••• ARCHIVES - OCTOBER 2003





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Table of Contents

LOCAL
Will the City Get the Lead Out?
by Marjory Garrison
Let’s Make a Landmark
by Kevin Plumberg
How the Other 1% Lives
by Williams Cole

EXPRESS
Letter from a GI in Baghdad
by John Crawford
photo essay: Baghdad, August 2003
by Christian Parenti
Searching for Guy Debord
by Andy Merrifield

ART
Artseen:
Strangers
Megan Heuer
Landslide
John Hawke
Kristin Baker
Victoria Keddie
Jim Shaw
William Powhida
Steven Charles
Stephanie Buhmann
Ele D'Artagnan
Stephanie Buhmann
Kelly Heaton
Nick Stillman
Richard Pousette-Dart
Rachel Youens
Ben Parry
Jill Conner
Chris Caccamise
Benjamin La Rocca
Heidi Cody
James Kalm
Laurie Thomas
Benjamin La Rocca
Please Pay Attention Please
Nick Stillman
Marilyn Bridges
Tomassio Longhi
Another Art Story from Venice
Robert C. Morgan

Life in Venice
by Paul Mattick
The Art of Saira Wasim
by Ellen Pearlman
Allegories of Debris: Jason Rhoades’s Meccatuna
by Daniel Baird
in conversation: David Rabinowitch
with Joan Waltemath

TRIBUTES
Edward Said (1935–2003)
George Plimpton (1927–2003)
Kirk Varnedoe (1946–2003)
Johnny Cash (1932–2003)

BOOKS
in conversation: Jonathan Lethem
with Theodore Hamm
Jonathan Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude
reviewed by Reed Jackson
Vendela Vida’s And Now You Can Go
reviewed by Sam Frank
Neal Pollack’s Never Mind The Pollacks
reviewed by Randolph Lewis, Ph.D.
Geoffrey Young’s Lights Out
reviewed by Gary Counsil
Oz Shelach’s Picnic Grounds: A Novel in Fragments
reviewed by Erica Weitzman
One Ring Zero’s The Author Project
reviewed by Lisa Selin Davis

MUSIC
Young Marble Giants’s Colossal Youth
reviewed by Jason Gross
profiles in music: Ethel: Four
by Alan Lockwood
The Menagerie That Is New York: A Compilation Overview
by Grant Moser

THEATER
in dialogue: Emotional/Political Danger Zones
by Betty Shamieh
The Civilians’ Disobedience
by Emily DeVoti

DANCE
Dancing in the Real World
by Shanti Crawford
Walk, Run, Amble, Saunter— Everyday Movement
by Vanessa Manko
D.U.M.B.O.’s Dancing
by Vanessa Manko

FILM
Good Fight, Good Film? John Sayles’s Casa de los Babys
by Lisa Rosman

DINING CAR
What To Eat When You Are Expecting
by Adriana Velez

POETRY
In The Cold Earth and Beneath the Bluish Sky
by James Sherry
Power-Ties
by Marcella Durand
"It is similar to all others"
by Marcella Durand

FICTION
excerpt: The Sexual Brotherhood of Man
by Ola Klinberg
The Early Bird Special
by Alison Lowenstein

LIGHTS
New Scholarship Makes Splash
by Randolph Lewis, Ph.D.

LAST WORDS
Reflections on a Townie Chick
by Bill LeBoutillier


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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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