November 3, 2003 Issue
Cover Story
Kids Are Us Too
Nothing changes your life more than having children, as a new generation of gay parents are discovering. As their numbers grow, they’re transforming the gay community, too, as same-sex couples contemplate baby strollers and preschool applications.
Features
Doctor Shortage
New York State’s Libby Zion law was meant to limit the hours residents work in teaching hospitals, to avoid mistakes caused by fatigue. But now many doctors believe that patients are getting a dangerously reduced—and sometimes life-threatening—level of care. Are sleepy doctors better than fewer doctors?
The U.S. Male
American style is ascendant in men’s fashion, with a hot new line from Coach that’s preppy, modern, and masculine. And Americana—from aviator jackets to Western shirts—ruled spring runways from New York to Milan.
Coach Class
This fall, the newly hip New York company debuts its revamped men’s line, a clever meeting of the preppy, the modern, and the masculine.
Smart City
Best Bets
Core Fusion classes: Pilates meets cardio meets an hour at the spa
Shop Talk
At her new Soho shop, Liora Manne moves beyond rugs.
Sales & Bargains
Hot sales at Chaiken, MaxMara, Sabon, and more.
Sales & Bargains: Deal of the Week
A midtown lunch steal from D'Artagnan.
Ask New York
Who can rebind my rare book?
Best of New York
So you’ve mastered Warrior 1 and some moves on the Pilates reformer and can manage the elliptical without too much huffing and puffing. But can you put them all together? The newly relocated Exhale spa offers the toughest and most efficient workout hour in the city.
Top Crops
This season’s required jackets are warm, fuzzy, and short all over.
Intelligencer
Intelligencer Column
Sarah Jessica Parker at the National Design Awards, Amanda Lepore bags a major ad campaign, and Rosie O'Donnell ditches her West Side digs.
All Tina All the Time
Brown’s talking up a storm—on TV, in print, even in chat rooms. Have you been listening? Take our test.
Big Question
Smash! Pow! Oooww, stop that! How should Gest and Minnelli resolve their differences?
Mandarin Madness!
Geisha-girl bar mitzvahs?! Time Warner Center vies to be party central.
The Artful Dodger
Disgraced dealer Tod Volpe on Jack, jail, and Dede.
Face Saver
A new facial from London skips the messy extraction in favor of gentle massage. Lovely!
Bullets Over Broadway
Who’s at fault in Woody’s book mess? Binky Urban fires back at publicist Leslee Dart.
Eau No!
Trump’s latest branding move: designer water.
If The Shoe Fits, You Must Be Trying To Look Like Uma
What sort of hip (or not so hip) New Yorkers wear which of the season’s cool sneakers?
Chick Lit
In artist Sloane Tanen’s little worlds, human life—from blind dates to yoga to bad wax jobs—is expertly acted out by chickens.
Departments
Letters
Readers sound off on Michael Wolff, file-sharing, Hillary Swank, and more.
Columnists
The Bottom Line
Five aggressively un-sexy stocks—like toilets, elevators, and yes, Jim Beam—that could make you a fortune
The Download
Ashton Kutcher’s Punk’d: Upping the reality quotient by afflicting real stars
Naked City
When your wedding becomes your worst nightmare (doesn’t it always?)
Critics
Movies
Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman skim The Human Stain
Books
Tinseltown follies get an Eastern orientation in Still Holding
Theater
Divorce, British-style, in The Retreat From Moscow; ignoble Kinsmen
Classical Music
Christoph Eschenbach’s Philadelphians make the case for Messiaen
Television
PBS plays “Lara’s Theme”
Pop Music
The Strokes party like it’s 1999; bringing techno to life
Dance
At BAM, Merce Cunningham fools around with Radiohead
Restaurants
Mix in New York: Ducasse gets trendy
Top Five
New York Stories
Fall books pack in as many New York stories as are fit to print.
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