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After the Election: Exiles and Patriots
In the aftermath of the presidential race, Michael Feingold examines the nation's vanishing progressive values, wondering where they went and how they might return; Sydney H. Schanberg calls Bush the Great Divider and likens his olive branch to a sword; Laura Conaway ponders the political legacy of the gay marriage struggle; Sarah Goodyear makes the case for staying and resisting, arguing that running away is cowardly, selfish, and a one-way ticket to irrelevance; Tom Robbins visits East Cleveland, one of the poorest
corners of America, and talks to voters who turned out in droves in the rain; Anya Kamenetz talks to and about young people who are anxious to keep up the fight; Wayne Barrett looks ahead at the Republicans' November, December, and 2005 surprises; James Ridgeway lays out a plan of action; Rick Perlstein shows how the dollar trumped so-called "moral values" to rake in the votes; and Ta-Nehisi Coates wonders if the South, once a fortress for the Democrats and now solidly Republican, could serve as an omen for what
might happen to the Democrats' black base.
BROOKLYN EUROS
Brooklyn is the new auteurial wonderland. By Tom Sellar
'IT'S OVER. WE WON.' NOT QUITE
The Essay: Ten Bush supporters were standing in a prayer circle with their heads bowed. I was so eager for their disappointment.By Stephen Elliott
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La Dolce Musto: Mary Cheney can finally crawl out of the basement, since the embarrassment she causes her dad apparently no longer matters now that it can't affect his career chances. By Michael Musto
Shelter: Couple lives in Queens corner bar but hardly touches the stuff. By Toni Schlesinger
Fly Life: If there is a better way to cheer yourself up during a losing election night than with a bunch of half-naked bodacious ladies, then someone please tell me. By Tricia Romano
Elements of Style: Bright stores open in a dark time. By Lynn Yaeger
Neighborhoods: Close-Up on Bayside. By John Giuffo |
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Liberty Beat: When the corpses in Darfur reach Rwanda's total of 800,000, maybe someone here will light a candle of contrition. By Nat Hentoff
Mondo Washington: Bush gets mandate for theocracy. Only the right can stop him now. And Bush's "culture of life" could become real life. By James Ridgeway
It's mourning in America. The Ohio debacle and the death of our civic life. By Rick Perlstein
Election 2004 Blogs: Winning an Earthquake by Kareem Fahim; The View From Jacksonville by Ta-Nehisi Coates; Ballot Boxing by Anya Kamenetz; and Operation Eagle Eye by Rick Perlstein
Ward Harkavy follows the Bush Beat. |
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And the Winner Is . . . By Mark Fiore
Sutton Impact: Mandate My Ass. By Ward Sutton |
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Counter Culture: Philoxenia's menu displays none of the enthusiasm for whole fish found at most Astorian tavernas. Instead of the fisherman, the shepherd looms large here. By Robert Sietsema
Events: Luis H. Francia + Xu Xi. By Elizabeth Zimmer
Bars: Barcade in Brooklyn. By Geeta Dayal
Club Crawl. By Tricia Romano |
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The six members of Trinayan Collective and Bani Ray, their teacher, perform with a technical power, passion, and devotion that does their guru, Shri Durga Charan Ranbir, proud. Their dedication and discipline are in themselves moving. By Deborah Jowitt
Plus: Ivy Baldwin Dance; Big Apple Circus; Kitt Johnson X-act; Henning R�bsam/Sensedance |
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Even if you believe that My birds . . . trash . . . the future, Paul Chan's 17-minute digital video, is only an animated tapestry, it's still clear that this artist uses the medium of video to, in Clement Greenberg's words, "explore effects exclusive to itself." By Jerry Saltz
Plus: Corinne May Botz at Bellwether; Alfred Leslie at Allan Stone Gallery |
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The patron saint of walnut-sized knuckles, Samuel R. Delany rhapsodizes repeatedly on mangled mitts in his memoirs and fiction. Three books�old, new, and revised�offer entry into his universe. By Brandon Stosuy
In a move that would make Borges proud, Michael Chabon springs the 89-year-old Sherlock Holmes out of retirement in 1940s England to solve a mystery�not of a murder, but of the disappearance of a German-speaking parrot stolen from a mute Jewish refugee boy�in Chabon's latest, The Final Solution. By Andrew Lewis Conn
Plus: The Rose & the Briar; Alice Munro's Runaway; Jonathan Lethem's Men and Cartoons |
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The Foreigner is what it is, an old-style farcical comedy with a moral. Its good people are good, its bad ones are bad, and you know which are which from the first five minutes. Plus People Are Wrong and A Passage to India. By Michael Feingold
Plus: Hell Meets Henry Halfway; Sakharam Binder |
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Wolf Eyes: adjective, noun. Hair Police: adjective, noun. Lately there are tons of adjective-noun band names in every genre, but noise boasts some of the best two-word monsters. By Marc Masters
Consumer Guide: Rock and roll could never hip hop like this. By Robert Christgau
The Japanese metal band Bathtub Shitter are a natural antidote to Pennsy Dutch, striking the world's heevahavas in their intellectual center, the bowels. By George Smith
De La Soul are re-entering mainstream consciousness with album numero eight, The Grind Date, a superbly sequenced set chock-full of clever entendres, oozing with existentialisms. By Raquel Cepeda
Plus: Eddytor's Dozen; Crime's San Francisco's STILL Doomed; Good Charlotte's The Chronicles of Life and Death; The Late, Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered; The Sound of the City: Vanessa Carlton at Joe's Pub; Jay-Z & Friends at Madison Square Garden |
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Opening too late for the election but still one the year's most politically relevant movies, Bill Condon's earnestly middlebrow biopic Kinsey is an argument for tolerance and diversity. Plus The Big Red One and Overnight. By J. Hoberman
Finding Neverland prefers to envision J.M. Barrie's immortal play Peter Pan, and its genesis, as a fantastic faerie fortress built against the sneering incursions of Death. Plus Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Alfie. By Jessica Winter
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Bright Future is sober and impassioned. Or so it seems�at the center of the film is a glowing, thoroughly poisonous pet jellyfish, the symbolic freight of which goes entrancingly uninterpreted. Plus 'The Newest Tiger: 60 Years of South Korean Cinema.' By Michael Atkinson
For anybody still wondering what's the matter with Kansas, Howard Goldberg's Being Dorothy offers some insight into the civic life of Liberal (population 20,000), official home of The Wizard of Oz's fictional wanderer. Plus: You See Me Laughin'; 5 Sides of a Coin. By Laura Sinagra
Plus: The Polar Express; After the Sunset; La Petite Lili; New Guy; Noel; Who Killed Bambi? |
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Savage Love. By Dan Savage
Lusty Lady: Straight Girls' Seduction. By Rachel Kramer Bussel |
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