May 2005
The “May 2005” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 4, 2005.
Local
Save Our City
– By Theodore HammBrooklyn’s Organ Transplant
– By Kristina AldaA Developer Wants to Take My Tax Money to Destroy My Neighborhood and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Ambulatory's Many Obstacles
– By Eleanor J. BaderThe Brand New Same Old Hustle
– By Matthew VazOn Politics and the Dailies
– By Richard WellsMarch for Peace, Pay for War
– By Elizabeth Weill-GreenbergLetter to Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council
– By Jane Jacobs
Express
George W. Bush's Redemption Song
– By Norman KelleyA Brief History of Plastic
– By Heather RogersAmerican Medicine's Perfect Storm
– By John AbramsonAn Oration on Secession
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsOptions, But Not Solutions: Thomas De Zengotita with Williams Cole
If it Ain't Here, it Ain't Anywhere
– By Ryan GrimThe Left and Air America: Danny Goldberg with Theodore Hamm
Art
The Eye of the Storm:
Works in situ by Daniel Buren– By Daniel BairdThe Meaning of Silence
– By Robert C. MorganThis Is a Collection of Information
– By Antony HudekRailing Opinion: Curb Your Dogma
– By James KalmJeremy Gilbert-Rolfe with Joan Waltemath
Excerpt: Burning and Shining
– By Eric Gottesman
ArtSeen
Greater New York 2005
– By William PowhidaEdge of Desire
– By Ben La RoccoMagnus von Plessen
– By Roger WhiteScott Lewis and the Art of the Vibrantly Desperate
– By Gary WinterAngela Strassheim
– By Thomas MicchelliWilliam Bailey
– By Tomassio LonghiEric Fischl: Total Artwork or Just a Few Paintings?
– By Francis RavenNicola Lopez
– By Roger KamholzTravel Agents
– By William PowhidaHarriet Shorr
– By Hrag VartanianOut of Bounds
– By Ben La RoccoMax Ernst: A Retrospective
– By Valery Oisteanu
Music
From Mambo to Salsa Part One: The New York Sound
– By Alan Lockwood“World Music:” The Last, Best Hope for Rock and Roll? (If Anyone Still Cares)
– By George SempeposRobin Nolan Trio: Live at Langley
– By Todd Simmons
Dance
Dancing on the Rail: May Brooklyn-based and Beyond
– By Vanessa MankoTrisha Brown with Vanessa Manko
Feedback at the Flea
– By Emily LarocqueMemories of the Revolution
– By Nicole Pope
Film
Good Times Today, Stupor Tomorrow
– By David N. MeyerFilial Documentaries
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeSophistication, Perversity & Technicolor
– By David N. Meyer
Theater
Tea in the Desert with Julia Cho
On the Art of Sticking Out: Clubbed Thumb
– By Brook StoweHold onto your Bowlers: Clowning Around at HERE
– By Sonya SobieskiMyth and La MaMa: Ellen Stewart
– By David Kilpatrick
Fiction
My Body and I
– By Rene CrevelTelegrams of the Soul
Poetry
Probes of Near-Field Optical Microscopy
– By Shanxing WangHero of the Local: Robert Creeley and the Persistence of American Poetry
– By Charles BernsteinRoad Atlas; (Broken Free, the Mourning Cloak Butterfly Seeks the Swaddling of Its Cocoon.); Chimneys Impregnate the Clouds
– By Jenny BoullyFrom A's Degeneracy
– By Shanxing Wang
LastWords
The World You Wanted
– By Kurt Strahm