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Issue: 0806

The Long Swab of the Law
If Bloomberg doesn’t run for the Oval Office, he’d fit in at the FBI
Nat Hentoff
Can Obama, Clinton or McCain Heal Our Healthcare System?
A local campaign pro is just one of the 46 million Americans without health insurance
Tom Robbins
Kenyan Unrest, Jersey Style
[Runnin’ Scared]
Kikuyus, Luos, and Kisii in Jersey City nervously watch events in Nairobi
Peter Duffy
Year of the Rats
[Runnin' Scared]
How the FBI’s terror informants brought down a Bronx jazz musician
Jared Irmas
Dean Johnson’s E-Mails Shed New Light on His Strange Death
[Runnin' Scared]
New York nightlife icon was the second person to die in the same D.C. apartment in four days
The Fabolous Life
Hanging with a rapper who has close ties to his home. Maybe too close.
Chloé A. Hilliard
Liars, Lovers, and All Our New Polish Friends
[Dirty Blonde]
Back injuries, projectile vomiting, and yawning security can't derail a fantastic Warsaw show
Annie Fischer
Brightening the Brilliant Corners
Marco Benevento plumbs jazz and pop, wild improv, and sweet melody
Bret Gladstone
The Exhilarating Enchantments of Bad Hardcore
[Down in Front]
A disastrous evening with the U.K.'s Gallows and a feeble Brooklyn crowd they came to despise
Rob Harvilla
Michael Jackson's Nigh-Unstoppable Thriller Gets the 25th-Anniversary Treatment
[Box Elders]
Miles Marshall Lewis
Robyn Is Finally Here
[The Sound of the City]
A teenpop starlet's triumphant entrance, despite being 10 years late for the prom
Track 18 Wins Again
[Singles Going Steady]
Major Hip-Hop Records in Burying-Best-Tracks Shocker!
Christopher R. Weingarten
Prodigy’s 25th Hour
A Queens rap icon scrambles to prepare for life on the inside
Old Forms, Fresh Outlooks
[Jazz Consumer Guide]
Innovation reigns, from 36-CD retrospectives to the Hüsker Dü of free jazz
Tom Hull
The New American Realism
Backed by producer Paul Mezey, a group of like-minded filmmakers work outside of the indie machine
Anthony Kaufman
Vlogged to Death
Romero and his zombies return to lambast the media. Plus: The truly and spectacularly horrifying Inside.
Nathan Lee
Milos Forman's Lost Youth
[The Cine Phile]
Plus: Before anime there was . . . animation
J. Hoberman
Best from the Brink
From Garrel to Packard, it's a great year for Film Comment Selects
Nick Pinkerton
From Talking Heads to Dancing Bear
It's another strong Doc Fortnight at MOMA
Jim Ridley
Bless Their Little Hearts
[Tracking Shots]
Jim Ridley
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
[Tracking Shots]
Jean Oppenheimer
Ezra
[Tracking Shots]
Ella Taylor
The Spiderwick Chronicles
[Tracking Shots]
Ella Taylor
Absolutely
Craving More Bill Clinton? Have we got a movie for you.
Robert Wilonsky
Slicing It Thin
Writers Brooke Berman and Mike Leigh offer new plays that barely exist
Michael Feingold
The Lifeblood
[Sightlines]
Rob Kendt
Cherubina
[Sightlines]
Alexis Soloski
The Blue Flower
[Sightlines]
Abigail Deutsch
The Sad Funny Man
Rethinking the career of Bert Williams, who raised blackface to the level of an art form.
Michael Feingold
London's Moon
Fiendish utopians conspire and murder in Victorian Blighty
Alexis Soloski
Big Shots
[Best in Show]
Recommendations by R.C. Baker
R.C. Baker
Genre-Jumping at James Fuentes's New Gallery
Jeffrey Deitch's old employee's helping to create a Chinatown art scene
Ben Davis
Disco Balls Meet the Iraq War in Williamsburg
Sarah Schmerler
Women at War in Deganit Shemy’s Iodine
Some wounds never heal
Deborah Jowitt
Christopher Wheeldon and Nikolaj Hübbe Say Goodbye
While NYCB soldiers on
Deborah Jowitt
Complex Simple
Seductive lessons in perusing a fleeting world
Deborah Jowitt
Tears of Lights
Seeking perfection? You're kidding, right?
Deborah Jowitt
TRUE LOVE
Prepare to be seduced by the NTUSA
Angela Ashman
PRETTY WOMEN
Juergen Teller interprets the Ukraine
Angela Ashman
CALL WAITING
Mary-Louise Parker finds intrigue on the other end of the line
Alexis Soloski
Neanderthal For President '08
[This Modern World]
Tom Tomorrow
Welcome to the Year of the Rat
Ringing in the Year 4076 in Chinatown
Joe Karandy
StreetSessions Snowboarding in Union Square, 02.07.08
140 tons of snow, 20 of the world's top riders, five wounds, and only one winner
Nick Atlas
Liars, No Age at the Warsaw, 02.09.08
Angus Andrew and company return to their Brooklyn birthplace
Rebecca Smeyne
The Best of the Westminster Dog Show 2008
Yorkies, huskies, shih-tzus, viszlas, bull mastiffs, pugs, setters, schnauzers, and a couple of humans too
From the Jam at the Blender Theater at Gramercy, 02.09.08
The Jam's Bassist Bruce Foxton and drummer Rick Buckler are back, as From the Jam. No Paul Weller necessary.
John E. Coli Nikolai
February 8 through 15
Rockie Gardiner
Free Will Astrology
Rob Brezsny
Why Do Mexicans Always Rent Blood In Blood Out?
[¡ASK A MEXICAN!]
Plus, Mexicans who hate illegals
Gustavo Arellano
The Queer Heterosexual, Redux
[Pucker Up]
A classic from the Pucker Up vaults
Tristan Taormino
Letters
Scooping up Raw Meat in Bay Ridge
[Counter Culture]
Midnight at the oasis
Robert Sietsema
Harvey Fierstein on the History of Blowjobs
[La Dolce Musto]
Fashion Week proves wearing, even to us model citizens
Michael Musto
Stuck on the Runways as Fashion Week Takes Off
Diary of a mad housedress
Lynn Yaeger
Cybersex Sounds Hot—But What If I Get Addicted?
[Click Me]
Nervous nellies, ignored spouses, and sore genitals alike wonder, “What if the web-booty never stops?”
Bonnie Ruberg
No More Heroes is Hip, Bloody, and Indispensable
[Game On]
Gary Hodges
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