LOCAL
Inside the Hackworld: How A Do-Nothing Became a Lame Duck  by Theodore Hamm
Ed.’s note: The following is based on the writer’s experiences working as the press person for Norman Siegel in his recent campaign for Public Advocate.

EXPRESS
How to Get to Gitmo by Aimee Molloy
Before going to Guantanamo, we think it necessary you be prepared, which is why we’ve put together this brief how-to manual on getting there.

ART
Elizabeth Murray In Conversation with Robert Storr and Phong Bui
In the midst of preparing for her upcoming retrospective, which will be on view at the Museum of Modern Art beginning October 23, 2005, Elizabeth Murray sat down with the painter Robert Storr, curator of the exhibition, and Rail publisher Phong Bui to talk about her life and work at her studio loft in Tribeca.

MUSIC
The Soul Stirrer: The Legacy of Sam Cooke by Norman Kelley
If Ray Charles caused consternation in then-Negro America by using gospel sounds as a foundation for the “devil’s music,” what some blacks pejoratively called R&B, Sam Cooke made some people damn right apoplectic.

THEATER
Nelson Rodrigues: The pornographic angel comes to NYC by Sarah J. Townsend
When it comes to the hoary claim that mass culture has sounded the death knell of theater, there are few better counter-examples than Nelson Rodrigues, the most renowned Brazilian playwright of the 20th century.

FICTION
Chip Off The Old Block by Lynda Schor
Getting on this bus is not easy, dragging the just three year old Timothy dressed up in a pair of my high heels, his sister Alexandra’s outgrown dress (which she never wore anyway – she’ll only wear designer jeans), and his grandmother’s old corset on top.