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Table of Contents
 LOCAL
Other Visions Rise in Prospect Heights
by Brian J. Carreira
An Open Letter on Atlantic Center
by Reverend Dennis A. Dillon
The Brownsville Rec. Center
by Amy Zimmer
Saving No Kill Shelters
by Williams Cole and Meghan McDermott
New York City’s Most Famous Birds
by Johannah Rodgers
D4D’s Politics of the Word
by Emily Gertz
EXPRESS
“The President Is Not a ‘Moron’…”
by Theodore Hamm
What Your Boss Is Really Watching For
by Christian Parenti
The Original Faith-based Initiative
by Norman Kelley
Developing Venezuela’s Beauty “Industry”
by Adriana Simoneta
The Cannibals of Empire: Indian-Hating in a Hollywood Classic
by Randolph Lewis
ART
Artseen:
Arcadia and Metropolis
—James Kalm
Paradise Now?
—William Powhida
Catherine Opie
—Farrah Karapetian
Michael Mahalchick
—Katie Stone
Yuh-Shioh Wong
—Katie Stone
Sebastiaan Bremer
—Ben La Rocco
home
—Ben La Rocco
Abigail Lazkoz, Francisco Lopez
—William Powhida
Shishaldin
—Sonya Shrier
Adam Kalkin
—Victoria Keddie
June Leaf
—Michael Brennan
Jake Berthot
—Michael Brennan
Glen Goldberg and Richard Van Buren
—Tommasso Longhi
Jill Baroff
—Joan Waltemath
Reduce/Reuse/Reexamine
—Denise McMorrow
2004 Whitney Biennial
by Nick Stillman and Megan Heuer
Milton Resnick Remembered
by Phong Bui
Roth Time: A Dieter Roth Retrospective
by Stephanie Buhmann
in conversation: Hermann Nitsch
with Robert C. Morgan
web only: in conversation: Matthew Brannon
with Roger White
Photograph of Gleason’s Gym, Brooklyn (2004) by Andrew Hodges.
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BOOKS
Jim Shepard, Project X: A Novel and Love and Hydrogen
by Reed Jackson
Off The Shelves
reviewed by Bookstaff:
Manseau and Sharlet,
Killing The Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible;
Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own; Sanger, Beyond Choice;
Koch, The Art of The Possible;
Zizek, Organs Without Bodies;
Kane, All Poets Welcome;
Katz , Black Mountain College
MUSIC
What’s wrong with This Picture?
by José Padua
Leif Inge’s 9Beetstretch
by Scott Marshall
Tabla Beat Scientist: Karsh Kale
by Hirsh Sawhney
THEATER
in dialogue: Young Jean Lee
with Gary Winter
Power to the Playwright: 13P
by Brook Stowe
excerpt: from The Internationalist
by Anne Washburn
in conversation: The Wooster Group’s Ari Fliakos
with David Kilpatrick
What Links Our Boroughs: bridge and tunnel
by Emily DeVoti
DANCE
Emerging Choreographers
by Laura Barcella
Kylián: Past, Present, and Future
by Vanessa Manko
FILM
outtakes: The Power of Osama
by Galen Williams
Documentaries in Sight
by Filmstaff
The Culture Wars of Christ
by Lisa Rosman
review: Dogville
by Michael Rowin
Anti–100 Years of Cinema Manifesto
by Jonas Mekas
FICTION
Housing Difficulties
by Evan Harris
excerpt: Mr. Dynamite
by Meredith Brosnan
Searching for My Ex-Girlfriend’s Nose
by Michael Bahler
The Amateur
by Lisa Sardinas
POETRY
Trans-Relational Love Poem
by Caroline Crumpacker
The Stream
by Mark Terrill
There’s a Possible Person on the Roadbed
by Daniel Shapiro
In the paper I read a story about a man…
by Daniel Shapiro
To An Anonymous Friend
by Caroline Crumpacker
STREETS
Gleason’s Gym: Where The “Sweet Science” Thrives...
story by Dan Bell, photos by Andrew Hodges
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The Rail invites you to a reading with Jason
Flores-Williams and Brian Carreira, along with musical
guest Steve Strunsky of the Lonesome Prairie Dogs.
Thurs., Sept. 22, 8:30 p.m.
Vox Pop--Flatbush, Brooklyn
www.voxpop.net
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OFF THE RAIL FALL 2005 at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library - Grand Army Plaza
(718) 230-2100 in the 2nd Floor Auditorium
Tuesday, Sept. 13 from 7 till 9
John Ashbery
Leslie Scalapino
Tuesday, Oct. 18 from 7 till 9
Kenneth Bernard
Lynda Schor
Tuesday, Nov. 15 from 7 till 9
Diane Williams
Christine Schutt
Curated and hosted by the Rail's Fiction Editor Donald Breckenridge
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The Independent Press Association-NY recently honored The Brooklyn Rail with the following awards:
1st place: Best article about Immigrant Issues or Racial Justice--Gabriel Thompson, "One Immigrant's Journey" (September 2004).
1st place: Best article about the Arts*--Amy Zimmer, "The Brownsville Rec. Center" (April 04)
2nd place: Best article about the Arts--Brian Carreira, "Harlem Arts: A Faux Renaissance" (Dec 03/Jan 04).
2nd place: Best editorial or commentary--T. Hamm, "The Issue is Free Speech" (Dec 03/Jan 04).
3rd Place: Best Investigative News Story--Marjory Garrison, "Minimum Matter of Survival" (May 04)
Honorable mention: Best Investigative News Story--Williams Cole, "Housing vs. the RNC" (June 04).
Honorable mention: Best Original Feature--Yvette Walton, "My Life in the NYPD" (Dec 03/Jan 04).
Come to the Brooklyn Waterfront Festival.
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