June 12, 2006 Issue
Cover Story
Gangs of New York
The growing popularity of in vitro fertilization among urban professionals has led to a dramatic rise in the city’s population of twins and triplets—not to mention stressed-out, medically paranoid, money-space-and-sleep-deprived parents.
Features
Boss Quinn
It’s true that Christine Quinn’s status as the first gay City Council speaker gets her lots of attention. But beneath that 21st-century backstory is a glad-handing, favor-trading Irish pol whose methods are as old-school—and effective—as they come.
Gooch In Space
Like his famous pornographer father, Bob Guccione Jr. is a searcher. Once a man about town who thought rock music could save the world, he’s now turned to the cosmos in his personal quest for meaning.
Intelligencer
Pssst! Wanna Buy Rocky Aoki’s Candlesticks?
Craigslist fanatics trolling for cheap bookcases and used lamps over Memorial Day weekend found themselves in the potential company of Benihana founder Rocky Aoki.
Spence Feminists Wear Pants
Seniors at tony girls’ prep school protest skirts.
Zombie Version of Manhattan Surprisingly Inaccurate
Will Smith might want to check a map before shooting the big-budget zombie thriller I Am Legend here later this year.
Get Out Your Wallets, Big Donors!
Summer shakedown is here.
Batter Up
As Memorial Day passed last week and temperatures soared toward the nineties, the moment seemed ripe to start swinging for the fences.
Stem City
New York�s scientists have gone private (and high-security) to get around federal restrictions. Welcome to the city�s stem-cell underground.
Toxie Schlock Syndrome
Debut fiction from New York�s gross-out auteur.
iPod Party Pirates
Everybody thinks he�s a better D.J.
Peaceniks at Sea
A Japanese experiment in drinking margaritas to increase global understanding docks in Manhattan.
Strategist
Best Bets
Customizably gnarly surfboards, a portable DVD player, and more.
Beauty
The view from the other side of the cosmetics counter.
Look Book
A quiz-show veteran in truly old-school attire.
Diary
Harried professionals chart every minute of their workday.
The Underground Gourmet
Colorful culinary entrepreneurs and a rising-star chef work wonders at an upscale tapas bar.
In Season
A 'wichcraft chef's grilled bloomsday sandwich.
Insatiable Critic Gael Greene
The scarred tile floors are real, and the abundant hills of tantalizing, gently priced food are real, too, a joy in this era of foam and froth. But everything else at the new Dressler is whimsy.
1,000 Points of White
The Enomatic wine system stores 48 open bottles, preserving them with argon gas, and dispensing 15-milliliter tastes at the swipe of a card that the store has preprogrammed with an introductory 1,000 points.
Sea Change
The non-tourist’s guide to the South Street Seaport.
Big Night
For one evening only, Rockefeller Plaza becomes Rockefeller Piazza.
Hog Heaven
So barbecue-starved are the locals, in fact, that this year host Danny Meyer has secured an extra block (24th Street between Park and Madison) in a futile attempt to meet demand.
Travel
Canyon Ranch hegemony faces a challenge.
Ask a Shop Clerk
Dom Smith of Odin.
Shop News
Store openings this week.
Real Estate
Montgomery Clift’s townhouse hits the market.
The Culture Pages
Piano Woman
Regina Spektor’s journey from Russia to the Bronx to indie stardom.
The Movie Review
Robert Altman and Garrison Keillor make a nearly perfect film about the way good things end.
Trailer Mix
Our reviews of some summer previews.
The Theater Review
A terrifying Columbine reenactment.
Samuel Beckett, at 100, deserves better than he gets.
Where is Samuel Beckett’s centennial hype?
A Fix-It Manual
This Sunday, CBS airs the 60th annual edition of the perennially ratings-challenged Tony Awards. A few ideas for how to get people to watch the damn thing.
Straight Player: Eric McCormack
Q&A with the Will & Grace star on his new life Off Broadway.
The TV Review
Kyra Sedgwick charms as a cop without social graces on The Closer.
Lewis Black: Red, White, and Screwed/ Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
I’m still waiting for a 21st-century stand-up Toxic Avenger. But compared with Kathy Griffin, Black is Jonathan Swift.
Deadwood
What makes Deadwood so fascinating is not the action we put up with; it’s the language we listen to.
Beware the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!
New York Magazine buzz and backlash report.
Six Degrees of Paula Fox
Charting the jacket-blurb universe.
Playing Favorites
Wiley, the Gossip, and other obsessions of professional music obsessives.
The Art Review
Finding restraint in the Guggenheim’s exhibit of the notoriously unfettered Jackson Pollock.
The Approval Matrix
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
Columns
The Power Grid
Why is George Pataki acting as if he could actually be president?
The Bottom Line
Hank Paulson will not be sorry he finally took the Treasury job. Bush won’t, either.
The Week
Soul Food
Madison Square Park hosts the fourth annual Big Apple BBQ Block Party this weekend. Here’s the best of the music lineup.
Bringing the Mountain to Manhattan
An Everest-simulation sleepover.
Park It Here
These cultural events—all in or around great New York parks—can be part of a full day of outdoor leisure, now that summer weather is here.
Out! Out! Damned Wait!
Liev Schreiber is Macbeth in this year’s first Shakespeare in the Park production, premiering on June 13. Four hints to help you land the summer’s hottest free ticket.
An Evening on Fifth Avenue
For the Museum Mile Festival on June 13, the great collections of Fifth Avenue waive their admission fees from 6 to 9 p.m. Be sure to set aside time for these three shows.
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