December 13, 2004 Issue
Cover Story
Did Their Father Really Know Best?
In a city full of narcissistic, pathologically competitive parents, Donald and his ex-wife Ivana Trump seem to have won the prize. Could their three kids really have survived such mythic, over-the-top dysfunction?
Features
L.I.R.R. (Long Island Rock ‘n’ Roll)
Long Island is full of garages and angsty teenagers, the two main ingredients of rock and roll. Which explains why it’s home to a huge, desultory, fratricidal cultural movement
Beggars Can Be Choosers
With a Park Avenue location and a reliable benefactor or two, a homeless man can clear $200 a day during the holidays. But that’s not enough for Gary and his gang, who go shopping for a more hospitable city to squat in.
Strategist
Best Bets
A hanging Danish candelabra that resembles DNA, plus...
Economy of One
Thelma Golden of Harlem’s Studio Museum spends a hypothetical five figures on a Mini Cooper and iPod Minis
The Look Book
A “modern-day gypsy”
Mating
Men who don’t wear wedding rings
Real Estate
Murray Hill’s almost affordable brownstones
Travel
Since the last time you were in Aspen...
All About (Christmas) Eve
A two-day precision plan for buying last-minute gifts, complete with commando shopping tips
Last-Minute Goliday Gift Ideas:
Gift Certificates
Shop news
Store openings this week
Ask a Shop Clerk
Christina Feliciano of Ricky’s
The Best Seller
Fujitsu 50-inch Plasma TV, $8,999
Sales & Bargains:
This week's hottest sales & bargains
The Restaurant Review
Dévi, a Baluchi’s-owned winner from the chefs of Amma, and Scott Conant’s Bar Tonno
In Season
Andrew Carmellini’s quince in wine and roses
Ask Gael
Should I Break Open the Piggy Bank to Celebrate Chanterelle’s 25th Year?
Talent
Andrew Friedman, cookbook ghostwriter
Restaurant Openings & Buzz
New this week: Jewel Bako Robata, Poetessa, WaWa Canteen, De Marco's Pizzeria and Restaurant, and Lo Scalco. Plus, an irresistible Italian pastry and faith-affirming espresso.
Hot Potatoes
Hanukkah commemorates the miracle of the oil lamp and the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem—and provides a great excuse to gorge on latkes.
Swedish Celebrations
St. Lucia Day, the annual Scandinavian festival of lights, falls on December 13, but you can get a head start on all the festive meatball-eating and glögg-gulping here.
Intelligencer
Intelligencer Gossip
Rudy and Judi (finally) buy in the Hamptons, Wesley Clark’s (renewed) presidential ambitions? How the Met neutered PETA...
It Happened Last Week
As the holiday season officially commenced, New York noticed with some consternation that it had already gained five pounds.
An Information-Age Donkey
If he were chair of the Democratic National Committee, Simon Rosenberg would work on modernizing the party’s politics of persuasion.
Euro Invasion
Emboldened by their strong currency, Europeans are swarming the city—but what sort of bargains are they finding? And just how attached are they to the Euro, anyway? Jada Yuan took to the rues to find out.
Let It Snowflake
How UNICEF plans to turn its Fifth Avenue ornament into a crystal cash cow.
Happy Hors d’Oeuvre Are Here Again
No more cheap crab meat: Office holiday parties get fancy again
They Answer to “Phinnaeus”
Will Julia Roberts’s son ever forgive her for his name? we asked some tri-state Phineases for their opinion.
The Station Agent Diaries
John Borrero, 57, tells Kate Pickert about life in one of the 164 booths the MTA may soon eliminate.
Columnists
The City Politic
As Eliot Spitzer zeroes in on Albany, can he possibly avoid making the state attorney general’s office seem more like a campaign headquarters than it already does?
The Culture Pages
Unfortunate Son
Lemony Snicket star Liam Aiken survives his own unfortunate event.
Movie Review
Ocean’s Twelve is long on George Clooney charm but short on action.
Screen Shots: Born Into Brothels
Born Into Brothels, couldn’t be more earnest—it’s about the children of prostitutes in Calcutta’s red-light district—but it couldn’t be more powerful either.
Willem Dafoe’s Influences
The actor on Frankenstein, Motown, and cockroach bunnies.
Art Review
Experimental film gets painterly
Conversation: John Leland and Maurice Berger
When white kids with no personal experience of black America play up their own skin color much as they’ve embraced black music and humor, and then distance themselves with a dose of irony, a lively cultural moment must be unfolding.
The Object: Raphael’s La Fornarina
Most of the great Raphaels in existence are in London for the National Gallery’s survey, but one very special painting is traveling alone.
Theater Review
Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures is revived with mixed results.
Belle Epoque Reviewed
The playwrights have certainly met quota in their perverse biographical work about Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s syphilitic final days in Montmartre.
The Baltimore Waltz Reviewed
A revival of Paula Vogel’s chaotic 1992 AIDS play, inspired by the death of her brother Carl.
How to Fix: The Rock Musical
A three point plan.
Pop Music Review
The Nirvana boxed set is bloated but fascinating.
Book Review
Politically relevant essays on Buddhism
A Tale of Love and Darkness Reviewed
His memoir, in a translation that preserves the author’s gorgeous, discursive style and his love of wordplay, is a social history embedded within an autobiography.
The Story of My Baldness Reviewed
The novel is, first off, a prank.
Ask A Bookstore Owner
I’m sort of on a Murakami kick. I was thinking it would be great to set him up in a Ford Explorer and have him tour the highways and byways of America
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