••• ARCHIVES - WINTER 2003





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Table of Contents


LOCAL
Billions for Brooklyn: The New Power Brokers
by David Vine
Fighting for the People’s Firehouse
by Dan Schneider
Williamsburg Pentecostals Feel the Spirit
by Claire Hoffman
Hope for Public Housing
by Mo-Yain Tham
Inwood: The Sound of Change
by Clay Risen

EXPRESS
The Past and Future of Public Schools: Marilyn Gittell
by Julie Thompson-Keane
Hope Rises for Progressive Third Parties
by Williams Cole
Win Locally, Lose Nationally: Are the Greens Too Pure?
by Ryan Grim
Will There Be Another FDR?
by Theodore Hamm
TRACKS
The Roots of Carnival in Veracruz, Mexico
by A.G. Wood

ART
in conversation: Fred Tomaselli
by Chris Martin
in conversation: Marina Abramovic
by Dalia Bajo and Brainard Carey
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions
by Daniel Baird
Matta: 1912–2002
by Phong Bui
Artbeat: John Hodgman and the Gray Book Series
by Vincent Falivene

Artseen: Art Staff

Gary Simmons
Joe Baer: The Minimalist Years,1965-1975
Lennart Anderson
Yes Yes Y’all: The Birth of Hip Hop
Bjorn Melhus
Alessandro Pessoli
Matthew Ritchie
John J. O’Conner
Watercolor
Evan Lintermans
Hungry Eyes
James Castle
Don Gummer
Graf 3000
Elizabeth Josephson
Lael Marshall and Dewitt Godfrey
Letter from London

Artseen: Curating on the Margin
by Yasmeen Siddiqui and Hrag Varatanian

PHOTO ESSAY
The East Coast Circuit: Sandra Nydegger
by Maria Finn

BOOKS
Something Happened Here…
by Paul McLeary
White Line Highway
by Christian Parenti
Breaking Open His Head
by Ellen Pearlman
Sparks in Nevada
by Ellen Pearlman
Bohemian Rhapsody
by Jim Feast
Middlesex: A Dissent
by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
in conversation: Sherman Alexie
by Williams Cole

MUSIC
Blasts from the Present
by Grant Moser
The Sun City Girls’ Schizophrenic Universe
by Nick Stillman
Eddie Durham: Forgotten Guitar Pioneer
by Dann Baker
The Astral Sounds of Greg Weeks
by Fred Cisterna
Notes from (the Pop) Underground
by Dave Mandl

DANCE
Waltz Toward the Apocalypse
by Vanessa Manko

FILM
in conversation: Jonas Mekas and Raimund Abraham
Unknown Director, Familiar Pleasures
by Valerie Jaffee
Outakes: On Movies (The Gyllenhalls)
by Galen Williams
Dubious Honors
by Lisa Rosman

THEATER
in dialogue: Anne Washburn’s The Ladies
by Madeleine George
Beckett in the Living Room, Beckett Up Your Earhole
by Alan Lockwood
New York THeaters Against War
by Emily DeVoti
Bric by Bric: Experimental Theater Grows in Brooklyn
by Gary Winter

DINING CAR
Organic Visions
by Claire Hoffman

FICTION
Detroit 1972
by Barbara Henning
excerpt: Dark Property
by Brian Evenson
Three Secrets
by Lewis Warsh
Shitty Mickey
by John Reed
Mamie and Z
by Blake Radcliffe
Pink
by Panio Gianopoulos

STREETS
Some Rules for the Conduct of Young Gentlemen, part 2
by William Rossa Cole
The Starry Skies Above: Astro-Reports
by Naomi Foyle

POETRY
Cruelty and Conquest
by Kristin Prevallet
Self-Criticism; Reported Missing
by Lewis Warsh
Three poems
by Sherman Alexie
Dreaming in Syndication
by Photios Giovanis
This Just In; It Was the Night Before Monday
by Jerome Sala


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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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