New York Magazine Table of Contents for August 20, 2001 (08/20/2001)

August 20, 2001 Issue

"Organizing a crew for a regatta is like calling your ten best friends and offering to pay for their vacations. "
-- Yacht racer Jim Richardson, "Separation Anxiety"

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FEATURES
Separation Anxiety
BY JENNIFER SENIOR
To many New Yorkers, the arrival of August evokes powerful fantasies of escape -- from psychotherapy, that is. But few shrinks will give you up without a long-term struggle. From Freud on down, therapists have had ways of interpreting their patients' exit strategies as evidence of their neuroses -- and therefore worthy of (what else?) more talk. But the author dared to wonder: Is this for the patient's good? Or the shrink's?

League of Their Own
BY MICHAEL DOLAN
Despite their beautiful new ballpark and the devotion of baseball-starved Brooklynites, the Cyclones don't always have it easy. There they are, in the shadow of their parent team, the Mets, making $850 a month each, bunking in dorms, and dining on leftover hot dogs. It's just a subway ride to Shea -- but only one in fifteen will ever make the trip.

The Man Show
BY IAN SPIEGELMAN
Sexy amputees, aging strippers, "Bra Bingo" -- Opie and Anthony's "cringe radio" smacks of vintage Howard Stern (who's called them "my bitches") and has won them a place among the top shock-jocks in New York. This summer, they signed a syndication deal with Infinity Broadcasting, but how will their freakish frat chat play in the heartland?

Operation Sail
BY MARION MANEKER
For a select group of investment bankers, high-powered lawyers, and real-estate moguls, regattas have become an intensely competitive obsession, the extreme sport of gentlemen who can afford technology-rich yachts -- and the America's Cup vets to sail them. Let the games -- and the spending -- begin.

GOTHAM
Vacation rage
Style: Amy Larocca

DEPARTMENTS
Intelligencer
BY MARC S. MALKIN

The City Politic
BY MICHAEL TOMASKY
Four weeks and counting to the primary; do you know who your candidates are?

The Bottom Line
BY JAMES J. CRAMER
The private pain of being a portfolio exhibitionist

MARKETPLACE
Best Bets
BY RIMA SUQI
Très chic trays, canine bandannas, T. rex for tykes
Plus: Best Bets Daily

Sales & Bargains
BY BRIDIE CLARK
Diminutive clutches you won't want to let go of
Plus: Daily Sales Update

THE CRITICS
Theater
BY JOHN SIMON
If You Ever Leave Me . . . makes you wish the actors would; Mr. President is political satire worth saluting

Classical Music
BY PETER G. DAVIS
Gerard Schwarz's farewell Mostly Mozart delivers -- as always

Television
JOHN LEONARD
Things Behind the Sun: Allison Anders on the attack that changed her life

Restaurants
ADAM PLATT
Daniel Boulud's DB Bistro Moderne offers American diner fare done in a very foreign way

CUE
Movies
Music & Nightlife
Theater
Art
Kids
Classical & Dance
The Mix