December 1, 2003 Issue
Cover Story
Rap Attack
When 50 Cent and Ja Rule were growing up in southeast Queens, the role models were violent drug kings like Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff and Howard “Pappy” Mason. Now that they’re at the top of the hip-hop heap, they’re showing what they learned. The rap world is at war. Vicious rhymes—and sometimes bullets—are flying. Is this any way to sell records?
Features
A Double Life
Society travel agent Philip Roome’s suicide in September stunned the Palm Beach–New York jet set—no one more so than his wife, Liza Pulitzer. Or rather, she thought she was his wife: Hours after his death, she discovered that Roome, who liked to keep everyone happy, had never divorced his first wife. Then something even stranger happened—the two wives became friends.
The Art of the Deal
Five hot galleries that are taking art out of whitewashed Chelsea and creating a new Establishment in far-flung places.
Hemmer Time
CNN anchor and chick magnet Bill Hemmer’s life is going grrreat. So why would he rather be in Baghdad?
Departments
Letters
Readers sound off on John Leonard's review of The West Wing and more.
Smart City
Best of New York
Toga Bike Shop: where the pros go
Best Bets
A wine-tasting kit, the Richard Meier champagne case, and an iPod-compatible backpack
Shop Talk
Tiffany & Co. unveils its latest exquisite setting.
Test Drive
High tea at the best midtown hotels
Sales & Bargains
Deal of the Week: Cheap, cheery dessert bowls
Plus, this week's Sale Listings
Beauty
A blissful new pool in the Time Warner Center, Completely Bare at Barneys, and cool new candles
Ask New York
A furniture fixer who makes house calls
Intelligencer
Intelligencer Column
Michael Jackson's tell-all...Trumps leaving Trump building...Uma bounces back
Let's Review
The Times is looking for a new Book Review editor. Would you want the job? What would you change?
Star Crossed
Putting a Nicole or Melanie on Broadway was once a sure bet. This season, it’s curtains.
Primary Color
Which Democratic candidate is the most fun to eat soul food—or matzo—with? A new book tells all.
Tread Thrill?
A new sneaker promises to reduce cellulite by making you walk like your “barefoot ancestors.”
Window Feat
Relax. Enjoy the view. Ignore Trump’s taunting.
Hello, Bello!
Post-ER, Maria Bello has finally found her breakout role—with a little help from William H. Macy.
Columnists
This Media Life
They’re baaaaaack. Web survivors—and their offspring—are suddenly looking like real businesses
The Culture Business
Some of the eight winning proposals for the memorial at the WTC site are truly inspired
The Download
Thanks to the suddenly ubiquitous cameraphone, everyone is now on candid camera. And privacy is looking so twentieth-century.
Naked City
Keeping the faith (even when 40 is just around the corner)
Critics
Movies
The astonishingly imaginative Triplets of Belleville; Ron Howard delivers a standard-issue Western
Theater
Henry IV at Lincoln Center; Raúl Esparza steals Taboo
Classical Music
Ich bin ein Berliner: Sir Simon Rattle rules Carnegie Hall
Art
A Whitney exhibit spotlights the Hungry I—Lucas Samaras
Dance
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker brings the miracle of Rain to BAM
Television
Media luminaries on the deaths of colleagues covering war
Restaurants
Inspired fusion gives Sumile its kick
Restaurant Openings & Buzz
Craft alumnus Marco Canora keeps the faith...a winter mojito makeover...two new cookbooks celebrate bread
Top Five
Ways to Commemorate World AIDS Day
On World AIDS Day, New York remembers—and keeps fighting.
Holiday Shows
Naughty and Nice: Circus Clowns, Jazz Singers, Dancing Girls . . .
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