Features

Look Again

By juxtaposing known objects in provocative ways—say, a baby carriage and a Klan hood—Fred Wilson rattles our perceptions of the familiar. As America's representative to the Venice Biennale, he's turned heads and inflamed critics.

Losing Her Religion

Chayie Sieger was a dutiful Hasidic wife and mother in Borough Park until she left her husband of 24 years, accusing him of adultery and battery. But when a rabbinical court issued a harsh ruling in his favor, she fought back, accusing the rabbis of taking bribes and her community of abandoning her.

Departments

Letters

Readers sound off on our Summer Fun 2003 issue and more.

Smart City

Fresh Thoughts

Loose and simply wrapped, farm-style bouquets have never looked so fresh

Best Bets

From illuminated sculpture to the season’s must-have sneakers, the week’s most-wanted gear

Sales & Bargains

Bag sales, bathing-suit sales, and even one “Crazy Sale”

Travel

Summering in coastal Maine

Shiny and New

Spazio Luceplan is the latest fixture on the lighting-store circuit.

Cashmere Got Holes?

Where can I find someone to repair moth holes in cashmere sweaters?

Intelligencer

Intelligencer Column

Kate Beckinsale's meltdown, an NBC-ABC showdown, and more.

Big Question

Makeover shows are all the rage. Who would you do?

Trouble in the Dunes

Sex, tides, and videotapes! A Wall Streeter goes to war over a Hamptons gay beach.

Columnists

This Media Life

Bill Keller’s belated ascension to the executive-editor slot at the New York Times quells the newsroom rebellion—but labor choosing management doesn’t bode well for the top brass

The City Politic

A modest proposal for how beleaguered Mayor Bloomberg can turn things around

Naked City

He finally popped the question. So why can’t she just say yes?

Critics

Movies

Camp is high on spirit but low on surprises; Bad Boys II delivers all action, all the time

Theater

Liev Schreiber channels Henry V in Central Park; The Angel Project is an exercise in pretension

Classical Music

The high point of the Kirov Opera’s stand at the Lincoln Center Festival was an absorbing Khovanshchina

Television

Plastic surgeons go wild in FX’s Nip/Tuck; MI-5 ramps the Brit spy genre up a notch

Dance

Exuberant dancing saves an inconsistent St. Louis Woman at the Dance Theatre of Harlem

Top Five

Onion Rings

Onion rings that will make you want to hold the fries.

Female singer-songwriters

Female singer-songwriters strum their way across town this week.