Winter 2003
The “Winter 2003” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 3, 2003.
Local
Billions for Brooklyn--No Questions Asked
– By David VineFighting for the People's Firehouse
– By Dan SchneiderWilliamsburg Pentecostals Feel the Spirit
– By Claire HoffmanHope for Public Housing
– By Mo-Yain Thamthe other boroughs: Manhattan
– By Clay RisenOrganic Visions
– By Claire HoffmanSome Rules for the Conduct of Young Gentlemen, Part 2
– By William Rossa ColeThe Starry Skies Above: Astro-Reports
– By Naomi FoyleDining Car- Organic Visions
– By Claire Hoffman
Express
Marilyn Gittell
– By Julie Thompson KeaneHope Rises for Progressive 3rd Parties
Win Locally, Lose Nationally
– By Ryan GrimWill There Be Another FDR?
– By Theodore HammThe Roots of Carnival in Veracruz, Mexico*
– By Andrew Grant Wood and Andrew Grant Wood
Art
Marina Abramović
– By Delia Bajo and Brainard CareyFred Tomaselli
– By Chris MartinDrawing Now: Eight Propositions
– By Daniel BairdMatta, 1912 – 2002
– By Phong H. BuiHow To Speak With Strangers
– By Vincent Falivene
ArtSeen
Gary Simmons
– By Megan HeuerJo Baer: The Minimalist Years, 1965–1975
– By Jim LongLennart Anderson
– By Rachel YouensYes Yes Y'all: The Birth of Hip Hop
– By Megan HeuerBjørn Melhus
– By William PowhidaAlessandro Pessoli
– By Jennifer CoatesMatthew Ritchie
– By Jennifer CoatesJohn J. O'Connor
– By John HawkeWatercolor
– By Rachel YouensEvan Lintermans
– By Hrag VartanianHungry Eyes
– By Sarah HollenbergJames Castle
– By Paul MattickDon Gummer
– By James KalmGraf 3000
– By James KalmElizabeth Josephson
– By Tomassio LonghiLael Marshall and DeWitt Godfrey
– By Tomassio LonghiLetter from London
– By Katie StoneCurating on the Margin
– By Yasmeen Siddiqui and Hrag Vartanian
Books
Something Happened Here...
– By Paul McLearyWhite Line Highway
– By Christian ParentiBreaking Open His Head
– By Ellen PearlmanSparks in Nevada
– By Ellen PearlmanBohemian Rhapsody
– By Jim FeastMiddlesex: A Dissent
– By Rebecca Tuhus-DubrowSherman Alexie in conversation with Williams Cole
Music
Blasts from the Present
– By Grant MoserThe Sun City Girls' Schizophrenic Universe
– By Nick StillmanEddie Durham: Forgotten Guitar Pioneer
– By Dann BakerNotes from (the Pop) Underground
– By Dave MandlThe Astral Sounds of Greg Weeks
– By Fred Cisterna
Dance
Waltz Toward the Apocalypse
– By Vanessa Manko
Film
Jonas Mekas
– By Raimund AbrahamOuttakes: On Movies--The Gyllenhaals
– By Galen WilliamsDubious Honors
– By Lisa RosmanUnknown Director, Familiar Pleasures: Jia Zhangke's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future
– By Valerie Jaffe
Theater
Pity and Terror in the Parlors of the Mighty
– By Madeleine GeorgeBeckett in the living room, Beckett up your earhole
– By Alan LockwoodNew York Theaters Against War
– By Emily DeVotiBRIC by BRIC: Experimental Theater Grows in Brooklyn
– By Gary Winter
Fiction
Detroit 1972
– By Barbara Henningexcerpt: Dark Property
– By Brian EvensonThree Secrets
– By Lewis WarshPink
– By Panio GianopoulosShitty Mickey
– By John ReedMamie and Z
– By Blake Radcliffe
Poetry
Cruelty and Conquest
– By Kristin PrevalletSelf-criticism; Reported Missing
– By Lewis WarshSherman Alexie
– By Sherman AlexieDreaming in Syndication
– By Photios GiovanisThis Just In
– By Jerome Sala