The road to terror, as told by a fellow passenger
By Wickham Boyle
As I began to write this piece, I titled it “My Trip to Al-Qaeda,” then quickly retitled it “Lawrence Wright’s Trip.” I had just seen Wright’s theatrical piece at the Culture Project, which not only details the extensive time he spent in the Middle East living, reading and writing about the region, but also his fallout from the American government through his association with terrorists, even as purely scholarly pursuits.

Eyes wide open
By Steven Snyder
A sexually-charged, eyebrow-raising film that often straddles the fine line between erotic thriller and all-out pornography, “Exterminating Angels” achieves in many ways what Stanley Kubrick set out to do, but only partially realized with his final film “Eyes Wide Shut.”

The dualities, and dual exhibitions of Naoto Nakagawa
By Shane McAdams
Naoto Nakagawa’s personal journey through the New York art world over the past four decades is nearly as colorful as the palette for his hyper-dramatic, symbolic groupings of everyday objects currently hanging at White Box at 525 W. 26th Street.