June 2007
The “June 2007” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 7, 2007.
Editor’s Message
Make a Better NYC
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
A New Spin on an Old Tradition
– By Marie CarterFrom Brooklyn to Bourbon Street
– By Eleanor J. BaderThe Time? Antiquated. The View? Awesome.
– By Matthew L. LevyFrom the Inside Out
– By Sabine HeinleinMaison d'Ordure
– By Liz MaestriThe Habitat of the Human Freak
– By Brian ChildsVisions of Coney Island
– By An Xiao
Express
Brooklyn No More
– By Christopher KetchamThe "Greening" of New York City
– By Richard WellsInside Kashmir
– By Justine HardyCoca Adds Life to the Bolivian Economy
– By Caitlin EschBringing the War Home
– By B. Colby HamiltonRANT RHAPSODY: Girl, Lightly Medicated
– By Katherine SharpeDocs in Sight: A Spring Festival Doc Roundup
– By Williams Cole, Williams Cole, and Pamela Grossman
Art
James Beck, Gadfly
(1930-2007)– By Thomas MicchelliLetter from London
– By Sherman SamLetter from Germany:It's Not About Representation, It's About Production Interview with Roger Buergel and Ruth Noack
– By Clare CarolinLetter from Iran
– By Robert C. MorganRobert Ryman with Phong Bui
Brian O' Doherty with Phong Bui
Letter from China
– By Ellen PearlmanBrooklyn Dispatches
– By James Kalm
ArtSeen
Jim Lee Altamont
– By Craig OlsonTony Cragg
– By Robert C. MorganNicolas Carone Sculpture
– By Thomas MicchelliLarry Miller Homage to Nam June Paik
– By Warren FryTrouble and the B-Keepers You Are Here: A Maze
– By Warren FryMelissa Pokorny there/there
– By Cassandra NeyeneschComic Abstraction
– By Ben La RoccoThe Male Gaze
– By Hrag VartanianJoan Mitchell
– By Jennifer RileyWilliam Powhida
This Is A Work Of Fiction– By James KalmBrandon Lattu 4 Models
– By Jeremy SiglerShana Moulton Whispering Pines
– By Jen SchwartingKatherine Bradford By Life & By Land, Recent Paintings
– By John YauChina Blue, Carol Salmanson
– By Jill ConnerGregory Amenoff Facing North
– By John YauKristen Schiele Gothicolor
– By Shane McAdamsReuben Kadish’s Holocaust Sculpture
– By Jill ConnerDreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westerman
Will Barnet: Recent Work– By Thomas MicchelliCarroll Dunham
– By John YauAbby Leigh The Eye is the First Circle
– By Ben La RoccoNicholas Krushenick
– By John YauEric Holzman Drawings, 1990–2007
– By Greg Lindquist
Books
Poetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightMamapalooza: Marjorie Tesser with Cassandra Neyenesch
Fiction
Lyrically Feral– By Adrian JiménezNonfiction
Peace Long Ago– By Naomi KaravaniNonfiction
Looking for Utopia– By Erica WetterNonfiction
No Pain, No Game(space)– By Laura StokesNonfiction
Hitchens in Love– By John G. Rodwan Jr.Literature
Wordplay– By Anna Wainwright
Music
How I Got Here, I Can't Recall
– By Jim KnipfelYam Sacs and Unicorn Sounds:
– By Kate CraneThe Return of the MC
– By Claire McTaggart(Arcade) Fire and Brimstone at the United Palace
– By Todd SimmonsBecause we said so
– By Grant Moser and Scott Damell
Dance
Ohad Naharin with Susan Yung
Michael Helland’s The Dress Up Show
– By Krista MirandaThe Medievalist and the Minimalist
– By Emily LarocqueChameckilerners Exit at the Kitchen
– By Carley Petesch
Film
Easy. Good. Pick One.
– By Tessa DeCarloLet the Punishment Begin
– By Jesi KhadiviMore Freedom and More Shocking
– By David WilentzHerzog: (Non)Fiction
– By Jed Lipinski
Theater
Saving Their Tales
– By Valerie WorkHaving Their Cake, and Meaning It Too
– By Jacob Gallagher-RossBRING A WEASEL AND A PINT OF YOUR OWN BLOOD
– By Trish HarnetiauxSo Many Players
– By Miriam Felton-Dansky
Fiction
The Accidental Oracle
– By Kurt StrahmThe Conception of Despair
– By Evan HarrisRATS
– By Daniels Parseliti
Poetry
the man who ate himself
– By Roberto Harrisonfrom Poem Noir
– By Doug Nuferfrom Hyper glossia
– By Stacy Szymaszek
LastWords
The Beast with Two Backs
– By Brian Childs