Dec/Jan 2005–06
The “Dec/Jan 2005–06” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 10, 2005.
Editor’s Message
The Rail's Person of the Year, 2005
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Family Feud: Will the Real Satmar Please Stand Up?
– By Jenny ClevstromI Want to Re-Home Your Pet
– By Marjory GarrisonA Benediction
– By Eleanor J. BaderWhat's for Dinner
– By Marjory GarrisonA Dividing Wall
– By Megha BahreeRich Man, Poor Man: A History of Fort Greene
– By Carl Hancock Rux
Express
Why I love The Pittsburgh Steelers
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsMy Begrudging Admiration for the Indianapolis Colts
– By Theodore HammImpossible Dreams
– By Stephen DuncombePutting NYC Writers into Stone
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeBonfire of the French Vanities
– By Francois CussetXmas at the Q
– By JT GottliebReading Osama
– By Mridu ChandraKatrina vanden Heuvel with Theodore Hamm
The Nature of the System/It's the System Not the Man: Eugene Jarecki with Williams Cole
A Riposte to Retort
– By Paul MattickIn Texas a Model of Criminal Justice (Honest)
– By Gabriel ThompsonCountry and the City
– By Steve Strunsky
Art
Dore Ashton with Phong Bui & Deidre Swords
The Painted World P.S. 1
– By Roger WhiteStephen Shore with Noah Sheldon & Roger White
Hwang Young Sung: Painter from GwangJu
– By Robert C. MorganPerforma 05
– By Ellen PearlmanA Tribute to Philip Pavia (1912-2005)
– By Phong H. BuiPierre Soulages with Robert C. Morgan
ArtSeen
Nancy Spero: The Drawing Center & Galerie Lelong
– By David Levi Strauss and Jon BirdMediating the Void Gabriel Orozco
– By Joan WaltemathNils Karsten
– By Thomas MicchelliDaniel Zeller
– By Jason MurisonLuc Tuymans
– By James KalmEgon Schiele
– By Stephanie BuhmannThe Long Ride of Larry Poons
– By John ZinsserBob Thompson
– By Ben LaRoccoShirin Neshat
– By Hrag VartanianIf It’s Too Bad To Be True, It Could Be DISINFORMATION
– By Francis RavenJudy Simonian
– By Shane McAdamsJohn Graham
– By James KalmThree Generations of Abstract Painting: Alice Trumbull Mason, Emily Mason, & Cecily Kahn
– By Roger KamholzAron Namenwirth and Jason Van Anden
– By Ben LaRoccoRichard Pousette-Dart
– By Jim Long
Books
Adding Up
– By Win ClevengerMelissa Rossi with K.M. Ferebee
The Songs Are My Lexicon
– By Nora GriffinFiction: Rock & Roll Diary
– By Arthur VaughanArt: We Are All Connected
– By Rachel SymeInvestigative Reporting: Squatter Nation
– By Ellen PearlmanNew York Stories: Acquainted With the Night
– By Alexander Nazaryan
Music
Weird War: In the Belly of the Beat
– By Todd SimmonsUntouchable Is Something to Be: The Rise and Continued Rise of Against Me!
– By Justin TaylorThe Double: Loose in the Area by Fred Cisterna
– By Fred Cisterna
Dance
Searching for Virgin Territory
– By Ben La RoccoDancing on the Rail
– By Vanessa Manko
Film
Classy Class War, Debonair Existentialism: The Holiday Musicals of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
– By Sarahjane BlumEmpty Metal Jacket: Jarhead's Dereliction of Duty
– By Patrick LevellHeaven, Purgatory, Hell, The Blues
– By David N. MyerThe Next Way to Watch?
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeThe Wild, Wild East
– By David Varno
Theater
Bloodlust at Red Bull: The Revenger's Tragedy
– By Wendy WeismanJorge Ignacio Cortiñas: Tight Embrace
– By Kristoffer DiazTwo Headed Calf with Roger Babb
Out of the Darkness: Apparition
– By Richard Fulco
Fiction
According to YJ, The Origin of the Long Island City Kinoclub
– By Eugene LimFrank
– By R.M. BerryTHE SAL MINEO PRESERVATION SOCIETY
– By Albert MobilioInstructions for Sebastian
– By Angela Fajardo
Poetry
from the "Apple Anyone" Sonnets
– By Leonard SchwartzFrom IOVIS 3: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment
– By Anne WaldmanThe After-Dinner War
– By John Ashbery
LastWords
An Immaterial Message
– By Andrew Farkas and Andrew Farkas