Email Author Alisa Solomon

2000 Stories by Alisa Solomon

• The Making of Americans

  published December 5, 2000

  Fill in the blank: If it hadn't been for __________, I wouldn't be here now. It sounds like one of those cute devices for jump-starting... More >>

• Taking Back the Vote

  published November 21, 2000

  "Every vote counts!" the demonstrators chant, over and over, at rallies from New York to Fresno, from Anchorage to Tallahassee, as they protest... More >>

• The Next-Best Man

  published November 14, 2000

  Political power games, backroom deals, twisted data, manipulations of the press: When it's all happening in Florida, how can the theater compete?... More >>

• The Poet Of Brutality

  published November 7, 2000

  "A mother beats her child savagely," notes one of the characters in Sarah Kane's Crave, "because it runs out in front of a car."... More >>

• The Silence of the Left

  published October 17, 2000

  At the midtown rally in support of Israel last Thursday, an Orthodox woman confronted a small group of counterdemonstrators penned into a corner... More >>

• Bad Counsel

  published October 10, 2000

  After nearly eight months in the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, two teenage brothers, Jiang Jian Wei and Jiang Jian Zhen,... More >>

• Anatomy of a Murder

  published October 3, 2000

  October 6 will mark two years since Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson beat Matthew Shepard unconscious, tied him to a fence, and left him to... More >>

• I'm Your Puppet

  published September 12, 2000

  Puppetry tends by nature toward the meta- physical, or at least toward the surreal. Liberated from the realist implications of human actors, sized... More >>

• Give Me Liberty or Give Me Vets

  published August 29, 2000

  In one instant in early July, when the Liberty were scraping along with a 7-9 record, forward Sue Wicks became utterly certain that New York... More >>

• Sue Wicks's Forward Behavior

  published August 8, 2000

  "That was intense," says Sue Wicks, stepping off the court and dragging a forearm across her sweaty brow. "That girl was just hanging on my... More >>

• Don't Mourn—Reorganize!

  published July 18, 2000

  The contract deadline was nearing at the end of June when General Electric workers from Lynn, Massachusetts, decided to travel down to GE... More >>

• Widows on the World

  published July 4, 2000

  "I am determined to get married again," says Magnolia, in the expository solo lines that open Samm-Art Williams's slight and retro new comedy.... More >>

• The Liberty's New Look

  published June 20, 2000

  The air-conditioning at Basketball City could hardly keep up with the Liberty on Thursday as coach Richie Adubato ran the squad through four and a... More >>

• Schiller's Power Chords

  published May 23, 2000

  The women waiting on the Queen of Spain yearn desperately to return to the city from the dull countryside in the first act of Schiller's Don... More >>

• Arrested for Answering Back

  published May 2, 2000

  "Words aren't criminal, ma'am." That's what the cop said in response to my feeble attempt to bring a little levity into the situation as I sat in... More >>

• Rage Against the Caffeine

  published April 18, 2000

  Nobody smashed any windows in an overcaffeinated rage at Starbucks in Washington, D.C., over the... More >>

• Our Bodies, Ourselves

  published April 18, 2000

  The veins bulge on her left forearm, sturdy and sinewy as steel cables. Her hard-torquing torso centrifugally sucks her shirt tight against her... More >>

• Putting Some English on It

  published March 28, 2000

  The first pleasure of Waste is simply listening to it. Nowadays, when the dialogue of popular drama is driven by the unloading of emotional... More >>

• Free at Last

  published March 21, 2000

  The moment he walked out of the gates of York County prison in Pennsylvania on Friday, Abraham Zuma literally kissed the ground. The gesture... More >>

• Never Can Say Good Buy

  published March 14, 2000

  When actor Bill Talen was slapped with $10,000 in fines last week for sticking up leaflets advertising his show, you almost had to wonder whether... More >>

• The Poetry of the DMZ

  published February 29, 2000

  Pojagi—rectangular pieces of cloth used to wrap and carry things—are first mentioned in Ping Chong's lyrical meditation on Korea in a... More >>

• Lesbian, Gay, and Binational

  published February 22, 2000

  It took Katherine Narkunas months of saving up from her job in electronics repair to make it to Italy for New Year's to visit her girlfriend,... More >>

• America’s blue notes

  published February 15, 2000

  The white attorney rages against the burgeoning prison-industrial complex, decries the moral hypocrisy of capital punishment, and argues an... More >>

• Immigrant Minors

  published January 25, 2000

  Kenia Cruz didn't get any trips to Disney World when, at 14, she arrived in the United States after a long trek from Honduras. No politicians gave... More >>

• A Yiddishe Mama Courage

  published January 18, 2000

  Glückel of Hameln is quite emphatic about her purpose when she takes to writing a memoir in 1690 ("the year of Creation 5451," as she calls... More >>