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Village Voice Archives

Issue: 0814

Yippie Apocalypse in the East Village
[Runnin' Scared]

A feud of staggeringly stupid proportions
Graham Rayman

Michael Mukasey and the Ghost of Alberto Gonzales

Hermann Göring got a fair trial at Nuremberg. But not Gitmo prisoners.
Nat Hentoff

Dread and Circuses at the Brooklyn Museum
[Runnin' Scared]

Police give local artist the reaction he was angling for
Maria Luisa Tucker

An Advocate for Sean Bell's Family Tries To Get the Word Out
[Runnin' Scared]

But no one's listening
Sean Gardiner

Heavy Metal in Baghdad: Masters of War

A new documentary tracks a brave band's tumultuous quest to rock out
Nick Anderman

Mourning Magnetic Field: Too Uncool to Be Forgotten
[Dirty Blonde]

Toasting the final hours of the sweet club you were too busy to appreciate
Annie Fischer

The New Folk Paradigm
[Down in Front]

Yael Naim and Ingrid Michaelson--Buy Any Jeans Necessary
Rob Harvilla

R.E.M.'s Rebirth of the World as We Know It

Keeping hope and their youthful idealism alive
Annie Zaleski

The Kills' Midnight Boom

Dour iconoclasts pout attractively
KENNETH PARTRIDGE

Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster...

Brazen Welshmen dabble in everything but restraint
IAN MATHERS

Sun Kil Moon's April

Sad-folk preacher delivers a really long sermon
JOHN S.W. MACDONALD

Elf Power's In a Cave

Psychedelic Southerners break out the Rolodex
JESSE JARNOW

Danity Kane and Day 26

Puff protégés preen preciously
CLOVER HOPE

Tall Firs' Too Old to Die Young

More long-past-teenage riots
DAVID BEVAN

Leatherheads

Leatherheads Scott Foundas

Water Lilies
[Tracking Shots]

Water Lilies Nick Pinkerton

Tuya's Marriage
[Tracking Shots]

Tuya's Marriage ED GONZALEZ

Sex and Death 101
[Tracking Shots]

Sex and Death 101 Nick Pinkerton

The End of the New York Underground Film Festival

Marking the final edition of the NYUFF, one-time director Ed Halter looks back. And forward.
Ed Halter

Flight of the Red Balloon

Flight of the Red Balloon J. Hoberman

Poland's Greatest Cult Film Returns
[The Cine Phile]

Blow Your Mind at BAM
J. Hoberman

Jellyfish

Jellyfish J. Hoberman

Talking With Jellyfish Director Etgar Keret

How my cinematographer broke my heart, and other stories
Michelle Orange

Shine a Light

Shine a Light Camille Dodero

My Blueberry Nights

My Blueberry Nights Michelle Orange

Three Evenings With Young Playwrights: This Is Our Youth

Next to Albee's early one-acts, new plays by Adam Bock and Itamar Moses look undramatic
Michael Feingold

The Fifth Column: The Pain in Spain

Hemingway's 1937 play gets a Mint Theater revival
James Hannaham

Attorney for the Damned's Rock-Opera Weirdness
[Sightlines]

Risks galore
John Beer

Missives: Ungainly Drama

Banality reigns
ROB KENDT

Simon Farquhar's Rainbow Kiss

Fondle the squalor
TATYANA GERSHKOVICH

’Ello Blighty! A London Spring Theater Tour

Never So Good, Rapunzel, Roy Williams’s Baby Girl
Alexis Soloski

Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth: A New Emotional Wisdom

New short-story collection evokes a young Alice Munro
Lenora Todaro

Siri Hustvedt's Dead Dad Dreams

The Sorrows of an American puts faith in Freud
TATYANA GERSHKOVICH

Cao Fei's Avatar Bazaar
[Best in Show]

Buy a stake in RMB City
R.C. Baker

Richard Dupont's Naked Launch

Talking with an artist who turns his body scan into sculpture
Daniel Kunitz

Kunst Gruppe Adores Neon

The pleasure principle rears its head again
Noah Sudarsky

Adrienne Truscott, Walter Dundervill and Heather Olson: Make Mine a Dream, Waiter

Choreographers offer ragouts of history and memory
Deborah Jowitt

Grupo Corpo and Emanuel Gat: Doing Reps

Two choreographers turn ordeal and emotion into design
Deborah Jowitt

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Raising Bell

Advocate for victim's family tries to get the word out at murder trial's press conferences
Sean Gardiner

BROTHAS & DRAGONS

Rappin’ and rockin’, NYC-style
Jon Caramanica

ABBA ZABA

Raise a trout to the genius of Captain Beefheart
Angela Ashman

MUTE EMOTION

Nothing but feeling
Mikael Wood

PLAYING POLITICS

An African play with universal appeal
Alexis Soloski

STAGE FRIGHT

Reliving life’s most embarrassing moments
ARACELI CRUZ

GOT BEAT UP

Pennsylvania pop-punkers Weston reunite
Zach Baron

REMINDERS OF THEN

Kimya Dawson comes home
Zach Baron

SMARTY WEARS PANTS

Ivy Leaguer sings his way to stardom
Sharyn Jackson

MANGA YOURSELF

Murakami at Brooklyn Museum
EUDIE PAK

CREATIVE TIMING

A party for struggling artists
EUDIE PAK

Naughty Nautical Night #2

Sharyn Jackson

UKE-A-YOU

No strap required at this four-day musical extravaganza
ARACELI CRUZ

PAGE-TURNERS

Two award-winning authors discuss their craft
Angela Ashman

REALITY REALLY DOES BITE

The truth about Janeane Garofalo
Sharyn Jackson

DOWNTOWN CHIC

The Voice’s ’80s street-fashion photographer inspires a film
Angela Ashman

BOND AT HIS BEST

Talk? No, we expect you to watch
ARACELI CRUZ

THE WONG WAY

A conversation with Hong Kong’s hottest director
EUDIE PAK

OUT IS IN

Gay performance festival leaves nothing out
Sharyn Jackson

POLE POSITION

Keisha Franklin

Cartoonist Jules Feiffer Returns!

A casualty at war
Jules Feiffer

The Clinton Strategy: Paving the Way for a McCain Victory
[This Modern World]

Name Here

City Hall Ignored the Hazards of the Building Boom

After a Bloomberg-engineered veto, a Brooklyn assemblyman digs in for building reforms
Tom Robbins

Bruise Brother

Supposedly Democrat-Friendly MSNBC Has Let a Clinton-Hating Joe Maul New York's Senator
Wayne Barrett

Dave Eggers-Curated Art Show Opens

Text, image, and humor from the likes of R. Crumb, Leonard Cohen, Andy Warhol, Henry Darger in Lots of Things Like This
Sam Horine

Carbon/Silicon at the Irving Plaza

Mick Jones of the Clash and Tony James of Generation X rock the Fillmore East on Friday, April 4
John E. Coli Nikolai

Free Will Astrology: April 2 through 8

Rob Brezsny

Daily Forecast: April 4 through 10
[Rockie Horoscope]

Rockie Gardiner

How the Mexican People Got their Color
[¡Ask a Mexican!]

Gustavo Arellano

Letters

More Ellen Page Sexuality Talk!
[La Dolce Musto]

A frank discussion of the Juno star. Plus Fred Schneider, a Gypsy woman, and a whole deck of queens.
Michael Musto

Arcos in Astoria: Portuguese Barbecue and Seafood
[Counter Culture]

Robert Sietsema

Calvin Klein's $3,500 Sweater

Go ahead and melt your jewelry to pay for it
Lynn Yaeger

Dear Dan: Boobs Aren't Everything!
[Savage Love]

More Savage Love letters about the husband missing his wife's boobs

Can Online Sex Heal Emotional Trauma?
[Click Me]

A new book on fantasies makes us reconsider our cybersex daydreams
Bonnie Ruberg

Viking: Battle for Asgard is Just Shy of Seaworthy
[Game On]

Scandinavian God of War remix shows promise, but not much more.
Gary Hodges

I’m No Good at Dirty Talk. How Long Can I Keep Moaning?
[Click Me]

Time for a regular ol' cybersex advice Q&A
Bonnie Ruberg

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