June 20, 2005 Issue

Cover Story
Empire of the Alpha Mom
Isabel Kallman, a former Wall Street executive, is so type A that when she transferred her 100-hour-a-week intensity to motherhood, she didn’t just start a family—she started a cable channel. But does the world need a new Martha Stewart touting the wisdom of power parenting?
Features
Cheerio!
Kevin Roberts, the flashy CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, made his name with novel advertising theories and dramatic management flourishes. But his antics rankled a 25-year company vet named Mike Burns, leading to a walkout by Burns and seventeen others, a high-stakes lawsuit, and an industry brouhaha so intense that Ad Age hired paparazzi.
Between Punk Rock and a Hard Place
So maybe CBGB isn’t the cultural juggernaut it once was. And maybe its rent-raising landlord isn’t a greedy developer but rather a nonprofit serving the homeless. Still, what would it say about New York if the city’s most famous rock club was forced to move to Vegas?
Great Rooms Special Edition: Kitchens
Everything Plus the Sink
A house tour of five of the city’s best-designed kitchens.
PLUS: The urban cooking and dining space of the future, and housewares worth hungering for.
Intelligencer
Intelligencer Gossip
A Bush who defends the free press . . . Dan Rather, bored.
It Happened Last Week
The week's unseasonable warmth made the air heavy with scents and odors that seemed to call forth primal emotions across the city.
Rock Paper Psyche!
Strategies to beat tweens at Rock Paper Scissors.
Collect Call from the Gladiator
How Rikers solved the problem of phone ragers like Russell Crowe.
West Side Survey
Did you want a stadium or not? And now what should go there?
Strategist
Best Bets
A futuristic stove-top, a portable satellite-radio receiver, and more.
Shop News
Store openings this week.
Ask a Shop Clerk
Ursula Wiskoski of Marni.
Sales & Bargains
This week's hottest sales & bargains.
Look Book
A self-described over-the-hill hipster father and his fashion-conscious 3-year-old.
Restaurant Review
Bobby Flay cooks against type at his latest venture.
In Season
A spinach recipe from chef Mark Ladner.
Restaurant Openings & Buzz
Week of June 13, 2005: Brooklyn Fish Camp, Little Branch, Bolzano's Bar Cucina, Pizza Bar.
We All Scream
Cone, cup, or six-scoop Volcano—here’s where to get some of summer’s hot new licks.
Dad's Day
Forget the tie and treat Dad to what he really wants this Father’s Day—a porterhouse (with creamed spinach on the side).
Real Estate
Developers get creative with deal-sealing amenities.
Mating
Re-dating an ex is comforting but usually inadvisable.
The Culture Pages
Don't Look Back
Keri Russell on taking the rare Hollywood sabbatical not motivated by drugs or career failure.
Movie Review
The animated films of Hayao Miyazaki are un-American in a good way.
Art-House Showdown
It’s war in the art-house world.
Theater Review
London productions of Billy Elliot and Guys and Dolls: the best of the U.K. and the U.S., side by side.
Tony Winner: Adriane Lenox
Q&A with a star of Doubt.
Book Review
Abused-child advocate Andrew Vachss moves adeptly from potboilers to more literary terrain.
Polymath: Betsy Carter
Q&A with the writer.
Art Review
The photos of Lee Friedlander take a realist’s approach to American surreality.
"All the Mighty World" Reviewed
It’s a potent reminder that the landscape of war is half-created and half-perceived.
Show and Tell: Sanford Biggers
The artist talks about "Network: A Remix," his latest exhibit.
TV Review
PBS’s Brother to Brother is a rare breed: a radical movie on today’s public airwaves.
The Sopranos: Now on DVD
The best operas on DVD.
Columnists
The Imperial City
Getting rid of anonymous sources is a sure way to make the media boring, not to mention unfit to serve the public good.
The City Politic
Bloomberg has recovered admirably from past career setbacks and can recover from the stadium debacle—once he calms down.
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