The Mea Culpa of Gentrification: Danny Hoch with Williams Cole

Express

Danny Hoch’s new one-man show, Taking Over, starts its run at the Public Theater on November 7th. Taking Over is comprised of diverse characters of different race and class, including Hoch as himself, who embody the dilemmas and problems of gentrification in Brooklyn.

Man, What a Show!

Editor's Message

September was one helluva ride. It came in with a hurricane that blew the president and vice president off the RNC stage.

Joanna Pousette-Dart with Joan Waltemath

Art

On the occasion of the painter’s recent exhibit at Moti Hasson Gallery, which will be on view until November 1, Joanna Pousette-Dart welcomed Rail Editor-at-Large Joan Waltemath to her Broome Street studio to talk about her life and work.

David Opdyke with Phong Bui

Art

"There's always a balancing act between using key events referring to a specific date and time, and the artistic liberty I can employ in my work," says Opdyke. "I try to stay on top of what's going on in the world, and I listen to the radio constantly. At the same time, I don't want my work to be tied to yesterday's headline."

Drive-By Yodel

Music

I don’t know how it happens, but things evolve of their own accord in life, shoved along by one’s own preoccupations and interests.

Man, What a Show!

September was one helluva ride. It came in with a hurricane that blew the president and vice president off the RNC stage.

New Social Mov(i)ements

Film

There is a new wave in agitprop, but it’s familiar to the old timers. Referencing, conjuring, sentimentalizing, and recreating the passion of the New Left and eco-warriors, performance artists and marquis actors are engaged in a frenzied effort to get viewers to aim higher.

On Rooftops in a Dream: Local Filmmakers Navigate the Indie-Market

Streets

The rooftop of the Old American Can Company, an historic complex in Brooklyn, is packed with nearly 600 people glued to their seats. They watch the film on the large screen as the camera cuts from the gutting of a fish to broken shards of a mirror; then to Isaiah Zagar, a legendary mosaic artist, fingering colorful tiles embedded in a wall along the South Street Corridor in Philadelphia.

David Wallace

LastWords

David Foster Wallace was a pen name. It was also the author’s real name but he never went by it. The Foster was his agent’s idea, he said, because Da-vid Wal-lace was syllabically unmemorable. This has proven to be sound marketing advice, although I don’t think David or Dave Wallace was ever very comfortable with it.