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Classy Class War, Debonair Existentialism: by Sarahjane Blum
Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musicals have the appeal of light reflected from a December snowflake that has fallen precisely half the distance from the streetlamp to the curb. In my mind, that curb is on the north side of the Met with a peripheral view of the Egyptian wing.
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Empty Metal Jacket by Patrick Levell
Art and culture finds itself in a place beyond deconstructionism. We've entered The Age of Quantum Irony. The mainstream continues to inflate the pop postmodernism trend of the 1990's to its bloated red giant of a conclusion. Hollywood never fails to cannibalize its truest love, itself.
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Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, The Blues by David N. Meyer
Does the world end with a bang or a whimper or something more paralytic? Will it end in an apocalyptic conflagration, or will the processes of modern life—the alienation at the core of any industrialized media-driven society—be the insidious force that leaves us open mouthed but stifled, desperate to scream and unable to produce any sound, including a whimper?
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Doc in Sight: The Next Way to Watch? by Williams Cole
A recent TV ad expresses perfectly a new model of “content delivery.” Myriad hipsters lounge in airports, under outdoor sculptures, and on grassy knolls enraptured with the personal video experience on their cell phone.
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The Wild, Wild East by David Varno
Kitsch, Camp, sexploitation, severed limbs, police brutality; Beatniks young and old, video poems, film diaries; punks, drag queens: all of these and much more, Lower East side film.
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The Rail congratulates the following winners of 2005
Ippie Awards from the Independent Press
Association-N.Y.:
1st Place, Best Overall Design: Amelia Hennighausen
1st Place, Best Story About Immigrant Issues
Gabriel Thompson, "When Even the Minimum Wage is a
Distant Dream"
(December 2004/January 2005)
2nd Place, Best Editorial/Commentary
Theodore Hamm, "Arthur Miller’s Brooklyn Legacy"
(March 2005)
3rd Place, Best Investigative/In-Depth News Story
Brian J. Carreira, "No Room at the Inn: Ratner
Continues to ’Game’ Officials and the Public" (June
2005)
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