| | | The Cinco de Mayo Charade BY VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS  A little more than 20 years ago, Juan Cáceres immigrated to the United States. Like so many of his countrymen, he wanted a better life, and he certainly seemed to get it. Cáceres started off small, selling tomatoes and limes on the streets of New York, driving a cab, and eventually branching into business ventures. He also became an activist for immigrant rights, founding the Spanish Harlem nonprofit Centro de la Comunidad Mexicana (CECOMEX), helping immigrants find affordable housing, and lobbying the Mexican consulate for better service. Talk to people on the streets of El Barrio, and they'll tell you that Cáceres, who just turned 44, is an outstanding fa... more >>
| | | | | | Steven Lugerner and Matana Roberts Stimulate the Ears and the Economy BY FRANCIS DAVIS  If teachers' unions represent "a moneyed special interest," as Chris Christie recently asserted (and if he keeps threatening elderly women with a bat, maybe we should start calling this thug "Big Pussy"), what does that make all those supposed small businesses that Republicans extol as job creators—including, by their calculation, S-Corps and LLCs like Koch Industries, Bechtel, and Pricewat... more >> | | | | | | | | Hofbrau Bierhaus Is a Real Brew-haha BY ROBERT SIETSEMA  Hofbräu Bierhaus had been open for three weeks when some friends and I decided to drop by for dinner and a few brews around 6:30 on a rainy Tuesday evening. The scene was already tumultuous: every cranny crammed with guys in a complete state of dishabille—ties flung over shoulders, elbows resting in puddles of beer, giving wild-eyed looks as they leaped up to offer toasts. Unable to ma... more >> | | | | | | | | A Tragic Life, Lip-Synched, in The Arbor BY J. HOBERMAN  Precocious playwright Andrea Dunbar (1961–1990) spoke for the lumpen abused of her native Bradford, England; The Arbor, video artist Clio Barnard’s pitch-perfect Dunbar biopic, named best documentary last year at the Tribeca Film Festival, reprises her pungent, profane voice, but from a discreet distance. Barnard revisits the foredoomed career and tragic afterlife of this slum-born self... more >> | | | | | | | | Chancellor Walcott: Change That Kids Can Believe In? BY NAT HENTOFF  On his first full day in office, the successor to Cathie Black and Joel Klein told a City Council hearing: “I believe in what we’re doing and I haven’t had any evidence that what we’re doing is wrong.” But after the hearing, Sarah Porter, the mother of a public school student in Brooklyn, called the new chancellor “another mouthpiece for the mayor” (New York Tim... more >> | | | | | | | | Gustav Metzger: Bad News Bearer BY MARTHA SCHWENDENER  Gustav Metzger's first solo show in New York is a modest affair. You climb down an iron staircase at e-flux to a basement room where a couple dozen stacks of newspapers resemble a scruffy take on the Minimalist cube. Against one wall is a small table holding disheveled newspapers and pairs of scissors. Above that is a printout that reads, "Please browse through the newspapers on the table, cut ou... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared A blogger for Transportation Nation witnessed two cyclists being pulled over and ticketed in Manhattan for biking not on the sidewalk, but on the street -- just not in the available bike lane. Ac... Fork in the Road More good guesses yesterday, but still no one has guessed the restaurant in question. So here's another clue. ... La Daily Musto Isn't he special? He's Nicholas Gumas, one of the LGBT scholarship winners honored at Live Out Loud, Monday night's benefit at the TimesCenter, which raised $250,000 for their programs and activi... Sound of the City This summer, NYU's Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music is offering a class on punk taught by Voice contributor (and decorated journalist), founding Flying Lizard, and all-around brilliant lad... Corporate LA Weekly food critic Jonathan Gold, who won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2007, has been named a finalist in the category in this year's contest. The judges gave Gold the honor for what t... | | | | |
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