••• ARCHIVES - FEBRUARY 2004





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Table of Contents

Editor's Letter

LOCAL
Stadia Mania: The View from Prospect Heights
by Brian J. Carreira
Sunset Park’s Garment Industry: The Costs of Making it in NY
by Mo-Yain Tham
DUMBO Makes a BID
by Marjory Garrison
A Bone Marrow Crisis
by Lela Moore

EXPRESS
The Alisha Thomas Story
by William Upski Wimsatt
Strom Thurmond’s [proposed] History of the African American People
by Percival Everett and James Kincaid
Amidst the Rubble with Baghdad Squatters
by Rob Eshelman
Child of Tet: What Can 1968 Mean Now?
by Williams Cole
Voter’s Guide for the American Immoderate
by Judy Rifka and John Reed
Leaflets of the Coalition Forces

SPOTLIGHT
John Waters
by Nick Stillman

ART
Artseen:
Joan Jonas: Five Works
Eunice Kim and Joe Bradley/Ward Shelley
Jacques Flèchemuller
Olaf Breuning
Norbert Bisky: The Proud. The Few.
Figureworks
The Russian Doll Show
Tim Wilson
Jim Wright
Fang Lijun
William Pope.L
Leon Golub
Natvar Bhavsar
Urashima: An Installation
Jaakko Heikkila

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings
by William Corbett
in conversation: Lane Twitchell
with Brian Evenson
in conversation: Rirkrit Tiravanija
with Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey
Kiki Smith: Prints, Books & Things
by Daniel Baird

BOOKS
in conversation: Meera Nair
with Hirsh Sawhney
T Cooper: Portrait of a Young Novelist
by Randolph Lewis
Off The Shelves: Duberman, Haymarket; Keller, Green Henry;
Saltz, Seeing Out Loud; Smith, The Body’s Question
reviewed by Bookstaff

MUSIC
Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing
by Grant Moser
Subway Records: A Platform for Independent Music
by Neil Parmar
Robert Ashley: Music With Roots in the Aether
by Kenneth Goldsmith

THEATER
in dialogue: the in-between spaces with Melissa James Gibson
by Ann Marie Healy
Radiohole is Still Their Name
by Brook Stowe
Uncle Sam Has No Clothes
by Kyle Thomas Smith
Earthy Void: Plan for an Epic Play
by Sonya Sobieski

DANCE
Butoh: The Good of Going Out of Style
by Alissa Cardone
Animating Sculpture: Cary Baker’s Mimesis at Triskelion Arts
by John Merchant

FILM
Afro-Punk: The Rock and Roll Nigger Experience
by Douglas Singleton
Dubious Honors: Movie Awards
by Lisa Rosman
Outtakes: Patricia Clarkson
by Galen Williams
in conversation: Amar Kanwar
with Phong Bui

FICTION
Contributor’s Note
by Michael Martone
Traub in the City
by Brian Evenson
Shimmer
by David Lincoln
On the Other Side, Short and Lame, and The Tarantella
by Marie Carter
"Near the School’s Playground,"
by Joseph Durickas

POETRY
Anne Waldman
as told to Ellen Pearlman
three poems
by Bruce Andrews
The African Plains Episode
by Lytle Shaw



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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


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


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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