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Issue: 0812

The Cold, Cold Heart of Hamas
With new killings of Palestinians and Israelis, is a two-state solution gone?
Nat Hentoff
The NYPD Ignores Leap Day Crimes to Keep Stats Low
[Runnin' Scared]
CompStat might not count a February 29th murder, but the neighborhood does
Sean Gardiner
Eliot Spitzer's Crack Tax
[Runnin' Scared]
Wait, it's not what you think
Maria Luisa Tucker
Hitchens on Spitzer's Lust
[Runnin' Scared]
Why else do men run for higher office?
Adam Weinstein
D. Charles Speer's New Weirder America
To take us back to the country, NY avant-garde vet spaces as far out as possible
Justin F. Farrar
Atlantic City: The Next 'Next Big Thing'
[Dirty Blonde]
Trawling for future trends in both nightlife destinations and cheeky rap collectives
Annie Fischer
Flo Rida: Miami Sound Machine
Ringtone-rap titan unleashes a blaring but robotic debut
Evan McGarvey
Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-IV
Trent makes a middling ambient record. So can you, incidentally.
CHRISTOPHER R. WEINGARTEN
Indie-Pop Tarts Get Worldly
Dodos, El Guincho, and Ruby Suns discover the monotony of excitement
Mike Powell
Kaki King's Busker Therapy
Guileless dervish emerges from the subway, (real-life) guitar in hand
Rob Trucks
Fat Joe vs. the Volcano
He's joined forces with the South, whether you like it or not
Ben Westhoff
Bed-Hopping Love Songs Wilts in the Shadow of Godard
Christophe Honore's new musical leaves a funny taste in your mouth, not a song in your heart
Scott Foundas
Talking with Christopher Honoré and Louis Garrel
Director and star discuss the making of Love Songs
Michelle Orange
Boarding Gate
Boarding Gate J. Hoberman
Micheaux and Williams: Titans of 'Race' Cinema
[The Cine Phile]
At Anthology, silents and talkies that countered Griffith
J. Hoberman
Asia Argento Rising
No flesh in the pan, Argento erupts as a dazzling director as well as actor
Nathan Lee
The Grand
The Grand Jim Ridley
Fatal Insomnia Drama Fade at Two Boots
[Tracking Shots]
Painfully long for an art-school video project
Julia Wallace
Doomsday's Junk Food Glut
[Tracking Shots]
Descent director Neil Marshall steals everything great
Jim Ridley
Irina Palm
[Tracking Shots]
Irina Palm Jim Ridley
Under the Same Moon's Immigrant-Hardship Vignettes
[Tracking Shots]
Destination Overdetermined
Michelle Orange
The Hammer: Charmingly Mediocre
[Tracking Shots]
Adam Carolla comedy keeps its ambitions low
Aaron Hillis
Planet B-Boy Obsesses Over Mad Skillz
[Tracking Shots]
Breakdancing doc jacks Michael Moore
ED GONZALEZ
Drillbit Taylor
[Tracking Shots]
Drillbit Taylor Luke Y. Thompson
In Search of Paradise
[Tracking Shots]
In Search of Paradise Nick Pinkerton
Andrei Nekrasov's Poisoned by Polonium
[Tracking Shots]
Nick Pinkerton
Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns
[Tracking Shots]
Aaron Hillis
Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns
[Tracking Shots]
Aaron Hillis
Shutter
[Tracking Shots]
Luke Y. Thompson
Three New Productions, Defined By Place
The Latino life of In the Heights looks rosy; The Seagull's lakeside life looks grim and damp
Michael Feingold
Conversations in Tusculum: All Nail Caeser
Richard Nelson visits the ancient land of Tedium
James Hannaham
Year One of the Empire Covers 50 Years of History, Feels Longer
Metropolitan Playhouse offers a non-thriller in Manila
TATYANA GERSHKOVICH
Six's Soft Upper Lip
A half-dozen short plays by Asian-American writers
Alexis Soloski
Rapunzel: Mane Attraction
The U.K.'s Kneehigh arrives, bearing some boar poop
Alexis Soloski
John Belluso's The Poor Itch
[Sightlines]
ANDY PROPST
David Hajdu's History of the Comic-Book Panic
The Ten-Cent Plague: Weird tales, indeed
R.C. Baker
Antonio Lobo Antunes's Knowledge of Hell: Shrinks Rapped
A Portuguese novel gives psychiatrists the business
Alan Gilbert
Dan Flavin: Light White, Light Heat
[Best in Show]
A breakthrough 1964 solo show, recreated
R.C. Baker
Two New Shows From Overseas, For Better or Perverse
Brits act dirty at Deitch Projects, while Kazakhs puke some mutton. Ah, art.
Robert Shuster
Mickey's Fibula, Courtesy of Hyungkoo Lee
Behold the skeletons of your favorite cartoon characters
Ben Davis
Kansas City Ballet: Happy Fiftieth!
Midwest company gifts the Apple with a Tharp revival
Deborah Jowitt
Jonah Bokaer: The Real You
Partnering shadows, photo images, and inner animals  
Deborah Jowitt
Brian Brooks Moving Company: Worth Repeating
Everyday heroes in shining choreographic armor
Deborah Jowitt
Battle of the Bands
Paying tribute to Leonard Cohen and the BeeGees
Angela Ashman
ROCKERS AND SQUARES DO BATTLE—AGAIN
John Waters’s cult classic Cry-Baby arrives on Broadway
ARACELI CRUZ
LADY MIX-A-LOT
Dynamo pumps out a medley of entertainment
Keisha Franklin
THE ART OF BREVITY
Can you sum up your life in six words?
Angela Ashman
SCUM MANIFESTO
So metal it hurts
Zach Baron
LADIES & GERMS
Private acts in public restrooms
EUDIE PAK
QUAZY WABBIT
Leave the egg hunting to the pornfessionals
ARACELI CRUZ
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Paul Rudnick’s gay crystal ball
Sharyn Jackson
BONE DANCE
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony meet you at the crossroads
Zach Baron
BLOW SOFTLY
Hit thy neighbor with love
ARACELI CRUZ
ROMAN HOLIDAY
Don’t be late to the orgy
Sharyn Jackson
FREE RADICALS
A new play looks back at the protest movement of the ’60s
Alexis Soloski
Gamblers, Gangsters, and Other Anti-Heroes: The Japanese Yakuza Movie
Angela Ashman
SHE’S A CHARACTER
Things get hairy for Amber Martin
Sharyn Jackson
EASTERN EPIDEMIC
A week-long celebration of Asian art
EUDIE PAK
WHAT A PRICK
Temporary piercing gets the blood flowing
Sharyn Jackson
HEALTH
Zach Baron
BLIP OUT
Experimental hip-hop group Anti-Pop Consortium reunite
Christopher R. Weingarten
FREEDOM REIGNS
After the dogfight, Pitbull
Tom Breihan
BRIGHT IDEA
A new space for film and art comes to Brooklyn
Angela Ashman
Hillary Attack Ads For the Obama Team
Some free tips on ad strategies for Barack's spring offensive
Tom Robbins
Boy Soldier of Fortune
A celebrated memoir threatens to blow into a million little pieces
Graham Rayman
Hindu Festival of Color
The annual Phagwah Parade took place this past Saturday. It was colorful.
Rebecca Smeyne
Pillow Fight!
Feathers fly at mass pillow fight in Union Square, 03.22.07
Joe Karandy
Free Will Astrology: March 19 through 25
Rob Brezsny
Daily Rockie Horoscope
[Rockie Horoscope]
March 21 through 27, 2008
Rockie Gardiner
Gustavo Goes Mano a Mano
[ˇAsk a Mexican!]
And tells a young wetback to go home
Gustavo Arellano
Letters
Whistlin' Dixie's Texas Tavern on Eleventh Avenue
[Liquid City]
How to be a Lone Star lush in NYC
Elizabeth Stanek
The Vaunted Charcuterie at Bar Boulud Delivers
[Fork in the Road]
Hedonism by the pound
Sarah DiGregorio
Valerie Bertinelli on "Spitzer's Dick"!
[La Dolce Musto]
No more governor, so it's full speed ahead with Valerie Bertinelli and Kerry Butler
Michael Musto
Lower East Side Fujianese Joints Becoming More Refined
[Counter Culture]
Robert Sietsema
How To Wear Your Vote
[Lynn Yaeger]
In search of that perfect 'candidate-beater' tank top
Lynn Yaeger
Condemned 2 and the Predictable Shittiness of Online Play
[Game On]
Who said first-person games need a second person?
Gary Hodges
Are Anonymous Mobs Reliable Sources for Sex Advice?
[Click Me]
At ReallyWorried.com, sex questions get answered by “experienced” users—but is their bad advice cause for worry?
Bonnie Ruberg
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