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Issue: 0805

Good for What Ailes You
[Runnin Scared]
For Fox haters, juicy (if uncorroborated) tales out of school
Chris Thompson
Getting Out of Dodge
[Runnin' Scared]
Young cops in Far Rockaway recite the NYPD blues and try to flee to suburban jobs
A Shot Reputation
[Runnin' Scared]
Pharmacist in eye of cops/steroids storm is found shot to death only days before he was to speak to investigators
Sean Gardiner
Rudy's Bus Pal Admits Paying Mob
As mob-fighting mayor, Giuliani did nothing but help the guy—and get helped in return
Tom Robbins
Bloomberg Wants to Get in Your Genes
Compared to the present mayor’s contempt for civil liberties, Giuliani was a piker
Nat Hentoff
At Prey in the Fields of the Lord
Robert Riggio has made a career out of conning priests and parishes by phone. If he calls you, hang up.
Sean Gardiner
We Come to Bury Rudy
The evil that men do lives after their mayoral stints—and even 9/11
Wayne Barrett
Unsubtleties
[Interval]
Lionel Hampton brazenly guides jazz's evolution
Francis Davis
The Slow-Burning Ascendance of Ssion
[Dirty Blonde]
A perpetual Next Big Thing takes another shot by crossing over to the light side
Annie Fischer
That Thing He Does
Thankfully, pop alchemist Mike Viola keeps doing it
Peter Gerstenzang
Full Nelson, Half Nelson, Willie Nelson
On the warm, wobbly, witty charms of Hot Chip
Christian Hoard
Fun, Money, Dolphins
On the delightful menagerie of brazen Rocks Off promoter Jake Szufnarowski
Jesse Jarnow
Times New Viking's Rip It Off
No-fi dirges make losers happier
Lightspeed Champion's Falling Off the Lavender Bridge
White Music for Wry People
Dan Weiss
Willie Nelson's Moment of Forever
More stoner odes and queasy political rants
Edd Hurt
Pity the Fool
There is no gold at the end of this terrible Matthew McConaughey–Kate Hudson mash-up
Scott Foundas
Lumet and Burnett
[The Cine Phile]
Two unusual careers, two tributes
J. Hoberman
Princes of Darkness
From Cat People to Starman: The B-horrors of John Carpenter and Val Lewton
Nathan Lee
More Adventures in Gangsterland
In Bruges, playwright Martin McDonagh’s sightseeing hit-men flick, isn’t much of a trip
Ella Taylor
London to Brighton
[Tracking Shots]
Nathan Lee
The Hottie and the Nottie
[Tracking Shots]
Nathan Lee
Over Her Dead Body
[Tracking Shots]
Nick Pinkerton
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
[Tracking Shots]
Chuck Wilson
The Eye
[Tracking Shots]
Jim Ridley
A Walk to Beautiful
[Tracking Shots]
Nick Pinkerton
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights—Hollywood to the Heartland
[Tracking Shots]
Robert Wilonsky
Bab'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul
[Tracking Shots]
Jim Ridley
How to Rob a Bank
[Tracking Shots]
Nick Pinkerton
Strange Wilderness
[Tracking Shots]
Aaron Hillis
Adrienne Kennedy Talks About Her Life
Lorca, London, and the Beatles: the doyenne playwright's new work
Alexis Soloski
Russell Barr's Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters
A drag queen remembers her 'colorful' Glasgow past
Alexis Soloski
A Whirlwind Calmed
Despite the fine Lisa Emery, a bio-play fails to capture the iconic Martha Gellhorn
Michael Feingold
NYC Avante-Gardists Take On French Theater History
Bonjour Artaud!
Tom Sellar
Genocide Writ Small
A Holocaust story told—successfully—through puppet theater
Garrett Eisler
Death Brings Out People's Worst in Mark Schultz's Latest
Alexis Soloski
Novelist Samantha Hunt Imagines the Final Days of Inventor Nikola Tesla
He fell in love with a bird
Dan Kennedy's Gonna Scrawl
Led Zep buff joins music biz, gawks, writes memoir
New York: In Every Kind of Light, the Rapture, and More
[Best in Show]
R.C. Baker
A Hushed Elegy
'Nina in Position' is a jumble on paper but lucid in person
David Everitt Howe
De Cock Crows
A Belgian installation artist uses MoMA as the subject of his MoMa show
Daniel Kunitz
Redefining Chaos With Jordan Fuchs
Life’s natural entanglements slightly pruned
Deborah Jowitt
Two People Wind Through a Desiccated Labyrinth of Love
Deborah Jowitt
Tale of the Tape
Dancers you might like to know, if permitted
Deborah Jowitt
Why Is Chris Elam Smiling?
A choreographer wins big for virtual steps
Deborah Jowitt
Cartoons
[This Modern World]
Tom Tomorrow
NY Giants Super Bowl Victory Parade
From the Canyon of Heroes to City Hall, New York City salutes the Super Bowl XLII Champs with a Big Blue ticker tape fiesta
Nick Atlas
G-Star Raw Fashion Week Party, 02.05.08
On Tuesday, the denim label known for making your ass look good drew the likes of Dennis Hopper, Ryan Adams, and Heather Graham to Gotham Hall
Maro
Friday Night at the Ruff Club, 02.01.08
. . . and the Next Big Thing art-punk music collective Ssion
Free Will Astrology
[Free Will Astrology]
Rob Brezsny
Going South
[ˇASK A MEXICAN!]
The Mexican thinks he’s Dan Savage all of a sudden
Gustavo Arellano
Dear Dan
[Savage Love]
More Savage Love letters about bestiality and Dan's response to RUFF
Letters
[Letters]
‘What Candidate Are You Wearing?’
Taking the political pulse in the corridors of fashion.
Lynn Yaeger
A Gay Senate Candidate Revealed!
[La Dolce Musto]
Double-wide-eyed by an opera trailer at Carnegie Hall and by a Senate race out North Carolina way
Michael Musto
Faith-Based Curry
[Counter Culture]
Starches steal the spotlight at Gramercy Sri Lankan
Robert Sietsema
Auto Erotica
Car lovers find a new flame in Burnout Paradise.
Chris Ward
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