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The vast flag rippling miles above my head reads "Toy Fair 2008: Inspiring Growth" in bilious green, the color of kelp and algae and sad little sprouts; the comp tote bag they...
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In August 1971, the conceptual artist and painter Lee Lozano decided to "boycott women." She recorded the results, that first week, in her journal: throwing out a letter by...
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In the 1956 essay "The Age of Suspicion," Nathalie Sarraute described what the traditional French novel could offer its readers: "Comfort in their solitude, a description of...
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In her State of the City speech on February 12, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn—an undeclared but highly likely contender as our next mayor—warned the...
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If you wanted to conjure up an unlikely photo op—something along the lines of George W. Bush in a loving arms-around with Dennis Kucinich—you might try putting...
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The jury was out on the Sean Bell case before the trial even started. Unwilling to gamble on sympathy from Queens jurors for three NYPD detectives accused of killing an...
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Food fight
Regarding Robert Sietsema's 'Iron Chef Boyardee' [February 20–26]: Oh, Robert. Did you forget to have your Cheerios before you went to a five-hour taping in...
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John Catsimatidis, so the story goes, has a couple of jets he wants to sell. But the market is tanking, so the only place to go is Africa. It's 1996. He and a couple of...
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Pointe shoes grew out of a nineteenth-century fad for ethereality. The dream women—sylphs, naiads, dryads, and their ilk—who populated ballets and drove men mad were...
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ARIES [March 21–April 19] What's the opposite of a freak-out? Let's call it a freak-in. I suspect you're about to enter into this state. That means you will have at your...
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In Orissa, on India's east coast, temple carvings show deities entwined in elaborate erotic poses. Odissi, the dance form that once enlivened those temples, embeds that...
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I need the Oscars. I need the unmitigated joy of seeing four people lose in every category. And the telecast's addictively circusy ambience is such heroin to me that on Super...
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Last week in Los Angeles, I produced a new sex-ed movie with porn star Penny Flame, all about how to get people off with your hands. I first shot Penny for the fourth edition...
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General Forecast
If you know your ascendant, read it too.
Happy Leap Year. Make a wish. Militant Mars reentering Cancer on the 4th could have an impact on voters in Texas...
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OK, so Juliette Mapp’s Anna, Ikea, and I is probably the longest work I’ve seen on a Danspace program, and, yes, I confess to checking my watch around the...
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For those growing up in weatherbeaten West Texas, someone says early in Laura Dunn's The Unforeseen, "nature becomes God." A God that hands out abundance at times, to be sure,...
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When I got in touch with Paul Festa to find out if I might take a look at his 2006 film, Apparition of the Eternal Church, in which a group of people listen to a piece of...
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The Democratic insurgent is the most charismatic candidate since RFK, and the party's convention could be the most convulsive since the debacle in Chicago. The Vietnam War has...
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A blockbuster in its native Iceland, adapted from Arnaldur Indridason's 2000 bestseller, this somber, sinewy police procedural by the talented actor-writer-director Baltasar...
