November 2006 Archives
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Op-Ed
Biloxi Blues
Katrina’s destruction of the Mississippi coast left many residents homeless, unemployed, and vowing recovery. One year later, our writer revisits the coast, but finds little sign of progress.
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Spoofs & Satire
We’re Looking Out for You
With slo-mo commercials warning against fender benders, does your insurance company truly have your well-being in mind?
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Op-Ed
Consuming Obama
Barack Obama is riding a wave of enthusiasm, and though we sense his sincerity, there’s little else we know about him. Considering the man everyone seems to think should be our next president.
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Reading
Book Digest: November 27, 2006
By Christmas Eve, I never feel like I’ve bought enough. The arms race catches up with me, it tugs at my anxiety and my wallet. At some point on...
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Reader Letters
Reader(s) Response
Dear writers, I’m so enjoying your love and devotion to Star Jones. I hope your love for her is not ending. Now you posted something insightful regarding people with...
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Profiles
Around the City With Eliane Elias
Experienced musicians sometimes find it tempting to stick with already-established styles in their later albums. Jazz pianist Eliane Elias talks about breaking the mold.
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Gallery
Mexico
These are photos of your grandmother’s winter holiday. They document your cousin’s spring break—minus the bikinis and beer bongs. But Martin Parr’s photos of Mexico are not the pictures one brings back from a trip. Instead, this work seems like memories of a visit.
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Personal Essays
Potluck Supper
The best Thanksgivings are the ones where all the guests bring their own specialties to the table. We serve up our best, potluck-style.
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Spoofs & Satire
The Five Stages of Black Friday
The road from denial to Christmas is an arduous one, and begins the day after Thanksgiving. Abandon all hope, and brave the throngs.
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Gallery
On the Street
Between 1980 and 1990, the Village Voice ran photographer Amy Arbus’s “On the Street” photo column, a page documenting downtown’s most vibrant, creative dressers and personalities, and here are its greatest hits.
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Reading
Book Digest: November 20, 2006
The issue of how we come to choose the books (and music, art, movies, television, etc.) we attend to is one that I wrestle with continuously, in large part based...
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Watching
Video Digest: November 17, 2006
The clip of the week—and maybe the year—was this corporate Bank of America serenade using U2’s “One” as a blueprint on which to rhyme fierce couplets about...
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Notes From the Lawn
Plain Air Dining
Americans love their cars—as chariots, mobile offices, and teenage make-out spots. But when did they become dining tables?
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New York, New York
Metro Crisis
Mike Bloomberg has been kidnapped and the rest of the city is threatened—by the cutest gang of lovable forest-sprite fairy thugs to ever take New York hostage.
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Listening
Getting Over Music Hang-Ups
I feel like at every point in my life I’ve had some arbitrary musical exclusion only to have it whittled down over time. It’s true: There’s always...
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Spoofs & Satire
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Pogue
If only Shane MacGowan had been more persuasive, his Pogues might have been recognized as the greatest of all Irish bands.
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Reading
Book Digest: November 13, 2006
In Richard Powers’s excellent newest novel, The Echo Maker, a brain scientist contemplates the bad reviews attendant to his freshly published book—a novel experience for him. And he...
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Celebrity Magazine
Stakeout
Vince and Drew’s romance fizzles when he begins stalking her neighbor. And back at CM HQ it’s reflecting poorly on his work, while everybody else is busy filming segments for their new website.
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Gallery
Breakthrew
Can warm colors and personal crisis be political? Can drawings cure artist’s block? Tom Burckhardt burns, drowns, and mourns the canvas—but never paints on it.
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Watching
Video Digest: November 10, 2006
In eighth grade, at one of those slumber parties where you try to make each other levitate but only make a gallon of ice cream disappear, someone asked who was...
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The Non-Expert
Name That Congress
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we reveal how George W. Bush will nickname every one of his new, non-Republican buddies in Congress.
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Spoofs & Satire
You Sexy Atheist, You
Who says non-believers can’t get frisky like the faithful? Secular countries may be suffering declining populations, but atheists still have all the fun.
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Listening
Choosing Music for Storms and Whatever Comes After
It’s November, and it’s raining in Brooklyn. Unlike almost every other day, music didn’t feel quite right on the way to the subway. At least none of...
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Letters From London
Live at the Isle of Wight
Home to past rock festivals, model villages, and other dinosaurs, this wedge in the English Channel makes for an inviting family vacation.
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Politics
Mock the Vote
A month after we asked our readers to create and photograph political campaign signs of their own making, here are our favorites. We announce the winners of our Encyclopedia Brown for District Attorney contest.
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Reading
Book Digest: November 6, 2006
You should know that Nonrequired Reading, Wislawa Szymborska’s small volume of prose pieces published a few years ago, altered my notion of book notices: I got the idea of...
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Gallery
We the People of the United States
Sam Fink’s beautifully illustrated Constitution of the United States of America reminds us of what is good and true about our country and what binds us together, no matter what the pundits or politicians say.
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Watching
Video Digest: November 3, 2006
For one long and most likely lonely semester, a good friend of mine became addicted to The Price Is Right. He videotaped episodes, and sometimes skipped law class to catch...
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Notes From the Lawn
Plantmanship
What sort of gardener looks forward to winter’s first frost? Our in-house green thumb doubts herself after seeing what an expert Virginia gardener—and her garden—looks like.
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Politics
Violence in the Zócalo
Following the death of an American journalist, the rest of the world is taking notice of the declining situation in Oaxaca. Our writer interviews his sister Anna, who watched the peace unravel first-hand this summer.
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Listening
Picking Genres From a Dictionary
Music genres come and go by the dozen, from emocore and screamo to nemocore, but what new genres lurk on the horizon? Will there be more amalgamations of current styles...
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Spoofs & Satire
The Kennel at the End of the World
Sure, you’re going to heaven, but what about your dog—and yes, even your cat? A helpful guide to caring for your pets after the rapture.