February 27, 2006 Issue
Cover Story
Change Your Life
To paraphrase T. S. Eliot, between the idea (of quitting your desk job)
and the reality (of running a hip, thriving bar) falls the shadow.
Get it all figured out with this practical guide to fulfilling impractical fantasies,
from opening a restaurant and growing tomatoes on a farm upstate
to learning to fly and becoming a nun.
Plus: Living the expat life in Buenos Aires—where American dollars and
cultural cachet both go a long way.
Plus:
• 12 Ways To Remake Your Boring Life
• Unleash Your Inner Artist
• Ditch Your Job and Start a Business
• How Much Does Your Retail Dream Cost?
• Move to South America
• Escape To These Destinations
Features
The Perils of Jeanine
After Jeanine Pirro decided to run for the Senate, it quickly became apparent that she was an overmatched puppet being manipulated by the most powerful players in the GOP. As it turns out, the puppet masters were just as hapless as the puppet.
The Biennial Question
It’s tough putting together an exhibit of “American art” when that very concept
is becoming obsolete.
Plus:
• Timeline: Biennial Stars and Detractors
• Ready To Watch: Ten Artists With Staying Power
• Meet the Art World’s JT LeRoys
Intelligencer
Big Disclaimer for ‘Big Love’
No way HBO’s Utah polygamists are Mormons!
DNC's ATM Withdraws
Watch for the Clinton-Dean show!
(Eco)Terror Charge Snares Journo
Free press vs. Forest Service
Fear and Loathing in Hunter Fam
Gonzo thong controversy.
Area Satirists Stay in the Picture
Onionistas’s sketchy film.
Gimme an H!
This week’s column is in the form of a holiday cheer. H is for Hume, as in Brit, the guy who had a harmless chat—or was that an “interview”?—with the trigger-happy vice-president.
Bandwidth of Brothers
Can an ambitious Spanish plan get us all sharing wi-fi?
Social Toddling
Alpha moms introduce offspring to the benefit circuit.
Hogwarts on the Hudson
New British-style school plans to save expats and anglophiles from the lack of “rigour” in New York schools.
Go Directly to Jail
Posh motorists confront “uncivilized” police dragnet.
Strategist
Best Bets
A trench coat that distinguishes itself from the masses, a wrist-friendly hairbrush, and more.
Shop News
Store openings this week.
Ask a Shop Clerk
Jill Keenan of Tenthousandthings.
Look Book
"I don’t really shop, I just go to fabric stores."
New York Fashion Week Wrap-Up
Forecasting the (immediate) future of fashion.
The Restaurant Review
An excellent take on the nebulous concept of Israeli cuisine.
Top Five
The best places to get fat.
In Season
A cured sardines and puntarelle salad recipe from a Frankies chef.
Restaurant Openings & Buzz
Week of Feb. 20, 2006: Arium.
Carnival Cruising
Fat Tuesday falls on February 28 this year—where will you get your beads on?
BYO, While You Can
Until the following new restaurants get their liquor licenses, you can save a little on the check.
Mating
The pros and cons of sleeping with artsy types.
Real Estate
Rise of the paperless transaction.
The Culture Pages
Cate Blanchett
On the challenge of falling apart onstage.
The Movie Review
An overwrought Julianne Moore vehicle that still manages to be painfully affecting.
DVD Filter
New on DVD: The Paramount Comedy Shorts 1928-1941, The Cary Grant Box Set, Rent, Domino, and more.
Jukebox
A panel of citizen critics weigh in on releases from Ray Davies, Belle and Sebastian, and others.
The Theater Review
How hip-hop could save Broadway. No, really!
Orton’s Beach Boy: Chris Carmack
In his TV debut as Luke in The O.C. former Abercrombie & Fitch model Chris Carmack, 25, played Mischa Barton’s first boyfriend—and her mother’s booty call of choice. But now he stars as the object of Alec Baldwin’s advances in the Off Broadway production of Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane.
Barefoot in the Park
It probably wasn’t in director Scott Elliott’s power to wrest a really transcendent night from this material, but he does make it a diverting one.
Red Light Winter
The frequently profane, occasionally graphic play about two old friends and their shared hooker has rich characters, finely tuned writing, and laughs.
TV Review
The original tawdry real-life courtroom drama, starring Annette Bening.
The Gone Show
Why networks give new series a quick hook.
How ‘The Pajama Game’ Went From Broadway to Drama Club—and Back
Seven steps to Broadway, then drama club-and back.
When Your Boss Is a Terrorist. Or a Crime-Fighting Cartoon Teen
This season, the bad guy on 24 is named after a top Fox network exec. And he’s not the first secret shout-out to an industry power player.
Approval Matrix
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
Columns
The Power Grid
The quail-hunting scandal could push Cheney back into the bunker—where he’s most comfortable.
The Week
Passing the Baton
Three on-the-rise American conductors come to town this week.
Sack Attack
Venerable theater company fights bullies.
An Hour in Chelsea
Three painting shows not to miss.
Talking Heads
Nostalgia for the early-eighties downtown scene just keeps booming, thanks to the scads of backward-looking bands that are hitting the mainstream. This week, take a look back.
Who's Who in the (New) Cast
Three Broadway hits get an infusion of fresh blood.
Departments
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