Live/Work Tenant, Go Homeless
By Zoe AlsopThree summers ago, when I first came to Williamsburg, “yuppie go home” was spray-painted on what seemed to be a vacant building on Bedford between N. 4th and N. 5th Street.
Barge-ing Into Brooklyn
By Bridget TerrySouth Williamsburg will soon become home to a 79.9 megawatt power plant courtesy of NYC Energy (NYCE), with stacks lower then some of the surrounding buildings, set on a barge to be located on the west side of Wallabout Channel.
Art In Conversation
The Club IT IS: A Conversation with Philip Pavia
By Phong BuiOne must admit that no artist feels completely at ease at gallery openings, let alone while actually looking at the work on the wall or even talking about art at all.
Violence, Fantasy, and Childhood: Two Shows at PS1
By Daniel BairdDisasters of War: Francisco de Goya, Henry Darger, Jake and Dinos Chapman (through February 25) Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art (through April 8)
Race In Brooklyn
By Theodore HammThe legacy of slavery is written onto the streets of Brooklyn. Lefferts, Boerun, Meserole, Skillman, Pierrepoint—these and many more street names commemorate influential local families who held slaves.
Termite
By Noam MorHeadlights bare a suture of earth, a wooden shack. A bat like darkness wrestless for some destination. The boy, picked-up, asks weren’t there stars made-up a lover there someplace in the night.
Brooklyn Goes to Slamdance
By Joe MaggioThe Slamdance Film Festival was born in 1994 when four LA- based filmmakers, angered that their films were rejected by the Sundance Film Festival, decided to stage their own festival, right across the street from Park City’s Egyptian Theater, home to Sundance’s most prestigious premieres.
Sundance Wrap-up
By Jane GarnettThis year the Sundance climate changed radically Gone were the new-media wannabes, the dotcom startups and digital manifestos. Buyers seemed subdued and tentative, hyper-conscious of the difficulty of a small movie “breaking out” in an overcrowded marketplace and of the unlikeliness of another Blair Witch scenario.
The View From New Jersey
By Jason ScorzaFrom the terrace of songwriter Tris McCall’s Union City apartment, perched high atop the New Jersey palisades, you can see the majestic Manhattan skyline, from Midtown all the way down to Wall Street.
Editor's Message
NEXT STOP: ALBANY
By Theodore HammThe atmosphere was electric last Thursday night at the swinging '60s Senior Center in Greenpoint. “Old ladies never die, they just play bingo”, read a sign at one end of the meeting room, while a large American flag hung from the other.
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Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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NEXT STOP: ALBANY
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Live/Work Tenant, Go Homeless
– By Zoe Alsop -
Miss Mary's Advice to the Lovelorn
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NYC Diary
– By Jason Jones -
How to Cook Italian Sausages: Studying the Human Body
– By Cathy Nan Quinlan -
Happy Housing Story
– By Scot Crawford
Express
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Barge-ing Into Brooklyn
– By Bridget Terry -
Diary of a Mad New Day
– By Williams Cole -
Buddhism in Havana
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Galapagos Now
– By Beth Rosenberg -
In Mayan Guatemala: A Walk Among the Ruins
– By Alan Lockwood -
San Pedro De Atacama: An Oasis in the Driest Desert in the World
– By A.M. Baron -
Losing Heart
– By Stephen S. Howie -
Progress Report
– By Ved Mehta
Art
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Brooklyn Pastiche: The Brooklyn Art Scene
– By Lori Ortiz -
The Manhattan Scene
– By Rachel Youens -
Andy Warhol: Photography
– By Jane Simon -
The Club IT IS: A Conversation with Philip Pavia
– By Phong Bui -
Violence, Fantasy, and Childhood: Two Shows at PS1
– By Daniel Baird
Books
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Thank God Almighty We Are Free At Last
– By Patrick Walsh -
Waltzing With the Ghost of Tom Joad
– By Randolph Lewis -
Race In Brooklyn
– By Theodore Hamm -
Seasons of the Woolf
– By Eve Leeman
Music
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The Scene: S.S. Aldrich's Brooklyn Music Report
– By Scott Aldrich -
The View From New Jersey
– By Jason Scorza
Film
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Fear of Flying: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
– By Valerie Jaffe -
Sundance Wrap-up
– By Jane Garnett -
Brooklyn Goes to Slamdance
– By Joe Maggio
Theater
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Tautologically Foreman
– By Alan Lockwood
Fiction
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Termite
– By Noam Mor -
In The Museum of the History of Drugs
– By Daniel Baird -
Asian Voyages
– By Pio Galbis
Poetry
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Carolyn Kizer
– By David Rigsbee -
Pencil Sketch of Self & Other
– By Jane Cooper -
Love Poem No. 9
– By Maria McLeod -
February Ghazals
– By Sally Fisher -
Mendacity
– By John Merchant -
Touching The Rock
– By L.S. Asekoff
