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August 17, 1998 Issue
"My apartment looks like a drag queen walked in here and exploded. People think I'm subletting from Cher. My friends envy me because I look like a king."
-- Darrick Kardos, "Love Me Two Times"
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| FEATURES Love Me Two Times Secondhand has many euphemisms. Vintage. Previously owned. Lightly used. Antique. But there's really no need to blush (or claim a particularly patinated piece is an heirloom). The city's secondhand stores are filled with things you need, at prices you’ll love. After all, someone else once needed that crib, that cloche, that camera, and that cornice too. We've investigated lots and lofts and little boutiques, searching for the best sources of goods with a past, either documented or imagined. Missionary Impossible Charles King helped build Housing Works into a nationally admired provider of services to the most vulnerable aids patients -- the homeless and drug-addicted. But this Texas-born, Yale-educated son of a preacher defends his flock with a zeal that rubs many, including the mayor, the wrong way. Can Housing Works survive a battle with City Hall? Mixing It Up Unlike his mentor, the legendary Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records A&R chief Craig Kallman isn't a flamboyant man about the club scene but a driven devourer of everything from hip-hop to schlock pop. With 50,000 albums in his East Side apartment and a talent roster that runs from Aaliyah to Sinead O'Connor, he's helping to redefine the industry. "He’s a music dude," says one rival. "He's the future of the music business." | GOTHAM Dan Biederman after the bid; how's Mark Green doing? GOTHAM STYLE Wedding wildlife; pristine jeans; shuddering stars DEPARTMENTS A kinder, gentler Bruce Cutler acts like a dad, not a don The Culture Business Visionaire: hip magazine, pricey objet d'art -- or both? Restaurants Gaga over Babbo: a new restaurant that needs no improvement MARKETPLACE Rattling Michael Jordan; stretching Levis; wheeling your mutt Sales & Bargains All set: Tuscan plates, Art Nouveau lamps, and Russian caviar
| THE ARTS Movies BY DAVID DENBY Rolling Snake Eyes: Brian De Palma can't sustain a virtuoso start Classical Music Mozart and Strauss face off at the Lincoln Center summer festival that still sings CUE Intelligencer Classifieds |
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