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Village Voice Archives

Issue: 0815

Belmont Park's Backstretch Plays Home To a Most Unusual Day-Care Center
[Runnin' Scared]
Is there a stranger location for a day-care in New York? Don't bet on it
Keith Greenberg
Rikers Island Fight Club
[Runnin' Scared]
Jail guard indicted for pitting inmates against each other
Graham Rayman
Scientology's First Celebrity Defector Reveals Church Secrets
'I was Miscavige's favorite boy,' says veteran TV actor Jason Beghe
Tony Ortega
Nick Cave: Still Venting
The Bad Seeds chief will accept your compliments, but he wouldn't mind a little derision
CRISTINA BLACK
Experimental Musicians in a Post-Tonic Universe
Downtown innovators like White Out fight for survival in a brave, disquieting new world
Brad Cohan
Rock and ROFL: The Princes of Comedy
Alt-comedians celebrate the joy of the up-and-coming (or down-and-out) comedian
Annie Fischer
The Breeders are Still Sentient
More divine hammers and Mexican ballads from the Deal sisters
Kevin O'Donnell
Two New Afrobeat Compilations
A half-decade of joyful Nigerian mimicry
ANDY BETA
Clinic's Do It!
Masked minimalists ease up
THEON WEBER
Tapes n' Tapes' Walk It Off
Slovenly young Turks fight backlash with pulverizing volume
SAM UBL
Man Man's Rabbit Habits
A more mature brand of skronking apocalyptica
Saul Austerlitz
Toumast's Ishumar
African rebels fight intolerance with guitars
Ernest Barteldes
Hayes Carl's Trouble in Mind
Another Texan troubadour, smarter and funnier than most
WERNER TRIESCHMANN
Track 18 Wins Again!
[Singles Going Steady]
Major-Label Hip-Hop Records in Burying-Best-Tracks Shocker!
CHRISTOPHER R. WEINGARTEN
The Visitor
The Visitor Scott Foundas
Street Kings
Street Kings Tim Grierson
Stalags, Tehilim
Stalags, Tehilim J. Hoberman
Bra Boys
[Tracking Shots]
Bra Boys Scott Foundas
Body of War
[Tracking Shots]
Body of War Scott Foundas
The Dhamma Brothers
[Tracking Shots]
The Dhamma Brothers Julia Wallace
Dark Matter
[Tracking Shots]
Dark Matter Nick Pinkerton
Young @ Heart
[Tracking Shots]
Young @ Heart Scott Foundas
Chaos Theory
[Tracking Shots]
Chaos Theory Nick Pinkerton
The Take
[Tracking Shots]
The Take Chuck Wilson
Smart People
Smart People Robert Wilonsky
Never Forever
[Tracking Shots]
Never Forever Jim Ridley
Young & Restless in China
[Tracking Shots]
Young & Restless in China Aaron Hillis
When Musicals Matured: Three Revivals Recall Another Age
South Pacific, Gypsy, and Juno show how 1950s Broadway got 'serious'
Michael Feingold
Talking with Enda Walsh
Bedbound playwright scripts the new Ireland
TOM SELLAR
Democracy in America and Something You Did: United Stating
Democracy takes center stage in two NYC premieres
Alexis Soloski
Keith Gessen and Nathaniel Rich: The New-Gen Pen Men
Young New York lit-mag honchos write novels! (But should maybe stick to editing.)
ALEXANDER NAZARYAN
The Cooper-Hewitt Celebrates Rococo
Polish up your Cupids and boar's heads!
Leslie Camhi
Ashley Bickerton: Gone Native
Bali's remarkable hybridist
Leslie Camhi
David Leventhal's Massive Mini Attack
[Best in Show]
The photographer's first publishing project, revisited
R.C. Baker
Friday
Monday
Saturday
Sunday
Thursday
Tuesday
Wednesday
MISANTHROPIC GENERATION
Disfear celebrate two decades at large
Zach Baron
AUGHT ROCK
Two freewheeling avant-pop acts hit the club
Zach Baron
ALL GROWED UP
Happy birthday, Dixon Place
Sharyn Jackson
YOU WANNA BE ON TOP?
The lessons of girl power
EUDIE PAK
A LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP
Monologuist Mike Daisey attacks nonprofit theaters
Alexis Soloski
GIRL TALK
A theater favorite returns with a starry lineup
Angela Ashman
DESERT STORM
Arabian Nights, Vegas style
Sharyn Jackson
FOOLING AROUND
Galapagos hosts a cultural ball, with a twist
ARACELI CRUZ
ART ATTACK
Get lost in Judith Supine’s maze
Angela Ashman
The 7 Lights
ARACELI CRUZ
STEP RIGHT UP!
Choreographer creates a hot new spectacle
Keisha Franklin
LOVERS’ ISLE
Charles L. Mee creates romance for all stages
EUDIE PAK
Shining Through a Long, Dark Night: Romanian Cinema, Then and Now
EUDIE PAK
BLUE-COLLAR BABES
It’s shirtless, burly, slamdanceable punk
Christopher R. Weingarten
WHO’S THE MAN MAN?
Indie band wages war on form and decorum
CRYSTAL NICHOLSON
FUNNY GIRLS
The hysterical sex
Sharyn Jackson
MOB ZOMBIE
A band of satanic space robots saves the LES from the undead
KENAN DAVIS
DON’T STOP, NEVER STOP
Train your inner porn star
ARACELI CRUZ
New York African Film Festival
Timelapse Cartooning: The Experts on Housing as an Investment
[This Modern World]
Tom Tomorrow
Living the Political Life Fantastic
Surf, turf, and doughnuts: A state senator dines out on his campaign war chest
Tom Robbins
China's Blood-Splattered Olympics
The butcher of Tibet, and America's sporting president
Nat Hentoff
Class Action: Listings
[Summer Education 2008]
Alexis Soloski
A Girl's Life at Aviation High School
[Summer Education 2008]
A Girl's Life at Aviation High School
Michael Rymer
City's Young Actors Juggle Schoolwork and the Spotlight
[Summer Education 2008]
Alexis Soloski
CUNY's Community Colleges Give Stalled Students a Push
[Summer Education 2008]
Adam Weinstein
The Long Goodbye
Attention, immigrants: Report to the Office of Detention and Removal
Maria Luisa Tucker
For Some Black Parents, the New Home Room is Home
Public schools are failing black boys, say a growing number of parents who are homeschooling
Chloe A. Hilliard
Horsy Day-Care
Inside what may be the city's most unusual child-care center
Staci Schwartz
From Souvenirs to Slime: The Collection of Presidential Campaign Memorabilia
Choice Cunts 2008
A rare party for raw queers continues in Williamsburg, 03.29.08
Maro
Free Will Astrology: April 9 through 15
Rob Brezsny
Daily Forecast: April 11 to 18
[Rockie Horoscope]
Rockie Gardiner
Death, Taxes, and Mexicans
[ˇAsk a Mexican!]
Legal or illegal: Either way the IRS wins
Gustavo Arellano
The New Wave of Trans Cinema
[Pucker Up]
The latest transporn breaks down both boundaries and inhibitions
Tristan Taormino
Letters
Ever Had a Nice Bottle of Greenpoint?
[Fork in the Road]
Bringing the wine to the people: the new generation of urban winemakers
Sarah DiGregorio
The New York Flea Market Scene
[Lynn Yaeger]
If you want to scratch that itch, you may have to venture to—gasp!—Brooklyn.
Lynn Yaeger
At Midtown's Soba Totto, Cucumber Qualifies as an Animal
[Counter Culture]
Robert Sietsema
Siegfried, Roy, and Glory Holes!
[La Dolce Musto]
Yeah, my hot list, compared with the others, which aren't so hot
Michael Musto
New House of the Dead: Undead on Arrival
[Game On]
Returning for the Wii, stiff as ever
Chris Ward
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