| | | Dirty Little Secrets in NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau BY GRAHAM RAYMAN  Earlier this year, the Voice uncovered a troubling pattern of how the NYPD operates, relying on secretly recorded tapes to show that street cops are under intense pressure to achieve seemingly contradictory goals set down by their superiors. Years of recordings, lawsuits, and testimonies by active and retired police officers reveal that Ray Kelly's police department has been on an intense program that punishes innocent bystanders while intimidating and harassing actual crime victims. We've heard relatively little, however, about the NYPD wing that is supposed to be watching for these kinds of injustices: the Internal Affairs Bureau. Until now. More officers have come forward, telling the ... more >>
| | | | | | | | AraabMuzik, MPC Hero BY BRANDON SODERBERG  Abraham Orellana, a/k/a AraabMuzik, stands outside a nightclub in Greensboro, North Carolina. It's late October, just a few days after his much-discussed performance at Santos' Party House in Manhattan, and he's ready to step on yet another stage and deliver yet another rousing performance on his MPC-2500 drum machine. The 21-year-old producer, known to Harlem rap enthusiasts as the mastermind be... more >> | | | | | | | | Umi Nom Brings Filipino, Pan-Asian Fare to Pratt BY ROBERT SIETSEMA  It's a Thursday evening well into the first semester of the school year, and Umi Nom is half-empty. Which is a shame, since nearly everything I've tasted there has been superb. The restaurant is berthed on Myrtle Avenue on the eastern edge of the Pratt campus, in a Sargasso Sea of a neighborhood between Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant—where trash often clogs the gutters and the nearest ... more >> | | | | | | Natalie Portman Goes Batshit in a Tutu in Black Swan BY J. HOBERMAN  A near-irresistible exercise in bravura absurdity, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan deserves to become a minor classic of heterosexual camp—at the very least, it’s the most risible and riotous backstage movie since Showgirls. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake has had a spooky quality at least since Tod Browning appropriated a few bars of it to introduce his 1930 Dracula; Aronofsky takes th... more >> | | | | | | | | 'Addams Family' Star: This Show Has Been Shat Upon! BY MICHAEL MUSTO  Broadway funny lady Jackie Hoffman is furious about the eight months of obsessive critical abuse that has been flung at The Addams Family, in which she plays salty, weed-smoking, burnt-out Grandma. But she also seems a little pissed at the musical itself. In fact, Jackie is just mad at life, which has always been her shtick—one she worked out with amusing bitterness in her Jackie Five-OH! ... more >> | | | | | | | | Focus Here! A Round-up of Current Photography Exhibits BY MARTHA SCHWENDENER  Last year, at the entrance to "Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West," MOMA curator Eva Respini mounted one of Richard Prince's Untitled (Cowboy) photos. Originally shot by Sam Abell for Phillip Morris, it's an arresting image—and probably the only one in the exhibition originally created for advertising. Respini's choice was canny and mercenary, akin to Prince's origina... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared A dude has married his yellow lab, and despite what you might think, "it's not sexual -- it's just pure love." Joseph Guiso, a single guy from Toowoomba, Australia, who's actually kind of cute, ... Fork in the Road Although we could barely make it out through the steamy windows, it appears as though the rather hideous Charles Gwathmey condo tower (a.k.a. the Green Monster) on Astor Place will be getting a w... La Daily Musto And she's fuming mad about it! But she's also a little annoyed about the less appealing aspects of her part in the show itself and the low-class audiences that come to lap it up on a regular bas... Sound of the City Your initial reaction to the fact that there's a band named Pains of Being Pure at Heart is revulsion, of course, but as a lover of sweet, gauzy, energetic power pop you eventually get over it, g... Corporate For over a century, the California Supreme Court has interpreted antitrust law as protecting consumers from high prices, not the profits of entrenched market leaders who fear competition. The Su... | | | | |
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