June 2009
The “June 2009” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 4, 2009.
Editor’s Message
The Song Remains the Same
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Asthma Act Will Help Tenants Breathe Easier
– By Eleanor J. BaderWhose Coney Island?
– By Michael MillerRethinking Growth: One City/One Future's Blueprint
– By Richard WellsDevelopment Takes Center Stage In 33rd District City Council Debate
– By James Trimarco and Krista Hanson
Express
The Anti-Bloombergistas and the City in Exile
– By Matthew VazLetter to India: The Platform of Hope
– By Tabish KhairLove in the Time of Swine Flu: David Lida's Affair with Mexico City
– By Mark DeryHope for Justice at the World's Court? Pamela Yates with Williams Cole
Something About Histories in Berlin
– By Joseph RiippiDown in Jamaica: A Journey to the Calabash International Literary Festival
– By Hirsh SawhneyA Global Look at Women's Rights
– By Kaitlin BellThe Pre-Fast Food Era: The Food of a Younger Land
– By Christopher MichelAddictive, Ephemeral Stories in a Digital Age
– By Ian CrouchAn Interstate of Words
– By Christopher MichelLost and Found in Bangkok
– By Nicholas DeRenzo
ArtSeen
Alberto Giacometti: Drawings
– By Alix FinkelsteinPoster Boy: Brooklynovation
– By Emily NathanUnica Zürn: Dark Spring
– By John YauSophie Calle: Take Care of Yourself
– By Cora FisherJohn Outterbridge
– By John YauSadie Benning: Play Pause
– By Cassandra NeyeneschNalini Malani: Postmodern Cassandra
– By Thomas McEvilleyThe Plop of the Paint: Tumi Magnússon
– By Joseph MasheckRay Johnson...Dalí/Warhol/and others...'Main Ray, Ducham, Openheim, Pikabia...'
– By Valery OisteanuCompass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
– By Thomas MicchelliR.C. Baker: "...and Nixon's coming" ⁄ the draft
– By Emily WarnerPetit Retrospective of ARAI Shin-ichi Works from 1999-2009
– By Warren FryFrank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
– By Sharon L. ButlerKeiko Narahashi: Picturehood
– By Laura HuntBrooklyn Dispatches
– By James KalmGraham Nickson: Italian Skies
– By Robert C. MorganPierrette Bloch
– By Thomas MicchelliCy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works, 2000-2007
– By Terry R. MyersTangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
– By Kimberly LammFrancis Bacon
– By Maxwell HellerLetter from ULAN BATOR
– By Ellen PearlmanRyan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch: The Aboutthing (in the air)
– By Kara L. RooneyLetter from LONDON
– By Sherman SamJudith Murray: Continuum
– By Lilly Wei
Books
Fiction: Brooding On Hope
– By Paul Charles GriffinFiction: The Double Helix of Violence
– By Anis ShivaniFiction: They Mean Well
– By Polly RosenwaikePoetry: The King Lives. Long Live The King!
– By Tim W. BrownPoetry: Opening Up
– By Jim FeastNonfiction: Darkness At The Edge Of Town
– By Jon CurleyTokens
– By Tatiaana Laine, Jon Curley, and Ray AbernathyRapid Transit
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
The Emergence of Acoustic Spasm
– By Dan WilsonThe Music Was Dying
– By Brandon KreitlerAn Enquiry Concerning Questionable Practices within the Scientific Methodologies of the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
– By Kurt Gottschalk
Dance
Christopher Williams's Epic of Martyred Men
– By Mary Love HodgesSacred or Sensually Profane? Alonzo King's LINES Ballet's Dust and Light and Rasa at the Joyce, May 5-10
– By Dalia Ratnikas"Dance in the Body You Have:" An Interview with Kitty Lunn
Aynsley Vandenbroucke Movement Group: 3 Dancers, 4 Chairs, But Still Only Two Dimensions
– By April GreeneDigression: A Dance Writer Looks at Whitman Undressed
– By Mary Love Hodges
Film
The Decade After The Decade Before: Merrily We Go to Hell
– By Sarahjane BlumIn League With Satan
– By David WilentzHausu Party
– By David WilentzInept, Righteous, and Extremely Prolific
– By Malcolm WyerThe 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
– By Oren ShaiWithout You, I'm No Thing
– By Lisa Moricoli-LathamOf Trees and Neighbors
– By Lu ChenDAZED AND ABUSED: THE HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE AS INSTITUTIONAL HELL
– By Tim Bracy and Elizabeth Nelson
Theater
TALKING AMISH: JESSICA DICKEY AND SARAH CAMERON SUNDE WITH TOMMY SMITH
– By Tommy SmithREAPING FACE(BOOK): SOCIAL NETWORKING, THEATER MARKETING
– By Valerie WorkWOMEN IN THE TRENCHES: HENRY V STEPS INTO THE HAZARD
– By Julie Bleha
Fiction
READ THE SNOW
– By Terese SvobodaThree Stories
– By Oona HaasYou Are Where I Am Not
– By Andrew Farkas and Andrew FarkasIdentity Theft
– By Andrew Farkas and Andrew FarkasFROM A SUBARU FORESTER (novel fragment)
– By Meredith BrosnanReruns Rezoomed: A Serial Novel
– By Jonathan BaumbachTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyAsalto Navideño
– By Forrest HyltonIdentity Crisis
– By Forrest HyltonHurto Revertido
– By Forrest HyltonContours: An excerpt from Vanishing Acts: A Tragedy
– By Forrest Hylton
Poetry
The Spelled Out Spark in Rooms; for Dan Flavin
– By Albert MobilioBotanical
– By Kristen Gallagher
LastWords
The Great Game
– By James Arnett