No Room at the Inn: Ratner Continues to "Game" Officials and the Publc

Local

On May 26th, the Economic Development Committee of the City Council held a public hearing about Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proposal.

Digging up Gov. Clinton

Express

Recently waves of neo-conservative historical revisionism have been washing over us in New York, exalting as true patriots such Founding-Father figures as Alexander Hamilton and his reactionary clique of bankers and would-be aristocrats.

Thomas Ruff with Vicki Goldberg

Art

The German photographer Thomas Ruff achieved international recognition in the 1980s alongside Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky, all students of Bernd and Hilla Becher.

A Reporter at War: Meditations on Death and Truth

Books

War makes news, even if it destroys nearly everything else.

Skipping Rope

Streets

Double Dutch is a cross section of culture and athleticism, play and performance. It’s like inserting yourself in a rope Rototiller.

Summer Break

I’m on-leave for the next few issues, in order to work on a political campaign.

The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt

Music

Anyone who has ever heard the composer Milton Babbitt speak, informally or formally, has come away awed by his sheer verbal facility.

Bridging the Latino Diaspora Through Dance

Dance

Latino dancers from Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and New York took part in Channel Sur, a festival celebrating Latino dance through a series of workshops, classes, and performances.

Sophie Calle

ArtSeen

“I left for Japan on October 25, 1984, unsuspecting that this date would mark the beginning of a 92 day countdown to the end of a love affair.” So begins Exquisite Pain, Sophie Calle’s suite of photographs and texts centered on the experience of intimate rejection.

Angela Kariotis

Theater

FronteraFest is the largest fringe festival in the southwest and, I betcha, the most populist. It is an unjuried, first-come-first-served, four-week grassroots bacchanalia of performance in Austin, Texas.

The End of PBS?

Film

Over a decade ago Jesse Helms began the earnest evisceration of public television and radio by the right wing, beginning what has become a drawn-out, hackneyed story.

excerpts from Citizen (a novel in progress)

Fiction

Keep your head down, I told myself.

FUSES (after Carolee Schneemann)

Poetry

SOUND sea rush PINK FUSES

Chosen, A Jewish Joke

LastWords

It’s an unlikely story, I know, but history is full of the unlikely.

Summer Break

Editor's Message

I’m on-leave for the next few issues, in order to work on a political campaign.