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THE SOLDIERS WHO SAID NO
Two women from Jackson, Mississippi, Jackie Butler and Patricia McCook, are challenging the army brass on behalf of their husbands in Iraq�both soldiers who refused a mission they considered dangerous. By Tom Robbins
BUSH'S COURTING OF SADDAM
There are myriad ways in which Bush's business deals intertwine with "the dark side," starting in 1974, when W was 28 years old. Each of these tales has CIA ties, which touch virtually every Bush business venture until 1990. By Wayne Barrett
CRYING GAME
Boys do cry in a photo show that features shots of male movie stars sobbing or on the verge of tears. Leslie Camhi looks in on British artist Sam Taylor-Wood's controversial, and lachrymose, exhibit.
ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE
Team America's critical mess: Reviewers have massively missed the point of the year's most potent political satire. By Michael Atkinson
FLOWER POWER
As the dame from Oz gathers her gladiolus for another tour on Broadway, Michael Musto chats with Edna Everage, self-described Queen of the Possums.
VOTE OR LIE
The Essay: Americans love to vote�as long as it has to do with pop singers, soft-drink choices, or World Series predictions. By Hua Hsu |
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La Dolce Musto: At Miami Fashion Week, things were pure and honest, and there was a really good gift bag. Plus Mary Cheney and Ashlee Simpson. By Michael Musto
Shelter: Artist family wrestles with raw rental in Satmar Williamsburg. By Toni Schlesinger
Fly Life: The East Village is a "utopian whorehouse" in the Scissor Sisters video. By Tricia Romano
Elements of Style: What to wear until the election. By Lynn Yaeger
Neighborhoods: Close-Up on Jamaica. By Philip Henken |
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Liberty Beat: The House Republican leadership authorizes torture in our war against terrorism. By Nat Hentoff
Mondo Washington: Bill Clinton cries foul: "Bush is trying to scare undecided voters away from Kerry, and trying to scare decided voters away from the polls because it worked so well in Florida."
Plus: Buckeyes way worse off than four years ago; Bush visits Ohio company boosted by tax cuts, war, outsourcing jobs to China; Video: The Battle for Cleveland. By James Ridgeway
Press Clips: Campaign coverage this year has looked more like reporting for a sports event than for an election to decide the fate of the free world. By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Tagging along on Stephen Elliott's Operation Ohio in pursuit of the college vote. By Joshuah Bearman
Voter's Digest: Throughout this election, the Voice will be gathering information and articles about allegations of voter fraud and disenfranchisement.
Ward Harkavy follows the Bush Beat. |
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Four years ago, theatrical provocateur Reverend Billy launched his crusade against Starbucks. Earlier this year, a California brew-haha led to the Reverend's temporary exile from the latte kingdom. By Alexis Sottile |
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TechLove With Mr. Roboto: Classic Atari is back, but Centipede isn't quite as fun as you remember. By Brendan I. Koerner
Talk about a sugar high: Gilmore Girls is still the sweetest show on TV. It's also one of the smartest, weighing in somewhere between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Sopranos. Plus: Huff; Remote Patrol: Election Eve Documentaries; Gay Republicans; Drawn Together. By Joy Press |
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The Treason Hunters. By Mark Fiore
Sutton Impact: Reasons to Vote for Bush. By Ward Sutton |
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Counter Culture: Blue Mill Tavern's menu continues to evoke supper clubs past. If you thought you couldn't get prime rib without driving 50 miles into Jersey, think again. By Robert Sietsema
Events: Ladyfest*East 2004. By Kris Wilton
Bars: Sputnik in Brooklyn. By Amy Braunschweiger
Club Crawl. By Tricia Romano |
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Playful moments aside, the performers of Eliot Feld's Mandance Project have a single-minded look. They treat steps as private adventures, or deals they relish but don't comment on. Plus Everett Dance Theater. By Deborah Jowitt
Plus: Dance 2wice; Johannes Weiland; Infinity Dance Theater |
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Anri Sala, the internationally hot young Albanian artist making his solo debut in New York this month, knows how to hold our attention. But his relatively simple single-channel videos use no installational theatrics, no virtuosic manipulations, no clever ploys. By Kim Levin |
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When we catch up with Moldenke, the stonepick-smoking, compulsive letter-writing, Beckettian hero, in David Ohle's The Age of Sinatra, he's aboard the Titanic, and suffering from the most recent "Forgetting," which amounts to an erasure of the citizenry's collective memory. By Gabe Hudson
Marilynne Robinson is back with Gilead, a one-sided epistolary novel that ought to have acolytes swooning over her preternaturally intimate prose once again�when they aren't scratching their heads over the book's languidly didactic assessment of Christian precepts in practice. By Mark Holcomb
Plus: James McEnteer's Deep in the Heart: The Texas Tendency in American Politics; Keith Badman's The Beach Boys; Raj Kamal Jha's If You Are Afraid of Heights |
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Sin: A Cardinal Deposed touches our whole culture: Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, whomever. The corporate enveloping of self by those at the top, without regard for anyone or anything but their own comfort and their own deniability, is the besetting sin of our time. Plus Dirty Tricks. By Michael Feingold
Plus: The Temptation of St. Anthony; The Downtown Plays; Nine Parts of Desire |
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Too loose to be called shattered, The Libertines fights for its own existence second-by-second; it brings to mind the slovenly mid-'70s Stones trying to play the repertoire of the bright-eyed early-'60s Stones. By Joe Levy
R. Kelly's Chicago stepping soundtrack Happy People is, if this is possible, the smoothest and frothiest album of the year. And U Saved Me is chicken soup for the soul man. By Nick Catucci
Buwalsky, by composer Mel Marvin and librettist Jonathan Levi, brings reality TV into the world of opera. Real reality TV should be so helpful. By Kyle Gann
R.E.M.'s Around the Sun is too downtempo to read as a we'll-take-our-mantle-back-now move like U2's triumphal All That You Can't Leave Behind, but it's close. By Franklin Bruno
Plus: Eddytor's Dozen; Federation's Rick Rock Presents Federation: The Album; Don Byron's Ivey-Divey; Toby Lightman's Little Things; The Best of R. Kelly 2004; Kaki King's Legs to Make Us Longer; Robag Wruhme's Wuzzelbud "KK"; The Sound of the Industry: Store Wars |
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A solemn, thrillingly ridiculous exercise in circular logic, Jonathan Glazer's Birth is a study of obsession and thwarted yearning; the twin templates are Vertigo and That Obscure Object of Desire. Plus It's All About Love. By Dennis Lim
Taylor Hackford's Ray, for its part, never drops a stitch, methodically working the rise-and-fall-and-rise formula without a single consideration for the viewer's self-respect or the possibility that even famous lives rarely have the shape of stories. Plus: 'Scary Movies 2: The Horror Continues'; Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain Begins to Die; and It's Not Easy Being Human: Roy Andersson. By Michael Atkinson
Fantastically front-loaded, Enduring Love climaxes early. Roger Michell's adaptation of Ian McEwan's 1997 novel nails the instant panic, the silent vertigo, the horror-filled pause as the wind gathers for its fatal push�as if all the commas have been turned into dashes. Plus Yes Nurse! No Nurse!. By Ed Park
Benjamin Strong speaks with The Manson Family writer-director-actor Jim Van Bebber.
Plus: 800 Bullets; Voices of Iraq; Saw; Home of the Brave; In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed; Magnifico; Malevolence; A Silent Love |
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Savage Love. By Dan Savage
Lusty Lady. By Rachel Kramer Bussel |
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