The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• The Brooklyn Rail’s Person of the Year

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Local

• Collecting a City

  – By Vidya Padmanabhan

• Dishing It Out, But No Longer Taking It

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• ’Tis the Season

  – By Amanda Darrach Filippone

• Spring Creep

  – By Sabine Heinlein

• Seeds of Change

  – By Cleve Wiese

• Construction/Destruction of Williamsburg Continues at Frantic Pace

  – By Williams Cole

• Black Friday with Reverend Billy

  – By Matthew Vaz

Express

• Thanksgiving

  – By Jason Flores-Williams

• LETTER FROM BALUCHISTAN A Call to Resistance: The Khan of Kalat Gathers the Tribes

  – By Annie Nocenti

• The Brooklyn Rail’s Person of the Year, 2006

  – By Theodore Hamm

• ¡Mi Comandante Es Mi Presidente!: Daniel Ortega Comes Back to Power

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• Hugo Chavez and Latin American Populism: STEVE STEIN with NIKOLAS KOZLOFF

• Benito Juárez and New York City

  – By Vicente Quirarte

• Hospitality Row

  – By Heather Rogers

• Victor and Me

  – By Doug Cordell

Art

• John Elderfield with Phong Bui

• Kiki Smith with Phong Bui and Susan Harris

• The Bias of the World: Curating After Szeemann & Hopps

  – By David Levi Strauss

• Railing Opinion: A Call to Art Critics

  – By Irving Sandler

• Yun-Fei Ji with John Yau

• Tavares Strachan: Hermetically Sealed

  – By Maxwell Heller

ArtSeen

• A Note on Botero’s Abu Ghraib

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Report from London

  – By Sherman Sam

• Mike Womack with Ben La Rocco

• Joyce Robins & Harry Roseman

  – By John Yau

• Slater Bradley: The Abandonments

  – By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle and Miyuki Tsushima

• Ray Johnson En Rapport

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• MEGA ZINES

  – By Jonah Owen Lamb

• George Ortman

  – By Jim Long

• Pierre Klossowski and Hans Bellmer

  – By David Markus

• Eija-Liisa Ahtila

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Keith Mayerson

  – By Roger White

• Hiroshi Sugimoto

  – By Hrag Vartanian

• SCOTT MALBARUN White Light

  – By Craig Olson

• Nancy Rubins

  – By Jill Conner

• Eric Guzman

  – By James Kalm

• Paul Kolker

  – By Lynn Love

• Marietta Hoferer

  – By Jennifer Riley

• Barry Le Va

  – By Ben La Rocco

• Neil Welliver: The Absent Painter

  – By Jeremy Sigler

• Bix Lye & Jan Mulder

  – By Shane McAdams

• Lost Gravity – the Photographs and Performances of Li Wei

  – By Ellen Pearlman

Books

• Lynne Tillman with Lynn Crawford

• Poetry: The Weatherwomen’s Terror

  – By Charles Bernstein

• Fiction: Being Lolita in Suburbia

  – By Anjali Wason

• Fiction: Minimum City

  – By Hemant Sareen

• Nonfiction: Speak, Cobblestones

  – By Alexander Nazaryan

• Nonfiction: The Green Wean

  – By Paula Crossfield

• Literature: Frother’s Keeper

  – By Simona Schneider

Music

• Wolf Eyes: Trashing Eardrums in Red Hook

  – By Matthew Ozga

• Eyeballing the Future: The Residents Turn Thirty-Five, We Think

  – By Jim Knipfel

• Califone: Roots for the Twenty-First Century

  – By Katy Henriksen

• A Pre-History of Live Experimental Music in Brooklyn

  – By Al Margolis

• A Paradox of Interests: CMJ ’06

  – By Chelsea Werner

• A Southern Mouth: Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers Hit the Road Screamin

  – By Sarah Ruth Jacobs

• “Because We Said So”

  – By Grant Moser and Scott Damell

• The Double: _Loose in the Area_

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Dance

• Dancing in the New Year

  – By Carley Petesch

• David Dorfman’s Underground presented at BAM

  – By Nicole Pope

• Lionel Popkin’s Miniature Fantasies

  – By Krista Miranda

• Claude Wampler’s Performance (Career Ender) presented at The Kitchen

  – By Mathew Sandoval

Film

• !Filmed In Lugubrivision!

  – By David N. Meyer

• Chris Marker: “Make Cats Not War”The Case Of The Grinning Cat, plus 5 shorts

  – By Matt Peterson

• What Dreams May Come

  – By Sara Mayeux

• Pretty Poison (20th Century Fox)

  – By David Wilentz

• Shock Treatment: Michael Haneke’s The Seventh Continent (’89, Kino) and Lars von Trier’s Manderlay (’06, IFC Films)

  – By Matt Peterson

• Borat’s Bummer?

  – By Williams Cole

Theater

• THE ONLY HOLE THAT MATTERS: Radiohole’s FLUKE at the Collapsable Hole

  – By Jason Grote

• The “Late” Charles Mee

  – By Kenn Watt

• Pushing Buttons: An interview with playwright THOMAS BRADSHAW about Purity

  – By Tommy Smith

• Getting Cosmic with Kelly Copper

  – By Kelly Copper and Amber Reed

Fiction

• BIG, BIG LOVE

  – By Thomas D'Adamo

• Emmanuelle Loyer with Emmanuel Laurentin

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Poetry

• Will Power

  – By Anne Waldman

• NACHTMUSIK

  – By Michael Kelleher

• you were vast unto others -

  – By Jen Bervin

LastWords

• Golden Pram Complete With Crystal Chandelier

  – By Marie Carter