July 14, 2003 Issue
Cover Story
Life After Death
The unsolved murder of financier Ted Ammon—bludgeoned to death in his East Hampton home during a nasty divorce—has gone from cold case to hot topic. A grand jury is finally weighing charges, his wife (who remarried twelve weeks after his funeral) is dying of cancer, and his sister is fighting for custody of their twins.
Features
All About Yves
“Fashion is a form of escapism,” says designer Tom Ford, and how better to escape the heat than in his new Yves Saint Laurent boutique? The designer talks about style, sex, and the cultural significance of Frenchmen in sneakers.
Bye-Bye, Bonnie
Bonnie Fuller, the Canadian-born editrix who’s used tabloid tricks brilliantly to boost circulation at magazines from YM to Us, has finally jumped to a real tabloid publisher that wants to go legit. Will her alchemy work in reverse?
Departments
Letters
Readers sound off the death of Allen Myerson and the challenges facing learning disabled teens.
Smart City
Best of New York
Brighten up your apartment with handblown glass vases in a range of brilliant hues
Best Bets
From gilded thongs to Scrabble-themed cuff links, the week’s most irresistible objects
Deal of the Week: Run for Cover
The casual, coverall look.
A Girl Thing
Three cool new stores fill Chelsea’s infamous retail gender gap.
Intelligencer
Intelligencer Column
A Lizzie Grubman roman à clef , Us Weekly dupes Kate Hudson, and more
Digging the Dirt
Camelot’s history. Today we like political couples for the pure Schadenfreude of it.
Jeff and Eddy’s
Lizzie’s new Hamptons spot.
Divine Work
A tribute to the women—and children—of war.
Teen Beat
Fannypack’s three young rappers just want to have fun—and rid the world of “cameltoes.”
Columnists
This Media Life
The Guardian is coming to the States, and get this: It’s defiantly highbrow and intends to stay that way
The City Politic
Turns out it’s fine to politicize the events of September 11—as long as you’re a Republican, that is
Naked City
Love and lust on the sidewalks of New York
Critics
Movies
Claude Berri’s The Housekeeper is a fine romance; T3 takes itself way too seriously; Sinbad’s starstruck
Theater
A staged Leonardo cuts a genius down to size; 8 Days is weak
Books
Walter Isaacson’s Benjamin Franklin: America’s founding
Art
At MoMA QNS, the work of Max Beckmann seems to bear the weight of the world
Dance
A new troupe’s dancers are smarter than their dances; ABT’s brilliant homage to nostalgia
Restaurants
At Morrells, plenty to wine about; Amuse fares better
Top Five
Summer Camps
Knicks, horses, even card tricks: These camps are recipes for summer-break sanity.
Beer Gardens
Beer gardens where more than buds bloom.
Theater Festivals
Theater-festival season brings in hundreds of new plays.
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