Charter School Reform in New York: Profiting From Poverty
By Meghan McDermott and Julie ThompsonAs public schools open their doors and begin the “drill and kill” test-prep instruction required to satiate the state’s voracious appetite for measurable outcomes, the New York City school system as a whole continues to hobble on to the next precipice of educational improvement.
A Lease In New York City
By Williams ColeFor fifty years my father sat in the same worn-out chair in a very lived-in apartment on the northern edge of Times Square. The place is warm, redolent of some masala of unknown spices. The iron radiators gargle and hiss.
Elsewhere is Here
By Daniel BairdLess than a decade ago, Williamsburg was still a desolate haven for vast, raw, dirt-cheap lofts and an emerging art scene that imagined itself an ambitious underground alternative to the narcissism of Soho and Chelsea, a 90s incarnation of the self-destructive glamour of the Lower East Side portrayed in Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependence.
Interview With Edward Bunker
By Theodore HammIn Education of a Felon (St. Martin’s Press, 2000), Edward Bunker describes growing up on the fringes of 1930s Hollywood, where his father worked as a stagehand and his mother danced in Busby Berkeley musicals. Bunker, though, soon fell adrift in the world of make-believe.
It’s the Shopping Cart, Stupid
By Ray NedzelOver and over again we hear the standard stump speech place blame on the opponent for anything bad—poverty, school violence, the hole in the ozone, obesity; and meanwhile claim responsibility for anything good—the creation of jobs, the bull market, the saving of sea turtles, and the bright colors of the flag.
A Moving Case OR: GO AHEAD! JUMP IN!
By Alan LockwoodThe film plots, which are making up the bulk of the discussion among the four of us here on the roof in the night, turn to death.
From The White Notebook
By L.S. AsekoffL.S. Askeoff has published two books of poetry: Dreams of a Work (1994) and North Star (1997).
Editor's Message
From Here to Canarsie
By Theodore Hamm“Forget New York, it’s Over!” So says Whitney, a cantankerous fixture on Lorimer near Metropolitan.
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Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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From Here to Canarsie
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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The Brooklyn Diners
– By Jason Duvalle Jones -
New York NFL Preview 2000
– By Jonas Salganik -
Grassroots Victory in Greenpoint
– By Emily DeVoti -
Charter School Reform in New York: Profiting From Poverty
– By Meghan McDermott and Julie Thompson -
It’s the Shopping Cart, Stupid
– By Ray Nedzel -
The Weathered Poem AND THE WORN CHAIR
– By William Rossa Cole
Express
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A Lease In New York City
– By Williams Cole -
Sports Talk and Civic Discourse
– By Jason Scorza -
A Week in Moresby
– By J. Scott Burgeson
Art
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Elsewhere is Here
– By Daniel Baird -
On St. Cecilia's
– By Patrick Walsh -
Letter to the Artist
– By Phong Bui
Music
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El Malo at mid-career: WILLIE COLÓN PLAYS CELEBRATE BROOKLYN!
– By Alan Lockwood
Film
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Music of the Heart
– By Eve Leeman -
Interview With Edward Bunker
– By Theodore Hamm
Fiction
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A Moving Case OR: GO AHEAD! JUMP IN!
– By Alan Lockwood -
THE END OF VENGEANCE
– By Patrick Walsh
Poetry
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From The White Notebook
– By L.S. Asekoff -
My Rising Prospects
– By Linh Dinh -
My two senses
– By Eliot Katz
