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Village Voice Archives

Issue: 0808

Punch Brothers' Punch
Bluegrass suites, with a touch of emo
Mikael Wood
Edie Brickell and The Heavy Circles
Ms. New Bohemian and her stepson get sparse but evocative
Ernest Barteldes
Paul Weller's Wild Wood
How the Modfather came into his own by not trying so hard
Rob Patterson
Ray Davies' Working Man’s Café
Wherein Ray finally figures America out
Edd Hurt
American Music Club's The Golden Age
Reformed miserablists turn their self-contempt on the world
Franklin Bruno
Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago
More rustic, beautiful folkiness
Melissa Giannini
Genghis Tron's Board Up the House
Fuck being hard—this is complicated
Phil Freeman
The Raveonettes: Uh-oh, Love Leaves Town
The Danish duo dabble in less cuddly, more carnal emotions
Mordechai Shinefield
John Darnielle's God Is Not Great
The delusional tragic heroes of Mountain Goats songs are as doomed as ever
Mike Powell
Murder Mystery: Uh-oh, Love Comes to Town
The appealingly jaundiced cynicism of a pop band with a soul and a brain
j. poet
The Wrong Version of Nick Lowe's Debut Album Is Being Reissued
But you'll live.
Michael Hoinski
The Drive-By Truckers' Worst Song, Played on the Ugliest Guitar
[Down in Front]
How an appalling tune will finally make you appreciate them
Rob Harvilla
The Duchess of Langeais: She Got Game
Jacques Rivette's newest film puts a pomo spin on the oldest of love stories
Nathan Lee
Michel Gondry Celebrates the Bygone Days of VHS
Caught on tape: the best of do-it-yourself indie culture in Be Kind Rewind
J. Hoberman
Thanks, IFC
J. Hoberman
Frederick Wiseman Goes to Idaho
The legendary documentarian gets inside the power and process of the Idaho state legislature
Nathan Lee
Cover
[Tracking Shots]
Chuck Wilson
Vantage Point: The Truth Won't Set You Free
A multi-perspective, mega-annoying assassination thriller
Scott Foundas
Doug Liman's Jumper
[Tracking Shots]
Scott Foundas
Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters
A morally ambiguous Holocaust tale of survival and collusion
Ella Taylor
Robert Downey Jr. and Charlie Bartlett
Ella Taylor
The Signal Is Bzzzting at a Theater Near You
Horror in the heartland: Coming through loud and clear
Jim Ridley
The Flea's Bats Take on an Antitheater Classic
You killer pigs: Offending the Audience
Alexis Soloski
George Packer Stages His New Yorker Iraq Story
The castaways
Alexis Soloski
War and Sand
Two plays seek the grim behind the glory
Alexis Soloski
The Cenci at The Ohio Theatre
Sightlines
James Hannaham
Biyi Bandel's Oroonoko
John Beer
Societas Raffaello Sanzio's Hey Girl!
Sightlines
Alexis Soloski
Flat-Panel Tuners
Slug Bearers gives delicious 2-D attitude; Next to Normal pushes hard to give more
Michael Feingold
Roberto Bolaño: To Have and Have Nazi
Roberto Bolaño compiles a satirical compendium of imaginary right-wing writers
John Brenkman
Chiharu Shiota’s Thread Head
A burned piano inspires a curious artistic legacy
Robert Shuster
The Fine Art of Nordic Brood
Four finalists for Finland’s prestigious Ars Fennica find a New York home at Scandinavia House
Robert Shuster
The Abstract Desert
Recommendations
R.C. Baker
Ronald K. Brown's Spirit Moves
A choreographer slips behind the camera's eye
Deborah Jowitt
Playing Around
And where do we go from here?
Deborah Jowitt
The Interior Ice of Diana Szeinblum's Alaska
Memories frozen in the soul, howling for release
Deborah Jowitt
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Turns 50 This Year
On the eve of his PEN American Center celebration, the Nigerian author sits down with the Voice.
Carol Cooper
SIMPLY MAHVELOUS
Be a fine-art connoisseur, or just act like one
Angela Ashman
DINA MARTINA
Sharyn Jackson
TRANS MUSIC
Kick it in Bond’s surreal living room
Sharyn Jackson
OFF THE WALL
Claw Money hits Headquarters Studio
Angela Ashman
PUT MY ROOTS DOWN
Philly’s finest get the spotlight at the Apollo
ARACELI CRUZ
GREASER
The examination of Jesse James
ARACELI CRUZ
Henry Rollins
EUDIE PAK
THE POWER OF WUN
Afro rhythms heat up the BK
Keisha Franklin
MAGNETIC APPEAL
Town Hall gets distorted with Stephin Merritt & Co.
Elizabeth Thompson
HOMETOWN ADVANTAGE
Brooklyn indie rockers get BAMmed
KORY GROW
UNCONVENTIONAL THREADS
What real urbanites are wearing
EUDIE PAK
PRISON BREAK
A birthday party for the Man in Black
Angela Ashman
CAN THIS BIRD FLY?
Great casting may make this one soar
EUDIE PAK
SPACE ODISSI
Transport to India
Keisha Franklin
OSCAR BOWL
Starring: You!
EUDIE PAK
BACK AT WORK
We just want these comedians to have something to do
ARACELI CRUZ
RUMP SHAKERS
It ain’t nothin’ but a G-string thing
Keisha Franklin
HOT REELS
Kink makes a stink
Sharyn Jackson
EXPATRIATE GAMES
The romance of Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn lives on
Angela Ashman
ON THE FRINGE
Performing arts get creatively cool
EUDIE PAK
DEAR MR. BUSH
Fitty, Biggie, and others tee off in a political doc
ARACELI CRUZ
Captain Blowhard
Tom Tomorrow
Two Brooklyn Brothers Are the Kings of the Expediters
Despite—or is it because of?—real-estate hijinks, this pair prospers
Tom Robbins
President Bloomberg? Not This Bad Apple
Mayor Mike should get more heat for teaching kids to fear the police
Nat Hentoff
Iron Chef Boyardee
Our man Sietsema opens up a can of worms
Robert Sietsema
"Eaten Alive" Art Show at Headquarters Studios [02.22.08]
Friday night's event featured work by 18 artists, including Claw Money's trademark puffy claw, Jaz Harold’s gory cartoon art, and Ted Stanke's doll parts
Nick Atlas
A Presidential Affair: A Night of Drag Kings, Dance, Burlesque
Fabulous burlesque divas, dazzling dancers, and drag kings salute the Founding Fathers at Galapagos
Maro
RZA at Studio B
Ostracized from the rest of Wu-Tang Clan after 8 Diagrams's in-fighting, Robert Diggs hit Studio B alone last Friday night. Hella people showed.
Rebecca Smeyne
Punk Rock Pillow Fight: The Second Main Event
This past Valentine's Day, those who had no one to squeeze, there was Punk Rock Pillow Fighting. . .
Nick Atlas
February 15 to 21
[Rockie Weekly Horoscope]
Rockie Gardiner
Free Will Astrology: February 20, 2008
Rob Brezsny
Mexicans Have It Better Than You Think
[ˇAsk a Mexican!]
But there are still plenty of reasons that they head north
Gustavo Arellano
Letters
Western Culture at Barcibo Enoteca
[Liquid City]
Elizabeth Stanek
A Heaping Pile of Salacious Blind Items!
[La Dolce Musto]
Who did what to whom? When? How? Where? (Don't ask why.)
Michael Musto
Can You Make a Living Selling Schmatas?
[Lynn Yaeger]
Braving the dangerous world of vintage clothing vendors
Lynn Yaeger
An Uzbeki Tea Parlor on the Boulevard of Death
[Counter Culture]
Robert Sietsema
Chowhound Dave Cook's Last Road to Singapore
For his last meal, this man dreams of food courts of the Far East
Nina Lalli
'Reformed Muslim Terrorists' Preach Christ to College Kids
Columbia students among those proselytized at a screwy Colorado confab
Maria Luisa Tucker
Mantle Still Hits Cleanup
The Mick’s family tries to block a collector from cashing in on his name
Graham Rayman
Devil May Cry: A Weak-Ass Name for A Wicked Action Game
Chris Ward
DVDs Just Released: Margot at the Wedding, American Gangster: Unrated Extended Edition
Robert Wilonsky
Words Get in the Way of Lost Odyssey
[Game On]
But it's otherwise stellar
Name Here
The Biggest Bathhouse on the Internet?
[Click Me]
Hook-up site AdultFriendFinder.com is the cybersexiest site you've never seen
Bonnie Ruberg
The Biggest Bathhouse on the Internet?
[Click Me]
Hook-up site AdultFriendFinder.com is the cybersexiest site you've never seen
Bonnie Ruberg
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