Dec/Jan 2006–07
The “Dec/Jan 2006–07” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 8, 2006.
Local
Collecting a City
– By Vidya PadmanabhanDishing It Out, But No Longer Taking It
– By Eleanor J. Bader'Tis the Season
– By Amanda Darrach FilipponeSpring Creep
– By Sabine HeinleinSeeds of Change
– By Cleve WieseConstruction/Destruction of Williamsburg Continues at Frantic Pace
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeBlack Friday with Reverend Billy
– By Matthew Vaz
Express
Thanksgiving
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsLETTER FROM BALUCHISTAN
A Call to Resistance: The Khan of Kalat Gathers the Tribes– By Annie NocentiThe Brooklyn Rail's Person of the Year, 2006
– By Theodore Hamm¡Mi Comandante Es Mi Presidente!: Daniel Ortega Comes Back to Power
Hugo Chavez and Latin American Populism: STEVE STEIN with NIKOLAS KOZLOFF
Benito Juárez and New York City
– By Vicente QuirarteVictor and Me
– By Doug CordellHospitality Row
– By Heather Rogers
Art
John Elderfield with Phong Bui
Kiki Smith with Phong Bui and Susan Harris
The Bias of the World: Curating After Szeemann & Hopps
– By David Levi StraussRailing Opinion: A Call to Art Critics
– By Irving SandlerYun-Fei Ji with John Yau
Tavares Strachan: Hermetically Sealed
– By Maxwell Heller
ArtSeen
A Note on Botero's Abu Ghraib
– By Robert C. MorganReport from London
– By Sherman SamMike Womack with Ben La Rocco
Joyce Robins & Harry Roseman
– By John YauSlater Bradley: The Abandonments
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle and Miyuki TsushimaRay Johnson En Rapport
– By Valery OisteanuMEGA ZINES
– By Jonah Owen LambGeorge Ortman
– By Jim LongPierre Klossowski and Hans Bellmer
– By David MarkusEija-Liisa Ahtila
– By Thomas MicchelliKeith Mayerson
– By Roger WhiteHiroshi Sugimoto
– By Hrag VartanianSCOTT MALBARUN White Light
– By Craig OlsonNancy Rubins
– By Jill ConnerEric Guzman
– By James KalmPaul Kolker
– By Lynn LoveMarietta Hoferer
– By Jennifer RileyBarry Le Va
– By Ben La RoccoNeil Welliver: The Absent Painter
– By Jeremy SiglerBix Lye & Jan Mulder
– By Shane McAdamsLost Gravity – the Photographs and Performances of Li Wei
– By Ellen Pearlman
Books
Lynne Tillman with Lynn Crawford
Poetry: The Weatherwomen's Terror
– By Charles BernsteinFiction: Being Lolita in Suburbia
– By Anjali WasonFiction: Minimum City
– By Hemant SareenNonfiction: Speak, Cobblestones
– By Alexander NazaryanNonfiction: The Green Wean
– By Paula CrossfieldLiterature: Frother's Keeper
– By Simona Schneider
Music
Wolf Eyes: Trashing Eardrums in Red Hook
– By Matthew OzgaEyeballing the Future: The Residents Turn Thirty-Five, We Think
– By Jim KnipfelCalifone: Roots for the Twenty-First Century
– By Katy HenriksenA Pre-History of Live Experimental Music in Brooklyn
– By Al MargolisA Paradox of Interests: CMJ ’06
– By Chelsea WernerA Southern Mouth: Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers Hit the Road Screamin
– By Sarah Ruth Jacobs“Because We Said So”
– By Grant Moser and Scott DamellThe Double: _Loose in the Area_
Dance
Dancing in the New Year
– By Carley PeteschDavid Dorfman's Underground presented at BAM
– By Nicole PopeLionel Popkin's Miniature Fantasies
– By Krista MirandaClaude Wampler's
Performance(Career Ender) presented at The Kitchen– By Mathew Sandoval
Film
Chris Marker: "Make Cats Not War"The Case Of The Grinning Cat, plus 5 shorts
– By Matt PetersonWhat Dreams May Come
– By Sara Mayeux!Filmed In Lugubrivision!
– By David N. MeyerPretty Poison (20th Century Fox)
– By David WilentzShock Treatment: Michael Haneke’s The Seventh Continent (’89, Kino) and Lars von Trier’s Manderlay (’06, IFC Films)
– By Matt PetersonBorat’s Bummer?
– By Williams Cole and Williams Cole
Theater
THE ONLY HOLE THAT MATTERS: Radiohole's FLUKE at the Collapsable Hole
– By Jason GroteThe "Late" Charles Mee
– By Kenn WattPushing Buttons: An interview with playwright THOMAS BRADSHAW about Purity
– By Tommy SmithGetting Cosmic with Kelly Copper
– By Amber Reed and Kelly Copper
Fiction
BIG, BIG LOVE
– By Thomas D'AdamoEmmanuelle Loyer with Emmanuel Laurentin
Poetry
Will Power
– By Anne WaldmanNACHTMUSIK
– By Michael Kelleheryou were vast unto others -
– By Jen Bervin
LastWords
Golden Pram Complete With Crystal Chandelier
– By Marie Carter