September 30, 2002 Issue
Cover Story
Rock This Town
New York hasn't been such a hotbed of new rock since the decade when many of the current stars were born. The vital stats on the bands that are driving the revolution.
PLUS: A guide to New York's rock tribes.
Features: Music 2002
Almost Famous
It started with a pin worn by the Strokes on SNL. Ever since, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have been the Next Big Thing -- but the road to the top, while possibly paved with gold, is pretty bumpy.
Golden Moldies
When Kimya Dawson met Adam Green, they were unlikely future stars -- she'd been asked to leave college, and he was 13. But their irreverent sound (and loopy act) has made the Moldy Peaches the anti-folk movement's only name brand.
On the L
What happened to all those laid-off dot-commers and jobless college grads? They're making Williamsburg into New York's new creative capital -- that is, they say, until the media kills the scene.
The Good Word
Rapper El-P's dense rhymes and wild soundscapes defined the nineties underground. Now, with his Def Jux label, he's bent on taking hip-hop to the next level.
Living Doll
He's put away the platforms and retired the pompadour: David Johansen, former New York Doll and alter ego of Buster Poindexter, is back on the scene with, believe it or not, a folk band.
Gotham
She Used to Be So Nice!
Rosie O'Donnell's magazine partner, Gruner + Jahr, got dumped. Now all it wants is a good cry, a pint of ice cream, and a supportive group of girlfriends -- straight girlfriends, that is.
Style Counsel
Fashion Week's emergency rooms for fabulous invalids.
A Battle for the Sole of the Hamptons
Citarella hits the Hamptons
Lefty Pitchers
Call it "radical sheik": The war on terror shakes the dust off the SDS crowd.
Old Editors-in-Chief Never Die -- They Just Go to Us
Editor-in-chiefs who go to Us Weekly
Self-Espresso
New York asked a few aspiring novelists (and present-day caffeine addicts) for their opening paragraphs.
Columns
Intelligencer
Justin Timberlake, Usher, Ron Galotti, Ty Pennington, Caroline Rhea, and more . . .
The Bottom Line
How 9/11 turned one liberal, Bill of Rights–loving columnist into a vengeful hawk
Naked City
Is there sex after motherhood? Young moms-about-town report from the bedroom.
Beauty
A list of the newest treatments that will allow you to emerge from the shower like Venus from the surf: fully beautified.
Best Bets
Gucci shades, sweet-burning papers, and a hip-hop CD for toddlers
Sales & Bargains
Totes to carry you through the fall
Critics
Movies
Jake Gyllenhaal shines in the otherwise belabored Moonlight Mile
Books
Is Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate actually a straw man?
Theater
Burn This is too dated to work (even with Ed Norton and Catherine Keener); Adam Rapp assaults the senses with Faster
Classical Music
The City Opera mounts a brilliant production of Dead Man Walking
Television
Boomtown puts a postmodern spin on the traditional cop drama
Underground Gourmet
Digging in to grilled thin-crust pizzas all over town
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