Learning from Miami: NYC Activists Beware!
By Williams ColeIf last months protest in Miami against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting is any indication, the strategy developing among law enforcement agencies regarding how to handle large protests is similar to a Powell Doctrine for domestic dissent: overwhelming force, preemptive arrests, and intense multi-agency reconnaissance.
Out of the Blue: My Experience in the NYPD
By Yvette WaltonEvery morning I had to get up so early, just so I could get to the bus stop and then to the train station, in order to arrive at the Academy on time. Ultimately we will be assigned to Brooklyn for driving practice, a two-week assignment, and I will need a car rather desperately. Please God let there be someone who can hook a sista up with a ride; if not, please let me be able to find and afford a little piece of car.
Art In Conversation
Thomas Nozkowski with Chris Martin
The Brooklyn Rail met with Thomas Nozkowski at his house in High Falls, New York on a clear November day. We sat in the dining room as the afternoon sunlight filtered through the trees outside and set warm gray shadows flickering on the window shades
Art In Conversation
David Levi Strauss with Joan Waltemath
What Ive always tried to do in relation to an artists work is to write something that can sit next to the work and not do violence to it, first of all, which is very difficult, and then to try to make something happen between them, between the visual work and the written, that is a third thing.
The Drum Is a Voice
By David PleasantThe music referred to as jazz (a term which arguably has its origins in the amalgamated African cultures of Georgia and South Carolina, a.k.a. Gullah) is not dead. It continues to live and grow, and thus cannot be dealt with as a fixed relic.
The Sounds of Change: Tony Kushners New Musical
By Emily DeVotiNothing ever happen underground in Louisiana cause they aint no underground in Louisiana There is only underwater.
Swallow Myself
By Gregory RossiIm doing it. Swallowing myself. I know the act is simple, Ive been eating since before I was alive.
Editor's Message
Editor's Letter: The Issue is Free Speech
By Theodore HammAlthough a party convention, by definition, is a large political event, our city leaders have presented next summers Republican gathering in a different light. According to Jonathan Tisch of Loews Hotels, who also heads the citys tourism agency, The convention coming to New York is so important economically and emotionally that its necessary for all 8 million New Yorkersno matter what their party stripes areto support this event.
ArtSeen
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Beside The Rose: Selected Works by Jay DeFeo
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Looking Both Ways
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John Currin
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Offal, Salon des Refuses
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Terry Winters
– By Michael Brennan -
E.V. Day
– By Megan Heuer -
Mala Iqbal
– By Hrag Vartanian -
David Opdyke
– By William Powhida -
Guy Richards Smit
– By William Powhida -
Patrick Martinez
– By William Powhida -
Danny Goodwin
– By Benjamin La Rocco -
Joel Longenecker
– By Benjamin La Rocco -
Manuel Pardo
– By Jill Conner -
Lois Orswell, David Smith and Friends
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Rudolf de Crignis
– By Joan Waltemath -
Wim Wenders: Pictures From the Surface of the Earth
– By Stephanie Buhmann
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Editor's Letter: The Issue is Free Speech
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Learning from Miami: NYC Activists Beware!
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Luxury Condo Threatens to Destroy Fort Greenes Historic Charm
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A Clinton Hill Condos Secret Past
– By Claire Hoffman -
Letitia James Takes Office
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Coney Island: A 21st-Century Attraction?
– By Arthur Vaughan -
Inside Brooklyns Russian Bathhouses
– By Todd Chandler
Express
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Out of the Blue: My Experience in the NYPD
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Ballots and Bloodshed: An Election Update from Guatemala
– By Writers Bloc -
Down the Up Escalator Operation Tribute to Freedom: A Triumph of the Will
– By Ryan Grim -
A World Apart: Writing From the Front
– By John Crawford
Art
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Ryszard Wasko: Bedtime Stories
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Thomas Nozkowski with Chris Martin
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David Levi Strauss with Joan Waltemath
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Between The Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics
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Harlem Arts: A Faux Renaissance?
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A Readers Response to Life at the Vermont Studio School
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Victor Brauner (1903-1966): Centennial Celebration
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Mark Lombardi: Global Networks
– By John Hawke
ArtSeen
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Beside The Rose: Selected Works by Jay DeFeo
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Looking Both Ways
– By Nick Stillman -
John Currin
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Offal, Salon des Refuses
– By James Kalm -
Terry Winters
– By Michael Brennan -
E.V. Day
– By Megan Heuer -
Mala Iqbal
– By Hrag Vartanian -
David Opdyke
– By William Powhida -
Guy Richards Smit
– By William Powhida -
Patrick Martinez
– By William Powhida -
Danny Goodwin
– By Benjamin La Rocco -
Joel Longenecker
– By Benjamin La Rocco -
Manuel Pardo
– By Jill Conner -
Lois Orswell, David Smith and Friends
– By Katie Stone -
Rudolf de Crignis
– By Joan Waltemath -
Wim Wenders: Pictures From the Surface of the Earth
– By Stephanie Buhmann
Books
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Bayard Rustins Life in Struggle
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Keeping Verse Alive
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Gorky, Inside and Out
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When We Lived on Dreams
– By Jim Long -
Off The Shelves
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The Rail Recommends
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Arnaldo Correa with Nicholas Shumaker
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The Writers Craft of Making a Living
– By Madeleine Baran
Music
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The Drum Is a Voice
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Our Favorite Holiday Records
– By music staff
Dance
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Descent
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De Keersmaekers Dancing in the Rain
– By Vanessa Manko
Film
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Where the Tony Meet the Phony The Hamptons Film Festival
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Dreaming A Little Dream: One from the Heart and 21 Grams
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Fuses Video Resurrection
– By Willa Paskin
Theater
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Stories Within Stories: The Talking Bands The Parrot
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The Sounds of Change: Tony Kushners New Musical
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Devouring the Scenery with Sheila Callaghan
– By Adam Szymkowicz
Fiction
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excerpt: A Note from the Underground
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Swallow Myself
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Buried in Cups
– By Kurt Strahm
Poetry
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Favorite Restaurant
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Storm Harp
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Sea of Red Death and Poiesis of the Better Life
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Animals
– By Joelle Hann
LastWords
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From the Files of Hal Sirowitz
– By Hal Sirowitz