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OCT 19 - OCT 25
It would be folly to say at this mid-October point that the political currents of the 2004 election have calmed, but our participation in politics (at least for this year) seems to have entered its dotage. Between the riptide of voter registration drives, which are now largely concluded, and the engaging undertow of post-debate punditry, we must now patiently await the 2nd of November. We suggest you use your powers of visualization to break through — consider what could be, as you run loops of happy endings through your head. And in the meantime, we've got enough flavor to make you say "uncle," so spread it...
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Emergencies come in all shapes and sizes. Thankfully, most aren't as cataclysmic as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. Most are like, What should I wear for Halloween? And, How am I going to afford a new shirt and still go out Thursday night? So next time you're facing another crisis-in-your-head, take a moment to make a clear decision. Make an ABSOLUT choice. |
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| | Politics is on nearly everyone's mind of late, but Tim Davis started considering the visual appearance of his political life some two years ago. Traveling around the country, Davis cast a keen photographic eye on the urban landscape to discern and distill some collective opinions. From sparse gatherings at abortion and anti-flag burning protests to humorous situations at polling places and interesting displays of election paraphernalia, Davis expresses an ironic point of view that paints a puzzling picture of present-day America. Spread out over two spacious floors, his 49 color photographs, which vary from large to small scale, are both personal and poignant. (PL)
  
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COMEDY
Comedy for Change feat. Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain
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| when: | Wed 10.20 (8pm) |
| where: | Southpaw (125 5th Ave, Park Slope, 718.230.0236) |
| price: | $40 door / $30 online |
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| | On The State, Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain were prominent members of a large troupe dedicated to pushing the boundaries of sketch comedy. Under the Stella moniker, they push those boundaries even further. When they're not harassing each other on stage, they're busy with short films in which they kick the crap out of themselves and others, take playground humor to a whole new level, and explore a strange obsession with humping dead bodies. Tonight, however, it's all for a good cause, as the suit-wearing trio use their gifts for offbeat humor to benefit Democratic campaign efforts. If Dubya isn't amused, he's in the minority. (DL)
Note: Concerts for Change also holds a reading on Sat 10.23 at Pianos, featuring Jonathan Ames, Stephen Elliott, James Frey, Nelly Reifler, Nick Flynn, Darin Strauss, and Lili Taylor.
 What was the monetary value of the pudding that was used in the State skit starring characters Barry and Levon? Eighth correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | After authoring countless books of poetry and cultural criticism (including National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire) on everything from Andy Warhol to celebrity cleavage, Wayne Koestenbaum has finally delivered a novel unto the world. Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes tells the smart and dirty story of an oversexed pianist's obsession with an Italian circus performer — who may or may not exist. Koestenbaum reads with another Soft Skull Press author, the talented Matthew Sharpe (The Sleeping Father), as part of the Happy Ending reading series. Irish singer/songwriter Mark Geary, still in town from last week's CMJ festival, joins them. (JA)
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DJ
Cazzo Pazzo feat. Derrick Carter
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| when: | Wed 10.20 (10pm) |
| where: | Luke & Leroy (21 7th Ave S, 212.645.0004) |
| price: |  FREE |
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| | The greatest of Chicago's second generation of house DJs, Derrick Carter embodies contradictions: He's trippy enough to be John Digweed's favorite DJ, without a prog-trance beat in sight, and he brings an irresistible boompty-boomp to his grooves, while being experimental enough to remix Windy City post-rockers Tortoise. On the tables, he's the most jacking and the most distinctive, merging house and techno with his own eccentric funktricity and DJ skills that any turntablist would covet. For nothing less than no money down, Carter takes it back to the era where it all started with a one-off protohouse '80s disco set tonight. Sweat out the nostalgia, Chi-town loft style. (MD)
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| | Undeterred by Atlanta's crunk invasion, Brash Records is putting soul back in the South. Assuming Anthony David's debut LP, 3 Chords & the Truth, is an indication of where they're headed, the label is orchestrating a welcome renaissance. David's resumé includes backup work on India Arie's tour (his friendship with Arie, which began long before her Acoustic Soul fame, inspired and shaped his career in music) and performing Broadway show tunes for fellow soldiers during Desert Storm. Alongside homegrown NYC soulja Angela Johnson, David wages a different kind of war — on the mediocre — tonight. (DB)
According to David, what needs just three chords and the truth? Eleventh correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | Don't let the Latinate forename fool you. Virgil Marti is a regular fella just like you and me: nostalgic for his shag-carpet childhood in suburban Missouri, dripping with the Rococo excess of chinoiserie, japonisme, and macramé, and fascinated by collagen-rich animal appendages. His installation Grow Room at this year's Whitney Biennial was a hall of mylar overprinted with a web pattern created by drugged spiders and lit by a glass chandelier cast from deer antlers. His latest designed interior fills the gallery with tortoise shells, mirrors, coral, artificial cacti, and the scent of leather. (RA)
Note: Exhibition runs through Sun 11.13 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm).
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MUSIC: Modern Piano
Nancarrow for Two
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| when: | Thur 10.21 (8pm) |
| where: | Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway, Columbia University, 212.854.7799) |
| price: | $20 |
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Event Info | Nancarrow |
| | MacArthur fellowship winner Conlon Nancarrow, frustrated by the physical limitations of human musicians, composed almost all of his acclaimed works for the player piano. Informed by the harmonic complexities of jazz and the compositions of 20th-century geniuses Stravinsky, Cage, and Cowell (with whom Nancarrow studied), this iconoclast's works are marked by blistering tempi and the assumption that they're unplayable. But performing duo Helena Bugallo and Amy Williams have tackled the task of transcribing and playing these challenging, polyrhythmic studies for piano with four hands. Working from the original piano rolls and Nancarrow's sketches and notes, they bring humanity to pieces that were made for machines — in a jaw-dropping, otherworldly way. (PS)
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DJ
Breakthrough w/ Tipper
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| when: | Thur 10.21 (9pm) |
| where: | Club Seho (113 Ludlow St, 646.372.2896) |
| price: | $7 |
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| | The local breakbeat scene continues to bust out the syncopated sounds with tonight's multilevel meltdown. So constantly on the move is London-based Tipper that he's been dubbed "breakbeat's global nomad," and his live sets featuring tracks from the innovative 5.1 surround sound album Surrounded make dance floors move as well. Joining the mayhem, Texan producer Son of the Electric Ghost (non-specter Bil Bless) manipulates hard breaks with his laptop, and additional machine manipulations come courtesy of Ghetto Bassbox and Radius. Meanwhile, two tag-team DJ sets (Ceos vs. Asi and JP001 vs. Shadowchaser), and solo sets by Wavewhore, Sara Walker, Sean Infinitee, Kimyon, Christian Bruna, and others spread out over two sound systems and floors all but assure your feet won't catch a break. (CEH)
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FILM
Undertow
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| when: | Opens Fri 10.22 |
| where: | Various locations |
| price: | Various |
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Undertow |
| | In Undertow, filmmaker David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls) confronts the pull of genre clichés — specifically, those of the thriller — fashioning a ramshackle production that's equal parts Southern gothic and soul journey. The plot, which proceeds at an uneasy pace and involves bad blood, bloodshed, an escape, and mixed redemption, is nearly beside the point in the face of the sum, parable-like total of the images and performances — Jamie Bell as the wild, misunderstood older brother, Devon Alan as his sensitive, paint-eating younger brother, Dermott Mulroney as their able and gruff father, and best of all, Josh Lucas as his brother, Cain (oops, it's "Deel" actually). Certainly, the film doesn't succeed on traditional terms, but by evading the undertow of predictability, Green again presents us with something valuably, excitingly new. (JKG)
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| | David Altmejd continues to impress with his grotesque installations that invert images of death into surreal, living energy. Included in influential group shows as well as this year's Whitney Biennial and a coinciding Public Art Fund installation at Central Park, this rapidly developing sculptor presents three new works for his first show at Andrea Rosen. Here, expect familiar motifs on a grander scale: crystallized werewolf heads festooned with glittering, gaudy play-jewelry and ensconced in architectural networks of mirrors and light. Narrative mazes that skirt issues of morality or allegory in favor of their own delirious complexity, these works — including Altmejd's largest to date — seduce and repel, and then seduce again. (AM)
Note: The exhibition runs through Sat 11.27 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm). Craig Kalpakjian is in Gallery 2.
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MUSIC: Electronic
Potatobananas: Microcosm Music Release Party feat. Ezekiel Honig
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| when: | Fri 10.22 (8-11pm) |
| where: | Gigantic Brand Store (59 Franklin St, 212.226.5859) |
| price: | FREE |
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| | There's no question that NYC is at the forefront of many musical styles, but the global emergence of microhouse (glitchstep, dubhouse, et al) has largely been passing us by. With two full-lengths under his belt, however, local wünderkind Ezekiel Honig celebrates a new release of gorgeous, gauzy, pulsating tracks sure to steal some limelight from the Villalobosing and Akufenizing techno aficionados. His laptop performance is accompanied by broken beat DJ sets from Jonathan Butler and Arcae. (JL)
Note: Open rum bar during the event.
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| | For some people, the thought of listening to any instrument played with a bow is off-putting. But even the rock faithful will have sympathy for the symphony tonight, as the Mercury hosts a night of strings and electronic things worthy of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Section Quartet performs a string arrangement of Radiohead's OK Computer in its entirety, while local group La Laque, Austin-based four-piece Oliver Future, and David Singer warm up your serotonin. An evening for all the romantic robots and analog pop lovers. (MS)
What is the title of the Section Quartet's 2004 release? Fifteenth correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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PERFORMANCE
Hoofers and Woofers: Beatboxers and Tapdancing feat. Akim Funk Buddha
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| when: | Sat 10.23 (10pm) |
| where: | Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, 212.614.0505) |
| price: | $10 |
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Event Info | Akim Funk Buddha |
| | Despite receiving a partial overhaul from its show tune days by Savion Glover and his Bring in 'Da Noise... compatriots, tap has a sunshiny, Fred-and-Ginger aspect to it that's hard to shake. No stranger to changing things, Akim Funk Buddha spent the last 15 years introducing the arts of throat singing, beatboxing, and standing without blinking to street performance. Now, as a tapper/beatboxer, he is the glue holding together Hoofers and Woofers, which brings tap into the new school by placing the heel-toers head-to-head with beatboxers in an old-school hip-hop battle — surging tap, if not into the 21st century, at least into the early '80s. (JAC)
What kind of music would most benefit from the addition of tap dancing, and what would you call the pairing? The two best answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | Despite the fact that nearly all of their records could slip seamlessly into any techno DJ's set, Mouse on Mars fancy themselves as rockers. Sure, their live show is peppered with samplers, synthesizers, and all of the other devices generally associated with shaking booties, but ever since Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma met at a death metal concert years ago, they've been hell-bent on grafting electronic music with rock so that lovers of both can converge on a common dance floor. Ratatat and Junior Boys conveniently share similar sentiments — both opening bands continue the post-rock, post-techno tradition with melodious instrumentation and scattered, skittering beats. (KT)
If the mouse is on Mars, then where's the cat? Funniest answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | Operating from within the underground of Brooklyn's variegated hip-hop scene, Pete Miser has been sharpening his lyrical sword for years. On his latest, Camouflage is Relative (Coup de Grâce), Miser wittily flows about super-string theory, the invasion of Williamsburg, and Kafka-esque tales of Dilbert slavery. The producer/MC paid his dues as DJ on Dido's last tour, and after countless indie albums and singles, Miser now has his own legion to lead. Opening up tonight's charge are Roughstars and beloved local diva Maya Azucena, while L Maestro Presents headline. (DB)
Check out Pete Miser's help column. Now what's your burning question for Lieutenant Dicky? Best entry wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | Hans-Peter Feldmann's 100 Years and Katharina Sieverding's Close Up plunge us into the divergent strategies of two German masters of photography. Feldmann, a cult figure who stubbornly resisted the art market for years, opens his photo archives to grant insight into the mysteries of everyday life with his moving portraits of people aged eight months to 100 years. The Prague-born Sieverding, who studied with Joseph Beuys, presents the US premiere of her film Shanghai, along with large-scale cinematic self-portraits, abstracted and manipulated to convey the fragile balance between life and death that haunts our existence. (ASM)
Note: Don't miss Aleksandra Mir's The Big Umbrella project, Dearraindrop's decorated bathroom, and Grizedale Arts' offbeat Romantic Detachment installations and performances.
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| | San Francisco-based globetrotter Cheb I Sabbah continues to explore indigenous music in digital form, as he prepares for an album utilizing all-female North African vocal troupes. With his South Asian trilogy on Six Degrees and his latest mix album, As Far As, the Algerian native remains on top of the world beat DJ circuit. Tonight, Sabbah's serpentine track slithers seductively as he's joined by Indian crew Taale Dance Company, and Qawwali vocalist Riffat Sultana (daughter of Pakistani folk legend Ustad Salamat Ali Khan), who performs accompanied by a 12-string guitar and tabla. (DB)
What does Cheb I Sabbah mean? First, fifth, tenth, 15th, and 20th correct answers each win a CD and a pair of tickets to this event.
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FILM
RIPFest #5: Thrillers
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| when: | Mon 10.25 & Tue 10.26 (8 & 9:30pm) |
| where: | Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave, 212.505.5181) |
| price: | $8 |
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| | The premise: 100 professional writers, producers, directors, composers, editors, DPs, and actors are split into six teams and instructed to write, shoot, and edit a short film from scratch in 16 days. This year's genre is "thrillers" and the theme is "something hidden," but beyond that, there are no restrictions on content or style. While watching each team scramble and quarrel along the way would definitely make for a compelling reality show, witnessing the end results, which make up tonight's screening series, provides enough thrills of its own. (SP)
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| | While James Lavelle will perhaps always be best remembered as the man who made Mo' Wax, his endeavors under the UNKLE banner deserve a place in history all their own. The project's debut album, 1998's Psyence Fiction, saw him teamed with DJ Shadow and a guest cast including Thom Yorke and Badly Drawn Boy. Its follow-up, Never, Never, Land, pairs Lavelle with new cohort Richard File, featuring guests such as Josh Homme and Ian Brown in continued explorations into the murky territory between trip-hop and rock. Lavelle and File are celebrating the disc's stateside release with this "decks 'n 'efx" tour — providing enough aural and visual entertainment to make you say "UNKLE" over and over again. (DL)
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MULTIMEDIA
Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler: Single Wide
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| when: | Now through Fri 10.22 (Mon-Wed & Fri: 11am-6pm; Thur: 11am-7:30pm) |
| where: | Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria (120 Park Ave, 917.663.2453) |
| price: | FREE |
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| | A tale that involves a trailer home, a pick-up truck, and a woman in a plaid shirt is bound to be melodramatic. In one seamless shot, the viewer follows the woman from her bedroom at one end of the single-wide trailer to her crashing the truck through the kitchen wall at the other end.
What happens in-between is an absorbing mystery, riddled with tension as the end loops back to its beginning, where, like Sisyphus, the woman is doomed to repeat her peculiar fate. (PL)
Note: The artists discuss their unusual narratives on Wed 10.20 (6:30pm). Their House with Pool, exploring two characters in a house that are unaware of each other's presence after a party, opens at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery on Sat 10.23 (6-8pm).
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THEATRE
Rhinoceros
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| when: | Now through Sat 10.23 (Mon-Sat: 8pm) |
| where: | Altered Stages (212 W 29th St, 212.714.7122) |
| price: | $15 |
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| | In Eugène Ionesco's surreal, absurdist drama Rhinoceros, the apathetic hero is confronted with the startling transformation of his friends and co-workers into rhinoceroses. The playwright's scathing attack on conformity and totalitarianism was originally inspired by the fascist infiltration of French society, but Novisi Productions' vibrant staging of a fluid new translation by Ghanaian-American director Awoye Timpo raises issues that are once again relevant. Timpo's brisk direction and the actors' and trombonist's skillful performances sinuously carry out the play's tragic-comic tone as they address themes such as the challenge in choosing sides, the conflict between right and wrong, and the necessity of independent thinking. This could easily serve as an allegory for the 2004 election. (SP)
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FESTIVAL
Tribeca Theater Festival
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| when: | Now through Sun 10.31 (schedule) |
| where: | Various locations |
| price: | Various |
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| | From the folks that produced that little film festival in the triangle below Canal Street comes a celebration of downtown theatre featuring four programs: a rapid-fire presentation of new plays; classic films presented by special guests; staged readings of works-in-progress; and panel discussions. Of the multiplicity of options offered by this 12-day stage spectacular, highlights include a screening of Christopher Guest's hilarious mockumentary Waiting for Guffman (with a special live appearance by Bob Balaban); nine plays in two hours directed by Tony award-winner John Rando and written by famed playwrights such as David Henry Hwang, Neil LaBute, and Kenneth Lonergan; and a discussion on the influence of Tennessee Williams with panelists Ben Gazzara, Ethan Hawke, and Wendy Wasserstein. (MB)
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| CD REVIEW: Swayzak, Loops from the Bergerie |
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Studio !K7
Released September 2004
$14.99 (Amazon)
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Loops is Swayzak's fourth artist album, and quite possibly their best. The duo of James Taylor and David Brown — newly relocated to rural France from restless London — always create an individual sound, much bigger than the sum of its parts, that keeps them cruising atop a sea of sound-alikes. Much of this offering is dark and heavy techno and electro, but its sinister, sexual mood — hinting at misplaced trust and misguided dalliances, and peaking with "Another Way" and "Then There's Her" — ensures Loops a listenership far beyond jobbing DJs. Additional vocals are supplied by Richard Davis; you should own his sublime Safety LP, too. (ND)
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| GET HOME SAFE: RightRides |
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For any hipland livin' lady, RightRides is the missing piece for your peace of mind. It's an unfortunate fact that violent crimes against women are on the rise, especially in those areas where many of us live and go out. Of course, not every woman resides close to the subway, nor can she necessarily afford to drop cash on cab fare. But we all want to be safe. RightRides comes preemptively to the rescue, offering door-to-door service to get you back home without anxiety. Now in the early stages, RightRides currently ferries women free of charge on Saturday nights between 12-4:30am in the LES, East Village, and North Brooklyn (aka Williamsburg and Greenpoint) areas. The more RR increases their profile, the better the service will be, so start using them now, and don't hesitate to volunteer or make a donation. We've got to fight for our ride to (and from the) party! (JKG)
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| STREAMS: Fabric |
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An excellent cross-section of Fabric's Friday night sound policy is on display here, with exclusive mixes from some of their most prominent residents. With a mix forthcoming on the club's label, Joe Ransom shows us how he plays it in Room 3, serving up a hands-in-the-air blend of party breaks and hip-hop. At the more frenetic end of the spectrum, the world's two most prominent drum 'n bass DJs, Andy C and DJ Hype, each throw down a storming mix of their own. The duo can also be found playing together on Fabriclive 18, a release to feed the appetite of junglists the world over. (CJN)
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| Let me finish | Jared Tarbell | | |
| Editors: |
| Fresh credibility | Dixie Ching | | Cheney's daughter | Jocelyn K. Glei | | Statistics statistics | Paul Laster | | The minimum wage | Sascha Lewis | | Global test | Doug Levy | | Married up | Mark Mangan | | Internets | Colin J. Nagy | | Senator Gone | Lauren Ragland | | Scowl | Peter Stepek | | Judicial activist | Toby Warner | | |
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| Contributors: |
| Electable | Jami Attenberg | | Mindless repetition | Robert Amesbury | | Nuclear | Lucy C. Beach | | Deer in headlights | Derek Beres | | Pay-go | Mindy Bond | | Poland | Justin A. Carter | | Mislead | Adam Davids | | Strong alliances | Matt Diehl | | Split screen | Nick Doherty | | Lumber company? | Todd Goldstein | | Judicial activist | Carl E. Hagen | | Community college | Jessica Kraft | | Strict constructionist | Jake Lancaster | | Good father | Andrew Maerkle | | Litmus test | Anja S. Mohn | | Battleground state | Catherine Nguyen | | Evildoers | Stephan Paschalides | | Tax cut | Kristin Poor | | Grave threat | Michael Shawver | | Free nations | Philip H. Sherburne | | America's dignity | Ashley Soutor | | The enemy | Jonathan P. L. Spooner | | $89 billion | Ken Taylor | | Armies of compassion | Andrea Toochin | | Afghan warlords | Peter J. Wolfgang | | |
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| Flip-flopper | Anjuli Ayer | | It's hard work | David Morrow | | Mystery bulge | Emily Welsch |
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