NYC: A Nice Place to Be Unemployed?

Express

Can the "creative class" really save New York City?

"When We Were Kings" Pro-Boxing Back in the Hood

Local

No man-eaters imperil me. No, there isn’t much chance I’ll one day find I have to fight for my life versus a roaring, flesh-eating monster unless there’s an escape at the Bronx Zoo, or I go looking for trouble on the Great Barrier Reef, the African veldt, or in the Kodiak range. The peril lurks in men—insurance clerks, Ponzi men, bad doctors, feral lawyers.

Joe Amrhein with Phong Bui

Art

In the midst of renovations to the Boiler (located at 191 North 14th street, between Berry Street and Wythe Avenue, which will open on March 7th), Joe Amrhein took time off to visit the Rail’s headquarters to talk with Publisher Phong Bui about his life and work.

Robert Mangold with John Yau

Art

While preparing for his new exhibit, Robert Mangold: Drawings and Works on Paper 1965–2008 (on view from March 6th through April 4th, 2009), the painter sat down with Rail’s Art Editor John Yau.

Lisa Yuskavage with Phong Bui

Art

On the occasion of her solo show at David Zwirner, on view till March 28, 2009, the painter Lisa Yuskavage paid a visit to the Rail’s Headquarters to talk to Publisher Phong Bui about her current work.

The Saga Continues...

On two rather significant issues, the war in Iraq and the financial bailout, President Obama is listening to the wrong advice.

Voice(s) of America Robert Ashley at La MaMa

Music

Ashley's works aren't operas in any conventional sense.

The Sweethearts

Fiction

At first, I would greet her from my sidewalk and she would respond with a nervous and instantaneous gesture. Afterwards, she would leap away, striking her knuckles against the walls, and, upon arriving at the corner, vanish without looking back. From the beginning, I liked her long face, her disdainful agility, and her striking blue jacket that looked more like a boy’s.

Ginger, A Novelized Memoir in Progress— Comments and Other Confusing Advice From the Editor

Poetry

Guillermo Castro's work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, LaFovea, EOAGH, Barrow St, among others, and the anthologies This Full Green Hour, My Diva, and more.