MAY 2011

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A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Local

Brooklyn Leads Living Wage Fight
By Diane Krauthamer
CITYNOTES: Honor in the Court
By Theodore Hamm
SISTERS FIGHT to End Harassment in Schools
By Eleanor J. Bader
REPORT CARD: Drama of the “Gifted” Program
By Liza Featherstone
in Bensonhurst, There’s a Chicken in Every (Melting) Pot
By Adam Warner

Express

On, Wisconsin
By Paul Mattick
A Mother’s Days
By Joan McClure
QUPQUGIAQ An Alaskan Folk Tale Retold
By Josh Medsker
Suicide by the Bathtub Light
By Jason Flores-Williams
A New Deal Flop
By Michael Terry
POINTS OF MORAL FRICTION When Classes Confront Each Other
By David Rosen
All the Gorey Details
By Christopher Michel
Letters to Posterity
By Allen Wilcox

Art

CHARLES TRAUB with Phong Bui
KATY SIEGEL with Phong Bui
ULAY with Alessandro Cassin
ANTOINE GUERRERO The Herculean Courtier of PS 1
By Greg Lindquist

ArtSeen

In the Use of Others for the Change
By Thomas Micchelli
Abstraction’s Ambiguity is Its Own Reward
By Edward M. Gómez
Gray Cat
By Ben La Rocco
First Class / Second Class
By Cassandra Neyenesch
DAVID ALTMEJD
By Kara L. Rooney
EVA HESSE and SOL LEWITT
By Stephanie Buhmann
GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM: The Graphic Impulse
By Thomas Micchelli
NEIL FARBER Slugging
By Shane McAdams
SPECIALIZED VISION Curating Grace Exhibition Space
By Patricia Milder
JUDY LINN 69-76 Photographs of Patti Smith
By David St.-Lascaux
Let it End Like This
By Gail Quagliata
MARI EASTMAN Objects, Decorative and Functional
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
SCOTT HOCKING
By Lynn Crawford
Where Malevich Has Left Us Today
By Robert C. Morgan
Brooklyn Dispatches
By James Kalm
Romare Bearden (1911-1988): Collage, A Centennial Celebration
By Valery Oisteanu
JAMES CLARK The Luminiferous Aether
By Craig Olson
LAUREL NAKADATE Only the Lonely
By John Yau
DEBORAH LIGORIO Escursione Meridionale
By David Rhodes

Books

POETRY: The Sublime in the Middle Ages
By Scott Hightower
RUDOLPH HERZOG with Karen Rester
RADICAL DAY CARE The 2011 NYC Anarchist Book Fair
By Patrick Gaughan
On Elegance While Sleeping
By Jesse Tangen-Mills
The Craigslist Murders: A Satire
By Tatiaana L. Laine
Lovelorn and Love Worn
By Gregory Gerke
School of Thought
By Nicolle Elizabeth
The Weather Ahead
By Kianoosh Hashemzadeh
Danny Boyle In His Own Words
By Mike Halmshaw
Wingshooters
By Maggie Hill
A Micro House of One's Own
By Helen Mitsios
Exquisite Corpses
By Jeffrey Stanley
Rapid Transit
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Zen and the Art of Psycho-Oncology
By Siobhan Devine
Poetry: The Sublime in the Middle Ages

Music

Synaptic Virginity, Lost
By David St.-Lascaux
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
BALKING HEAVILY The Residents’ Talking Light Tour at the Highline Ballroom
By Jamian Juliano-Villani
Big Drum Lives In Brooklyn!
By Geoffrey Clarfield
Built for Speed
By Justin Vellucci
Polly Jean Warms Up (A Bit)
By Julie Kocsis

Dance

Slow Movement
By Jeremy Finch
Of Cosmos, Cake, and Crossing Disciplines
By Siobhan Burke
Meta Meta
By Michelle Vellucci
I Was, I Am
By Elaine Stuart
DIY Dance
By Christine Hou
Family Values
By M.J. Thompson
Down Under
By Frances Kazan

Film

Migrating Forms 2011
By Aily Nash
GODZILLA VS. THE PREHISTORIC BISON On Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams
By Marianne Shaneen
SPINNING TOP The Legacy of Dziga Vertov Keeps Moving
By Mónica Savirón
JUSTICE ON TRIAL REBECCA RICHMAN COHEN with Penny Lane
By Penny Lane
THAI FUSION Uruphong Raksasad’s Agrarian Utopia and Stories from the North
By Colin Beckett

Theater

The Foundry Theater’s NYC...Just Like I Pictured It
By Jake Hooker
The Revolution Will Be....Poetic People Power
By Melissa F. Moschitto
Cut! Unscripting Reality with Crystal Skillman
By Joshua Conkel
The Theater at Home: 31 Down
By Frank Boudreaux

Fiction

A Collection of Stories
By Daniel Grandbois
Gerontophobia
By Jessica Rogers
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson
UNSCIENCE FICTIONS Richard Kostelanetz in memory of Robert Heinlien
By Richard Kostelanetz
Character and Fitness: Chapter 9
By Jason Flores-Williams
Character and Fitness: Chapter 10
By Jason Flores-Williams
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

Practiced Restraint
By Lawrence Giffin
Formerly Death
By Priscilla Becker
Three Poems
By Leonard Schwartz

Art Books

The Eye Watching the Eye Paint
By Greg Lindquist
Painting: Dead and Loving It
By John Ganz
LA DÉCORATION! TOUT EST DANS CE MOT: Mallarmé’s Writings on Fashion
By Eugenie Dalland
The New Woman in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
By Abbe Schriber
Try a Little Tenderness
By John Beeson

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MAY 2011

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PRISCILLA BECKER, the lonesome antelope of poetry, suffers from comorbid dyslexia. She lives without her cats with no children on the R line.

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MAY 2011

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Local

Brooklyn Leads Living Wage Fight
By Diane Krauthamer
CITYNOTES: Honor in the Court
By Theodore Hamm
SISTERS FIGHT to End Harassment in Schools
By Eleanor J. Bader
REPORT CARD: Drama of the “Gifted” Program
By Liza Featherstone
in Bensonhurst, There’s a Chicken in Every (Melting) Pot
By Adam Warner

Express

On, Wisconsin
By Paul Mattick
A Mother’s Days
By Joan McClure
QUPQUGIAQ An Alaskan Folk Tale Retold
By Josh Medsker
Suicide by the Bathtub Light
By Jason Flores-Williams
A New Deal Flop
By Michael Terry
POINTS OF MORAL FRICTION When Classes Confront Each Other
By David Rosen
All the Gorey Details
By Christopher Michel
Letters to Posterity
By Allen Wilcox

Art

CHARLES TRAUB with Phong Bui
KATY SIEGEL with Phong Bui
ULAY with Alessandro Cassin
ANTOINE GUERRERO The Herculean Courtier of PS 1
By Greg Lindquist

ArtSeen

In the Use of Others for the Change
By Thomas Micchelli
Abstraction’s Ambiguity is Its Own Reward
By Edward M. Gómez
Gray Cat
By Ben La Rocco
First Class / Second Class
By Cassandra Neyenesch
DAVID ALTMEJD
By Kara L. Rooney
EVA HESSE and SOL LEWITT
By Stephanie Buhmann
GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM: The Graphic Impulse
By Thomas Micchelli
NEIL FARBER Slugging
By Shane McAdams
SPECIALIZED VISION Curating Grace Exhibition Space
By Patricia Milder
JUDY LINN 69-76 Photographs of Patti Smith
By David St.-Lascaux
Let it End Like This
By Gail Quagliata
MARI EASTMAN Objects, Decorative and Functional
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
SCOTT HOCKING
By Lynn Crawford
Where Malevich Has Left Us Today
By Robert C. Morgan
Brooklyn Dispatches
By James Kalm
Romare Bearden (1911-1988): Collage, A Centennial Celebration
By Valery Oisteanu
JAMES CLARK The Luminiferous Aether
By Craig Olson
LAUREL NAKADATE Only the Lonely
By John Yau
DEBORAH LIGORIO Escursione Meridionale
By David Rhodes

Books

POETRY: The Sublime in the Middle Ages
By Scott Hightower
RUDOLPH HERZOG with Karen Rester
RADICAL DAY CARE The 2011 NYC Anarchist Book Fair
By Patrick Gaughan
On Elegance While Sleeping
By Jesse Tangen-Mills
The Craigslist Murders: A Satire
By Tatiaana L. Laine
Lovelorn and Love Worn
By Gregory Gerke
School of Thought
By Nicolle Elizabeth
The Weather Ahead
By Kianoosh Hashemzadeh
Danny Boyle In His Own Words
By Mike Halmshaw
Wingshooters
By Maggie Hill
A Micro House of One's Own
By Helen Mitsios
Exquisite Corpses
By Jeffrey Stanley
Rapid Transit
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Zen and the Art of Psycho-Oncology
By Siobhan Devine
Poetry: The Sublime in the Middle Ages

Music

Synaptic Virginity, Lost
By David St.-Lascaux
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
BALKING HEAVILY The Residents’ Talking Light Tour at the Highline Ballroom
By Jamian Juliano-Villani
Big Drum Lives In Brooklyn!
By Geoffrey Clarfield
Built for Speed
By Justin Vellucci
Polly Jean Warms Up (A Bit)
By Julie Kocsis

Dance

Slow Movement
By Jeremy Finch
Of Cosmos, Cake, and Crossing Disciplines
By Siobhan Burke
Meta Meta
By Michelle Vellucci
I Was, I Am
By Elaine Stuart
DIY Dance
By Christine Hou
Family Values
By M.J. Thompson
Down Under
By Frances Kazan

Film

Migrating Forms 2011
By Aily Nash
GODZILLA VS. THE PREHISTORIC BISON On Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams
By Marianne Shaneen
SPINNING TOP The Legacy of Dziga Vertov Keeps Moving
By Mónica Savirón
JUSTICE ON TRIAL REBECCA RICHMAN COHEN with Penny Lane
By Penny Lane
THAI FUSION Uruphong Raksasad’s Agrarian Utopia and Stories from the North
By Colin Beckett

Theater

The Foundry Theater’s NYC...Just Like I Pictured It
By Jake Hooker
The Revolution Will Be....Poetic People Power
By Melissa F. Moschitto
Cut! Unscripting Reality with Crystal Skillman
By Joshua Conkel
The Theater at Home: 31 Down
By Frank Boudreaux

Fiction

A Collection of Stories
By Daniel Grandbois
Gerontophobia
By Jessica Rogers
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson
UNSCIENCE FICTIONS Richard Kostelanetz in memory of Robert Heinlien
By Richard Kostelanetz
Character and Fitness: Chapter 9
By Jason Flores-Williams
Character and Fitness: Chapter 10
By Jason Flores-Williams
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

Practiced Restraint
By Lawrence Giffin
Formerly Death
By Priscilla Becker
Three Poems
By Leonard Schwartz

Art Books

The Eye Watching the Eye Paint
By Greg Lindquist
Painting: Dead and Loving It
By John Ganz
LA DÉCORATION! TOUT EST DANS CE MOT: Mallarmé’s Writings on Fashion
By Eugenie Dalland
The New Woman in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
By Abbe Schriber
Try a Little Tenderness
By John Beeson

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