May 2004
The “May 2004” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 5, 2004.
Local
Growing Up with the Brooklyn Outlaws
– By Andrew Hodges and Ian DalyA Minimum Matter of Survival.
– By Marjory GarrisonHealth Care in Crisis: NYC Hospitals Fail Victims of Rape
– By Hirsh SawhneyHealth Care in Crisis: Home Health Aides Ready to Walk Out
– By Amy ZimmerLetter to Ratner
– By Johannah RodgersGivin’ the People What They Want, pt. 1
– By Theodore Hamm
Editor’s Message
A Time for Peace!
– By Theodore Hamm
Express
American-made Disaster in Iraq: A Political Autopsy
– By Christian ParentiBeware Negroes with Guns
– By Norman KelleyExonerated, then What? Life after Death Row
– By Patrick MulvaneyMessage from My Uncle Peter
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeThe Billionaires Get Ready
– By Christian Roselund
Art
The Photography of Robert Bergman
– By David Levi Strauss, John Yau, Paul Mattick, Vicki Goldberg, and Katy SiegelOpen House: Working in Brooklyn
– By Daniel BairdVito Acconci with Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey
ArtSeen
Erró
– By Katie StoneDike Blaire
– By Roger WhiteIndigestible Correctness Parts I & II
– By William PowhidaRico Gatson
– By Nick StillmanLos Carpinteros
– By Stephanie BuhmannRicoh Gerbl
– By Sonya ShrierRay Parker
– By Jim LongCristobal Dam
– By James KalmNatalie Charkow Hollander
– By Rachel YouensAmanda Guest
– By Ben La RoccoMichael Scoggins
– By Ben La RoccoDavid Humphrey
– By James KalmChicks on Speed
– By Megan HeuerBlind Spot Magazine
– By Farrah KarapetianThe Icelandic Love Corporation with Praxis
Barbara Kruger
– By Rachel YouensEve Aschheim: New and Recent Paintings
– By Elisa Soliven
Books
Carl Hancock Rux with Lara Stapleton
Linh Dinh with Matthew Sharpe
Voices Not So Distant
– By Brian EvensonParis Spleen
– By Andy MerrifieldKareem's Got Other Skills
– By Hirsh Sawhney
Music
Un-Liberating the Airwaves WFMU's Ken Freedman on the Post–Janet Jackson FCC
– By Dave MandlNew Sound, New York Takes Manhattan (and Long Island City, and...)
– By Alan LockwoodSubtle
– By Grant Moser
Film
Boredom's Just Another Vice: Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes
– By Lisa RosmanThe Blonds: Slippery Slope of Truth
– By Douglas SingletonDocs in Sight
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeOuttakes: The Words of Kill Bill Volume 2
– By Galen Williamsin conversation: Taylor Mead
– By Sissi TaxBukowski: Born into This
– By Williams Cole and Williams Cole
Theater
Excerpt from Fast and Loose, an ethical collaboration
– By José Cruz Gonzalez, John Walch, Kirsten Greenidge, and Julie Marie MyattPap and Secrets: Now That's What I Call a Storm
– By Christy HutchcraftBack to the Source: Great Jones's Seven at La MaMa
– By David Kilpatrickin dialogue: Fast and Loose, with Ethics
– By C. Denby Swanson
Fiction
Traffic Island
– By Matthew Kirby718
– By Roy NathansonMyriam's Revenge
– By Constanza Jaramillo CathcartLa venganza de Myriam
– By Constanza Jaramillo Cathcart
Poetry
Waiting with the Dead
– By Jennifer L. KnoxCategory #2: Laundry Detergent
– By Kristin Prevallet