February 6, 2006 Issue
Cover Story
The Cuddle Puddle of Stuyvesant High School
In the enlightened world of Manhattan teens, where the only taboo is intolerance, adolescent romance can get complicated. Meet Alair, her unconsummated crush Jane, their friend Elle, her bisexual boyfriend, and the rest of the heteroflexible gang.
Features
Revenge of the Weinsteins
Brand-new movie studios like the one Bob and Harvey Weinstein just founded face a million little problems. But for Hollywood’s most notorious brothers, everything boils down to a single, immodest goal: making billions of dollars in profit while embarrassing every adversary they’ve ever had.
My Roommate, The Diamond Thief
He paid the rent on time and seemed like a pretty normal guy. Until his room got ransacked. And he disappeared. Then he showed up on television as the perpetrator of the most lucrative jewel heist in San Francisco history.
Intelligencer
No Money-Back Guarantee in Politics
Cuomo scoffs at refunds for his donors turned rivals.
Sweet Revenge For 'Candy'
Warner had let it rot.
Trump Says ‘Times’man Missed Billions Because of Blonde
Last week, Trump filed a libel lawsuit seeking a minimum of $5 billion in damages resulting from Times business writer and TrumpNation author Timothy O’Brien’s “malicious” lowballing of his net worth.
Fellini? Proust? No Way, Brah!
NYC undergrads normal.
Mass. GOPers Fund Weld Run
No sign of Pataki-ites’ $$$
Ashes of History
People come to New York to start fresh, but last week the city kept ramming head-on into the past.
Mona Lisa of the Federal Reserve
Painter Erin Crowe, 25, bids farewell to the eighteen-year reign of Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, who is retiring at the end of the month, with a show at the Broome Street Gallery.
White-Collar TKO
Last November, the state cracked down on weekend boxers. But these would-be Rockys can’t throw in the towel.
His Witness
Attorney, fixer, and New York knockabout Edward Hayes, who’s gone to the mat for everyone from P.Diddy to 9/11 victims’ families, has written a memoir.
When Networks Collide
What happens when you combine two prime-time schedules?
Strategist
Best Bets
Early-blooming flowers for reducing winter drabness, a humidifier for those with dry skin and a keen sense of style, and more.
Skinny Pants: A Brief History
Skintight women’s pants have squeezed in and out of fashion for decades. Now, with the reappearance of stirrup leggings, the look is back.
Shop News
Store openings this week.
The Look Book
A Frenchwoman who favors American men.
Great Room
Turning a Tribeca loft into the ultimate tech-guru pad.
The Restaurant Review
Telepan successfully brings organic, ingredient-fetishizing cooking uptown.
In Season
A chili con carne recipe from a Maremma chef.
Restaurant Openings & Buzz
New this week: Morimoto, Novo, Ssam Bar, Pala, and Hampton Chutney Co.
Ask Gael
The narrow storefront that was Butterfield 81 has always catered to the neighborhood, and that’s Francesco Antonucci’s mind-set here in a room that is stripped-down and simple.
The Sandwich Chronicle
Jerry Seinfeld reaches the pinnacle of super-celebritydom: A Greenwich Village café names a peanut-butter sandwich in his honor.
Real Estate
The high cost and high stakes of naming developments.
The Culture Pages
Now Playing at Your Local Multiplex: Torture Porn
Cinematic torture gets more graphic as it gets more pointless.
Movie Review
An entertainingly jumbled effort from Michael Winterbottom.
Boris Karloff: The Monster Who Would Tuck You in at Night
Boris Karloff could be the most fiendish bogeyman imaginable but also the grandfather reading you the story of that bogeyman in the safety of your bedroom.
What We Saw—And Learned—At Sundance
Indie films don’t have to end up as downers. Heroin addiction and child molestation can’t always be overcome in a 90-minute feature, as Sundance films like to remind us.
Process
Isaac Mizrahi fits Amanda Peet.
Theater Review
A one-woman show by Sarah Jones succeeds where others annoy.
Book Review
A smart satire of modern urban motherhood from Ayelet Waldman.
Impatient Patient: James McManus
In Positively Fifth Street, James McManus turned a week at the World Series of Poker into a rambunctious existential exploration of greed and family, with an epically seedy murder tossed in. His new book, Physical: An American Checkup, takes an equally gonzo approach to the world of medicine.
By Our Contributors
In his new novel, The Good Life, Jay McInerney (a New York contributing editor) explores that post-attack feeling—equal parts grief, stoicism, and morbid humor.
TV Review
Henry Louis Gates Jr. reexamines racial heritage in America (and it’s a lot more fun than it sounds).
Pop Music Review
A home visit with New Jersey’s leading practitioner of “bedroom pop.”
Filter: What's Good About Ryan
Three albums in 2005, six in the four years prior, countless curios in between—Ryan Adams, self-styled bard of the East Village, releases material at a maniacal pace.
Classical Music Review
Osvaldo Golijov deserves to be a household name.
Approval Matrix
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
Columns
The Imperial City
By framing the eavesdropping debate as a manly-man contest, Bush & Co. are distracting us from the conversation we should be having about privacy.
The City Politic
Rangel is boxed in by the Republican majority above and Harlem’s New Guard below. No wonder he’s lashing out at friend and foe alike.
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