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Issue: 0804

Drawn and Quartered
[Runnin' Scared]
Sidewalk Chalk Artist Fights NYPD Harassment
Maria Luisa Tucker
Hillary's Top Lobbyist
Gotham power Suri Kasirer puts the peddle to the meddle for Clinton
Tom Robbins
Getting Our Reputation Back
[Nat Hentoff]
People around the world who aren’t our enemies now distrust us as allies
Nat Hentoff
Why the Giants Shouldn't Be in the Super Bowl and Ways They Can Win It
[Runnin' Scared]
If the Favre treatment doesn't stop Brady, maybe Jessica Simpson could?
Allen Barra
Who's Buried in Atlantic Yards?
[Runnin' Scared]
A resistance movement drowning its sorrows during a pub quiz in Red Hook
Adam Weinstein
Delegating Authority
As McCain and Romney fight for the nomination, New York’s G.O.P. has a lot to lose
Wayne Barrett
A Hillary Hijacking
How Senator Clinton's damage-control plan left black voters fuming
Maria Luisa Tucker
Who's Wall Street's Candidate in the Presidential Race?
People of money love a frontrunner
Chris Thompson
Baby Dee's Safe Inside the Day
Tales of Midwestern childhood hell from a fiftysomething transsexual
Black Mountain's In the Future
Lite-cosmos jams for the willfully disoriented
Hello, Blue Roses' The Portrait Is Finished and I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty . . .
Dan Bejar falls in love, calamity ensues
Please Ignore This Band
Why Vampire Weekend’s high-society fetishizations can’t help but drive you to Black Flag
Julianne Shepherd
Please Ignore the Embroidered Dog Sweater
Vampire Weekend’s jaunty, wordy pop is meant to inspire joy, not rage
Mike Powell
Bate and Switch
[Down in Front]
The audience-antagonizing joy and terror of the defiant, ridiculous Mars Volta
Rob Harvilla
Harder, Faster, Stronger, More Surprising
[Dirty Blonde]
Kanye West drops in on the Natural History Museum’s suddenly splendid soiree
Annie Fischer
You Can Protest This Administration With Chords
[Reviews]
Death Cab for Cutie’s sonic architect gets awkwardly, verbosely political
American Heroes and Zeroes at Sundance ’08
Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine.
Scott Foundas
The Gospel According to Pere Portabella
To the 78-year-old director, music is religion—and there is only Before Bach and After
J. Hoberman
The Gospel According to Pere Portabella
To the 78-year-old director, music is religion—and there is only Before Bach and After
J. Hoberman
Kill One for the Gipper
20 years later, our bandanna’d national treasure is still kicking ass and taking names
J. Hoberman
When Everything Changed
Before AIDS had a name, and after, in The Witnesses
Nathan Lee
Next Generation
Bridging worlds and eras, Olivier Assayas is uniquely of his (our) time
Nick Pinkerton
Caramel
[Tracking Shots]
Ella Taylor
Meet the Spartans
[Tracking Shots]
Aaron Hillis
Praying With Lior
[Tracking Shots]
Julia Wallace
Live and Become
[Tracking Shots]
Abigail Deutsch
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness
[Tracking Shots]
Aaron Hillis
Dont Look Back
[Tracking Shots]
Jim Ridley
Disillusioning America
Mamet draws big laughs, Inge draws some tears, Ethan Coen draws a blank
Michael Feingold
Foreman’s Multimedia Chamber Piece Suffers From Not Enough Foreman
James Hannaham
Bill Hart, 1937–2008
Sam Shepard remembers his late friend and theater colleague
Trojan Harlem
A child thirsts for blood in an uptown Euripides
Alexis Soloski
‘North’ Goes South
Biscotti can’t quite save a downtown multimedia show
Alexis Soloski
Susan Choi’s Nowhere Man Gets Blasted Into a New Life in A Person of Interest
Elizabeth Hand
Peter Carey’s New Novel Plays Disorienting Identity Games
Abigail Deutsch
Spoiler Alert, "The Masked Portrait," and Amanda Ross-Ho
[Best in Show]
R.C. Baker
The World Cup Refigured in Deep Play
Harun Farocki gets his kicks out of soccer and video
Alan Gilbert
AA Bronson Sorts Out Life After General Idea
Life, death, and the reinvention
Alan Gilbert
Talking Dancing: Works & Process at the Guggenheim
A ballet veteran looks back; young dancers gaze into the future
Deborah Jowitt
Worlds of Change: the New York City Ballet and Armitage Gone!
Two very different companies challenge stability
Deborah Jowitt
Democratic Unity: If We Lose, It Will Be Your Fault!
[This Modern World]
Tom Tomorrow
Idiotarod 2008
The annual shopping cart race took place in Brooklyn this past Saturday. Bystanders beware.
Writers Strike
On Thursday, January 24, a Lott Gallery opened a Bombin' Magazine-curated show of work by graf writers, art geeks, and street artists
Sam Horine
January: The Month in Photos
A Draw-A-Thon, Coney Island Polar Bears, the Idiotarod, fight night at MSG, strange sightings in Second Life, and, of course, No Pants Day. And more!
January 25 through 31, 2008
[Rockie Weekly Horoscope]
Rockie Gardiner
February 1 through 7
[Rockie Weekly Horoscope]
Rockie
Free Will Astrology
[Free Will Astrology]
Rob Brezsny
Porn: Now Even More Surreal at the AVN Awards
[Pucker Up]
Bewildering sights, sounds, and truly disheartening Jenna Jameson rants at this year’s Vegas extravaganza
Tristan Taormino
Puppy Love
[ˇAsk a Mexican!]
The Mighty Chihuahua, and Mexicans Can Hold Their Liquor
Gustavo Arellano
Letters
[Letters]
Ass-Baring Parties Conquer Nightlife!
[La Dolce Musto]
These are hairy times, but you can still enjoy yourself, if Bingo is your game-o
Michael Musto
Runway to Nowhere: Ford Supermodel of the World Competition and Make Me a Supermodel
A global model competition that wobbles. Plus, the latest example of displaying shell-shocked beauties.
Lynn Yaeger
For César Ramirez, the Burial Comes Before the Last Meal
Getting his goat
Nina Lalli
Lazy Days on Bedford
[Counter Culture]
Old Peter vs. new Peter
Robert Sietsema
No Amount of Sharpening Can Save Samurai Warriors's Dull Blade
[Game On]
This is not Wii's long-awaited lightsaber game
Gary Hodges
The Top Ten Reasons Why Cybersex is Good for You
[Click Me]
Yes, you, red-blooded, non-perverted American citizen. Cybersex wants you.
Bonnie Ruberg
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