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Issue: 0810

MICHAEL MUSTO as LINDSAY LOHAN as MARILYN MONROE in 'The ultimate re-vamping'
Michael Musto
Post-Oscars, the Dress Knock-Off Crowd Gets Busy
[Lynn Yaeger]
. . and the debate over copies crops up again
Lynn Yaeger
Barack Obama, Read This Book!
The perfect tome for the man who would turn words into action
Nat Hentoff
What to Get L. Ron Hubbard for his Birthday
How “Anonymous” has changed the game of exposing Ron’s ruthless global scam
Name Here
Jim White's Transnormal Skiperoo
Backwoods weirdo gets right with God, or at least God's creatures
DAN LEROY
Pete Rock's NY's Finest
An East Coast legend hits harder with horns than Uzis
HASTINGS CAMERON
Our Brother the Native's Make Amends, for We Are Merely Vessels
Telecommuting pastoral weirdos run aground
RAY CUMMINGS
Erykah Badu: The Plebeian, Militant Homegirl
No songs per se, but plenty of deep grooves on Mama Gun's latest
Miles Marshall Lewis
SXSW Tip Sheet '08
The best NYC talent at Austin's annual wonkapalooza
Rob Harvilla
The Gorgeous Ladies of Alt-Folk Wrestling
Triple-A sirens contemplate blood, oil, and coffee with varying degrees of enthusiasm
Chuck Eddy
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Prog Attacks!
[Box Elders]
Hailing the oft-derided genius of these bloat-tastic motherfuckers
Phil Freeman
Admit You Want to Marry St. Vincent
Annie Clark's volatile skills can't match her charms, but how could they?
Stacey Anderson
Paul Simon: Diamonds on the Soles of His Shoes
Grizzly Bear, David Byrne, and host of others join the April BAM residency of New York's quintessential songwriter
Mike Powell
Spring Music Preview: The Teenagers and the Porn/Pop Split
The Teenagers have dirty mouths and an accent
zach baron
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks' Real Emotional Trash
Yet more mellow gold
SAM UBL
Alan Jackson's Good Time
Country vet loves ladies, bologna, cartoons
Edd Hurt
Dolly Parton's Backwoods Barbie
Back in the saddle, but wilier than you think
Mikael Wood
Autechre's Quaristice
Gently inscrutable duo explores the Exploding Plastic Unpronounceable
DAVID COTNER
Snow Angels: On Thin Ice
Balancing melodrama with a light touch
Nathan Lee
Girls Rock!
[Tracking Shots]
One time, at band camp...
Vadim Rizov
Myra Breckinridge
[Tracking Shots]
The Queer Precursor to Southland Tales
Aaron Hillis
Blindsight
[Tracking Shots]
Adventure doc looks at blindness in Tibet
Julia Wallace
J'Entends Plus la Guitare: Nico Remembered
Phillippe Garrel's Relationship Memoir is Perfectly in Tune
Nathan Lee
Fighting for Life
[Tracking Shots]
War doctor doc, staggeringly effective
NICK PINKERTON
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
[Tracking Shots]
Costumes pass for plot in WWII update
Ella Taylor
Manoel de Oliveira: Man of the Century
[The Cine Phile]
BAM celebrates 100 years of a Portuguese master
J. Hoberman
The Bank Job
[Tracking Shots]
Finally, a real Jason Statham movie
Robert Wilonsky
Married Life: Far From Far From Heaven
Inspired by Todd Haynes, this competent '50s chamber drama doesn't quite compare
Ella Taylor
Talking With Ira Sachs
Xecrets and lies with the director and screenwriter of Married Life
Anthony Kaufman
CJ7: ET Phone Hong Kong
Tamer f/x and a cute little gremlin in Stephen Chow's new one
J. Hoberman
Paranoid Park Returns Gus Van Sant to his Roots
Namely disaffected youth, shoestring budgets
J. Hoberman
Dead Ends and Might-Have-Beens: It Always Rains on Sunday
It's a good week to rediscover a masterpiece
Scott Foundas
The Uncompromising Frownland: Underground Cinema Lives On
Impossible to categorize, even tougher to watch
Scott Foundas
J. Hoberman: The Naked Truth
On the occasion of a BAM tribute to our man, a look back
J. Hoberman
Spring Film Preview: Harmony Korine's Odd Squad
On Returning with Mister Lonely
Aaron Hillis
Paradise Park: No Thrill Ride
Charles Mee's wilt-a-whirl
Alexis Soloski
Lower Ninth: Katrina Drama
The Flea's new Katrina drama echoes Godot
Alexis Soloski
New Musicals: Of Three I Sing
Adding Machine adds up; Passing Strange does passing well; In Circles should stay around
Michael Feingold
Justin Bond in Lustre: A Midwinter Trans-Fest
[Sightlines]
ROB KENDT
Bluemouth Inc.'s Death by Water
[Sightlines]
James Hannaham
Untitled Theater Company #61 Brings You Kurt Vonnegut's Apocalyptic Cat's Cradle
[Sightlines]
John Beer
Spring Theater Preview: The Sound and the Fury, An Idiot's Tale
ERS follows up Fitzgerald with Faulkner
Alexis Soloski
Jonathan Coe's Tapes of Wrath
The Rain Before It Falls examines the trials of friendship
Alexis Soloski
Dandy in the Underworld: Super-Plastic Profound
One man's (possibly true) tale of Scottish gangsters, nice clothes, and a thousand prostitutes
Michael Musto
Spring Books Preview: Martin Amis, Plane Speaking
Flying himself into the world of geopolitics
giles harvey
Helping the Whitney Museum Expand the 2008 Biennial
Art production fund, to the Armory!
Daniel Kunitz
Take Your Pic
[Best in Show]
Recommendations by R.C. Baker
R.C. Baker
Jasper Johns: Smog Alert
The Metropolitan Museum of Art takes a long look at Johns's 'Gray' matter
R.C. Baker
Spring Art Preview: Kerry James Marshall's Black Whole
Battling art's blind spot
R.C. Baker
Russian Diva Power
Two dancers take control of the cockpit
Deborah Jowitt
Spring Dance Preview: Emanuel Gat's Club Mozart
Hallowed music gets the Gat treatment
brian seibert
Yanira Castro + Company: Dream, Baby, Dream
This space is whatever you think it is, for now
Deborah Jowitt
Spring Food Preview: Sailing and Scarfing
Where to eat as you take to NYC's bounding main
Robert Sietsema
YES WAY, JOSÉ
Señor González at the Brooklyn Masonic Lodge
Elizabeth Thompson
SUCH A PERV
Noble and Webster give Freud a much-needed kiss in the ass
ARACELI CRUZ
NEW YORKERS DO IT BEST
How porn translates into real life
EUDIE PAK
HOTTER THAN HELL
An on-screen KISS that rocks
EUDIE PAK
BETTER THAN REALITY TV?
Get your seat early for the Moth’s battle of the wits
Angela Ashman
RICK SCISSORHANDS
Hairdresser to the stars tells all––and your coif may get done, too
ARACELI CRUZ
ALL HAIL, HANK!
Celebrating the depraved life of Bukowski
Angela Ashman
SEX, DRUGS & TANGO
Explore the seedy underbelly
Alexis Soloski
MORE WIRE HANGERS
Do it for Mommie
Sharyn Jackson
SERVED WITH PULP
Unleashing your fantasies can be a drag
EUDIE PAK
MUST HAVE ’STACHE
Furry upper lip not just for cops anymore
ARACELI CRUZ
DANCING QUEEN
Leila Haddad schools us in belly dance
Angela Ashman
GET FRESH CREW
Tamango’s peeps take it to the street
Keisha Franklin
PARTY PROS
Have a ball with this Toronto duo
KRISTAL HAWKINS
GEEK ALERT
A sci-fi fantasy play to make Lara Croft proud
Angela Ashman
MIX IT UP
View cutting-edge works—or be a part of them
Angela Ashman
COLORFUL COMBO
A DJ mixes with a shadow artist
EUDIE PAK
OH, CONEY!
Rezoning Coney Island is inevitable, so where do you stand?
ARACELI CRUZ
Brooklyn Homeshow
ARACELI CRUZ
Infernal Machines: The Films of Kim Ki-youn
EUDIE PAK
SO BAD IT'S GOOD?
A notoriously bad film finally gets some appreciation
Angela Ashman
CIRQUE DU N.Y.
And you thought your family was weird
Sharyn Jackson
PARK IT HERE
A sweaty garage-rock double bill
Mikael Wood
PASS THE SYRUP
It’s a jam of a different flavor
Keisha Franklin
Rightwing Fantasy: Morphing Obama into Osama
[Cartoons]
Tom Tomorrow
The Hoods on the Bus Go 'Round and 'Round
Corruption at the top of the school-bus union reached middle management as well
Tom Robbins
When Cops Go Bad Does the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau Even Notice?
Sean Gardiner
PLUG Independent Music Awards Show 2008 [03.06.08]
Nick Cave headlined and Patton Oswalt hosted the annual event ceremony at Terminal 5
Rebecca Smeyne
Michael Musto as Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn Monroe
. . . in 'The Ultimate Re-Vamping'
Howard Huang
Daily Rockie Horoscope
[Rockie Weekly Horoscope]
March 7 through 13, 2008
Rockie Gardiner
Free Will Astrology: March 5 through 11
Rob Brezsny
Why Is It That Mexicans Work for Cheap?
[Ask a Mexican]
. . . the only way to stop immigrants from taking your job
Gustavo Arellano
Letters
A Talented Guerreran Cook Climbs Down Off the Awning
[Counter Culture]
Restaurante Taqueria Guerrero near the corner of 39th Street and Fourth Avenue
Robert Sietsema
Drug Counselor at Rikers Gets Busted for . . . Dope
Months after selling coke to an undercover, cops find him with 100 packets of 'Black Gold'
Graham Rayman
Obama Supporters in Brooklyn Warn the Superdelegates: 'Make Our Votes Count'
Way down in the grassroots, small-D democrats take on the big-D Democrats and their superdelegates
Maria Luisa Tucker
The Sean Bell Curveball For Cops on Trial
Prosecutors' 'acting-in-concert' theory in chaotic shooting of Sean Bell misses the mark, observers say
Sean Gardiner
Have the Cybersex ‘Experts’ Ever Had Cybersex?
[Click Me]
From Oprah to the hot seat, one addiction specialist's perspective on cybersex
Bonnie Ruberg
The Pounding Headache of Patapon
[Game On]
Name Here
Indie Cribz #1: Mike House of Team Robespierre [Video]
The first of many looks into how your favorite local musicians really live.
Camille Dodero and Jeremy Krinsley
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