August 15, 2005 Issue
Cover Story
The Beautiful People
There are Parisian beauties and Brazilian beauties, but any real New Yorker will maintain that his city has the fairest of them all. Still, what makes New York’s brand of beauty unique? A team of the city’s most astute aestheticians (photographers, artists, designers, club owners) were canvassed, professional scouts were dispatched, and somehow, from this folly of an exercise, an answer began to take shape.
Features
Unstoppable
Rebuffed in its first attempt to break into the five boroughs, Wal-Mart will be back with a vengeance. Is that so bad?
Gary Sheffield is the Yankees' MVP.
Over the past year and a half, no Yankee has been more consistently outstanding on the field than Gary Sheffield. Nor has any player more consistently run his mouth off it. But that only makes him the truest Yankee of the bunch.
Intelligencer
Intelligencer Gossip
Jeanine Pirro back in action, 50 Cent gets soft, Ian Schrager's China Syndrome, and more.
It Happened Last Week
Our sweltering sidewalks were positively pulllulating with tourists, and for some out-of-towners, the city's ways took a little getting used to.
The Death of a True Believer
A fellow journalist in Iraq remembers Steven Vincent— whose faith in the war was a kind of self-protection.
SAT Beach House
Overdemanding parents, underattentive kids, simmering class rage. It’s a regular working Hamptons holiday for New York’s top tutors.
The Lost Posts
How Rupert’s tabloid might have covered the Murdoch drama, if it could.
Strategist
Best Bets
CD-saving plastic that’s easy to stick on your collection, the new Chuck Taylors, and more.
Shop News
Store openings this week.
Ask a Shop Clerk
Jack Wernke of John Varvatos
Sales & Bargains
This week's hottest sales & bargains.
Restaurant Review
Fort Greene’s Luz successfully revives the Pan-Latino movement.
All-American, With a Twist
Chefs give a master class in putting the heat back in your grill.
Restaurant Openings & Buzz
Week of Aug. 8, 2005: Egg, Bann.
Ask Gael
What's new in Nouvelle Chinese?
Lugerpalooza
Can't get a reservation at Peter Luger? Try one of these, opened by former employees.
Man of La Mancha
Suba hosts four visiting Spanish chefs.
Travel
The Croatian resort town of Dubrovnik is for Eurotravelers who think Prague is overrun.
Mating
If everyone who had an STD actually admitted it, admitting it wouldn’t be such a big deal.
Real Estate
In booming Manhattan, more than a dozen new brokers are born each day.
The Culture Pages
Miss Independent
After dumping them in a bid for the Top 40, Liz Phair makes nice with her original fans.
Movie Review
In the new Jarmusch film, Bill Murray plays yet another poignantly tired old man—and does it well, again.
Overheard
What the Audience Really Thought about 'The Aristocrats.'
Theater Review
A new play from the Five Lesbian Brothers tries harder than it needs to.
A Bluffer's Guide to the Fringe
Your cheat sheet to the hottest genres at this year’s festival, August 12–28.
Fringe Figure: Rick Bland in 'Thick'
Q&A with the actor.
TV Review
Showtime’s pot sitcom Weeds proves a worthy vehicle for Mary-Louise Parker.
Pop Music
The influences of the old Beach Boy Brian Wilson.
Classical Music Review
Can Mostly Mozart overcome its history of pointless gimmicks?
The Approval Matrix
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
Columns
The Imperial City
Does it really make sense to conduct subway checks with scrupulous randomness? Let’s admit the obvious: Racial profiling works.
The Week
The DVD Filter
What's new on DVD this week.
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