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Issue: 0813

Will the Latest Jerusalem Bloodshed Be Followed By Talks or Intifada?
[Nat Hentoff]
Nat Hentoff
A Month of Albany Scandals is New York's March Badness
[Tom Robbins]
Among the contenders: a Brooklyn pol hooked on a dream house
Tom Robbins
Family, The New Weekly Party: One Big Happy Scene (If You Can Get In)
[Dirty Blonde]
Down in the East Village for a more intimate big-shot nightlife soirée
Annie Fischer
Chicha Libre and the Brooklyn-Peru Connection
Bringing Lima's trippy underground sound to Park Slope
Richard Gehr
Gnarls Barkley: Of Mice and Men
[Down in Front]
More Looney Tunes noir and psychiatrist's-couch pathos from Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo
Rob Harvilla
Panic at the Disco's Pretty.Odd.
PATD's frantic follow-up, though a bit schizo, is still earnest and triumphant at heart
Mordechai Shinefield
Fuck Buttons' Street Horrrsing
Cat-exploding grandeur from terrible namers
GARRETT KAMPS
She & Him's Volume One
Not nearly as galling as it could've been
CRISTINA BLACK
Gary Louris's Vagabonds
A folk-pop titan dresses his losers in corduroy and denim
NATE CAVALIERI
Excepter's Debt Dept.
Bewildering noisemakers, (somewhat) human after all
IAN MATHERS
DeVotchKa's A Mad and Faithful Telling
Orchestral giants seek deserved adulation
LAUREN GITLIN
Be Your Own Pet's Get Awkward
Teenage scamps scare their own label
DAN WEISS
Da Willys' Old NY Scuzz-Rock
Celebrating their raucous debut, 20 years late
J.R. Taylor
Adam Green's Teutonic Love
The ex-Moldy Peach rode Juno to semi-stardom, but Germany is way ahead of us
Lex Benaim
Stop-Loss
Stop-Loss Scott Foundas
Alexandra
Alexandra J. Hoberman
No Direction Home
Don't expect clarification on the Southland Tales DVD
J. Hoberman
New Directors/New Films Brings the New Class
Old New York, the ghosts of Raleigh, and queer debuts mark an exceptional ND/NF
Nathan Lee
Southland Tales Again: No Direction Home
[The Cine Phile]
Don't expect clarification on the DVD
J. Hoberman
Flawless
[Tracking Shots]
Flawless Scott Foundas
21
[Tracking Shots]
21 Robert Wilonsky
The Cool School
[Tracking Shots]
The Cool School Nathan Lee
Albert Brooks Revival
[Tracking Shots]
Not just the West Coast Woody Allen
Scott Foundas
Chapter 27
[Tracking Shots]
Chapter 27 ED GONZALEZ
Shelter
[Tracking Shots]
Shelter ED GONZALEZ
Hats Off
Hats Off Vadim Rizov
Backseat
[Tracking Shots]
Backseat Jim Ridley
Priceless
[Tracking Shots]
Priceless Vadim Rizov
My Brother Is an Only Child
[Tracking Shots]
My Brother Is an Only Child Nick Pinkerton
Run Fatboy Run
Run Fatboy Run Jim Ridley
Shotgun Stories
[Tracking Shots]
Shotgun Stories Jim Ridley
Two New Productions Play Politics
History glows in The Conscientious Objector; vapidity kills Caryl Churchill's dumb cartoon
Michael Feingold
Ladies & Gents: No Luck of the Irish
[Sightlines]
A bloody, desolate Dublin
ABIGAIL DEUTSCH
John Belluso's The Poor Itch
[Sightlines]
Sadness Pervades
ANDY PROPST
Fight Girl Battle World: A Video Game Creation Myth
[Sightlines]
With sweet fight scenes
TATYANA GERSHKOVICH
Lone Wolf Tribe's Bride: Strange Heaven
A puppeteer's curious take on God's struggles
BRIAN PARKS
The Break-Up and The Happy Sad: Love Moat
Minds are on hearts in two Flea Theater plays
Alexis Soloski
Talking With Booker Prize Winner John Banville
Trouble is his business: Noir alter-ego Benjamin Black returns with The Silver Swan
Alexis Soloski
Kurt Vonnegut's Unpublished Writings
Armageddon in Retrospect collects the late fabulist's work on war
Julie Phillips
From Fluxus to Media Art: 15 Minutes and Counting
[Best in Show]
A fascinating group media-art show
R.C. Baker
Drastic Action: Under the Skin
A choreographer grapples with her heritage
Deborah Jowitt
In Memoriam: Amanda Smith (1944-2008)
An elegy for a fellow dance critic
Deborah Jowitt
Jeremy Nelson: Buried Roots
A choreographer creates a community we'd like to join 
Deborah Jowitt
Spirit of Uganda: Bright Youth
Dance and show how smart you are
Deborah Jowitt
NOT SUNDANCE
New indie films celebrated, minus the hype
EUDIE PAK
Thursday 3:27
Friday 3:28
Saturday 3:29
Sunday 3:30
Monday 3:31
Tuesday 4:1
Wednesday 4:2
BLOOD, SWEAT, AND CHEERS
Forward-thinking metalheads return just for the hell of it
KORY GROW
STONED DIGRESSIONS
Stephen Malkmus gets his wavy-gravy jam on
Mikael Wood
AN INDIVIDUAL HIGH
Audience members become part of the show
EUDIE PAK
EAST MEETS WEST
It’s the Sharks vs. the Jets for our lame millenium
EUDIE PAK
HOP HEAVEN
Drink up with 52 award-winning breweries
Elizabeth Thompson
Happy Ending Music and Reading Series
Angela Ashman
METHOD MAN
Petronio pulls you into his fabulous madness
Keisha Franklin
STRANGER DANGER
An all-night Druidic dance tradition
Sharyn Jackson
NERD RAGE
Comedian Brian Posehn’s pretty cool for a dork
Angela Ashman
BURN, BABY, BURN
Time to burn that rink to the ground
ARACELI CRUZ
ABOVE THE CUT
Brazilian company shows some edge
Keisha Franklin
Âme Frank
ARACELI CRUZ
LONG ISLAND GANGSTER
Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige take a lap through the suburbs
Zach Baron
PHILLY ATTACKS
Shepard Fairey and others take over Cinders
Angela Ashman
BARGAIN SHOPPER
Free speech has a price
Sharyn Jackson
BASSOON
Two Brooklyn art-rock duos come to Manhattan
Zach Baron
ART ASSAULT
Arm yourself for the season’s biggest shows
ARACELI CRUZ
Five Years Later NeoCons Discuss Their Regrets
[Cartoons]
Tom Tomorrow
The Mets and Yankees Seek an Armed Revolution
How Joba Chamberlain and Johan Santana will make us forget last year's miserable baseball legacy
Allen Barra
As New Yankee and Met Stadiums Go Up, So Do Costs and Disruption
Neil deMause
The Debut Family at East Village Bar 40 C [03.22.08]
A new weekly party organized by a slew of popular nightlife names was a wild success.
Andy Kropa
March: The Month in Photos
Musto as Lohan as Marilyn, Naked Elves, Naughty Nymphs, SXSW, A Hindu Festival, the PLUG Awards, Choice Eats and more
Free Will Astrology: March 25 through April 1
[Free Will Astrology]
Rob Brezsny
Two Heroic Mexicans: Salma Hayek's Breasts
[ˇAsk a Mexican!]
Mexicans don't like you? Maybe it's you.
Gustavo Arellano
In (Partial) Defense of Eliot Spitzer
[Pucker Up]
Is it cheating if it's with a sex worker? Is it preferable to a full-blown affair?
Tristan Taormino
Hunts Point: Where To Eat (With Strippers)
[Fork in the Road]
A foodie's tour through the neighborhood that feeds the city and the nation
Sarah DiGregorio
'Madonna's New Single Sucks!" Screeches DJ
[La Dolce Musto]
Tidbits that will make you rise again
Michael Musto
Is African Food the Next Big Thing? Maybe With Merkato's Spectacular Catalog.
[Counter Culture]
Famed Aquavit chef offers a kaleidoscope of African fare in the meatpacking district
Robert Sietsema
Donna Karan Goes Zen, Yaeger Contemplates Shaving Her Head
[Lynn Yaeger]
If you meet the black velvet coat (with a noxious white fur collar) on the road, sell it.
Lynn Yaeger
Guinness Gamer's Edition 2008: Most Oddly Matched Collection of Records in a Book
[Game On]
Guinness writes the book on gaming but doesn’t shatter any records
Chris Ward
A Four Letter Word
A Four Letter Word ED GONZALEZ
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