Films of the Dardenne Brothers August 7 through 10 Anthology Film Archives Anthology ignores the early days, but still pays worthy tribute to the Belgian brothers The eastern Belgium industrial town of Seraing (pop. 60,000) ...
Daddy's Man
Aug 06, 2008; ... Daddy's Man The Films of Azazel Jacobs August 11 through 15 BAM On the eve of their Momma's Man opening, Jacobs father and son talk shop and family By most measures, the films of Azazel Jacobs, screening this week at BAM, are on the offbeat end of the ...
(Another) Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
Aug 06, 2008; ... (Another) Rock 'n' Roll Suicide What We Do Is Secret Written and directed by Rodger Grossman Peace Arch Entertainment Opens August 8 Biopic Secret kills what's cool about the Germs Secret? Not anymore it ain't In my day, you had to visit a dozen ...
Elegy
Aug 06, 2008; ... Elegy Directed by Isabel Coixet Samuel Goldwyn Films Opens August 8, Lincoln Plaza andAngelika It's May-December time again, and for an aging dude who scores one of the ripest young lovelies in cinema (Penelope Cruz), Ben Kingsley looks mighty down in the mouth ....
True Bromance
Aug 06, 2008; ... True Bromance Pineapple Express Directed by David Gordon Green Columbia Pictures Opens August 6 Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love in Pineapple Express On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a ...
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Aug 06, 2008; ... Patti Smith: Dream of Life Directed by Steven Sebring Palm Pictures Opens August 6, Film Forum If Patti Smith's narration to Dream of Life was simplified into a stanza, it might go something like tins: As long as I can remember I sought to be free/Bob Dylan once ...
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Aug 06, 2008; ... The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 Directed by Sanaa Hamri Warner Brothers Opens August 6 Resist if you dare, and for as long as you must but even the hoariest haters eventually succumbed to the giriy, cottony charms of 2005's Sisterhood of the Traveling ...
Last Stop for Paul
Aug 06, 2008; ... Last Stop for Paul Directed by NeilMandt Opens August 8, Two Boots Pioneer Writer-director Neil Mandt is Charlie, and cinematographer Marc Carter is Cliff, his companion on a round-the-world trip. Their goal is to honor the wishes of a dead friend, Paul, by leaving ...
Beautiful Losers
Aug 06, 2008; ... Beautiful Losers Directed by Aaron Rose Opens August 8, IFC Center The ongoing trouble with docs about artists is that too few are very artfully made themselves, or else they flat out fail to demonstrate any insight into their subjects' impulses/goals/ creative processes ....
Red
Aug 06, 2008; ... Red Directed by TrygveAttister Diesen and Lucky McKee Magnolia Pictures Opens August 8, Village East If Death Wish had begun with armed thugs killing Charles Branson's dog instead of his wife, and Bronson had spent the rest of the movie merely trying to obtain an ...
Hell Ride
Aug 06, 2008; ... Hell Ride Directed by Larry Bishop Third Rail Releasing Opens August 8 In the post-A Fiction '90s, one could throw a rock at random and hit a two-bit Quentin Tarantino knock-off-all chatty gangsters with showy monikers doing the slo-mo "let's go to work" swagger ....
Bottle Shock
Aug 06, 2008; ... Bottle Shock Directed by Randall Miller Freestyle Releasing Opens August 6 It's a great concept populated by great actors that works hard to make its audience feel gnsafl Only, sadly, Bottle Shock is far from a great movie-a little too sweet to the taste, almost ...
The Rhime Reborn
Aug 06, 2008; ... Down in Front A running diary of hip-hop superfest Rock the Bells Ah, the exquisite joys of a sunny Sunday afternoon on the Long Island Rail Road, whereupon we're toughing out signal-problem delays en route to Jones Beach for Rock the Bells, the annual retro-minded hiphop ...
A Few Words In Praise of Randy Newman
Aug 06, 2008; ... A Few Words In Praise of Randy Newman Randy Newman Harps and Angels Nonesuch The full-grown good old boy powers on while waiting for the big one to drop BY RYAN FOLEY On the title track to Randy Newman's first studio album in nine years, the man ...
Just the choruses, thanks
Aug 06, 2008; ... Just the choruses, thanks David Vandervelde Waiting for the Sunrise Secretly Canadian Convincing rock formalism need not reinvent an old mode, just trick you into thinking you haven't heard it in ages. That's what Nashville-based atavist David Vandervelde ...
Not Ready to Die
Aug 06, 2008; ... How Jamaica's volatile dancehall scene can avoid a Biggie vs. Tupac tragedy It's that time again: Dancehall reggae is taking the heat Not that Jamaica's resplendently lewd and crude export ever stops courting controversy-a lyrical bounty of violence and slackness, not to mention sporadic ...
Let the Hit Factory help you out, boys
Aug 06, 2008; ... Let the Hit Factory help you out, boys The Jonas Brothers A Little Bit Longer Hollywood There's a song on the new Jonas Brothers album in which Joe Jonas-he's the one recently seen corrupting millions of tween-aged minds with his chest hair on the cover of Rolling ...
A welcome reboot leads to good songs and better random noises
Aug 06, 2008; ... A welcome reboot leads to good songs and better random noises The Faint Fasciinatiion blank.wav The Faint couldn't be more 2002 if they threatened to put their thing down, flip it, and reverse it. The Omaha quintet combined Saddle Creek earnestness and sardonic ...
Free Will Astrology
Aug 06, 2008; ... ARIES [March 21-April 19] Do you get aroused squeezing balloons until they explode? Do you quiver with delight as you watch popcorn pop? Have you ever stood in front of a ripe flower bud for hours waiting for its slow explosion into full bloom? If you answered yes to any of these questions, ...
EVERYWHERE A SIGN
Aug 13, 2008; ... PITCH COUNT WHY THE CITY CANT TAKE DOWN ILLEGAL BILLBOARDS Over the past seven years, Jordan Seiler estimates that he's taken down hundreds of billboards, posters, and other signs to replace advertising in public places with his own artwork. Armed with a screwdriver and ...
BLACK IS MUSICAL
Aug 13, 2008; ... MODEL BEHAVIOR VIDEO SHOOT CRASHES THE RACIAL CATWALK Last month, photographer Steven Meisel used only black models for an entire issue of the Italian edition of Vogue, and it became something of a landmark publishing event: Copies sold so quickly that Condé Nast had to stock the ...
Shelly Silver's Hometown Shame
Aug 13, 2008; ... A stretch of the Lower East Side stands desolate and empty, thanks to the Assembly Speaker JUST SOUTH OF DELANCEY STREET ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE, NEAR THE BUSTLING ENTRANCE TO THE WlLLIAMSBURG BRIDGE, lieS THAT RAREST MANHATTAN COMMODITY: VACANT LAND. ¶ THIS is NOT JUST A FEW BUILDABLE ...
John Steinbeck's GHOSTS
Aug 13, 2008; ... A MYSTERY SOLVED WITH THE HELP OF A PROFESSOR AND A MOBSTER'S MUSICIAN BY TONY ORTEGA Six years ago this summer, the Native American novelist Louis Owens drove his pickup truck to Albuquerque's airport and parked. It had been some years since I'd spent much time with him. We'd ...
The Lost Two-Thirds
Aug 13, 2008; ... New York ranks 54th of the 63 largest U.S. school districts for graduating black boys IN THIS CITY, ONLY 32 PERCENT OF BLACK MALES GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL ON SCHEDULE IN 2006, IN CONTRAST TO 57 PERCENT OF WHITE MALES. BECAUSE OF THAT, NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS RANKED 54TH OUT OF 63 ...
Good Evening Starshine
Aug 13, 2008; ... Good Evening Starshine Hair still grows on you 40 years later; Gurney's new Buffalo Gal tells a more rueful comeback story Hair By Gerome Ragni, James Rado, and Galt MacDermot DelacorteTheater,CentralPark 212-539-8500 Buffalo Gal By A.R ....
Animals Out of Paper
Aug 13, 2008; ... Sightlines Animals Out of Paper By Rajiv Joseph McGinn/Cazale Theater Broadway and 76th Street, 212-246-4422 Andy's an annoying, pathetic loser. The calculus teacher and treasurer of the American Origami Society keeps a record of all his "blessings" in a ...
Mythic Figurations: A Power Triptych
Aug 13, 2008; ... Mythic Figurations: A Power Triptych By Samara Naeymi Ontological-Hysteric Theater (Closed) Like the rock opera or the dystopian visions of Philip K Dick, Joseph Campbell functions as a kind of Sargasso Sea for emerging artists, luring them into an eerily becalmed ...
It's the Economy Stupid! or The Turning Point
Aug 13, 2008; ... It's the Economy Stupid! or The Turning Point Theater for the New City Street Theater Company Various locations, 212-254-1109 God may like to sing and dance and dress up like Don Corleone, but he draws the line at bailing humanity out of its carbonrelated ...
Death! Fire! Mayhem! Art!
Aug 13, 2008; ... 'After Nature' The New Museum of Contemporary Art 23SBowery,212-219-1222 Through September 21 Death! Fire! Mayhem! Art! The New Museum treks into a post-apocalyptic world BY ADDA BIRNIR Americans experience the world as being in a state of ...
Summer Flings
Aug 13, 2008; ... Summer Flings Larry Keigwin and Monica Bill Barnes do up August with water, towels, and a romp in the park Keigwin + Company Joyce Theater July 28 through August 1 Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts August 21 through 24 Monica Bill ...
Asphalt Flowers
Aug 13, 2008; ... Recommendations by U.C. Baker 'Kirchner and the Berlin Street' The Museum of Modern Art 11 WestS3rdStreet,212-708-9400 Through November 10 Asphalt Flowers Two women stand on a traffic island in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, a siren duet of sickly green ...
The Wanderers
Aug 13, 2008; ... The Pisctown Chaos By David OhIe Soft Skull Press, 196 pp., $14.95 The Wanderers David OhIe ventures into the land of the stinkers BY ZACH BARON In Motorman, David Ohle's dizzying 1972 debut, we first meet Moldenke, the author's hapless, indelible ...
The Immigrant Song
Aug 13, 2008; ... The Immigrant Song In her debut collection, Sana Krasikov charts the lives of people trapped between worlds One More Year By Sa na Krasiko v Spiegel & Grau, 229pp., $21.95 BY SARAH NORRIS In 1860, just before the start of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant was leading a quiet-by ...
Saint James
Aug 13, 2008; ... James 605 Carlton Avenue, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, 718-942-4255 Saint James New Brooklyn neighborhood bistro transcends the genre Our meal began spectacularly with a big lump of sweetbreads-lightly dusted with flour, compressed into a jaunty rhombus, and seared ...
Eating While Drinking
Aug 13, 2008; ... Fork in the Road Pegu Club 77 West Houston Street, 212-473-7348 Clover Club 210 Smith Street, 718-855-7939 Quarter 676 5th Avenue, 718-788-0989 Eating While Drinking Woman cannot live by gin alone BY SARAH ...
Still Catching the Wave
Aug 13, 2008; ... Still Catching the Wave Two French masters-Chabrol and Rohmer-keep doing what they do best A Girl Cut in Two Directed by Claude Chabrol IFC Films Opens August IS, IFC Center and Lincoln Plaza The Romance of Aetna and Celadon Directed by ...
One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story
Aug 13, 2008; ... Tracking Shots One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story Directed by Thomas G. Miller Opens August 15, IFC Center A bowling balfs black kitty face busting out of a white bag: Does this beguilingly simple sculpture evoke transcendence-a message that the least ...
Mighty Aphrodites
Aug 13, 2008; ... Vicky Cristina Barcelona Directed by Woody Alien MGMandtheWeinsteinCompany Opens August 15 Mighty Aphrodites Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces-and some other stuff-in Woody Alien's (winning!) latest BY SCOTT FOUNDAS Perhaps ...
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
Aug 13, 2008; ... Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer Directed by Robbie Cavolina artdlan McCrudden Opens August 15, Cinema Village A good deal livelier than the usual music-doc embalming, this worshipful tribute to jazz singer Anita O'Day-completed shortly before her death in 2006 by ...
Sturm und Drag
Aug 13, 2008; ... Tropic Thunder Directed by Ben Stiller Paramount Pictures Opens August 13 Sturm und Drag Stiller's satire is way past its expiration date BY ROBERT WlLONSKY Early buzz out of Hollywood pegged Tropic Thunder, directed and cowritten by star ...
Fly Me to the Moon
Aug 13, 2008; ... Tracking Shots Fly Me to the Moon Directed by BenStassen Summit Entertainment Opens August 15 The 3D adventure fly Me to the Moon imagines an alternate history in which three adolescent houseflies stow away aboard Apollo 11, unintentionally thwarting the ...
Henry Poole Is Here
Aug 13, 2008; ... Henry Pools Is Here Directed by MarkPellington Overture Films Opens August 15 Henry Poole is dying. Diagnosed with an unspecified fatal disease, Pdole (Luke Wilson) retreats into the numbing sunniness of suburban Los Angeles, buying a cruddy house and waiting ...
O Lucky Us!
Aug 13, 2008; ... Never Apologize: A Personal Visit With Lindsay Andersen Screening as part of 'Lindsay Anderson: RevolutionaryRomantic' August 15 through 21, Walter Reade O Lucky Us! Malcolm McDowell on Lindsay Anderson In conjunction with its Lindsay Anderson retrospective, ...
Jersey Boys
Aug 13, 2008; ... Jersey Boys Radiohead (and a picturesque ferry ride) make the All Points West festival totally worth it I hope you took the ferry to this All Points West thing: a lovely meander down the East River, a soft breeze denoting the remarkably nonoppressive weather, the seafaring views ...
I Can Hear the Angels Grouse
Aug 13, 2008; ... I Can Hear the Angels Grouse The NYC chapter of the Complaints Choir is here, and it's about goddamn time BY KURT GOTTSCHALK If there's a group of people you don't want to keep waiting, it's a chorus of New Yorkers assembled to whine about things. "This place is a little ...
Preteenage Wastelands
Aug 13, 2008; ... Oneida Preteen Weaponry Jagjaguwar Preteenage Wastelands Another exhilarating he adphone trip with Oneida BY DAVID BEVAN Oneida have never really struck a chord with those who prefer easy listening. For just over a decade, the Brooklyn power trio ...
Everything Old Is New-Age Again
Aug 13, 2008; ... Everything Old Is New-Age Again Manuel Göttsching revisits minimalist classic E2-E4 BY D. STRAUSS When the Wordless Music series first invited legendary Krautrock giant Manuel Göttsching to Lincoln Center to unveil the American premiere of his 1981 composition E2-E4 at ...
Anachronistic anthems from Wisconsin's finest
Aug 13, 2008; ... Blueheels Lessons in Sunday Driving Blake Thomas Flatlands Ingersoll Music Anachronistic anthems from Wisconsin's finest Madison, Wisconsin's Blake Thomas and Robby Schiller are as well known for their drunken escapades (like nearly drowning ...
A tour of Indonesia, from devotional vocalizing to fretless lutes
Aug 13, 2008; ... Suarasama Fajar di Atas Awan Drag City A tour of Indonesia, from devotional vocalizing to fretless lutes My favorite Indonesian album? Thanks for asking. That would be Music From the Outskirts of Jakarta: Gambang, Komong, part three of ethnomusicologist Philip ...
Italians contextualize Ray Parker Jr. better
Aug 13, 2008; ... Cosmic Disco?! Cosmic Rock!!! Eskimo Italians contextualize Ray Parker Jr. better We're neck-deep in yet another Eurotrash summer (seriously, have you been out to P.S.1's Summer Warrnup or in the Village on a Saturday night? It's like Rome's Spanish Steps or Amsterdam's ...