June 2007 Archives
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The Non-Expert
That Boy
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a family travel safely to Chicago, and urge them to protect their daughter from the boyfriend from hell.
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In Hindsight
Signs of the Beast
Yesterday’s news is today’s birdcage liner—no longer. Nicole Pasulka begins our new regular feature, reviewing the past month’s headlines. For June 2007: four weeks of staggering animal attacks.
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Listening
A Personal History of Audiophilia
In the long summer days around high school, we used to get stoned and wander into the local hi-fi stereo showroom. Without a car, it was the closest thing we...
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Stories
How Everything Turned Out
When refugees from another planet make contact and ask for help, Earth’s web geeks should help them, right? A tale of Non-Earthers, online social networks, and memorable sunsets.
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Astroland's Last Summer
A Mermaid’s Tale
Celebrating a quarter-century, Coney Island’s Mermaid Parade is a reminder that for some, changing times should be ignored.
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Gallery
Friends and Family
Terry Rowlett searches for meaning through contemporary work with undeniable ties to painting’s history. In his work, Rowlett’s friends mirror his own struggles and exalt his triumphs.
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Reading
Book Digest: June 25, 2007
The New York Times Book Review—my favorite literary whipping boy—is much in my mind right now as 1) Dan Simon, publisher of the skewered-by-universal-scold Walter Kirn, The People’s...
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Listening
Crepes vs. Enchiladas
As mentioned in last week’s features, “Sacrifice” and the first “Letter From Paris,” TMN chiefs Andrew Womack and Rosecrans Baldwin are currently traveling away from New York to their...
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Astroland's Last Summer
Burlesque on the Beach
As Coney Island gears up for its annual fancy-dress bacchanalia, the mermaids on parade contemplate the legendary funpark’s mortality. Part three of “Astroland’s Last Summer” by ELIZABETH KIEM.
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Going Back to Kali
Namaskar, Goodnight
On a trip back to India, our author sets his itinerary in search of his past. But in an ever-changing country, history can be difficult to find. The first in a series of travel essays.
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Reading
Book Digest: June 18, 2007
May I say that I am bored—of course, I may!—with literary reviewers, some intelligent and useful (Adam Kirsch), some Paleolithic (Richard Schickel), offering undisguised special pleading as to...
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Gallery
Company of American Girls
Art, female identity, and day-to-day life intersect in Melissa Ann Pinney’s photographs. Deeply focused on the worlds of her daughter and other girls, Pinney’s work tells a story of girlhood as it’s being written.
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Watching
Video Digest: June 15, 2007
My favorite breakfast as a kid was iHOP’s chocolate-chip pancakes. The kind with the whipped-cream smile? Blech. These days, I’d just as soon pour Nutella in my morning...
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Astroland's Last Summer
The Bowery
Coney Island’s Bowery was once lined with attractions for six straight blocks. Today it is largely shuttered, pending a new wave of development.
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Listening
Now That’s Cult Music!
Religious cults tend to get a bad rap for the organized murders, weapon stockpiling, brainwashing, and mass suicide—but nobody focuses on the good they do. For example, nobody ever...
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Gallery
Working With Family
For Coke Wisdom O’Neal, placubg portraits of loved ones on three-dimensional pedestals is merely the next move in a broad challenge of traditional portraiture.
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Personal Essays
Sacrifice
From choosing a mousetrap to moving across the country, parenting requires tough decisions.
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Profiles
Jazz Lessons With James “Blood” Ulmer
Growing up in a family that requires Saturday night recitals is a crash course in how to please a crowd. A conversation about a lifetime of commanding performances.
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Reading
Book Digest: June 11, 2007
Southern lit-fictionist Larry Brown’s The Miracle of Catfish: A Novel in Progress, which came out a few weeks ago, is only the latest of a recent spate of unfinished...
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Watching
Video Digest: June 8, 2007
I cannot separate the songs I loved as a child from their videos. “Rio?” That’s a song about sailing the Caribbean and pouring melted pink ice cream on yourself. “...
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Letters From Idaho
Remembering Pop
We should all hope to age gracefully—and go skydiving at 94, and jetboating at 95. Our man in Boise pays tribute to one who raged at the light.
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Listening
Shaking Down the Used Bin
Two weeks ago I went to see the new Lars Von Trier movie (by the way, it’s hilarious) with my friend Matthew. After the movie, while walking back toward...
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New York, New York
The Talented Dr. Rosnick
At the New York State Psychiatric Institute, a darkened room of psychologists gaze upon Matt Damon—trying to decide when a bust is really a penis. Watching the analysis unfold.
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Personal Essays
Northern Belle
New York is supposedly the home of the willful and headstrong, the forthright and brassy—but when a cousin from Nashville rolls into town, everyone else seems meek.
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Reading
Book Digest: June 4, 2007
Recently, the world of literary fiction was preoccupied with the diminishment of review space in American newspapers, with various (self-) interested parties weighing in. The New York Times stepped into...
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Gallery
A Day in the Life
KayLynn Deveney photographs the comings and goings of a man in Wales, drawing out moments of repose and oddness from the humdrum.
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Watching
Video Digest: June 1, 2007
As a kid, I loved candy cigarettes. I was obsessed with Hollywood glamour, with being an adult even as I was just learning the wobbly letters of my first name....
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The Non-Expert
American Capitalism
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a poor man figure out how to make the system workâby any means necessary.