February 2009
The “February 2009” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on February 4, 2009.
Editor’s Message
Minding the Store
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Training With Awesome
– By Karl GreenbergChinatown Resistance: The Struggle Against Rezoning and Gentrification in Lower Manhattan
– By Audrea LimHow Hungry is America? VERY...
– By Eleanor J. BaderNew York, Calling Farm Animals
– By Nathan Schneider
Express
Ups and Downs: The Economic Crisis (pt. 3)
– By Paul MattickObama's First Foreign Policy Challenge: Create New International Standards to Resolve The Israeli-Palestinian Dispute
– By William K. BarthPragmatism, Philosophical and Political
– By Steven RossMeet the New Boss
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsRadio: Live Transmission?
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeDear Doppelganger
– By Lydia StrykJust Another City on a Hill
– By Andrew BastPlanet of Torture
– By Jessica LoudisNot Just Science Fiction
– By James ArnettBetting on the American Dream
– By Alessandro CassinNeural Networking
– By Katie RolnickCall Her "Sue,"
– By Ian CrouchWho Killed Patton?
– By Nicholas DeRenzoHodgman's World
– By Christopher MichelA Geek and Her Pilgrims
– By Leigh Kamping-Carder
ArtSeen
Art in the Shadow of Katrina: Exploring Prospect New Orleans
– By Hrag VartanianWalking the Edge of a Blade of Grass: Art and Activism of The Canary Project
– By Cora FisherFrom Abstract Expressionism to Minimal Art: The Legacy of Ad Reinhardt and Tony Smith
– By Robert C. MorganArt Koans: Zen and the Tao in Conceptual Art
– By Robert C. MorganNancy Spero: Un Coup de Dent
– By Susan HarrisBrooklyn Dispatches: Tough Time, Don't Whine, Get With a "Project"
– By James KalmLetter from LONDON
– By Sherman SamMoving Beyond ObamArt
– By Sharon L. ButlerRichard Aldrich
– By Nora GriffinAl Held
– By Roni FeinsteinR H Quaytman Chapter 12: iamb
– By Joan WaltemathSara Greenberger Rafferty BANANAS Vlatka Horvat Or Some Other Time
– By Shane McAdamsImage in the Box: From Cornell to Contemporary
– By Valery OisteanuJoan Banach: Citizen
– By Thomas MicchelliErik Schmidt: As above is so below
– By Stephanie BuhmannLucas Ajemian and Julien Bismuth: Les Lettres Tristes
– By Jen SchwartingAndrew Forge and Fairfield Porter: Works on Paper
– By John YauUri Aran: Geraniums
– By Emily WarnerHelen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison: Global Warming
– By Thomas MicchelliJohn Walker: Drawings 1973–1975
– By Dore Ashton
Books
Flarf: From Glory Days to Glory Hole
– By Gary SullivanFICTION: To be yourself, or not to be yourself
– By Jed LipinskiNONFICTION: A Pop Calypse
– By Jim FeastNONFICTION: Grade School Apartheid in Mark Twain's Town
– By Win ClevengerART: Art (vs.) World
– By Andrzej LawnART: Pretty Ugly
– By Ben MirovNONFICTION: Travelogue
– By Melinda CardozoNONFICTION: Heaniverse
– By Ben MirovPOETRY: A Poet Stretches
– By Jim FeastTOKENS
– By Tatiaana Laine and Mark Du MezRAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
The Mysteries of... Rheinallt H. Rowlands: Bukowski (ankstmusic)
– By David ShirleyLost Art: Watching David Bowie Videos at MoMA
– By Paula CrossfieldMasked Avenger Claims Yodeling Cured His Asthma
– By Bart PlantengaKeeping It Real--Or at Least Virtual
– By Charles PoladianThe Greatest Compilation Ever
– By Dave MandlRevenge of the Anti–Mega-Mix
– By Tony CoulterThe Whole World's Listening
– By Ellen PearlmanOpera Reconsidered (After Sixty Years)
– By Richard Kostelanetz
Dance
Doug Varone with Susan Yung
Preview: Buglisi Dance Theatre at the Joyce
– By Emily MacelAn Uneasy Holiday at PS122's COIL Festival
– By Mary Love HodgesThird Annual Sugar Salon Series
– By Simone LarsonGet Ready! For a Fake-Out
– By Dalia RatnikasReviving Coppelia: New York City Ballet Remounts a Classic
– By Mary Love HodgesFull-Fledged Mystery in Light and Shadow: LeeSaar at PS122's COIL Festival
– By April GreeneWheeldon and Pärt at Works & Process
– By Dalia Ratnikas
Film
Genre Triumphant: The 11 Best Films Of 2008
– By David N. MeyerWhat Lies Beneath
– By Tessa DeCarloThree Men and an Abortion
– By Tim Bracy and Elizabeth NelsonNot Like Ours
– By Sarahjane BlumRock of Love Bus
– By Mary Hanlon
Theater
In Memory: Harold Pinter
– By Aurin Squire, Cristina Pippa, Jason Grote, Lonnie Carter, George Hunka, Tommy Smith, John Soltes, Lydia Stryk, Caridad Svich, and Alexis ClementsCrafting Your Weirdness* with Dan LeFranc
– By Mallery AvidonBuilding a New House of the Spirits: Jose Zayas and Beatriz Córdoba
– By Caridad SvichGeeks and (Bloodsucking) Freaks: Lessons From The Theater Trenches
– By Robert Ross Parker
Fiction
ALINE and VALCOUR or, the Philosophical Novel
– By Marquis de SadeTragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
Six from Lunch Poems
– By Brandon BrownI Hope You Die
– By Michael Nicoloff
LastWords
Half a Day in the Life of Angel Martinez
– By M. Joseph Irwin