| | | How Can a Religious Person Justify Being a Slumlord? BY ELIZABETH DWOSKIN  The pious Orthodox Jew who is also a notorious slumlord—now there's a touchy subject, especially inside the large and diverse community of Jews in New York. After the Voice published its series this spring on the city's 10 worst landlords, which included some religious Jews, Rabbi Jill Jacobs tackled the topic, writing a column titled "When the Slumlords Are Us" for the Forward. This was already a familiar subject for the Conservative rabbi and activist. "When I was working at a housing-rights organization while doing my rabbinical training," she tells the Voice, "the No. 1 question I got from tenants was, 'Why is my bad landlord a religious Jew?' Or people would say to me, 'You're t... more >>
| | | | | | Warpaint Wallow Exuberantly BY ROB HARVILLA  Warpaint live is a disconcerting experience. They're smiling! The bass player is dancing (and wearing overalls)! People in the crowd are dancing! There's a crowd at all! You're not alone in your bedroom, curled up in the fetal position, bawling uncontrollably! The all-female L.A. quartet generally seems built for solitude—for abject 4 a.m. dark-night-of-the-soul solo wallowing. Their stupen... more >> | | | | | | | | Kin Shop--Harold Dieterle's Second Restaurant Goes Thai BY ROBERT SIETSEMA  The most annoying aspect of Top Chef is the underlying implication that the show is creating the great chefs of the future. In my experience, the reality is quite different. Most meals I've eaten at restaurants helmed by former contestants have been lackluster, as evidenced most recently by the cooking of last season's runner-up, Ed Cotton, at Plein Sud, where he bumbled such obvious standards as... more >> | | | | | | The Fighter Feels Rigged BY J. HOBERMAN  The Fighter is based on the true story of Lowell, Massachusetts, light welterweight champ “Irish” Micky Ward, but, starring Boston working-class hero Mark Wahlberg, it plays as a Rocky-fied fairy tale for our time: Consigned to Palookaville, a sweet, unassuming boxer with more heart than brains steps up—all the way to the top of the world. David O. Russell’s first movie in the... more >> | | | | | | | | The Education Emperor Wins, Kids Lose BY NAT HENTOFF  From his first purchase of the mayoralty, Michael Bloomberg pledged that his legacy as mayor would be judged by his reform of the school system. Now, choosing Cathie Black, someone from his social circle, to replace Joel Klein as chancellor—without any search beyond his own cranium—he immediately ordered her not to talk to the press. Picking up the cue, when the state released her col... more >> | | | | | | | | Peter Saul's Thrilling Tastelessness BY CHRISTIAN VIVEROS-FAUNé  A funny thing happened as I legged it around Peter Saul's tidy, intensely powerful, history-charting retrospective at Haunch of Venison—I could swear I heard the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" drumming in my head. A show of paintings as underappreciated as it is both excoriating and endlessly entertaining, this exhibition arrives at a time of dire cultural stagnation in New York.... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared News from the Christmas tree vendor beat! Today in the New York Times' City Room blog, there's a whole story -- the second installment in a series, mind you -- about a man who sells Christmas tre... Fork in the Road Eddie Huang may have closed Xiao Ye and retreated to the warm and familiar confines of BaoHaus, but he's not going gently into that good night: he's told Eater that he's in the process of develop... La Daily Musto Don't treat it like just another recipe off the Food Channel. Jerry Castaldo learned this the hard way, as he describes in his memoir, Brooklyn NY: A Grim Retrospective--a gritty tale of dark st... Sound of the City Verily, it is Top 10 season, wherein frazzled rock critics nationwide distill a year's worth of frantic listening into handy list form, as exemplified by the Voice's annual Pazz & Jop poll, which... 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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