A Green Ground Zero A Green Ground Zero
The debate over how to redevelop the World Trade Center site has revolved around several key concerns: the commercial interests of the real estate industry, the public's desire...
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Griscom and Will Dana
The Art of 9/11 The Art of 9/11
Mama, build me a fence!
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Map to Ground Zero Map to Ground Zero
The footprints of clashing interests.
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Philip Nobel
Auteur, Auteur! Auteur, Auteur!
The streets of lower Manhattan are deserted--also spotlessly clean and glowing in the light of the golden hour--when the studio head takes the movie director outside to tell hi...
Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Mayor of My Hometown The Mayor of My Hometown
It's only August, but I'll go out on a limb and congratulate the Village Voice's Keith Harris for what I feel confident will stand the test of time as the stupidest comment of ...
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Scene of the Crime Scene of the Crime
Bob Dylan at Newport
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
The Play’s the Thing The Play’s the Thing
Like life itself, good movies sometimes change the subject on you in midparagraph. You think you're watching the story of an elderly man in mourning, buoying himself up against gr...
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Beauty Tips and Politics Beauty Tips and Politics
Hot media news: Women want hard-hitting reports on issues that affect them.
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Lauren Sandler
Screening Our Politics Screening Our Politics
Like Pop-Up Video--one of the many things the movie-industry left never anticipated--ancillary factoids keep imposing themselves on Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner's Radical Hollywood:...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson
The Forgettable & Forgotten The Forgettable & Forgotten
Dispatches from adolescent territory reach me occasionally through my niece Michelle, who has moved into her teen years like the Wehrmacht hitting Belgium. Her most recent posting...
Jul 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans