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Issue: 0816

Tompkins Square's Unquiet Riot
[Runnin' Scared]
The city finally says yes to a 20th-anniversary celebration of the famous battle in the park
Maria Luisa Tucker
Calling Ishmael Beah
[Runnin' Scared]
The Voice catches up with the author of A Long Way Gone
Graham Rayman
The East Village Goes South, Again
[Dirty Blonde]
Pissed-off community activists face off against sterilization, Bruce Willis
Annie Fischer
Paul Simon at BAM: Will and Grace
[Down in Front]
The crossover king of Queens and a global armada make a triumphant return trip to Africa
Rob Harvilla
Portishead: Replicants of Funk
Trip-hop OGs return with another astounding 5 a.m. comedown record
GARRETT KAMPS
The Constantines' Kensington Heights
Canadian workhorses run gloriously free
IAN MATHERS
In the Name of Love: Africa Celebrates U2
Thank you for talking to Africa, Bono
Ernest Barteldes
James McMurtry's Just Us Kids
Politics and cautious optimism from an avowed Texastentialist
DON ALLRED
Bennie Maupin's Early Reflections
Gorgeous audacity from a fusion giant
MICHAEL J. WEST
M83's Saturdays=Youth
An ebullient revival of an '80s style once thought better off dead
RYAN FOLEY
Willie Nelson's Trigger Cuts
[Box Elders]
Shotgun Willie gets the respect he deserves
Michael Hoinski
Fest Explores Romanian Roots
Film Society series looks into the New Wave's link to an earlier generation
Scott Foundas
Constantine's Sword
[Tracking Shots]
Constantine's Sword Jim Ridley
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
[Tracking Shots]
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts Vadim Rizov
Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?
Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? J. Hoberman
Mickey One at MOMA
[The Cine Phile]
Kicking off an ambitious five-month jazz series
J. Hoberman
Absurdistan: The New Iraq War Cinema
The next wave of post-9/11 political films trade sobriety for satire
Anthony Kaufman
Anamorph
[Tracking Shots]
Anamorph Jim Ridley
Four Minutes
[Tracking Shots]
Four Minutes Julia Wallace
Zombie Strippers
[Tracking Shots]
Zombie Strippers Luke Y. Thompson
The Forbidden Kingdom
[Tracking Shots]
The Forbidden Kingdom Nick Pinkerton
The Life Before Her Eyes
[Tracking Shots]
The Life Before Her Eyes Ella Taylor
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
[Tracking Shots]
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Vadim Rizov
Young Yakuza
[Tracking Shots]
Young Yakuza ERNEST HARDY
The First Saturday in May
[Tracking Shots]
The First Saturday in May Aaron Hillis
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Forgetting Sarah Marshall Robert Wilonsky
88 Minutes
88 Minutes Ella Taylor
Two New Plays and the Perils of Autobiography
The Little Flower of East Orange and Marcy in the Galaxy show why not everybody's life is worth dramatizing
Michael Feingold
Untitled Mars: Lost in Space
[Sightlines]
Jay Schleib's beguiling, perplexing trip to the red planet
Alexis Soloski
The Conversation's Attempted Coppola Update
[Sightlines]
Rendered obsolete by Netflix
GARRETT EISLER
Negro Ensemble Company's WEBEIME
[Sightlines]
Adult pain vs. youthful exuberance
TOM SELLAR
Sizwe Banzi Is Dead Remains Alive
A great play bids its farewell at BAM
Alexis Soloski
Anthony and Cleopatra at the Duke: Asp You Like It
A late-Victorian take on Cleo and Tony
Alexis Soloski
David Samuels' Doubleheader
Harper's scribe releases two for the price of two
James Hannaham
Etgar Keret's Short-Story Overload
46 new stories! Really!
Michelle Orange
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung: The Madcap Laughs
Web designer/artist mashes up art, activism, and the occasional well-placed turd
Robert Shuster
Josh Azzarella: Gone Missing
Eerily edited historical photos at DCKT Contemporary
Ben Davis
Takashi Murakami's Smog of Luxury
[Best in Show]
Mr. Jellyfish Eyes at the Brooklyn Museum
R.C. Baker
Kirov Ballet & Feld Ballet Tech: Tutu and Ordeal
Frisking on pointe, hanging by the heels
Deborah Jowitt
Alex Escalante’s Clandestino and Victoria Marks’s Not About Iraq
Two choreographers fight their wars
Deborah Jowitt
Friday
Monday
Saturday
Sunday
Thursday
Tuesday
Wednesday
SECOND THAT EMOTION
Movement that just might compel you
Keisha Franklin
ROBOPOP
T-Pain in the flesh
Zach Baron
BANG YOUR HEAD
It’s metal, metal, and more metal
Mikael Wood
TIME AFTER TIME
Two lesbian britches
Sharyn Jackson
CHELSEA IS BURNING
A woman who overshares
ARACELI CRUZ
DUMB & DUMBER
Geography with The Onion
Sharyn Jackson
A LONG TIME COMING
Tokyo Police Club celebrate an exceptional debut
Zach Baron
FIRE-STARTERS
Female choreographers send out sparks
Keisha Franklin
WHEN YOU’RE GOOD TO MAMA . . .
. . . Mama Earth, that is
Sharyn Jackson
CARTOON CENTRAL
So many comic books, only three days
R.C. Baker
Jazz Score
Angela Ashman
WRITE ON
Russell Banks discusses his new novel
Angela Ashman
POET FOR A DAY
Put a little sonnet in your pants
ARACELI CRUZ
DARLING DUO
Gettin’ cozy with Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward
Mikael Wood
BROWN SUGAR
Celebrate Cuba’s sweeter side
ARACELI CRUZ
Peter Lorre Double Bill
EUDIE PAK
VIKING NATURAL
Water travelling uphill and other wonders
EUDIE PAK
JUST SAY NO TO ITUNES
A special day to visit your lonely record-store pals
Angela Ashman
MASS MOVEMENT
No rants—just rave
EUDIE PAK
America: The Land of Hope in the Age of Anxiety
[This Modern World]
Tom Tomorrow
The City Council's Big Slush Hush
Quinn, Bloomberg, Thompson are still hiding the pork
Tom Robbins
Our Very Own Axis of Evil in Guantánamo
A former prisoner describes the foul essence of the Bush presidency
Nat Hentoff
The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere
A confederacy of dunces
Roy Edroso
A Headshot Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere
The Village Voice's visual election-season manual from Tom Tomorrow
Tom Tomorrow
Silent Rave New York
A flash-mob headphone rave took place Friday in Union Square, 04.18.08
Gabi Porter
New York Comic Con 2008
Stormtroopers, Superman statues, and lots of awesome geeks at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, 04.19.08
Cary Conover
Olafur Eliasson's Take your time at P.S. 1
Recontextualizing light, water, ice, fog, stone, and moss
Eudie Pak
Free Will Astrology: April 15 to 21
[Free Will Astrology]
Rob Brezsny
Daily Forecast: April 18 to 24
[Rockie Horoscope]
Rockie Gardiner
Press 1 for English, Pendejo
[¡Ask a Mexican!]
And boycott Absolut for caving like craven Swedes!
Gustavo Arellano
Letters
Elettaria: Where Saag Paneer Is 'Saag Paneer'
[Fork in the Road]
Elettaria puts chefs onstage, plays with convention, and comes out ahead
Sarah DiGregorio
'24' Star Won't Shave Her Privates!
[La Dolce Musto]
Direct hits on Abu Ghraib, some close shaves, and frank talk about that Foster parent
Michael Musto
Eating Cock at Brooklyn Greco-Turk
[Counter Culture]
Yogurt and pine-nut delights in Bay Ridge
Robert Sietsema
Hitting the Vuitton Murakami Shop at the Brooklyn Museum
Instead try Canal Street.
Lynn Yaeger
Baroque: Reward-Free Zone
[Game On]
Atlus’s newest import imagines eternal life in gaming limbo. It isn’t pretty.
Gary Hodges
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