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Table of Contents
 LOCAL
Housing vs. the RNC: A Question of Priorities
by Williams Cole
Prospect Heights: Ratner’s Secret Deals Won’t Stop the Fight
by Brian J. Carreira
The Price of Ratner’s Hoopla: Brooklyn Stadium a Money Loser
by Johannah Rodgers
Envisioning the Gowanus
by Arthur Vaughan
Letter to a Third Grader
by Barbara Russo
EXPRESS
The Last Arab: Gamal Abdel-Nasser
by Norman Kelley
in conversation: Inside Al Jazeera: Samir Khader
with Rehan Ansari and Mridu Chandra
in conversation: Life in the O.T.: Anat Biletzki
with Eyal Danieli
What Makes news News
by Ryan Grim
ART
Daniel Richter: The Morning After and White Flag – Pink Flag
by Daniel Baird
Artseen: Pearlman, Digital Avant-Garde; Buhmann, Fred Wilson; Stillman, Terrorvision; Kalm, Xiomara De Oliver; Stone, Klaus Weber; Karapetian, Andreas Gursky; Longhi, Lee Bontecou; Powhida, Two enter and one leaves; La Rocco, Bradley Wester; Shrier, The Free Library; La Rocco, Crossing the Bridge; Longhi, Jon Kessler; Hawke, Carol Peligian; Long, Willem de Kooning
Alone and Together on The Stage of The World: Yun-Fei Ji
by John Yau
in conversation: Istvan Kantor
with Daniel Baird
Portraits in Richmond
by Robert C. Morgan
BOOKS
On Gertrude Stein
by Frances Richard
The Provocations of Arthur Cravan
by Andy Merrifield
Off the Shelves
by Bookstaff (Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim;
Tully, Beggars of Life; Byatt, Little Black Book; Cosper, Wedding Season)
MUSIC
The Holger Czukay Academy of Spontaneous Music
by Roger White
review: Dallam-Dougou’s New Destiny
by John Reed
No Golden Throat: Lizzy Mercier Descloux (1956–2004)
by Holly Tavel
Zeb: Alien with Extraordinary Abilities
by Lucas Graves
DANCE
Reviews
by Jessica Weiss
Dancing on the Rail
by Vanessa Manko
Matteson at Symphony Space
by Shanti Crawford
THEATER
in dialogue: Down the Rabbit Hole with Lynn Nottage
by Sonya Sobieski
in conversation: Trusting Theatre: Jon Fosse
with Caridad Svich
The Neo-Futurists Land in Brooklyn
by Kyle Thomas Smith
review: Corthron’s Light Raise the Roof
by Christy Hutchcraft
Don Quixote: Suffering Fools Wisely
by Emily DeVoti
FILM
The Filmmaker’s a Clown
by Lisa Rosman
Bukowski: Born Into This
by Williams Cole
in conversation: Jehane Noujaim
by Mridu Chandra
Docs in Sight: The New Dawn of the Profitable Political Film
by Williams Cole
Yvonne Rainer: Dancing in the U.S. Interstices of Experimental Film
by Michael Rowin
Everyday People
by Theodore Hamm
FICTION
Hotbed
by Shelley Stenhouse
from: Long Day Counting Tomorrow
by Jim Feast
POETRY
Like Totally Like
by Carolee Schneemann
Poems
by Luis Felipe Fabre, translated by Mónica de la Torre
Excerpts from Beauty (Is the New Absurdity)
by Jennifer Scappettone
LAST WORDS
Thursday story
by Kenji Jasper, 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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