March 2003 Archives
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Opinions
A Brief Catechism of Rock Shows, Part I
When it comes to rock shows, there are many guidelines to be followed, and some fans do so with a religious fervor. Hear the word of the rock gods and know the truth.
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Personalities
A Good Day To Be Alive
A conversation about life as a wino, the effects of war, heroin, Shiner, marriage and pornography, horseplay and jail, and the amount of muscles it takes to frown, between William and Sarah Hepola.
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Stories
The New-Old Albany
Every great city is filled with a thousand untold stories. Albany, New York, however, has none. In a bout of civic service, Tobias Seamon decides to concoct a few.
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Letters From London
Raising the Game
As New York recovers from Sept. 11 with construction, it would do well to look abroad for ideas. Reporting on the history of London’s skyline, and how architecture heals.
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Letters From the Editor
Juror No. 4
Last week I was called up for jury duty. It was not at all unexpected. I’d already been sent the cheerful pink-and-white card twice over. Both times I’d...
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Listening
Dif Juz, Soundpool
Dif Juz, however you’re meant to pronounce it, is music for music dorks such as myself. Soundpool presents the quartet’s first two EPs, Huremics and Vibrating Air, with...
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Letters From the Editor
Signs of Protest
A list of signs seen at the Saturday, 23 March 2003 anti-war march in New York City. - Fuck Bush And Fuck All You Fucking Republicans- I Weep For My Country- Look...
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People
Charlie White
California photographer and author of Charlie White: Photographs discusses a world of desire, Apeneck Sweeney, and loud hungry things with gnashing teeth.
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Women's Fashion
Part V, Releasing Your Inner Slut
If you look like you just got some, it’s sexy. If you’re dressed like you’re out to get some, it’s slutty. Ignore the distinction.
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Opinions
Springtime for Washington
Daisies and rifles are never easy bedfellows, especially when both are just starting to bloom.
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Personalities
75,000,000 Toddlers Can’t Be Wrong
Steve Burns, the former host of Nickleodeon’s kids show Blue’s Clues, has embarked on a new career path: musician.
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Stories
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
There’s a lot of land in the U.S., and it’s covered with roads. Our writer takes a cross-country tour with one hand on the wheel and the other on the camera.
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Gallery
A Previous Life
Cartier-Bresson said the only joy in photos is geometry. Lucky for us, Toronto photographer Marshall Sokoloff doesn’t disappoint. A gallery of six weeks’ work, sorting through the rubble.
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Personalities
Tom Ridge, You Could be the New Oprah!
Major contributors to the Republican party may be getting pay-offs in the most unexpected ways. Philip Graham considers opening his checkbook with an idea that could save the free world and literature.
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Personalities
Albany, Counting the Ways
The heart of New York may be in the five boroughs, but its gear box is buried under snow in Albany. Upstater Tobias Seamon reports on the many reasons to love a seedy town of secrets, bosses, and smoke-filled rooms.
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Opinions
Lost in Translation
The Chinatown bus network: offerring inexpensive transport between the major Chinatowns of the eastern US. The New York Times coos over the novelty; we actually take a ride on the bus and have a decidedly different take.
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The Non-Expert
Inspiration
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain why people are perpetually fascinated with inspirational quotes. Like that “Vince Lombardi shit.”
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Letters From the Editor
Brooklyn Views
So you’re all nervy on the way back from the gym. Anxious, defensive, self-loathing like a sweat. You think, you call this a life? You’re almost whacked by...
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Listening
The Thermals, More Parts Per Million
The Thermals are from Portland, Oregon. The Thermals are Hutch Harris and Kathy Foster (Hutch & Kathy, the All-Girl Summer Fun Band), Ben Barnett (Kind of Like Spitting), and Jordan Hudson ...
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Gallery
The Toilets of Austin
Duchamp had one toilet; we have 17. Texas photographer MicHael Galkovsky spent a great deal of time in Austin bathrooms to bring us a series of intimate portraits.
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Spoofs & Satire
MetaFilter in the Ruins
When the apocalypse comes, when the world ends as we know it, you can bet someone will be updating the Blue.
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Personalities
Accidental Strength
Princeton graduate Ung Lee wins prestige, cash, and a number of prizes for his fiction thesis. The hitch is, one of the stories was stolen. The author whose work was robbed responds.
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Letters From the Editor
Seven Pounds, One-and-a-Half Ounces
Anna Blakney Sutton, friend, artist, illustrator for The Morning News, and now: Mom. We are excited beyond belief to introduce her daughter Iris, born today, March 1, 2003, at 5:37 a.m. Many,...