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Jolly Rancher, I Dated a Weather Girl

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Local

Wobblies Organize Brooklyn Warehouses
By Caitlin Esch
Tug
By John Soltes
Built on the Block
By Ashton Applewhite
Addressing the Needs of the Neglected
By Nick Chase
Welcome the Strangers in Your Midst
By Eleanor J. Bader
The Battle of Starrett City
By Nicholas Jahr
Mommy Wars in Brooklyn
By Amanda Darrach Filippone

Express

A Bard from East New York: Martín Espada
By Gabriel Thompson
There Goes My City
By David Freedlander
How to End the War
By Paul Mattick
TELESUR’S PROGRAM Aram Aharonian with Nikolas Kozloff
RANT RHAPSODY Occupational Hazards
By Mark Read
RANT RHAPSODY Listening to Robinson
By Sabine Heinlein
Debtor’s Nation
By Williams Cole

Art

Barbara Novak with Adrienne Baxter Bell and Phong Bui
Jonathan Lasker with John Yau

ArtSeen

Gillian Carnegie
By Jeremy Sigler
Francis Alys
By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
Mark Grotjahn
By Craig Olson
Naoto Nakagawa
By Shane McAdams
David and Chie Hammons
By Jen Schwarting
Joseph Beuys
By Valery Oisteanu
Cynthia Hartling
By Cassandra Neyenesch
Mayumi Terada
By Robert C. Morgan
Gordon Matta-Clark
By Cynthia Eardley
Railing Opinion: A response to Irving Sandler’s A Call to the Art Critics
By Eric Fischl
Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle
By John Yau
Brooklyn Dispatches
By James Kalm
Rosalyn Drexler
By John Yau
Philip Taaffe
By Cassandra Neyenesch
Jamie McMurry
By Warren Fry
Letter from LONDON
By Sherman Sam
Justine Kurland
By Cassandra Neyenesch
Jonathan Schipper and Michael Schall
By Adam Thompson
Merrill Wagner
By Shane McAdams
Role Play: Feminist Art Revisited 1960–1980
By Thomas Micchelli
Virtually an Art Market? Artfully Living a Second Life
By Hrag Vartanian
Lee Bontecou
By Stephanie Buhmann

Books

Catastrophe
By Charles Bernstein
“Life is Short, Reading is Long”
By Nora Griffin
“Not Yet”: On the novels of Kenneth Fearing
By McKenzie Wark
Peter Selgin with Lisa Kunik
Nonfiction: Writing as Warfare
By Larry Fondation
Memoir: Hunting Easter’s Eggs
By Elizabeth Reed
Nonfiction: Lynching Darkness
By Cleve Wiese
Disruptive Behavior: Elaine Equi’s Ripple Effect
By Maxwell Heller

Music

Mos Def and the New Old Magic
By Douglas Singleton
Toupidek Limonade: Le Phoque a bu l’air (In Poly Sons 1106)
By Tony Coulter
Concerto for Broken Foot and Two Sedatives: Menomena and the Good, the Bad and the Queen
By Todd Simmons
Notes on Time: The Recent Music of Tigran Mansurian
By Alan Lockwood
A Year From Monday Revisited
By Erin Durant

Dance

The Compassionate Camels: A Belly Dancer’s Debut
By Jenan _
Cinema is Alive, but is Live Art Dead?
By Mathew Sandoval
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People in Everyone
By Carley Petesch
Everything Smaller’s Building It Up and Breaking It Down at Triskelion Arts
By Carley Petesch
From Hanoi with Love
By Emily Larocque
“The Very Life We’re Living”
By Ben Tripp

Film

Reap What You Sow, or Get Eaten By a Mutant
By Sarahjane Blum
“It’s Okay With Me”
By David N. Meyer
Sign O’ the Crimes
By Karl O'Toole
Mouchette

Theater

The Church of Young Jean Lee
By Eliza Bent
Ritual Expressionism, Fulya Peker in conversation with David Kilpatrick
Watching With Similar Eyes: Lucy Thurber
By Jason Grote
Fair Trade Theater: Saviana Stanescu’s Waxing West
By Cristina Pippa

Fiction

The Accidental Oracle
By Kurt Strahm
An Enlightened Husband
By Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Excerpts from the novel River, River
By Lindsay Ahl
Untitled
By Yasmine Alwan
excerpt from Night
By Joanna Gunderson

Poetry

from one
By Jen Hofer
Jolly Rancher, I Dated a Weather Girl
By Sean Flaherty
rumor has it...... for raymond ross, cecil taylor trio
By Steve Dalachinsky

LastWords

Flap and Bugs Go Dancing
By Martha King

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