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Issue: 0811

What to Get L. Ron Hubbard for His Birthday
How “Anonymous” has changed the game of exposing Scientology's ruthless global scam
Tony Ortega
Hillary and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
The strange case of conservative pundits and their love for Barack Obama
Wayne Barrett
Minnesota Cops Promise a Kinder, Gentler RNC
[Runnin' Scared]
So why are they stocking up on stun guns?
Sean Gardiner
Parole Deal Dissolves
[Runnin' Scared]
The end of Pataki's throw-away-the-key policy hits a 35-year-old snag
Sean Gardiner
Gutter Twins Unite
Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan conspire in the gutter
Michael D. Ayers
A Fierce Night in Brooklyn
[Dirty Blonde]
Honoring a somewhat fatigued Project Runway victor at a South Slope house party
Annie Fischer
Rick Ross Rolls
Continuing his pleasantly, audaciously inept hustle
Jayson Greene
Why?'s Alopecia
Acrobatic excursions, mired in self-doubt
MATT GEWOLB
Hercules & Love Affair
Glorious dance music from an unlikely, warbling source
DAN WEISS
These United States' A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden
Arty D.C. denizens complain about the ladies
TONY SCLAFANI
Michael McDonald: Mystery White Boy
[Down in Front]
Live at the irony apocalypse
Rob Harvilla
Conglomerates Become Nazis in Heartbeat Detector
Corporate crimes meet crimes of humanity
Scott Foundas
Radicals Get Retrospectives
[The Cine Phile]
Renegade Georges Franju, meet rebel Kim Ki-young
J. Hoberman
Michael Haneke's Funny Games: One-Trick Phony
Blind Mountain's Chinese torture trumps Haneke's tortured antics
J. Hoberman
Contempt: A Once-a-Century Cultural Constellation
[Tracking Shots]
They never made them like this
NICK PINKERTON
Sputnik Mania: Launching the Cold War
[Tracking Shots]
Doc depicts a topsy-turvy world
Jim Ridley
Towards Darkness: The Bourne Opprobrium
[Tracking Shots]
Third-world kidnapping scourge as action-movie grist
Nathan Lee
Wetlands Preserved: An Appropriately Mellow Chronicle
[Tracking Shots]
No good nostalgia for a Tribeca hippie nightclub
Michelle Orange
War Made Easy's Nopartisan Iraq-War Skewering
Just in case you needed to hear how bad it is again
Aaron Hillis
Horton Hears a Who!'s Blessed Reverence
[Tracking Shots]
Seuss, somehow not fucked up
ED GONZALEZ
Never Back Down: Better Than It Needs to Be
[Tracking Shots]
Throwdown would be proud
Jim Ridley
Flash Point's Phony Gravitas
[Tracking Shots]
Almost fun when it plays dumb
ED GONZALEZ
Sleepwalking: Relentless in Its Bleakness
Watch Charlize Theron suffer!
Michelle Orange
Tropics Topics
Miami, Jamaica, and two new one-woman shows
Alexis Soloski
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Prowls
But Dead Man's Cell Phone and Parlour Song ring hollow
Michael Feingold
Hello Failure: Subdued Existentialism
[Sightlines]
Too flimsy for more than one act
GARRETT EISLER
U.S. Drag: How to Catch a Serial Killer
[Sightlines]
A sharp, satisfying satire
TATYANA GERSHKOVICH
(RUS)H: Failed Psychosexual Mystery
[Sightlines]
Less intrigue than a typical Law & Order episode
TOM SELLAR
Clay Shirky Celebrates Mob Rule
New-media philosophe praises tech-driven changes in community power
Alissa Quart
Dean Wareham's Rememories
Looking back at life in Luna and Galaxie 500
Brian Sholis
Welcome to Hollywooster
[Best in Show]
Michel Gonry: Make Your Own Epic
R.C. Baker
The 2008 Whitney Biennial and the Failure of an Empire
Low stakes and open rules dominate
Leslie Camhi
LeeSaar/The Company: Turf Wars
Sometimes she Tarzan, he Jane
Deborah Jowitt
Paul Taylor Dance Company: The Dream Catcher
A great choreographer roams south of the border
Deborah Jowitt
The H. Purcell Show: King Arthur
'What danger from a naked foe?' Ask Mark Morris.
Deborah Jowitt
Keely Garfield: Hiding in Plain Sight
Relationships viewed through a cracked glass
Deborah Jowitt
YEE-HAAW!
Let’s get country
Keisha Franklin
LIAR, LIAR
But is it his nose that will grow?
Sharyn Jackson
TWICE AS NICE
Catch two art openings at the Kitchen
Angela Ashman
GET YOUR JUICES FLOWIN’
Can Studio B’s stage handle nearly all of Brooklyn’s hip-hop community?
ARACELI CRUZ
BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM
A revelation of humanity in film
EUDIE PAK
With Friends Like These
A stripper takes on God
Sharyn Jackson
Dennis Cooper
Angela Ashman
WAKE UP!
DJ Kstarr drops a mix tape intended for hip-hop sleepers
ARACELI CRUZ
SQUALL IN THE FAMILY
A mother-and-son reunion bridges public radio’s finest and NYC noise’s grittiest
Christopher R. Weingarten
QUEASY DOES IT
A retrospective that tests your threshold for gore
Angela Ashman
DINOSAUR JR. JR.
J Mascis’s Witch crank it up
Zach Baron
GOAT, RESPLENDENT
The Mountain Goats summit in Manhattan
Zach Baron
DOUBLE THE DUBLIN
Will green beer taste twice as sweet?
ARACELI CRUZ
LET’S GET BOLLOXED!
Three nights of Irish rowdiness with the Pogues
Richard Gehr
GET HEARD
Latino poets take the stage, and you too can speak up
ARACELI CRUZ
CANUCKS ON FILM
Movies from our Northern neighbors
EUDIE PAK
CREATIVE COLLISION
A contest where you choose the winner
EUDIE PAK
BAND AID
Anti-war stars speak up
Sharyn Jackson
LOVE BITES
Godard’s study of marriage and art in a fresh print
Angela Ashman
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION
Left-wing thinkers come together for three days of talks
Angela Ashman
The Real Cost of the Iraq War: $3 Trillion
[This Modern World]
Tom Tomorrow
The cost of war
[Cartoons]
Tom Tomorrow
Eliot Spitzer Goes Down
Behind the governor's extreme makeover
Tom Robbins
McCain Retreats on Terror
Though acclaimed for opposing torture, the Republican presidential nominee votes to keep it
Nat Hentoff
David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'
An election-season essay
David Mamet
The Village Voice's Choice Eats 2008
More than a thousand foodies packed the Puck Building for a tasting extravaganza
Cary Conover
South by Southwest 2008
Five days worth of shows, bands, booze, and moustaches
Free Will Astrology: March 12 through 18
Rob Brezsny
Who Asked You to Make the Bed?
[Ask a Mexican!]
And how do we stop the chain e-mails around here?
Gustavo Arellano
Behind Jim and Artie Mitchell's Behind the Green Door
[Pucker Up]
Parsing a splendid, lurid memoir of life at S.F.'s O'Farrell Theater
Tristan Taormino
Letters
Old-School French Restaurants Somehow Still Survive in Midtown
[Fork in the Road]
Sarah DiGregorio
Christian From Project Runway Has a Boyfriend!
[La Dolce Musto]
Siddown and shuddup! It's da Kollege of Musical Knowledge.
Michael Musto
Jigger of Gin at a New Grand Street Cocktail Lounge
[Counter Culture]
In a pickle at a fashionable Williamsburg cocktail lounge
Robert Sietsema
Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Fuzzy Fights
[Game On]
The combat’s cuddly in the new Smash
Chris Ward
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