April 2007
The “April 2007” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 2, 2007.
Editor’s Message
Long Live the RNC?
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Tug
– By John SoltesWobblies Organize Brooklyn Warehouses
– By Caitlin EschBuilt on the Block
– By Ashton ApplewhiteAddressing the Needs of the Neglected
– By Nick ChaseWelcome the Strangers in Your Midst
– By Eleanor J. BaderThe Battle of Starrett City
– By Nicholas JahrMommy Wars in Brooklyn
– By Amanda Darrach Filippone
Express
A Bard from East New York: Martín Espada
– By Gabriel ThompsonThere Goes My City
– By David FreedlanderHow to End the War
– By Paul MattickTELESUR'S PROGRAM
Aram Aharonian with Nikolas KozloffRANT RHAPSODY
Occupational Hazards– By Mark ReadRANT RHAPSODY
Listening to Robinson– By Sabine HeinleinDebtor’s Nation
– By Williams Cole and Williams Cole
ArtSeen
Gillian Carnegie
– By Jeremy SiglerFrancis Alys
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbuckleMark Grotjahn
– By Craig OlsonNaoto Nakagawa
– By Shane McAdamsDavid and Chie Hammons
– By Jen SchwartingJoseph Beuys
– By Valery OisteanuCynthia Hartling
– By Cassandra NeyeneschMayumi Terada
– By Robert C. MorganGordon Matta-Clark
– By Cynthia EardleyRailing Opinion: A response to Irving Sandler's A Call to the Art Critics
– By Eric FischlSemina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle
– By John YauBrooklyn Dispatches
– By James KalmRosalyn Drexler
– By John YauPhilip Taaffe
– By Cassandra NeyeneschJamie McMurry
– By Warren FryLetter from LONDON
– By Sherman SamJustine Kurland
– By Cassandra NeyeneschJonathan Schipper and Michael Schall
– By Adam ThompsonMerrill Wagner
– By Shane McAdamsRole Play: Feminist Art Revisited 1960–1980
– By Thomas MicchelliVirtually an Art Market? Artfully Living a Second Life
– By Hrag VartanianLee Bontecou
– By Stephanie Buhmann
Books
Catastrophe
– By Charles Bernstein"Life is Short, Reading is Long"
– By Nora Griffin“Not Yet”: On the novels of Kenneth Fearing
– By McKenzie WarkPeter Selgin with Lisa Kunik
Nonfiction: Writing as Warfare
– By Larry FondationMemoir: Hunting Easter's Eggs
– By Elizabeth ReedNonfiction: Lynching Darkness
– By Cleve WieseDisruptive Behavior: Elaine Equi’s Ripple Effect
– By Maxwell Heller
Music
Mos Def and the New Old Magic
– By Douglas SingletonToupidek Limonade: Le Phoque a bu l’air (In Poly Sons 1106)
– By Tony CoulterConcerto for Broken Foot and Two Sedatives: Menomena and the Good, the Bad and the Queen
– By Todd SimmonsNotes on Time: The Recent Music of Tigran Mansurian
– By Alan LockwoodA Year From Monday Revisited
– By Erin Durant
Dance
The Compassionate Camels: A Belly Dancer's Debut
– By Jenan _Cinema is Alive, but is Live Art Dead?
– By Mathew SandovalMiguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People in Everyone
– By Carley PeteschEverything Smaller’s Building It Up and Breaking It Down at Triskelion Arts
– By Carley PeteschFrom Hanoi with Love
– By Emily Larocque“The Very Life We’re Living”
– By Ben Tripp
Film
Reap What You Sow, or Get Eaten By a Mutant
– By Sarahjane Blum“It’s Okay With Me”
– By David N. MeyerSign O' the Crimes
– By Karl O'TooleMouchette
Theater
Ritual Expressionism, Fulya Peker in conversation with David Kilpatrick
Watching With Similar Eyes: Lucy Thurber
– By Jason GroteThe Church of Young Jean Lee
– By Eliza BentFair Trade Theater: Saviana Stanescu’s Waxing West
– By Cristina Pippa
Fiction
The Accidental Oracle
– By Kurt StrahmAn Enlightened Husband
– By Akutagawa RyunosukeExcerpts from the novel River, River
– By Lindsay AhlUntitled
– By Yasmine Alwanexcerpt from Night
– By Joanna Gunderson
Poetry
from one
– By Jen HoferJolly Rancher, I Dated a Weather Girl
– By Sean Flahertyrumor has it...... for raymond ross, cecil taylor trio
– By Steve Dalachinsky
LastWords
Flap and Bugs Go Dancing
– By Martha King