| | | Were the Newburgh 4 Really Out to Blow Up Synagogues? A Defendant Finally Speaks Out. BY GRAHAM RAYMAN  On March 24, David Williams IV and three other Newburgh, New York, men face possible life prison sentences for plotting to blow up two synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and to shoot down military airplanes at Stewart Airport. The Newburgh 4—ringleader James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams, and Laguerre Payen—were found guilty in a six-week trial based largely on the work of an FBI informant, Shahed Hussain, who posed as a wealthy Pakistani businessman with ties to an overseas terror group as part of an elaborate government sting operation. The trial showed that Cromitie had made anti-Semitic and anti-American statements, that he concocted attack plans wi... more >>
| | | | | | The Great LCD Soundsystem Ticket Fiasco BY CHRIS OPFER  "Eat shit." That was LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy's missive to StubHub scalpers in early February, just moments after presale tickets for the band's April 2 farewell show at Madison Square Garden instantly sold out. That sentiment was shared by legions of the band's fans who, unable to get tickets then or during the seemingly seconds-long general sale a few days later, were enraged to fi... more >> | | | | | | | | Hats Off to Greenwich Village's Fedora BY ROBERT SIETSEMA  Montreal's Au Pied de Cochon (APDC) has had an inordinate influence on Gotham gastronomy lately. Its hog-happy, lard-intensive menu transforms every part of the pig into mousses, grills, croquettes, roasts, salads, terrines, sausages, tarts, and fry-ups. Vegetables, fish, and poultry are kept to a minimum, while tongue, marrow, sweetbreads, and trotters from an ark's worth of animals form another... more >> | | | | | | | | Spirits in the Material World in Uncle Boonmee BY J. HOBERMAN  The acme of no-budget, Buddhist-animist, faux-naïve, avant-pop magic neorealism, Apichatpong Weera-sethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is a movie in which conversing with the materialized spirits of the dead and watching the so-called living on TV exist on the same astral plane. As marvelously eccentric as it is modest, Weerasethakul’s sixth feature (winner of t... more >> | | | | | | | | Why I Hate NYC! 41 Angry Reasons! BY MICHAEL MUSTO  Drunks still regale you with their unasked-for recollections of "where I was on 9/11." . . . Twenty-four-hour Duane Reades tempt you to bust out of bed in the middle of the night to buy more nail polish remover. . . . You get a text during lunch, then realize it's from the person you're lunching with! Chants of "I love living somewhere where the seasons change" grow really old after the fifth bl... more >> | | | | | | | | Mark Lombardi's World Conspiracy, Corruption, and Vatican Hit Men BY R. C. BAKER  The meticulous line work in Mark Lombardi's huge, hand-drawn chart about the 1991 BCCI bank collapse is interrupted by a pattern of rusty drips: The sprinkler system in the artist's studio went off a week before the 12-foot-wide piece was to be exhibited at P.S.1 in 2000. Although the reddish splatters add a vibrant expressionism to the surface, Lombardi couldn't view this accident as a serendipi... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared The United Kingdom has a swan serial killer on the loose (we mean a killer of swans, not a swan who is a killer). In the past month, 31 swans have been shot to death with a pellet gun in Somerset... Fork in the Road What Happens When, John Fraser's ever-changing restaurant/installation/culinary fantasia, begins its second life today. ... La Daily Musto In fact, he calls me a "schweinhund." This bizarre video is actually a promo for the book Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography by Robert Rosen. I'm quoted on the cover saying something... Sound of the City You will by now be familiar with Prime 6, the soon-to-be Park Slope club and already the site of much controversy. Will the neighborhood descend into an orgy of Yo MTV Raps, "Henessey" [sic], and ... Corporate After more than a quarter-century in alternative media, Michael Cohen is leaving as publisher of the Village Voice. Taking Cohen's place as publisher will be longtime VVM colleague Josh Fromson, w... | | | | |
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