Unfinished Women Unfinished Women
Imaginary Friends, The Mercy Seat
Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman
The Year in Pictures The Year in Pictures
Looking backward in the January chill, I feel my eyes shoot past the films of 2002 toward a movie made some thirty years ago: a picture by Martin Scorsese about violent, driven...
Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
I first read Samuel Delany's Tales of Nevèrÿon during the high-geek days of junior high.
Jan 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim
‘Stakes Is High’ ‘Stakes Is High’
Fifteen years ago, rappers like Public Enemy, KRS-One and Queen Latifah were received as heralds of a new movement.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jeff Chang
Russell Simmons’s Rap Russell Simmons’s Rap
Russell Simmons, known for decades as Rush to his friends, is of average height and build for a man his age (45), with a cleanshaven face, bald dome and light complexion.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Miles Marshall Lewis
Holy Rock ‘n’ Rollers Holy Rock ‘n’ Rollers
In Hicksville, Long Island, on any given Sunday afternoon, pierced and tattooed teenagers in black clothing gather to listen and watch as groups of kids like themselves tear th...
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Lauren Sandler
Fear of a Punk Planet Fear of a Punk Planet
The Chicago-based magazine Punk Planet--nominated for the past two years in Utne Reader's Alternate Press Awards for "General Excellence," along with such better-heeled competi...
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ivan Kreilkamp
Kathleen Hanna’s Fire Kathleen Hanna’s Fire
On the self-titled debut record by punk/dance band Le Tigre, there's a short song called "Eau d'Bedroom Dancing" that pays tribute to the timeless tradition of spinning around ...
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
Does Europe Do It Better? Does Europe Do It Better?
In more than fifteen years of rock-and-roll touring, my worst night of sleep followed a June 10, 1989, show at Centro Sociale Leoncavallo, an anticapitalist squat in Milan.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Johnny Temple
Sweet Soul Music Sweet Soul Music
As Trent Lott struggled to "repudiate" segregation fifty years after it was outlawed, about the only point he left out of his incoherent counterattack is that he was a soul-mus...
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro