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Alex Williams

September 22, 2003 | Feature
Mr. Grove Goes to New York

D.C.’s gossiper-in-chief takes on “Page Six.”

October 27, 2003 | Feature
Back to the Future

A talented, championship-caliber sports team in the heart of Brooklyn? No, it’s not nostalgia. Developer Bruce Ratner is angling to bring a basketball team to a Frank Gehry–designed arena on Atlantic Avenue. Good-bye, Dodgers. Hello, Nets.

July 26, 1999 | Feature
The Sultan of Schwing

With his magazine Maxim -- and now Stuff -- Felix Dennis aims to put man in touch with his inner frat boy. Nobody needs a lesson in how to fold a pocket square anymore: This is the new high-five journalism, and beer and (semi-clothed) babes have never looked so good.

May 10, 1999 | Feature
Snow White II: Life of a Coke Dealer
December 9, 2002 | Television
MTV's Real World

Five years ago, MTV’s ratings were flatlining as music videos started to look like a relic of the eighties. Now it’s the envy of every other network, spawning The Osbournes, Jackass, and a score of other offbeat—and wildly popular—offerings. How’d it happen? Call it chaos theory, managed (barely) by two of television’s unlikeliest executives. Man, this could be chaos.

May 24, 2004 | Feature
The Perfectionist Gets Burned

How Thomas Keller survived the fire that almost took down Per Se, Manhattan’s, um, hottest new restaurant.

July 30, 2001 | Profile
Reversal of Fortune

Lizzie Grubman was a girl who had everything: burgeoning career, glittering social life, powerful father. And when a girl like that gets into trouble like Lizzie's Conscience Point catastrophe, the war really begins.

April 12, 1999 | Feature
Boom Borough

As retailers finally catch up to brownstone homesteaders, over there is looking sharp.

March 22, 2004 | Intelligencer
Found and Lost

After the discovery of his body, Spalding Gray’s wife talks about what she’ll miss most—and how she had already begun to say good-bye.

October 22, 2001 | Feature
To Buy Or Not To Buy

It's our special obsession. We track its every twitch in microscopic detail. But on September 11, the real-estate market froze. As it slowly begins to thaw, it's clear that a buyers' market is emerging. But are there going to be any buyers?

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