The Black Holocaust
After hundreds of thousands of black Muslim corpses, is the genocide at last over?
by Nat Hentoff

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Power Plays
Keeping Watch for Sean Bell
Surge Overkill: Peace Groups Buck Bush
The Beast of 2008 Stirs

La Dolce Musto
Madonna Shares Her Men!
by Michael Musto

Neighborhoods
Close-Up on Gowanus, Brooklyn
by Gabby Warshawer

Counter Culture
Amok on Allen Street
Cambodian cuisine makes L.E.S comeback.
by Robert Sietsema

Inside the Guide: music; art; events; activism; video games; free; and more.

FEATURED EVENTS
Jazz in Brooklyn: A Community of Visions
While New York jazz musicians have been well documented onstage and in clubs, photographer Lourdes Delgado offers a fresh perspective by venturing into some of their homes . . .read more

The Rapture Project
Millions of born-again Christians are waiting for their we-told-you-so moment, when the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, they are whisked up to heaven, and the rest of us heathens are left behind to suffer unspeakable tortures . . .read more

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Savage Love
A Distressingly Common Cuckold Kink
by Dan Savage

Fly Life
No One Else on the P***
New York nightlife titans salute James Brown, the most titanic of them all.
by Tricia Romano

Pucker Up
Best and Worst of Sex 2006
From creepy sexin' to tofu-bashing to liquid pussy, Tristan gives her 12-month roundup.
by Tristan Taormino

Daily Rockie Horoscope
by Rockie

Free Will Astrology
by Rob Brezsny

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VOICE MUSIC BLOGS
Status Ain't Hood
Highlights: High School Musical Runs the World
by Tom Breihan

Uncle LD's High Bias
Noisepop One: 'Dizzy with Your Disease'
by LD Beghtol

Down in Front
The Iron Sheik
A soft-rock titan unveils a brilliant exit strategy: Broadway.
by Rob Harvilla

First Impressions of Albert
The first Stroke to go solo does so in remarkably quiet fashion.
by Mikael Wood

Def in a Jam
On the endlessly inventive and increasingly mishandled career of Mos Def
by Makkada B. Selah

Singles Going Steady
Hits of iTunes.
by Tom Breihan

Plus: Ron Sexsmith; Talib Kweli and Madlib; and much more.

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Trial and Terror
In the face of Iran's Holocaust denial conference and contemporary desensitization comes this startling German doc.
J. Hoberman reviews Verdict on Auschwitz: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965

Technicolor Cowboy
Recalling a Thai tradition you don't remember and Spaghetti Westerns you do, Sasanatieng shocks with brilliant, brave hues.
Nathan Lee reviews Tears of the Black Tiger

Matters of Life, Death, and Art
From shivah to Shoah, the 16th annual Jewish film fest doesn't shy away from the big questions.
by Leslie Camhi

Truth Is For Sissies
Billy Wilder's hard-boiled muckracker can't be bothered with the facts in this strikingly prescient diatribe.
Nathan Lee reviews Ace in the Hole

Accidental Tourists
Doc treats Sudanese lost boys as feel-good fodder, ignoring their plight and their history.
Rob Nelson reviews God Grew Tired of Us

Plus: Alpha Dog; Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story; and much more.

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Moving Arts
Power, professionalism, and perversity: Looking back at the 2006 art scene.
by Jerry Saltz

Maximum Voracity
Jackie Soccoccio's retinal thought storm.
by Jerry Saltz

Best in Show
Mummies Dearest
R. C. Baker's gallery picks

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