April 2004
The “April 2004” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 7, 2004.
Local
Other Visions Rise in Prospect Heights
– By Brian J. CarreiraGleason's Gym: Where the "Sweet Science" Thrives
– By Dan Bell and Andrew HodgesAn Open Letter On Atlantic Center (August, 1996)
– By Reverend Dennis DillonThe Brownsville Rec. Center-- Where the Legends Return, and the Youngsters Learn
– By Amy ZimmerSaving No Kill Shelters
– By Meghan McDermottNew York City's Most Famous Birds
– By Johannah RodgersD4D's Politics of the Word
– By Emily Gertz
Express
"The President is Not a 'Moron'..."
– By Theodore HammWhat Your Boss Is Really Watching For
– By Christian ParentiThe Original Faith-based Initiative
– By Norman KelleyDeveloping Venezuela's Beauty "Industry"
– By Adriana SimonetaThe Cannibals of Empire: Indian-Hating in a Hollywood "Classic"
– By Randolph Lewis
Art
2004 Whitney Biennial
– By Nick Stillman and Megan HeuerMilton Resnick Remembered
– By Phong H. BuiHARMANN NITSCH with Robert C. Morgan
Roth Time: A Dieter Roth Retrospective
– By Stephanie BuhmannMatthew Brannon with Roger White
ArtSeen
Arcadia and Metropolis: Masterworks of German Expressionism from the Nationalgalerie Berlin Neue Galerie
– By James KalmParadise Now?
– By William PowhidaCatherine Opie: Surfers
– By Farrah KarapetianMichael Mahalchick: insides
– By Katie StoneYuh-Shioh Wong: Spirits Gone Astray
– By Katie StoneSebastiaan Bremer
– By Ben La Roccohome
– By Ben La RoccoAbigail Lazkoz and Francisco Lopez
– By William PowhidaShishaldin: Untimely Career Retrospective
– By Sonya ShrierAdam Kalkin: Suburban House Kit
– By Victoria KeddieJune Leaf
– By Michael BrennanJake Berthot
– By Michael BrennanGlen Goldberg and Richard Van Buren
– By Tomassio LonghiJill Baroff: Second Nature
– By Joan WaltemathReduce/Reuse/Reexamine
– By Denise McMorrowMichael Scoggins
Books
Jim Shepard, Project X: A Novel and Love and Hydrogen
– By Reed JacksonOff The Shelves
– By Eleanor J. Bader, Michael Calderone, Ellen Pearlman, Paul Grimstad, Emily Votruba, and Jana Prikryl
Music
What's Wrong with This Picture?
– By José PaduaListening to Beethoven's Ninth at the Speed of Light
– By Scott MarshallTabla Beat Scientist: Karsh Kale
– By Hirsh Sawhney
Dance
Emerging Choreographers: Melissa Briggs Dance and Nami Yamamoto
– By Laura BarcellaKylián: Past, Present, and Future
– By Vanessa Manko
Film
OUT-TAKES: The Power of Osama
– By Galen WilliamsDocs In Sight
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeThe Culture Wars of Christ: What the Success of Passion of the Christ Can Tell Us
– By Lisa RosmanREVIEW: Dogville
– By Michael Joshua RowinAnti- 100 Years of Cinema Manifiesto
– By Jonas Mekas
Theater
YOUNG JEAN LEE with Gary Winter
Power to the Playwright: 13P
– By Brook Stoweexcerpt from: The Internationalist
– By Anne WashburnThe Wooster Group's Ari Fliakosi Poor Theater in SoHo?
– By David KilpatrickWhat Links Our Boroughs? bridge and tunnel
– By Emily DeVoti
Fiction
Housing Difficulties
– By Evan HarrisEXCERPT: Mr. Dynamite
– By Meredith BrosnanSearching for My Ex-Girlfriend's Nose
– By Michael BahlerAmateur
– By Lisa Sardinas
Poetry
The Stream and The Sweep
– By Mark TerrillThere's a Possible Person on the Roadbed
– By Daniel ShapiroIn the paper I read a story about a man...
– By Daniel ShapiroTo An Anonymous Friend
– By Caroline CrumpackerTrans-Relational Love Poem
– By Caroline Crumpacker