The Village Voice back issues from October 2008:
VOICE Mail
Oct 01, 2008; ... Re-running for president Re J. Hoberman's 'What We Learned at the Movies This Summer' [September 17-23]: I find weak the comparison between Eisenhower and McCain. Eisenhower was a statesman and an inspirational leader. McCain is ill-tempered and wedded to "principles" that will drive our ...
BUILDING, SWEET BUILDING
Oct 01, 2008; ... GENERATION EXCESS A HIP YOUNG COUPLE CLEARS OUT LOW-RENT TENANTS FOR ITS TELEVISION AND PLAYROOM NEEDS In 2006, Dan Bailey and Felicity Loughrey, with the financial backing of another couple, purchased an eight-unit residential building in Prospect Heights for ...
Six Signs of a Sick Economy
Oct 01, 2008; ... Read this and then start hunting for some recession-proof bargains SIX SIGNS THAT THE ECONOMY IS TANKING, SINKING, RESEMBLING, IN CHUCK SCHUMER'S WORDS, CHARYBDIS, WHICH, FOR ALL YOU NON-HOMERIC SCHOLARS, IS A SEA MONSTER THAT WILL SUCK YOU INTO A SWIRLING WHIRLPOOL OF WATER THAT ...
The Pirro Soap Opera
Oct 01, 2008; ... The new TV judge gets a grilling in the real courts BEFORE THERE WAS SARAH P ALIN, THERE WAS JEANINE PIRRO, ANOTHER ENERGETIC, GOOD-LOOKING BRUNETTE EAGER TO THROW CONSERVATIVE PUNCHES AT LIBERAL DEMOCRATS. PIRRO, THE HARD-CHARGING FORMER DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY, ...
Bush in the Dock
Oct 01, 2008; ... Who will lead Bush's defense team-Rudy Giuliani? OVER THE WEEKEND OF SEPTEMBER 13 AND 14, A HISTORIC GATHERING IN ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS, TOOK PLACE AND GARNERED LITTLE MEDIA ATTENTION. BUT AT THAT TWO-DAY CONFERENCE, SERIOUS PLANS WERE LAID FOR A WAR-CRIMES TRIAL OF THE BUSH ...
Harlem Drag Race
Oct 01, 2008; ... Harlem Drag Race The Vineyard's newest sports some hairy pageantry Wig Out! By Tarell Alvin McCraney Vineyard Theatre 108 East 15th Street, 212-3S3-0303 For 2,400 years, people have worn wigs for myriad motives: to protect the skull from the sun, ...
Lost Recipes
Oct 01, 2008; ... Lost Recipes Equus, The Tempest, and The Glass Cage-old texts that need some old-style theatrical flair Equus By Peter Shaffer Broadhurst Theatre 235 West 44th Street 212-239-6200 The Tempest By William Shakespeare Classic ...
HURRICANE KLAUS
Oct 01, 2008; ... Everyone listens to Columbia's disaster expert-except Columbia itself Columbia geophysicist Klaus Jacob is such a highly regarded expert on urban environmental disasters related to climate change that governments and scientists all over the world take him seriously, revising building ...
A Soldiers' Play
Oct 01, 2008; ... A Soldiers' Play Hey folks, here's some more Iraq War for you In Conflict Adapted by Douglas C. Wager Barrow Street Theatre 27 Barrow Street, 212-3S2-3101 'Army strong. Direction weak." That slogan could advertise In Conflict, a play adapted and ...
The English Channel
Oct 01, 2008; ... Sightlines The English Channel By Robert Brustein Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex 312 West 36th Street, 212-868-4444 It takes chutzpah for a playwright to tackle Shakespeare not as a topic or a template, but as a flesh-and-blood historical character. Robert ...
Irene's Vow
Oct 01, 2008; ... Irene's Vow By Dan Gordon Baruch Performing Arts Center 5S Lexington Avenue, 212-352-3101 Art that purports to treat broad swaths of human catastrophe can all too easily turn mawkish or sanctimonious. But in Irenas Vow, a play about a Roman Catholic housekeeper ...
Close Ties
Oct 01, 2008; ... Close Ties By Elizabeth Diggs Ensemble Studio Theatre 549 West S2nd Street 212-352-3101 In the first scene of Elizabeth Diggs's 1982 Close Ties, a mother inveighs: "I dislike all this analysis and therapy business-people are encouraged to dwell on every ...
The Unforbidden City
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Unforbidden City The Bronx Museum captures the urban vibe-just don't look for any graffiti art 'Street Art, Street Life' The Bronx Museum of Art 1040 Grand Concourse, the Bronx Through January 25 'Street Art, Street Life" is the Bronx Museum's ...
Joes With Beer
Oct 01, 2008; ... Joes With Beer Meet artist Jeff Gabel's sad-sack antiheros Jeff Gabel Spencer Browrtstone Gallery 39 Wooster Street Through October 25 It comes as no surprise to discover that Jeff Gabel is both an animated conversationalist and a card-carrying ...
Stan the Man
Oct 01, 2008; ... Stan the Man Best in Show Recommendations by R.C. Baker Stan VanDerBeek Guild & Greyshkul 28 Wooster Street, 212-62S-9224 Through October 18 In 1966, Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) presciently wrote: "It is imperative that we quickly find ...
The Confidence Woman
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Confidence Woman In a (hopefully true) new book, Savannah Knoop reveals what it was like to be the fake JT LeRoy When The New York Times revealed in 2006 that literary Wunderkind JT LeRoy was a hoax, it rocked the entertainment establishment JT did not exist, but was instead ...
Muff Munching
Oct 01, 2008; ... Muff Munching Going through hell to get a bite of the Big Easy Dive Bar 732 Amsterdam Avenue, 212-749-4358 Delta Grill 700 Ninth Avenue, 212-956-0934 Bourbon Street 346 West 46th Street, 212-245-2030 How much would you endure to eat ...
The Bee's Knees
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Bee's Knees The latest New American spot buzzes with life Fork in the Road Apiary 60 ThirdAvenue, 212-254-0888 A piary joins the crowd of high-end, seasonal New American restaurants that have been breeding like bunnies this decade. The sleekly designed ...
The UK Ozzie
Oct 01, 2008; ... The UK Ozzie Welcome to the poetry of the polymath Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008 By Clive James W. W. Norton, 204 pp., $29.95 Clive James (Australian, Londoner, critic, memoirist, essayist, novelist, and TV personality) is, unbeknownst to many Americans, also a poet. He ...
Oh, God! You Devil's Advocate
Oct 01, 2008; ... Oh, God! You Devil's Advocate Bill Maher makes an adolescent case against religion (while Muslim comics try to find the funny) Religulous Directedby Larry Charles Lionsgate Films Opens October 1 Allah Made Me Funny Directed by Andrea ...
THE RADICAL WHO LEFT HIS WILL ON FILM
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE RADICAL WHO LEFT HIS WILL ON FILM BEST OF THE NEW YORK FILM FEST'S OSHIMA TRIBUTE BY AARON HILLIS Stop usingthe term 'New Wave' once and for all! Evaluate each film on its own merits!" protested a critic-turned-auteur from Kyoto named Nagisa Oshima in an angry 1960 ...
The Right Stuff
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Right Stuff Airplane! director David Zucker takes on the left. But don't call him political. As part of the Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker filmmaking team in the '80s, David Zucker pioneered the non sequitur spoof-comedy genre with Airplane! and The Naked Gun. ZAZ split up in ...
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Oct 01, 2008; ... Tracking Shots How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Directed by Robert Weide MGM Opens October 3 Based on Toby Young's tome about his spectacular fuck-ups and flameout at Vanity Fair. Robert Weide's big-screen version is sitcom-drab. Simon Pegg plays ...
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Oct 01, 2008; ... Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Directed by Peter Sollett Sony Pictures Opens October 3 Peter Sollett's 2002 film, Raising Victor Vargas, remains among the most pointed, poignant and joyful films about teen love ever made. Everything about it felt special, from ...
The Pleasure of Being Robbed
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Pleasure of Being Robbed Directed by Josh ua Safdie IFC Films Opens October 3, IFC Center Essentially a mumblecore version of Pickpocket-sans the moral and existential high stakes, and with dollops of Miranda July-style fancy thrown in- Joshua Safdie's The ...
Flash of Genius
Oct 01, 2008; ... Flash of Genius Directed by Marc Abraham Universal Pictures Opens October 3 The big-screen version of inventor Robert Keams's legal battles with Ford and Chrysler- both of whom nicked his intermittent windshield wiper without giving him credit much less paying a ...
Just Buried
Oct 01, 2008; ... Just Buried Directed by Chaz Thome Opens October 3, Village East More twee than anymovieabout serial murder has a right to be, writer-director Chaz Thome's grisly farce ladles a quirky-cute score over its dirty deeds in place of a point of view. Jay Baruchel who all but ...
HIGH-SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
Oct 01, 2008; ... FEST'S YOUNGEST FILMMAKER ON DIGITAL VIDEO, DITCHING COLLEGE, AND DISMEMBERMENT Antonio Campos's Afterschool takes place in that familiar cauldron of adolescent turmoil, the boarding school. But die 25-year-old filmmaker's austere and ominous debut feature feels more like Michael Haneke ...
The Other Sister
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Other Sister Anne Hathaway makes a compelling bad girl in Jonathan Demme's pedestrian family drama Rachel Getting Married Directed by Jonathan Demme Sony Pictures Classics Opens October 3 Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with ...
Fade to White
Oct 01, 2008; ... Fade to White Blindness adap nails the bleak before succumbing to the sap Blindness Directed by Fernando Meirelles Miramax Films Opens October 3 The most recent example of bleak chic, Fernando MeireIIes 's mostly harrowing adaptation of José ...
Delta Muse
Oct 01, 2008; ... Delta Muse An extraordinary debut from writer-director Lance Hammer Ballast Directed by Lance Hammer Opens October 1, Film Forum Unhurried rhythms and spare, beautifully composed shots infuse Lance Hammer's Ballast with the sweet, dark melancholy of a ...
Imperfect From Now On
Oct 01, 2008; ... Reprising guitar supremacy-and a classic Built to Spill record-for good and ill We have come to watch haggard, hirsute, immobile, relentlessly uncharismatic men rip dispassionately through vicious, meandering, apologetically melodic guitar solos that remind us of our years as ...
BAM goes mad for Barbet Schroeder
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Cine Phile BAM goes mad for Barbet Schroeder Plus Film Forum celebrates an Italian screen icon Born in Tehran, educated in Paris, famous (for a time) in Hollywood, a director of documentaries as well as melodramas, Barbet Schroeder is the most cosmopolitan filmmaker ...
Silent Majorities and Fortunate Sons
Oct 01, 2008; ... Silent Majorities and Fortunate Sons Revisiting the curt, cosmic populism of CCR Box Elders Creedence Clearwater Revival Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968) Bayou Country (1969) Green River (1969) Willy and the Poor Boys ...
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Jesus and Mary Chain The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides andRarities Rhino Rubbish careerists gleefully confound both their fans and themselves 'What the hell are these guys up to?" Any respectable Jesus and Mary Chain album should leave you asking that ...
So Long to the Gun Show
Oct 01, 2008; ... So Long to the Gun Show By court order, T.I. goes legit: The talent remains, but the menace does not T.I. Paper Trail Atlantic T.I.'s last album, T.I. vs. T.I.P., focused on the uninteresting duality of being both a menacing street dude and a successful ...
John Lennon
Oct 01, 2008; ... John Lennon Imagine (1971) Capitol Angrily demands truth, but provides little of its own John Lennon died for our sins. Beardy Jesus guise and messiah complex aside, the former Beatle dedicated large swaths of his solo career to demanding penance from us: the war ...
Roy Orbison
Oct 01, 2008; ... Roy Orbison The Soul of Rock and Roll Monument/Orbison Records/Legacy Golden voice delivers torment casually, and schlock gracefully Judging from the inert version of his own "Go! Go! Go!" on disc one of this four-disc, five-hour box set, Roy Orbison wasn't up to ...
Unibros and Box Woes
Oct 01, 2008; ... Dirty Blonde Unibros and Box Woes Plenty of incestuous DJ action to partake in, but enjoy the clubs while you can 'This fall, say no to tweezers." That's Montreal-born DJ A-Trak's suggestion in honor of his current world tour, Attack of the Unibros, a double bill with ...
Free Will Astrology
Oct 01, 2008; ... ARIES [March 21-April 19] In her book Courtney Love: The Queen of Noise, Melissa Rossi reports that in the mid-1990s, "Courtney surrounded herself with a coterie of soothsayers, even approaching hipster stargazer Rob Brezsny, who declined to provide his astrological services." Rossi doesn't ...
VOICE Mail
Oct 08, 2008; ... Hentof fin the dock Re Nat Hentoff's 'Bush in the Dock' [Ocober 1-7]: After reading this column on an investigation of possible Bush administration war crimes in the Iraq War, I can't help wondering whether Hentoff has any regrets about supporting the war in his column prior to the 2003 ...
YOUNG, BLACK, PALIN-PROUD
Oct 08, 2008; ... COUNTTERINSURGENCY WATCHING THE V.P. DEBATE WITH THE OUTNUMBERED The young black Republicans had arranged, at the Voice's request, to meet at SideBar near Union Square to watch the vice-presidential debate last week, but there was a problem. "They're having some sort of ...
Crossing on Green
Oct 08, 2008; ... Even at the Ecofest, shopping is a natural reaction WHO DO YOU HAVE TO FUCK TO GET A CUP OF FAIR-TRADE ORGANIC COFFEE AROUND HERE? NOBODY, IT TURNS OUT. AT THE 20TH ANNUAL ECOFEST IN DAMROSCH PARK, THERE'S A TENT OFFERING ENVIRONMENTALLY CORRECT JAVA AND, IF YOU'RE HUNGRY, A FULL RANGE ...
John McCain's Vegas Getaway
Oct 08, 2008; ... Did a felonious ex-Giuliani aide pick up the tab? MID-NOVEMBER 2000 WAS A TIME WHEN HARDCORE REPUBLICANS RUSHED SOUTH TO FIGHT THE BATTLE OF FLORIDA AND WIN THE PRESIDENCY FOR GEORGE W. BUSH. BUT THAT OLD MAVERICK, JOHN McCAiN, WANDERED IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. HAVING LOST A BITTER ...
The Next American Revolution
Oct 08, 2008; ... When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to bring King George to Justice A REVOLUTIONARY, THOMAS JEFFERSON, PROVIDED THE REASON FOR CONTINUING THE PROJECT STARTED AT THE ROBERT H. JACKSON CONFERENCE ON PLANNING FOR THE PROSECUTION OF HIGH-LEVEL AMERICAN WAR CRIMINALS, ...
THE BOOK OF SARAH WAYNE BARRETT STRAFES THE PALIN RECORD
Oct 08, 2008; ... Along with the winks and folksy "doggone" moments early in her debate with Joe Biden last week, Sarah Palin repeated her familiar claim to the tide of "maverick," declaring that "as a governor and as a mayor," she's had a "track record of reform" and has now "joined a team of ...
The Last Laugh
Oct 08, 2008; ... The Last Laugh Forbidden Broadway looks deeper; The Seagull and 50 Words look shallow next to it Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab By Gerard Alessandrini 47th Street Theatre 304 West 47th Street, 212-840-5564 The Seagull By Anton ...
Tremor Town
Oct 08, 2008; ... Fault Lines By Stephen Selber Cherry Lane Theatre 38 Commerce Street 212-239-6200 Tremor Town David Schwimmer brings you some chat about semen While New York has numerous fault lines, including a large one that trots along 125th Street, it ...
Whimsy, Anyone?
Oct 08, 2008; ... Flip Side By Ellen Maddow The Connelly Theatre 220 East 4th Street 212-868-4444 Whimsy, Anyone? The Talking Band's latest ventures to the Waterfalls In Flip Side, a raincoat-clad biddy comments: "Sometimes people are like advent calendars, ...
Acts Within Acts
Oct 08, 2008; ... Acts Within Acts Bill T. Jones adapts a poetic puppet play; Christopher Wheeldon deploys some Jazz Age harlequins Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company BAM Howard Gilman OperaHouse September 30 through October 4 Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company City ...
A Freeway to Her Scars
Oct 08, 2008; ... A Freeway to Her Scars Dykes! Tutus! Off-ramps! The Guggenheim mounts a Catherine Opie retrospective. 'Catherine Opie: American Photographer' The Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue Through January 7 It's notoriously difficult to mount a show in ...
Material Witness
Oct 08, 2008; ... 'Georgio Morandi, 1890-1964' The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, 212-535-7710 Through December 14 Material Witness Early on in art school, an instructor of mine showed the class slides of Cézanne, Hopper, Balthus, and other stalwarts of ...
No Balls
Oct 08, 2008; ... Café Sim-Sim 312 Ditmas Avenue Brooklyn, 718-484-1031 No Balls A report on the 'jiz biz' in Brooklyn's Kensington It's been a long time since there's been an Azerbaijani café in sleepy south Kensington. So when my friend Brian and I were bombing down ...
The Hook Cooks
Oct 08, 2008; ... The Hook Cooks New restaurants in the city's most remote neighborhood La Bouillabaisse 44 Beard Street, Brooklyn, 718-643-2679 Annabelle's 44 Beard Street, Brooklyn, 718-643-1500 Brooklyn Ice House 318 Van Brunt Street, ...
Female Persuasion
Oct 08, 2008; ... Female Persuasion Mike Leigh's optimistic heroine might just convince you to cheer up; Lola Montès still won't Happy-Go-Lucky Written and directed by Mike Leigh Miramax Films Opens October 10, Lincoln Plaza and Sunshine Cinema Lola ...
The Express
Oct 08, 2008; ... Tracking Shots The Express Directed by Gary Fleder Universal Pictures Opens October 10 The story of Syracuse running back Ernie Davis-the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy, in 1961, two years before he succumbed to leukemia-is absolutely ...
Lies We Can Believe In
Oct 08, 2008; ... Lies We Can Believe In Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve Body of Lies Directed by Ridley Scott Warner Bros. Opens October 10 A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the War on ...
RocknRolla
Oct 08, 2008; ... RocknRolla Directed by Guy Ritchie Warner Bros. Opens October 8 What do you have to do to get your career revoked in England, short of being Gary Glitter? After a box-office-catastrophic two-movie run. Guy Ritchie takes another mulligan and returns to ...
To Tell the Truth
Oct 08, 2008; ... To Tell the Truth It's not as easy as the [rhymes with Dumbledore] crew would have us think Nights and Weekends Directed by Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig IFC Films Opens October 10, IFC Center Nights and Weekends telescopes a year-and-a-half ...
Broken Heart Still Beats
Oct 08, 2008; ... Broken Heart Still Beats Wong Kar Wai's Ashes of Time gets its comeback Ashes of Time Redux Directed by WongKar Wai Sony Pictures Classics Opens October 10, Lincoln Plaza and Angelika Cynics make the worst romantics; they should know better, they ...
Choose Connor
Oct 08, 2008; ... Tracking Shots Choose Connor Directed by Luke Eberl Strand Releasing Opens October 10, Cinema Village Pimply Owen Norris (Alex Linz) thinks his life is about to begin when he lands a summer job as the youth campaign spokesman for Senator Connor (Steven ...
Talento de Barrio
Oct 08, 2008; ... Talento de Barrio Directed by José Iván Santiago Maya Releasing Opens October 10 When conservative watchdogs snarl about the ugliness of gangsta rap, Talento de Barrio might be what they picture in their head-a vile, stupid, violent-crime drama that would be ...
Breakfast With Scot
Oct 08, 2008; ... Breakfast With Scot Directed by Laurie Lynd Regent Releasing Opens October 10 Like a diva in training, 11-year-old Scot (Noah Bemett), spells his name with one "t," wears a feather boa, and isn't shy about kissing boys at school. None of this amuses his uptight ...
VHI and Slick Rick, Together at Last
Oct 08, 2008; ... VHI and Slick Rick, Together at Last On Hip-Hop Honors, the channel's cheerfully confounding tribute to rap's golden oldies The bizarre, the chaotic, and the sublime all lined up exactly once, for 30 seconds or so, at Thursday night's VHl Hip-Hop Honors taping at Hammerstein ...
Kind of Blue at 50
Oct 08, 2008; ... Kind of Blue at 50 Chatting with the last surviving player on the greatest jazz album of all time Jimmy Cobb is early. The sole surviving performer on Miles Davis's 1959 album Kind of Blue is waiting in a sixth-floor conference room just blocks from Columbia's old 50thStreet ...