October 6, 2003 Issue
Cover Story
Beauty's Best
New York’s finest plastic surgeons, cosmetic dermatologists, ear-nose-and-throat docs, and dentists.
Features
The Cutting Edge
Top plastic surgeons pick the field’s sharpest new talents.
Beyond Botox
So what if it’s not approved? Patients demand it. Doctors inject it. But is it safe?
Their Bodies, Ourselves
Why we like (no, love) to watch plastic surgery on TV.
Recovery Rooms
Three Manhattan hideaways where the bruised and bandaged can heal discreetly.
Candid Camera
You may want to hide the evidence, but before and after shots are a crucial part of the process.
Mike Bloomberg Goes to the Principal's Office
Taking his cue from Rudy’s war on crime, the mayor is determined to make the public schools great again by having principals manage and making teachers accountable. Will the union let him get away with it?
Departments
Letters to the Editor
Readers sound off on our 9/11 tribute issue, Howard Dean's fundraising, and more.
Smart City
Best of New York
Sisters Grace and Amy Szuwala have been in the watch-repair business since 1978. “In the beginning, people were skeptical because they thought we were too young,” remembers Grace, now 43. “They wanted to know where the repairmen were.”
Best Bets
Jewelry that's more about the bang than the bling, cashmere hoodies for the guys, and more.
Shop Talk
The urban working girl gets a room of her own.
Deal of the Week
Sometimes that dressy leather bag—no matter how sleek—is just too formal, too bulky, too much. Hence the appeal of these cheeky, mod vinyl totes in supersaturated colors by Loop
Ask New York
My favorite dress is wearing out—who can make me an exact copy?
Intelligencer
Intelligencer Column
Barrymore Bares All... Biggs Blows It... Left-Wing Radio...
Big Question
Wes is in, Hill’s iffy, and Dean’s running (a bit) scared. What’s your fantasy Democratic ticket?
New York Minute
Michelle Williams has played a mean teen on Dawson’s, gone naked Off Broadway, and is now dating a dwarf in The Station Agent.
Remembering George
Louis Begley on his friend George Plimpton’s kind intellect, inimitable brio, and advice on horned owls.
Columnists
The Mogulissimo
Imagine if, say, Barry Diller bought Universal, then ran for president—and won. Welcome to the surreally complete media moguldom of Italy’s prime minister.
Delisted
C’mon—all NYSE chief Dick Grasso did was negotiate one hell of a pay package. His downfall has a lot more to do with how the money changed him.
Political Partying
It’s not surprising that young voters are turning out in droves for Howard Dean fund-raisers and rallies. What could be sexier than a well-honed set of political values?
Critics
One Man Band
Playing a washed-up rocker turned substitute teacher, Jack Black unleashes enough comic energy in School of Rock to fill a stadium.
California Screamin'
Joan Didion has checked out of California—but as her new memoir, Where I Was From, shows, she can never leave.
TV Notes
John Leonard reviews It's All Relative, Karen Sisco, The Practice, and more.
Send in the Clown
Now, Voyeur
Ambitious photography shows at the Met and the ICP shed light on the way the camera can obscure the truth as much as reveal it.
That Phily Sound
Maestro Maazel shows he’s got his Philharmonic working in near-perfect harmony; Donizetti surely doesn’t deserve the City Opera’s new Lucia.
Dynamic Duo
OutKast releases a double album in which the pair seem bent on out-weirding each other—while producing work of emotional depth.
Très Truffles
Soho’s 325 Spring Street dishes up truffles in virtually every conceivable way (truffle pizza? truffle jelly?). The results? Comme ci, comme ça.
Restaurant Openings
24-Hour Barbecue People...Stellar Cellar...Rhine Bar
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