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Issue: 0803

Obama Conjures the Kennedys in Jersey City
Three points short in New Hampshire, Barack is still coming strong
Tom Robbins
Congestion Pricing Questions
[Runnin' Scared]
Who's skeptical about the mayor's traffic plan? The companies bidding to run it.
Graham Rayman
Obama in Harlem
[Runnin' Scared]
Barack's troops are undeterred, but even black voters may need some convincing
Adam Serwer and Tesfaye Negussie
NYPD Seeks an Air Monitor Crackdown for New Yorkers
[Runnin' Scared]
A city councilman and the cops don't want you to have that Geiger counter without their permission
Chris Thompson
Giuliani's Immigration Problem
Much as he hates to admit it, Rudy loved (most of) those huddled masses
Wayne Barrett
Editor’s Statement on Art Critic Christian Viveros-Fauné
Tony Ortega
The Clintons' Grim Fairy Tales
Shaving the truth with Bill and Hillary, all over again
Tom Robbins
What the CIA Had to Destroy
[Nat Hentoff]
The many reasons this torture evidence was too hot to handle
Nat Hentoff
Who Built Rudy's House in the Hamptons?
Giuliani's contractor might not have had a 'hire standard' on illegal labor
Wayne Barrett
Is Obama's Constitution Strong Enough?
[Nat Hentoff]
He stirs the crowds, but when will he tell them about their lost liberties?
Nat Hentoff
The Pillow Fight of Her Life
[Down in Front]
On the precipitous rise of the cloying, maddening, occasionally devastating Kimya Dawson
Rob Harvilla
Resident Alien Klaus Nomi is Back From Outer Space—25 Years After His Death—With a Wondrous New Disc
LD Beghtol
Broken Social Scene
Charting the permutations of avant-something NYC rock with Social Registry
Justin F. Farrar
Four Drunks, One Cup
[Dirty Blonde]
A robust college pastime is cheerily resurrected on the LES
Annie Fischer
Atypical Girls
[Reviews]
On the arty, artful, and "artless" forest-pop of Rings
Simon Reynolds
Ladysmith Black Mambazo's Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu
More deep spirituality from Paul Simon's favorite vocal group
Ernest Barteldes
Soul Summit
Here is the bland soul-karaoke record you did not request
Richard Torres
The Battle of Land and Sea's The Battle of Land and Sea
Sly, dark folkies harden their hearts, soften yours
Werner Trieschmann
Misanthropic Fields Forever
A delightful chat with the delightfully sardonic Stephin Merritt
Rob Trucks
Yawned in Bars
[Reviews]
Too much depression, not enough transcendence on another Cat Power covers album
Garrett Kamps
Life Stinks, Blah, Blah, Blah
It's more of the same from Woody Allen in Cassandra's Dream
Scott Foundas
Drowning in Progress
Contemporary China, fluid yet unstable, in Still Life
J. Hoberman
House of 1,000 Corpses
Alain Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad returns
J. Hoberman
Generation China
Jia Zhangke continues to document his rapidly evolving (self-destructing?) homeland
Anthony Kaufman
Freak Folk
Opera Jawa is the Indonesian morality musical of the year
Nathan Lee
Patterns of Abuse
A methodical look at how and why we torture in Taxi to the Dark Side
Nick Pinkerton
Teeth
[Tracking Shots]
Jim Ridley
Beaufort
[Tracking Shots]
Ella Taylor
Mad Money
[Tracking Shots]
Robert Wilonsky
27 Dresses
[Tracking Shots]
Robert Wilonsky
Day Zero
[Tracking Shots]
Ed Gonzalez
Summer Palace
[Tracking Shots]
Julia Wallace
Cloverfield Is One Giant, Incredibly Entertaining ‘Screw You!’ to Yuppie New York
Cloverfield Is One Giant, Incredibly Entertaining ‘Screw You!’ to Yuppie New York
Nathan Lee
Breaking! Kids Coming of Age at Sundance 2008!
Familiar themes still flood the festival zone, but a couple of gems manage to shine through
Scott Foundas
Words on Film
Anthology joins the Whitney to celebrate conceptual artist/filmmaker Lawrence Weiner
Ed Halter
Moscow on the Hudson
Lincoln Center celebrates 100 years of Russian cinema
Aaron Hillis
Gone Baby Gone
The heroines of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days don't get to play pregnancy indie-cute
J. Hoberman
You Kill Me
Following Untraceable's lame-brained logic, we're all to blame for this massively dumb movie
Nathan Lee
Beyond Polanski
Polish cinema, rare and robust, at Anthology
Nick Pinkerton
Alice's House
[Tracking Shots]
Julia Wallace
How She Move
[Tracking Shots]
Jim Ridley
The Air I Breathe
[Tracking Shots]
Ella Taylor
Lost in Beijing
[Tracking Shots]
Nick Pinkerton
U2 3D
[Tracking Shots]
Proof that Bono and his bros don't need a giant lemon to dominate the stage
Jim Ridley
Orthodox Stance
[Tracking Shots]
Ella Taylor
Doc
[Tracking Shots]
Nathan Lee
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
[Tracking Shots]
Julia Wallace
Leni Riefenstahl Inspires Clubbed Thumb's Latest
Jump cuts, shadowy Nazis—triumph of the ill
Tom Sellar
Sexes Duke It Out (Again) in All Aboard the Marriage Hearse
This play actually resembles a bad sitcom written by George Bernard Shaw
Tom Sellar
Fiona Shaw and Deborah Warner's Beckett Production is a Little Too Funny, Eh, Joe?
Maxing out Beckett's humor in Happy Days
Alexis Soloski
The Modern Prometheus, If Mary Shelley Liked Puppets
Toy meets grrrr in Frankenstein (Mortal Toys)
Alexis Soloski
Disney Sinks The Little Mermaid
Live onstage, this version is longer, louder, more garish, and a lot worse.
Michael Feingold
A Trip Through the Under the Radar Festival
Alexis Soloski
Spinoza debates God in David Ives's The New Jerusalem
Also: The 39 Steps joshes theater and film
Michael Feingold
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
[Sightlines]
Tom Sellar
Revisting Céline's Journey to the End of the Night
[Sightlines]
John Beer
Ariel Dorfman's Widows
[Sightlines]
Angela Ashman
Lydia Millet and the Things We Zoo for Love
Novelist offers up a shrewdly funny take on money, death, and vanishing species
James Hannaham
William T. Vollmann Trainhops, Seeks To Rescue America
Lonesome hobo rides everywhere
Marc Tracy
Where NYC Writers Like to Drink
Hey, Flann—At swim-two-bars
Alexander Nazaryan
The Electric Fence Limbo
Many happy returns in Elizabeth Crane's new short-story collection
The Port Huron Project, Julian Schnabel's Drawings, and Artists Against the War
[Best in Show]
Recommendations by R.C. Baker
R.C. Baker
Photographer Darren Siwes's Little Brown Boogey Man
Conjuring eerie family scenes fueled by issues of race
Robert Shuster
The Grand Delusion
[Best in Show]
Recommendations by R.C. Baker
R.C. Baker
After the French!
Germans, Spaniards, and Russians invade expanded galleries at the Metropolitan Museum
Leslie Camhi
Contemporary Dance Showcase's Tidbits from East Asia
The perils of inter-office traffic and beyond-the runway fashion
Deborah Jowitt
David Parsons's Choreography Goes Down Like Ice Cream
Deborah Jowitt
Igor's Beasts and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Men in strapless dresses, but no virgin sacrifice
Deborah Jowitt
Leave It to the Feet
Rudolph Valentino didn't know the half of it
Deborah Jowitt
Elemental Forces and Daniel Léveillé Danse
Human bodies as clean slates for our projected visions
Deborah Jowitt
As If Stranger: Seeing in the Dark
A super-smart choreographer dances amid shards of meaning
Deborah Jowitt
The Adventures of Conventional Wisdom Man
[This Modern World]
Tom Tomorrow
'Serious' Pundits and the Death of Informed Democracy
[This Modern World]
Tom Tomorrow
The Chemistry of Squash
[Class Action Spring ’08]
What a racket—giving urban kids a shot a premier prep schools
Michael Rymer
Finding a High School for an Immigrant Child is Tougher than you Think
[Class Action Spring '08]
The maze of America
Jessica Siegel
Get Some Class.
[Spring 2008 Education Supplement]
Make a change in your life.
Alexis Soloski
No Pants Day!
On Saturday, January 12, an estimated 900 New Yorkers dropped their drawers on the train. The question wasn't modesty—it was, 'Boxers, briefs, or bikinis?'
Nick Atlas
Portrait of the Artist as Bronx Kids
Scenes from the Bronx Charter School for the Arts in Hunts Point
Claudio Papapeitro
Michael Alan's Draw-A-Thon
And you thought figure drawing was boring!
Rebecca Smeyne
Pazz & Jop 2007: The Top 25 Albums
The consummate New York record nudges out the quintessential internet record for this year's first-place finish
Roy Jones Jr. vs. Felix "Tito" Trinidad
Scenes from fight night at Madison Square Garden
Michael Clancy
January 11 through 17, 2008
[Rockie Weekly Horoscope]
Rockie Gardener
Free Will Astrology
[Free Will Astrology]
Rob Brezsny
January 18 through 24, 2008
[Rockie Weekly Horoscope]
Rockie Gardener
Free Will Astrology
[Free Will Astrology]
Rob Brezsny
Pucker Up Turns 200!
[Pucker Up]
Celebrating a gala anniversary with a look back at a near decade of debauchery
Tristan Taormino
Letters
Letters
Against All Odds, French Bistros Alive and Kicking
[Counter Culture]
Peasants are we
Robert Sietsema
Oscar Predictions Filled With Greed and Vengeance!
[La Dolce Musto]
From the seer, suckers: The nominees, plus trash talk about some non-nominees
Michael Musto
Beyond the Values of the Dolls
And deep into their backstories and political views. Inanimate? Like hell they are.
Lynn Yaeger
Mexicans and their DUI's: One More Corona for the Road!
[ˇAsk a Mexican!]
The stats don't lie
Gustavo Arellano
Northern Chinese Dipping Paradise in Flushing
[Counter Culture]
Hot pot hot spot
Robert Sietsema
Fashion Disasters Averted!
But only because the Golden Globes were crippled by the strike
Lynn Yaeger
Terrence Howard's Latest Hustle and Flow
[La Dolce Musto]
Black people revive the Great White Way. Plus a hue and cry from Mel Brooks.
Michael Musto
Morrison Rules, Romo Drools
[ˇAsk a Mexican!]
Mexican love the Doors icon, and the Cowboy chokes
Gustavo Arellano
Unreal Tournament III is Ideal For Overcaffeinated Teenage Boys
[Game On]
So, for the 38 of you who fall into that group, have at it.
Gary Hodges
My Life as a (Pretend) Russian Sexbot
[Click Me]
Russian computer program cyber-flirts to steal personal info. At least the robot got something out of the deal.
Bonnie Ruberg
Guitar Hero Gadgetry
[Game On]
The imaginary shredding frenzy careens toward overkill
Chris Ward
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Why We Love Miranda Lambert (and Should)
How a volatile, occasionally violent pop-country siren won our hearts
Michael D. Ayers
How to Rob, by M.I.A.
M.I.A. triumphantly knocks the hustle that's driving hip-hop's materialist malaise
Zach Baron
Mr. Roboto
T-Pain triggers the long-prophesized Rise of the Machines
Tom Breihan
Why We Love Justice (and Shouldn't)
The perils of hyping dance music you can't really dance to
Who Truly Feels It All?
Feist overshadows the subversive sirens blaring down South
Jon Caramanica
The Top 10
Odes to fame, guns, and what we should've seen coming
That Which We Cranked
Charting our myriad obsessions, amusements, and confusions
Ugly, Dirty, Redundant, and Toxic
[Pazz & Jop Comments]
Tales of disgust, depression, and ballot regret we're already feeling
Maybe We Shouldn't Do This Anymore
[P&J Comments]
The perils and absurdities of rock criticism as a career in 2008
Jay-Z vs. Jay-Z
Suddenly vulnerable hip-hop superstars go to war with themselves
Rob Harvilla
The Slow Blackout of Amy Winehouse
How a troubled r&b mega-talent's breakout hit turned against her
Amy Linden
There Might Not Be Blood
The apocalyptic comfort of the Arcade Fire
Mike Powell
Rainbows in Curved Air
The analog pleasures of Radiohead's digital revolution
Immigrant Songs
How Rihanna and M.I.A. delivered the most profound political statements of 2007
Julianne Shepherd
The Black-Rock Revolution, and How We Rebooted It
Using YouTube to beat back critical malaise and bullshit race-baiting arguments
Gregory Stephen Tate
Grow Up Like a Rock Star
LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy sheds his cool and unites the Guitar Hero III–addled masses
Christopher R. Weingarten
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