Help us raise $200,000 to keep the Rail independent, relevant, and free!
A Minimum Matter of Survival.
By Marjory GarrisonStepping through the bright yellow door and into the cafeteria of Neighbors Together, the first thing you notice are the white Fruit of the Loom T-shirts pinned to one wall above a chalkboard. Messages are scrolled in thick, uneven black marker across the front of the shirts: “Governor Pataki: Help Us in Our Struggle,” “Election Day Is Coming,” and so on.
American-made Disaster in Iraq: A Political Autopsy
By Christian ParentiArrogance, incompetence and racism are becoming the signature features of American military rule in Iraq. Exhibit one: the siege of Falluja, where hundreds have died. Even more are set to die at the hands of U.S. Marines.
Art In Conversation
Vito Acconci with Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey
Vito Acconci is one of the founders of contemporary art as we know it. His writings, performances, and installations have inspired and opened doors for countless artists. In recent years, his career has shifted to running a studio of architects trying to find a "fluid space."
The Photography of Robert Bergman
By David Levi Strauss, John Yau, Paul Mattick, Vicki Goldberg, and Katy SiegelRobert Bergman is a photographer who extends out of the tradition of Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams, poets who possessed a bottomless empathy for their subjects. And, like a poet, his work can be found in a book, rather than in a gallery.
Amanda Guest
By Ben La RoccoThe temptation of complacency in making art is nearly irresistible, particularly when one attains a modicum of success with one’s work.
Boredom’s Just Another Vice: Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes
By Lisa RosmanAll laurels eventually become resting grounds, and with Coffee and Cigarettes, Jim Jarmusch rides his own coattails, with none of the panache that defined his earlier work.
Music In Conversation
Un-Liberating the Airwaves WFMU’s Ken Freedman on the Post–Janet Jackson FCC
By Dave MandlKen Freedman, station manager of WFMU, recently spoke with Rail music editor Dave Mandl about the current FCC controversies.
Growing Up with the Brooklyn Outlaws
By Andrew Hodges and Ian DalyThe Taino Tribe motorcycle club is tucked away on a desolate stretch of Flushing Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn, behind a series of three unmarked doors in a worn-out red brick townhouse. Two members, Mike and Raymond, are hanging out under a Special Forces banner, absorbed in a game of chess.
Editor's Message
A Time for Peace!
By Theodore HammArtSeen
-
Erró
– By Katie Stone -
Dike Blaire
– By Roger White -
Indigestible Correctness Parts I & II
– By William Powhida -
Rico Gatson
– By Nick Stillman -
Los Carpinteros
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Ricoh Gerbl
– By Sonya Shrier -
Ray Parker
– By Jim Long -
Cristobal Dam
– By James Kalm -
Natalie Charkow Hollander
– By Rachel Youens -
Amanda Guest
– By Ben La Rocco -
Michael Scoggins
– By Ben La Rocco -
David Humphrey
– By James Kalm -
Chicks on Speed
– By Megan Heuer -
Blind Spot Magazine
– By Farrah Karapetian -
The Icelandic Love Corporation with Praxis
– -
Barbara Kruger
– By Rachel Youens -
Eve Aschheim: New and Recent Paintings
– By Elisa Soliven
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
-
A Time for Peace!
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
-
Growing Up with the Brooklyn Outlaws
– By Andrew Hodges and Ian Daly -
A Minimum Matter of Survival.
– By Marjory Garrison -
Health Care in Crisis: NYC Hospitals Fail Victims of Rape
– By Hirsh Sawhney -
Health Care in Crisis: Home Health Aides Ready to Walk Out
– By Amy Zimmer -
Letter to Ratner
– By Johannah Rodgers -
Givin’ the People What They Want, pt. 1
– By Theodore Hamm
Express
-
American-made Disaster in Iraq: A Political Autopsy
– By Christian Parenti -
Beware Negroes with Guns
– By Norman Kelley -
Exonerated, then What? Life after Death Row
– By Patrick Mulvaney -
Message from My Uncle Peter
– By Williams Cole -
The Billionaires Get Ready
– By Christian Roselund
Art
-
The Photography of Robert Bergman
– By David Levi Strauss, John Yau, Paul Mattick, Vicki Goldberg, and Katy Siegel -
Open House: Working in Brooklyn
– By Daniel Baird -
Vito Acconci with Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey
ArtSeen
-
Erró
– By Katie Stone -
Dike Blaire
– By Roger White -
Indigestible Correctness Parts I & II
– By William Powhida -
Rico Gatson
– By Nick Stillman -
Los Carpinteros
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Ricoh Gerbl
– By Sonya Shrier -
Ray Parker
– By Jim Long -
Cristobal Dam
– By James Kalm -
Natalie Charkow Hollander
– By Rachel Youens -
Amanda Guest
– By Ben La Rocco -
Michael Scoggins
– By Ben La Rocco -
David Humphrey
– By James Kalm -
Chicks on Speed
– By Megan Heuer -
Blind Spot Magazine
– By Farrah Karapetian -
The Icelandic Love Corporation with Praxis
– -
Barbara Kruger
– By Rachel Youens -
Eve Aschheim: New and Recent Paintings
– By Elisa Soliven
Books
-
Carl Hancock Rux with Lara Stapleton
-
Linh Dinh with Matthew Sharpe
-
Voices Not So Distant
– By Brian Evenson -
Paris Spleen
– By Andy Merrifield -
Kareem’s Got Other Skills
– By Hirsh Sawhney
Music
-
Un-Liberating the Airwaves WFMU’s Ken Freedman on the Post–Janet Jackson FCC
– By Dave Mandl -
New Sound, New York Takes Manhattan (and Long Island City, and…)
– By Alan Lockwood -
Subtle
– By Grant Moser
Dance
-
Dancing on the Rail
– By Vanessa Manko -
Maguy Martin: One Can't Eat Applause, One Can't Fight With Abstraction?
–
Film
-
Boredom’s Just Another Vice: Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes
– By Lisa Rosman -
The Blonds: Slippery Slope of Truth
– By Douglas Singleton -
Docs in Sight
– By Williams Cole -
Outtakes: The Words of Kill Bill Volume 2
– By Galen Williams -
in conversation: Taylor Mead
– By Sissi Tax -
Bukowski: Born into This
– By Williams Cole
Theater
-
Excerpt from Fast and Loose, an ethical collaboration
– By José Cruz Gonzalez, John Walch, Kirsten Greenidge, and Julie Marie Myatt -
Pap and Secrets: Now That's What I Call a Storm
– By Christy Hutchcraft -
Back to the Source: Great Jones’s Seven at La MaMa
– By David Kilpatrick -
in dialogue: Fast and Loose, with Ethics
– By C. Denby Swanson
Fiction
-
Traffic Island
– By Matthew Kirby -
718
– By Roy Nathanson -
Myriam's Revenge
– By Constanza Jaramillo Cathcart -
La venganza de Myriam
– By Constanza Jaramillo Cathcart
Poetry
-
Waiting with the Dead
– By Jennifer L. Knox -
Category #2: Laundry Detergent
– By Kristin Prevallet
ADVERTISEMENTS