May 2007
The “May 2007” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 2, 2007.
Editor’s Message
From Blacksburg to Baghdad...
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Tenants Fight McMansions, Challenging Landlords to Keep Their Homes
– By Eleanor J. BaderThe Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel
– By Maciej CeglowskiWest Brighton Beach Memoirs
– By Samantha BerkleySchooling Alone Together
– By Amanda Darrach Filippone
Express
On Imus and the Airwaves
– By Ken FreedmanWalkin' to New Orleans
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsRANT RHAPSODY: Memories of San Quentin
– By Theodore HammNotes on Fallujah
– By Dore AshtonRudy Giuliani in Drag Smooching Donald Trump: Perspective on a Clip Gone Wild
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeThe Grassroots Video Pioneers
– By Dara GreenwaldBolivian Noir: Juan de Recacoechea with Caitlin Esch
ArtSeen
Stephanie Campos, Lady Shadow: Grid Machine
– By Nora GriffinRick Klauber: Shim Paintings
– By Cassandra NeyeneschAnn Mikolowski: Two Ways of Looking in a Mirror
– By Natalie HaddadBrooklyn Dispatches
– By James KalmJo Baer
– By Carrie MoyerOlga Chernysheva: Isle Of Sparks
– By Jen SchwartingLincoln Capla
– By Ben La RoccoTala Madani: Smoke and Mirrors
– By Robert C. MorganDana Schutz
– By Jeremy SiglerAndrea Belag: New Paintings
– By Craig OlsonPhilip Pearlstein
– By James KalmRichard Oelze: Paintings & Drawings from the 1950s & 1960s
– By Valery OisteanuVictoria Neel
– By Stephanie BuhmannLiz Deschenes: Registration
– By Shane McAdams50 years of Helvetica
– By Hrag VartanianLee Bontecou: Vacuum-formed Sculptures and Related Drawings
– By Stephanie BuhmannPrelude to a "Criticism" of the Future
– By David MarkusSusan Bee
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbucklePicasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism
– By Thomas MicchelliLetter from London
– By Sherman Sam
Books
Fiction: Runes of Ruins
– By Marina BudhosFlorence Falk with Erica Wetter
The Life and Death of Translation
– By Sabrina SeeligFiction: Haunted Man
– By Brandon ProiaNonfiction: Killer Dreams
– By John G. Rodwan Jr.Fiction: Song of the Post-Colonial Self
– By Vijay Seshadri
Music
Against the Grain of Unconventionality
– By Sergei TcherepninLimping with the Stooges in Washington Heights
– By Todd SimmonsBattles: Biting the Master's Hand
– By Paula CrossfieldNewer, Weirder America:
– By Katy HenriksenTime, Loss, and the Blues
– By Peter Watrous
Dance
DTW'S The Nothing Festival: Not Much
– By Krista MirandaTharp/Sugar Salon/Gwirtzman at the Miller Theater
– By Carley Petesch
Film
Eye on the Prize
– By Tessa DeCarloTransgression a'Go-Go
– By David N. MeyerBrute Force 1947 Criterion Collection
– By David WilentzA Black and White Movie
– By Guy GreenbergTrue Confessions
– By Karl O'TooleMachuca
– By Naomi Daremblum
Theater
A Ripe Time: Rachel Dickstein's Betrothed
– By Eliza BentFunny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb
– By Jason GroteSomething Old, Something New: Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl’s Bird Eye Blue Print
– By Justin Boyd"The Fat Lady Will Sing with Bells On": Jenny Schwartz's God's Ear
– By Heidi Schreck
Fiction
The Accidental Oracle
– By Kurt StrahmThe Josephus Problem
– By Jacques RoubaudFlushing Av
– By Tony AntoniadisTHE CARCASSES
– By Raymond Federman
Poetry
Poetry
– By Alex LemonLook on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
– By Nicholas BredieNine Poems
– By Angela JaegerDiary/Blog
– By Tan Lin
LastWords
The Divine Plan: Notes for an Unperformable Mise-en-Scène
– By Andrew Farkas and Andrew Farkas