March 2004
The “March 2004” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 3, 2004.
Editor’s Message
A Crisis Without Management
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Jobs and Traffic: What Ikea Would Bring to Red Hook
– By Richard MyersSunday at Freddy's: A Neighborhood Pulls Out the Stops
– By Brian J. CarreiraThe RNC and the Melting Pot
– By Patrick MulvaneyHarlem: Where the City's Waste Flows Upstream
– By Jacquelene AcevedoFrom the County of Kings to the County of Queens: New Skool Journalism Travels Next Door
– By Meghan McDermott
Express
"The President is Not a 'Moron'..."
– By Theodore HammRev. Al's Scampaign 2004
– By Norman KelleyMeet the Shia: They Could Make or Break the Future of Iraq
– By Robert S. EshelmanArmy's V Corps Band Rocks Marines
– By Sgt. Troy ChatwinEchoes of Chicago '68? The City and Activists Gear Up for the RNC
– By Nazgol GhandnooshThe John Kerry Story: How a War Hero Did, or Did Not, Win the 2004 Election
– By Theodore HammIn Conversation: Creating Peaceful Tomorrows
David Potorti with Mridu ChandraThe Many Meanings of Mardi Gras
– By Andrew Grant Wood
Art
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
– By Delia Bajo and Brainard CareyLee Lozano: Drawn From Life: 1961-1971
– By Nick StillmanFrom da 'Hood to da Whitney: 3 Artists from Williamsburg Make Good
– By Ellen PearlmanIn Memoriam--Pierogi's Berry
– By Greg Stone
ArtSeen
Boccioni's Materia
A Futurist Masterpiece and the Avant-garde in Milan and Paris
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum– By Jim LongKim Jones
– By Joan WaltemathBrian Jungen
– By Stephanie BuhmannSteven Thompson
– By Katie StoneMatt Leines and Keegan McHargue
– By William PowhidaMarco Breuer
– By Farrah KarapetianJean Lowe
– By Stephanie BuhmannThe Neon Forest Is My Home
– By William PowhidaSharon Core
– By Chris HowardCynthia Hartling
– By James KalmNorwegian Black Metal
– By Sonya ShrierMary Hambleton
– By Ben La RoccoMary Hambleton with Ron Janowich
Adam Simon
– By Ben La RoccoOutlaw Printmakers and Andrew Kearney
– By Jill ConnerA Triple Alliance: de Chirico, Picabia, Warhol
– By Robert C. MorganJohn Duff at Knoedler & Company
– By Tomassio Longhi
Books
From Buddha to Adam
– By Hirsh SawhneyBen Greenman with Darin Strauss
Off the Shelves: Politics They Live
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Music
Jon Brion's World of Unpopular Pop
– By Robert Y. RabieeAll Cage, All the Time (with a bit of Merce, Nam June, Shigeko, and Charlotte)
– By Ellen PearlmanJonny Greenwood: Bodysong
– By Todd Simmons
Dance
Dancing on the Rail
– By Vanessa MankoStill/There
– By MJ Thompson
Film
Waters's Formative Years: 1964-68
– By Nick StillmanEnglish for Beginners
– By Lisa RosmanHair Snarl: the Aesthetic Body in the Order of Things
– By Caroline KoebelHollywood Out of NYC! The 11th New York Underground Film Festival
– By Rachael Rakes, Williams Cole, and Williams ColeMillennium Mambo Boogie
– By Douglas Singleton
Theater
Foreman Gets Political
– By David KilpatrickMarch into Spring Theater
– By Emily DeVotiExcerpt: from Roar
– By Betty Shamieh
Fiction
This Is It
– By Will FlemingThe Revenants
– By Colleen QuinnExcerpt: Ingrid Caven A Novel: The Sheet of Paper
– By Jean-Jacques SchuhlNew York, 1948
from Testaments– By Paul Perilli
Poetry
32 Lbs.of Head
– By (a collective)excerpt: This Window Makes Me Feel
– By Robert FittermanThree Songs for Vija Celmins
– By Mary DonnellyLetters
– By Mary Donnelly
LastWords
9 to 5-7-5: Office Haikus
– By Annonie Mouse