January 7, 2008 Issue
Cover Story
Where to Eat 2008
From big-splurge blowouts to locavore temples to down-and-dirty barbecue joints, Adam Platt selects the best places to eat right now.
Features
The House Where They Live
There are 45 sex offenders living in one small Long Island town. Inside a sex-offender cluster.
Ripped to Shreds
In the dying days of the music business, record labels are waging war on leaks.
Intelligencer
Pataki Weighs Endorsing Rudy
Ex-guv says he’s over the Mario messiness.
Wu-Tang’s GZA Says ‘No’ to Pot
Discovers he’s just lazy.
Village Gate to Swing Again
What’s red and fishy?
Equinox Declares the War of the Yogis
Brings Pure Yoga to NYC.
Mo Rocca Was a Jr. High Bonnie Fuller
Cool kids: Just like us!
Cloudy Future
As European budget travelers swarmed the rainy city, many New Yorkers had already moved on to 2008.
Ghosts of New York
A remembrance of things demolished.
Going Away
Why the Maxjet bankruptcy could signal the end of New York’s transatlantic air dominance.
College Caucus
Campus campaigners for Hillary and Barack.
Columns
Iowa Ice Capades
Is Hillary coldly competent or warmly personable? If her campaign can’t figure it out, how can voters?
The Future of Business
What stories will dominate the financial world in 2008? Our Wall Street guru makes his predictions.
Strategist
Let There Be Light
Brighten up the darkest days of winter with smart and stylish illuminators.
A Brief Survey
Men’s underwear has evolved far beyond the simple boxers-versus-tighty-whiteys duality.
Nicole LaLiberte, Actress
"I am ageless. I have been in New York for fourteen years."
Bohemia in Midtown
The studios on top of Carnegie Hall have housed artists for more than a century.
This Place Is a Steal
Who keeps an eye on your stuff during your open house?
Culture
Dion DiMucci, Teen Idol
A seminal Bronx rocker, inspiration for Lou Reed and Springsteen, is coming back to his roots.
The Theater Review
Baryshnikov knows what to do with Beckettian silence; The Homecoming, at 40, is losing its virility.
Chin Up
How Fiona Shaw got over her aversion to Beckett’s Happy Days.
The Sopranos on the Big Screen
Could high-definition opera at the movies become as addictive as popcorn?
Met Tech
A century of operatic advances (plus the odd glitch).
The TV Review
The Wire draws to a close, but not before zeroing in on one more failed institution.
Cashmere Mafia
Someone please order a hit job.
The Approval Matrix: Week of January 7, 2008
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
Agenda
Out With the Old
Managing the post-holiday pileup.
Departments
Comments: January 7, 2008
Readers sound off on "Reasons to Love New York," "The Year in Culture," and more.
Artifact: Farewell
Findings from the streets, files, and hard drives of New York.
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