The Village Voice back issues from January 2009:
VOICE Mail
Jan 07, 2009; ... Mean what we say Re 'Musto's Year in Review' [December 24-30]: Do you really have to write more mean things about a human being who has died? What a refreshing article it would be to read a nice, respectful article on Heath Ledger. Kate VIA INTERNET Lead Belly's ...
Mayor Mike and the Yanks: How Suite It Is
Jan 07, 2009; ... City Hall gift-wraps another present for baseball's richest team THE 2009 MAYORAL CAMPAIGN BEGINS THIS MONTH WHEN THE RICHEST SPORTS FRANCHISE IN AMERICA PUTS ITS HAND OUT FOR ONE MORE BAILOUT. THE New YORK YANKEES-STRIKE THAT-YANKEE GLOBAL ENTERPRISES LLC, THE MEGA-CORPORATION THAT ...
My Brother the Slumlord
Jan 07, 2009; ... Going public is somethin Amy Neustein never could resist In early November, Amy Neustein called the Voice with a message about her brother, an Orthodox Jew who owns a number of buildings in Inwood and Washington Heights. "My brother," she said, "is a slumlord.'' Neustein ...
Ashes to Ashes
Jan 07, 2009; ... Harold Pinter (1930-2008) and Eartha Kitt (1927-2008): The theater loses two icons With the world lurching into economic depression, the 2008 holiday season already ranked low in the joy department And for us in the theater, Christmas Day-when people customarily exchange gifts, eat ...
I'm the One
Jan 07, 2009; ... This year's Under the Radar festival gets the solo bug Mark Russell would not achieve great success in a one-man show-he's far too self-effacing to relish a lone turn in the spotlight But as both the former artistic director of P.S.122 and the current head of Under the Radar, the theater ...
Aesthetes Reprieved!
Jan 07, 2009; ... Crisis? What crisis? Some promising futures for art criticism (just ask Diderot). The big narrative in the art world over the last decade has been the market Money, as you may have heard, changes everything. But now that the market is marching in lockstep with the global recession, the ...
VOICE Mail
Jan 14, 2009; ... Twisted sister Re Elizabeth Dwoskin's 'My Brother the Slumlord' [January 7-13]: I was horrified and appalled to read Dwoskin's twisted character assassination of Dr. Amy Neustem. How did exposing a slumlord and trying to be a voice for people living in deplorable conditions turn into a ...
Hearty Krishna in Jersey City
Jan 07, 2009; ... Counter Culture Krishna Cuisine 795 Newark Avenue, Jersey City New Jersey,201-659-8700 Hearty Krishna in Jersey City New vegetarian restaurant hits Jersey City's Newark Avenue Vegetarians will be excited to learn that the balance has finally tipped on ...
Queens 'Cue
Jan 07, 2009; ... Ga Si Ri 162-04 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, Queens, 718-888-9400 Queens 'Cue A Korean charcoal-barbecue spot for pyromaniacs and pork-aholics One of the many reasons to patronize Korean restaurants is that you can often get pork belly and oysters-two of the ...
Show in U.S.A., Finally
Jan 07, 2009; ... Shown in U.S.A., Finally Made in U.S.A. Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard Rialto Pictures January 9-22, Film Forum Godard's least-seen noir plot-scrambler, Made in U.S.A., gets another run here Jean-Luc Godard's Made in USA. is not the ...
Remembrance of Demons Past
Jan 07, 2009; ... Remembrance of Demons Past The Unborn Directed by David Goyer Rogue Pictures Opens January 9 The Unborn raids the modern horror memory bank, from The Exorcist to Auschwitz For as long as it forges ahead without explanations, The Unborn works, in ...
Seeing the Light
Jan 07, 2009; ... Redemption, religion, and reconsideration with director Carlos Reygadas With the release of Silent Light, Carlos Reygadas may have to surrender his title as Mexican cinema's resident rabble rouser. Coming on the heels of the elephant-dung Jesus that was 2005's Battle in Heaven, this ...
Just Another Love story
Jan 07, 2009; ... Tracking Shots Just Another Love Story Directed by Ole Bornedal Koch torber Films Opens January 9, Cinema Village Adultery remains hazardous to your health in "psychological thrillers," even in Scandinavia, and even when your affair begins as a magnificent ...
Yonkers Joe
Jan 07, 2009; ... Yonkers Joe Directed by Robert Celestino Magnolia Pictures Opens January 9, Quad Yonkers Joe (Chazz Palminteri) is an old-school gambler who scams Atlantic City casinos, dances on the brink of commitment with his lovely accomplice, Janice (Christine Lahti), and ...
How the Music Industry Died: The Book
Jan 07, 2009; ... Down in Front A Rolling Stone reporter charts the doomed path from Thriller to Internet-based horror Congrats to Lil Wayne, whose Tha Carter III was the best-selling record of 2008- and the weakestselling yearly bestseUer since SoundScan started tracking these things nearly two ...
Breaking Bread With Kurtis Blow
Jan 07, 2009; ... An old-school hip-hop legend gets right with God You'd be wise to bring earplugs to Kurtis Blow's Hip Hop Church. At the Harlem outpost's recent fifth-anniversary celebratory service, a full band (including a DJ) backs a parade of MCs and singers, with rap's first superstar himself on ...
Dr. Neurotic
Jan 07, 2009; ... Plumbing the exquisite psychic depths of operator-television mastermind Robert Ashley In the mid-'70s, Michigan-born composer Robert Ashley discov- ered a rare commodity in the art world: a niche. Lamenting that his homeland lacked the rich operatic tradition of Europe, he sought to ...
Free Will Astrology
Jan 07, 2009; ... ARIES [March 21-April 19] During his time in the Senate, former U.S. presidential candidate John McCain has been a strong advocate for Native Americans. As chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, he co-sponsored seven bills in support of Indian rights. And yet Native Americans voted ...
I Pick the Oscar Nominees
Jan 14, 2009; ... You read it here first! You'll be all chirpy and happy! BY MICHAEL MUSTO THE EFFECT OF THE RECESSION ON THE UPCOMING OSCAR NOMINEES IS . . . ABSOLUTELY NADA! THE TOILETY ECONOMY HAS HAD NO IMPACT WHATSOEVER ON WHICH MOVIES WILL BE HONORED BY THE ACADEMY- AND ISN'T IT REFRESHING TO ...
Bloomberg Leads Yankees in Steals
Jan 14, 2009; ... Scoreboards and other trinkets given to baseball's richest team NEW YORK CITY STANDS SECOND TO NONE WHEN IT COMES TO FLEECING ITS TAXPAYERS. ALONG WITH THE TWEED COURTHOUSE, ONE OF THE GREAT LOCAL HISTORIC MONUMENTS TO THIS PRACTICE IS THE SOON-TO-BE-DEMOLISHED MAMMOTH ELECTRONIC SCREEN ...
DON'T LEAVE, GEORGE!
Jan 14, 2009; ... SCREW THE PUBLIC. WE NEED YOU TO BAIL OUT THE PRESS BY STAYING IN OFFICE. The Constitution says George W. Bush can't remain in the White House past next week, but as we've learned during the past eight years, the Constitution is just a piece of paper. So if s not too late to make ...
WHO'S CAROLINE'S DADDY? Bloomberg maneuvers to crown a KENNEDY
Jan 14, 2009; ... When I see Caroline Kennedy, I think Mike Bloomberg. In the contest for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat; Kennedy is to Bloomberg what the City Council was to the mayor in his term limits battle- a partner in the spoils, yes, but, ultimately, little more than a pawn in his power grab If ...
Broadcast Views
Jan 14, 2009; ... Television tangles with modern art-Warhol wins In 1 964, the Philip Morris company hired Alfred C. Chadboum, of the Famous Artists mail-order school ("Draw Binky the Skunk"), to paint portraits of such CBS TV luminaries as Red Skelton, Raymond Burr, and the entire cast of Gilligan's ...
Call This Opera?
Jan 14, 2009; ... Call This Opera? Cue the digital light show! Choreographer David Parsons roisters into new minefields. Parsons Dance Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Avenue, 212-242-0800 Through January 18 BY DEBORAH JOWITT Roll over, Puccini, Donizetti, Bizet! ...
In Search of Greatness
Jan 14, 2009; ... In Search of Greatness Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shawhas classic aspirations - and contemporary shortfalls Becky Shaw By Gina Gionfriddo Second Stage Theatre 307 West 43rd Street, 212-246-4422 BY MICHAEL FEINGOLD Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, ...
The Pond Hoppers
Jan 14, 2009; ... Talky Brits and arty Micks hit P.S. 122's Coil Festival The Crumb Trail By Pan Pan Eight By Ella Hickson PS.122 150 First Avenue, 212-3S2-3101 'This is the best bit," says Irish actress Aoife Duffin in The rumb Trail, "the bit I love, the ...
Wickets
Jan 14, 2009; ... Wickets By Clove Galilee and Jenny Rogers 3LD 80 Greenwich Street, 212-3S2-3101 If you're at all averse to high-concept "director's theater" - or to transatlantic flights in coach- you might be wary of Wickets, which time-warps María Irene Fomes's 1977 classic ...
LIGA, 50% reward & 50% punishment
Jan 14, 2009; ... LIGA, 50% reward & 50% punishment Concept by Liesbeth Gutter Public Theater 42S Lafayette Street, 212-967-7SSS What do actors and children have in common? Maybe this isn't a particularly tricky question, but the Dutch theater company Kassys, under the ...
The Blue Bird
Jan 14, 2009; ... The Blue Bird By Mikuni Yanaihara Clemente Soto Vêlez 107 Suffolk Street, 212-864-4444 There's often a fine line between eclecticism and chaos, and the company Witness Relocation appears all too happy to cross it Their current production, The Blue Bird, is an ...
All Systems Goo
Jan 14, 2009; ... All Systems Goo O Sonic Youth, my muse! Feedback titans send fiction writers to the inkwell. Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth Edited by Peter Wild Harper Perennial, 240 pp., $13.99 BY ZACH BARON A cursory look around the Internet turns up ...
Surfing Bay Ridge
Jan 14, 2009; ... Surfing Bay Ridge Matching fish with rock stars in Bay Ridge My guests, on a last visit to Asmak Taama, included Butthole Surfers frontman Gibson "Gibby" Haynes and legendary Rotting Stones scribe Reverend Charles M. Young. Six of us found ourselves wedged into Scooter's compact ...
Red All Over
Jan 14, 2009; ... Red All Over A crazy quilt of Indian and Latin flavors goes flop When I call to make a reservation, a hostess picks up the phone and says, "Good afternoon, At Vermilion." This confuses me for a moment It's a good afternoon at Vermilion? No, the restaurant is actually called "At ...
Cult of Personality
Jan 14, 2009; ... Cult of Personality The singular Craig Baldwin unlocks and mocks the mysteries of Scientology Mock Up on Mu Written and directedby CraigBaldwin Anthology Film Archives January 14 through20 BY J. HOBERMAN Manic and irrepressible, an ...
Jew Are You?
Jan 14, 2009; ... Jew Are You? New films from Israel and the diaspora reflect a Semitic identity crisis The New York Jewish Film Festival Walter Reade Theater January 14 through 29 BY ELLA TAYLOR Given the rainbow muddle that is Jewish identity today- from ...
Biggie, Small
Jan 14, 2009; ... Biggie, Small Notorious Directed by George Tillman Jr. Fox Searchlight Opens January 16 Notorious B.I.G. made B.L.A.N.D. BY ROBERT WILONSKY Notorious, about a crack dealer who becomes an iconic rapper who becomes a tragic legend, is the ...
Kung Fu Pandamonium
Jan 14, 2009; ... Kung Fu Pandamonium Chandni Chowk to China Directed by Nikhil Advani Warner Bros. Opens January 16 ImaginAsian and Loews Village 7 Bollywood goes east-Far East-for Chandni Chowk to China BY DAVID CHUTE One of the most persistent ...
Ballerina
Jan 14, 2009; ... Ballerina Directed by Bertrand Norman First RunFeatures Opens January 16, QuadCinema Manuel Legris, a French dancer interviewed in Ballerina, Bertrand Norman's involving study of the Russian ballet insists that a Russian ballerina is easy to spot in a crush of ...
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Jan 14, 2009; ... The Pervert's Guide to Cinema Directed by Sophie Fiennes Opens January 16, IFC Center Slavoj Zizek is the closest thing contemporary critical theory has to a rock star, in part because he regularly addresses pop cinema and more controversially- frequently indulges in the ...
Cherry Blossoms
Jan 14, 2009; ... Cherry Blossoms Directed by Doris Dörrie Strand Releasing Opens January 16, Sunshine Cinema At least once a year, the canny distributors at Strand Releasing shell out for a crowdpleaser to shore up their artier numbers. To kick off 2009, they've opted for the ...
The Sublet
Jan 14, 2009; ... The Sublet Directed by Georgiana Nestor No Logik Films Opens January 16, QuadCinema One more reason to suspect bait-and-switch in real estate ads: Your circled pick may belong to a Lonely Old Man seeking nothing more than a parade of prospective renters to ...
Tune In, Drop Out, Grow Up
Jan 14, 2009; ... On the radical serenity/serene radicalism of Animal Collective Animal Collective have released nine albums in the past nine years, all challenging, all imperfect but innovative, all substantially different Some are placid, others orgiastic; some are convincingly reminiscent of dreams and ...
Antony Hegarty, Transformer
Jan 14, 2009; ... Fresh from a disco smash, an NYC original evolves anew Podunks is a small, quaint East Village shop with nothing particularly flashy about it, from witihin or without; upon entering, I notice there's a lot of wood (wood benches, wooden knickknacks on the walls, etc.) and am immediately ...
GlobalFest Surges On
Jan 14, 2009; ... Sound of the City A worldly showcase flourishes, recession notwithstanding GlobalFest showcases so much high-quality talent that artists accustomed to headlining elsewhere can find themselves opening this threestage marathon to less-than-capacity crowds. But not in vain ....
Savage Love
Jan 14, 2009; ... Dear Dan: I'm going to Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington, D.C., on January 20. I've spent eight years, one month, one week, and one day waiting for this. (But who's counting?) However, I am looking for suggestions for a respectful way to protest the participation of Rick Warren. As a ...
Free Will Astrology
Jan 14, 2009; ... ARIES [March 21-April 19] According to some historians, Barack Obama won't be the first American president with African ancestry. As many as six previous presidents may have had black ancestors, with Warren Harding and Dwight Eisenhower being the most likely. None of the others claimed their ...
Even Bars Get Sequels Now
Jan 14, 2009; ... Dirty Blonde Where to drink-or watch others drink on television-in 2009 My book club met this month at Gramercy's Bar Jamón, and my enormous distaste for Revolutionary Road's Frank Wheeler got lost in my musings about whether or not I might see Whitney Port, star of The City, who ...
VOICE Mail
Jan 21, 2009; ... Not so sweet on Caroline I agree with Wayne Barrett ["Who's Caroline's Daddy?/ January 14], Caroline is not qualified to be a U.S. Senator, a high-level position not for amateurs. . At 51 years old, she has never been gainfully employed, and senator is not a trainee or entry-level ...
The Revenge of TV on the Radio
Jan 21, 2009; ... BOB DYLAN (AND THE VOICE ITSELF) FINALLY HUMBLED, DEAR SCIENCE WINS THE 36TH ANNUAL PAZZ & JOP CRITICS' POLL DISCUSSED TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science, #1 album Two years ago, the cover illustration for the 34th Village Voice Pazz & Jop issue featured a ...
How M.I.A. (and America) Got Her Swagger Back
Jan 21, 2009; ... THE MENACE OF " PAPER PLANES" TRUMPS THE FRIVOLITY OF "AMERICAN BOY." BOTH ARE GOOD SIGNS DISCUSSED M.I.A. "Paper Planes," #1 single ESTELLE "American Boy (featuring Kanye West)," #2 single BEYONCÉ "Single Ladies (PutaRingonlt)," #3 ...
Rappers for Obama, and Vice Versa
Jan 21, 2009; ... WHY YOUNG JEEZY AND HIS REVITALIZED ILK OWE OUR NEW PRESIDENT MORE THAN HE OWES THEM DISCUSSED YOUNG JEEZY "My President," #78 single (tie) Young Jeezy's prophetic "My President" hit websites on August 20, slightly more than two months after Hillary Clinton gave ...
The Mixtape Will Save Us All
Jan 21, 2009; ... IF YOU WANT THEM TO BUY IT, MAKE IT FREE DISCUSSED WALE The Mixtape About Nothing, album #123 LIL WAYNE The Cartería, album #6 ESAU MWAMWAYA AND RADIOCLIT The Very Best, album #173 Last month, during Lil Wayne's set at the sold-out, ...
Meet the Yeats Thief
Jan 21, 2009; ... Lit Seen Rilke takes some heat; David Denby thinks, 'Jeez, kids, enough already! The poet Michael Robbins, in the January 12 issue of The New Yorker, calls Rilke a "jerk." The second stanza of "Alien Vs. Predator," his poetry debut in the magazine, begins "That elk is a such a ...
Tom O'Horgan, 1924-2009
Jan 21, 2009; ... Though never the author, his visionary directing made him a true creator For most of his last four decades, the composer and stage director Tom O'Horgan, who thed in Florida on January 11, occupied a rambling loft on the corner of Broadway and East 13th Street The magic of the place is ...
The Shipment
Jan 21, 2009; ... The Shipment By Young Jean Lee The Kitchen 512 West 19th Street, 212-255-5793 Too often, new theater exploring identity politics asks little more of its authence than respect. Rather than questioning our assumptions about ethnicity, class, or gender, we spectators ...
Architecting
Jan 21, 2009; ... Architecting Created by the TEAM The Public Theater 425 Lafayette Street, 212-967-7555 Architecting-a bold, compelling collaborative piece by the TEAM and the National Theatre of Scotland running at Under the Radar- begins with Carrie, an idealistic New York ...
Theatre Is Dead and So Are You
Jan 21, 2009; ... Theatre Is Dead and So Are You By Kiran Rikhye The Connelly Theatre 220 East 4th Street, 212-868-4444 Seven actors scramble and skid from the front to the back of the house, and in and out of every available door, in Theatre Is Dead and So Are You, Stolen Chair's ...
Pricks and Kicks
Jan 21, 2009; ... Pricks and Kicks Drugs! Sex! But not much shock in these two shows. The Connection By Jack Gelber The Living Theatre 21 Clinton Street, 212-352-3101 The Judgment of Paris By Austin McCormick Duo Multicultural Arts Center 62 ...
Brush Up on Your Painting
Jan 21, 2009; ... Brush Up on Your Painting Things get drippy and trippy in three current shows of new work Eva Lundsager Greenberg Van Doren 730 Fifth Avenue, at 57th Street, 212-445-0444 Through February 7 R.H. Quaytman: 'Chapter 12: iamb' Miguel ...
Tossing Tentacles
Jan 21, 2009; ... Tossing Tentacles Brilliant expensive seafood in a darkling corner of Manhattan The John Dory 85 Tenth Avenue, 212-929-4948 Tropical fish cavort in an aquarium behind the bar, dolphins dive synchronously over the door, and steel-blue anchovies swim in the raw ...
Bushwick Tacos Ride Again
Jan 21, 2009; ... Bushwick Tacos Ride Again The little tortilla factory that could Tortilleria Mexicana Los Hermanos 271 Starr Street, Brooklyn, 718-456-3422 BY SARAH DIGREGORIO Sometimes, food writers ruin everything- or rather, the health department ruins everything: ...
LAST RITES
Jan 21, 2009; ... For schools facing closure, Sam Slaves offers a helping hand On a recent Friday with the temperature hovering just below freezing, Sam Sloves rolled down East 109th Street in Manhattan, also known as Stickball Hall of Fame Alley, on a beat-up red bike that appeared a touch too small for ...
EQUITY DENIED
Jan 21, 2009; ... The Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit was the last, best hope for city schools. It failed. In December 2004, it seemed that New York City schools' pocketbook woes might finally be at an end. For a decade, a coalition of city parents and education advocates had been battling Albany in ...
BROKE U
Jan 21, 2009; ... As the jobless head back to school, universities face their own cash crunch The economy may be in the tank, but business is still booming for Andrew Yang. The CEO of MBA test-prep firm Manhattan GMAT told the Voice in October that enrollment was up 50 percent from 2007. "November and ...
OUTLOOK GRIM FOR PROSPECTIVE PROFS
Jan 21, 2009; ... Disappearing job postings prompt Ph.D.'s to mull a career change The American Economic Association's job board recently sprouted a brand-new section: cancelled listings. Newly minted economics Ph.D.'s and postdocs looking for their next academic job will instead find pages and pages of ...
Gravy Train
Jan 21, 2009; ... Gravy Train America the (not always) beautiful chugs through small-town Romania in California Dreamin' California Dreamin' Directed by Cristian Nemescu IFCFilms January 23 through February 5,IFC Center BY J. HOBERMAN An unfinished film set ...