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Village Voice Archives

Issue: 0810

MICHAEL MUSTO as LINDSAY LOHAN as MARILYN MONROE in 'The ultimate re-vamping'

Michael Musto

Post-Oscars, the Dress Knock-Off Crowd Gets Busy
[Lynn Yaeger]

. . and the debate over copies crops up again
Lynn Yaeger

Barack Obama, Read This Book!

The perfect tome for the man who would turn words into action
Nat Hentoff

What to Get L. Ron Hubbard for his Birthday

How “Anonymous” has changed the game of exposing Ron’s ruthless global scam
Name Here

Jim White's Transnormal Skiperoo

Backwoods weirdo gets right with God, or at least God's creatures
DAN LEROY

Pete Rock's NY's Finest

An East Coast legend hits harder with horns than Uzis
HASTINGS CAMERON

Our Brother the Native's Make Amends, for We Are Merely Vessels

Telecommuting pastoral weirdos run aground
RAY CUMMINGS

Erykah Badu: The Plebeian, Militant Homegirl

No songs per se, but plenty of deep grooves on Mama Gun's latest
Miles Marshall Lewis

SXSW Tip Sheet '08

The best NYC talent at Austin's annual wonkapalooza
Rob Harvilla

The Gorgeous Ladies of Alt-Folk Wrestling

Triple-A sirens contemplate blood, oil, and coffee with varying degrees of enthusiasm
Chuck Eddy

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Prog Attacks!
[Box Elders]

Hailing the oft-derided genius of these bloat-tastic motherfuckers
Phil Freeman

Admit You Want to Marry St. Vincent

Annie Clark's volatile skills can't match her charms, but how could they?
Stacey Anderson

Paul Simon: Diamonds on the Soles of His Shoes

Grizzly Bear, David Byrne, and host of others join the April BAM residency of New York's quintessential songwriter
Mike Powell

Spring Music Preview: The Teenagers and the Porn/Pop Split

The Teenagers have dirty mouths and an accent
zach baron

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks' Real Emotional Trash

Yet more mellow gold
SAM UBL

Alan Jackson's Good Time

Country vet loves ladies, bologna, cartoons
Edd Hurt

Dolly Parton's Backwoods Barbie

Back in the saddle, but wilier than you think
Mikael Wood

Autechre's Quaristice

Gently inscrutable duo explores the Exploding Plastic Unpronounceable
DAVID COTNER

Snow Angels: On Thin Ice

Balancing melodrama with a light touch
Nathan Lee

Girls Rock!
[Tracking Shots]

One time, at band camp...
Vadim Rizov

Myra Breckinridge
[Tracking Shots]

The Queer Precursor to Southland Tales
Aaron Hillis

Blindsight
[Tracking Shots]

Adventure doc looks at blindness in Tibet
Julia Wallace

J'Entends Plus la Guitare: Nico Remembered

Phillippe Garrel's Relationship Memoir is Perfectly in Tune
Nathan Lee

Fighting for Life
[Tracking Shots]

War doctor doc, staggeringly effective
NICK PINKERTON

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
[Tracking Shots]

Costumes pass for plot in WWII update
Ella Taylor

Manoel de Oliveira: Man of the Century
[The Cine Phile]

BAM celebrates 100 years of a Portuguese master
J. Hoberman

The Bank Job
[Tracking Shots]

Finally, a real Jason Statham movie
Robert Wilonsky

Married Life: Far From Far From Heaven

Inspired by Todd Haynes, this competent '50s chamber drama doesn't quite compare
Ella Taylor

Talking With Ira Sachs

Xecrets and lies with the director and screenwriter of Married Life
Anthony Kaufman

CJ7: ET Phone Hong Kong

Tamer f/x and a cute little gremlin in Stephen Chow's new one
J. Hoberman

Paranoid Park Returns Gus Van Sant to his Roots

Namely disaffected youth, shoestring budgets
J. Hoberman

Dead Ends and Might-Have-Beens: It Always Rains on Sunday

It's a good week to rediscover a masterpiece
Scott Foundas

The Uncompromising Frownland: Underground Cinema Lives On

Impossible to categorize, even tougher to watch
Scott Foundas

J. Hoberman: The Naked Truth

On the occasion of a BAM tribute to our man, a look back
J. Hoberman

Spring Film Preview: Harmony Korine's Odd Squad

On Returning with Mister Lonely
Aaron Hillis

Paradise Park: No Thrill Ride

Charles Mee's wilt-a-whirl
Alexis Soloski

Lower Ninth: Katrina Drama

The Flea's new Katrina drama echoes Godot
Alexis Soloski

New Musicals: Of Three I Sing

Adding Machine adds up; Passing Strange does passing well; In Circles should stay around
Michael Feingold

Justin Bond in Lustre: A Midwinter Trans-Fest
[Sightlines]

ROB KENDT

Bluemouth Inc.'s Death by Water
[Sightlines]

James Hannaham

Untitled Theater Company #61 Brings You Kurt Vonnegut's Apocalyptic Cat's Cradle
[Sightlines]

John Beer

Spring Theater Preview: The Sound and the Fury, An Idiot's Tale

ERS follows up Fitzgerald with Faulkner
Alexis Soloski

Jonathan Coe's Tapes of Wrath

The Rain Before It Falls examines the trials of friendship
Alexis Soloski

Dandy in the Underworld: Super-Plastic Profound

One man's (possibly true) tale of Scottish gangsters, nice clothes, and a thousand prostitutes
Michael Musto

Spring Books Preview: Martin Amis, Plane Speaking

Flying himself into the world of geopolitics
giles harvey

Helping the Whitney Museum Expand the 2008 Biennial

Art production fund, to the Armory!
Daniel Kunitz

Take Your Pic
[Best in Show]

Recommendations by R.C. Baker
R.C. Baker

Jasper Johns: Smog Alert

The Metropolitan Museum of Art takes a long look at Johns's 'Gray' matter
R.C. Baker

Spring Art Preview: Kerry James Marshall's Black Whole

Battling art's blind spot
R.C. Baker

Russian Diva Power

Two dancers take control of the cockpit
Deborah Jowitt

Spring Dance Preview: Emanuel Gat's Club Mozart

Hallowed music gets the Gat treatment
brian seibert

Yanira Castro + Company: Dream, Baby, Dream

This space is whatever you think it is, for now
Deborah Jowitt

Spring Food Preview: Sailing and Scarfing

Where to eat as you take to NYC's bounding main
Robert Sietsema

YES WAY, JOSÉ

Señor González at the Brooklyn Masonic Lodge
Elizabeth Thompson

SUCH A PERV

Noble and Webster give Freud a much-needed kiss in the ass
ARACELI CRUZ

NEW YORKERS DO IT BEST

How porn translates into real life
EUDIE PAK

HOTTER THAN HELL

An on-screen KISS that rocks
EUDIE PAK

BETTER THAN REALITY TV?

Get your seat early for the Moth’s battle of the wits
Angela Ashman

RICK SCISSORHANDS

Hairdresser to the stars tells all––and your coif may get done, too
ARACELI CRUZ

ALL HAIL, HANK!

Celebrating the depraved life of Bukowski
Angela Ashman

SEX, DRUGS & TANGO

Explore the seedy underbelly
Alexis Soloski

MORE WIRE HANGERS

Do it for Mommie
Sharyn Jackson

SERVED WITH PULP

Unleashing your fantasies can be a drag
EUDIE PAK

MUST HAVE ’STACHE

Furry upper lip not just for cops anymore
ARACELI CRUZ

DANCING QUEEN

Leila Haddad schools us in belly dance
Angela Ashman

GET FRESH CREW

Tamango’s peeps take it to the street
Keisha Franklin

PARTY PROS

Have a ball with this Toronto duo
KRISTAL HAWKINS

GEEK ALERT

A sci-fi fantasy play to make Lara Croft proud
Angela Ashman

MIX IT UP

View cutting-edge works—or be a part of them
Angela Ashman

COLORFUL COMBO

A DJ mixes with a shadow artist
EUDIE PAK

OH, CONEY!

Rezoning Coney Island is inevitable, so where do you stand?
ARACELI CRUZ

Brooklyn Homeshow

ARACELI CRUZ

Infernal Machines: The Films of Kim Ki-youn

EUDIE PAK

SO BAD IT'S GOOD?

A notoriously bad film finally gets some appreciation
Angela Ashman

CIRQUE DU N.Y.

And you thought your family was weird
Sharyn Jackson

PARK IT HERE

A sweaty garage-rock double bill
Mikael Wood

PASS THE SYRUP

It’s a jam of a different flavor
Keisha Franklin

Rightwing Fantasy: Morphing Obama into Osama
[Cartoons]

Tom Tomorrow

The Hoods on the Bus Go 'Round and 'Round

Corruption at the top of the school-bus union reached middle management as well
Tom Robbins

When Cops Go Bad Does the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau Even Notice?

Sean Gardiner

PLUG Independent Music Awards Show 2008 [03.06.08]

Nick Cave headlined and Patton Oswalt hosted the annual event ceremony at Terminal 5
Rebecca Smeyne

Michael Musto as Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn Monroe

. . . in 'The Ultimate Re-Vamping'
Howard Huang

Daily Rockie Horoscope
[Rockie Weekly Horoscope]

March 7 through 13, 2008
Rockie Gardiner

Free Will Astrology: March 5 through 11

Rob Brezsny

Why Is It That Mexicans Work for Cheap?
[Ask a Mexican]

. . . the only way to stop immigrants from taking your job
Gustavo Arellano

Letters

A Talented Guerreran Cook Climbs Down Off the Awning
[Counter Culture]

Restaurante Taqueria Guerrero near the corner of 39th Street and Fourth Avenue
Robert Sietsema

Drug Counselor at Rikers Gets Busted for . . . Dope

Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'
Graham Rayman

Obama Supporters in Brooklyn Warn the Superdelegates: 'Make Our Votes Count'

Way down in the grassroots, small-D democrats take on the big-D Democrats and their superdelegates
Maria Luisa Tucker

The Sean Bell Curveball For Cops on Trial

Prosecutors' 'acting-in-concert' theory in chaotic shooting of Sean Bell misses the mark, observers say
Sean Gardiner

Have the Cybersex ‘Experts’ Ever Had Cybersex?
[Click Me]

From Oprah to the hot seat, one addiction specialist's perspective on cybersex
Bonnie Ruberg

The Pounding Headache of Patapon
[Game On]

Name Here

Indie Cribz #1: Mike House of Team Robespierre [Video]

The first of many looks into how your favorite local musicians really live.
Camille Dodero and Jeremy Krinsley

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