March 10, 2008 Issue
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Best of New York 2008
The annual guide to the finest, greatest, and most incomparable that our city has to offer in the categories of food, home design, nightlife and other recreation, health and beauty, shopping, and kids’ diversions. From the Cheddar–pork belly–Gruyère grilled cheese to the children’s hair salon–slash–bookstore, from the wizardlike A/V installation specialist to the Staten Island roller rink, all that is contained herein is matchless, optimal, and simply without peer. Read on to be utterly illuminated.
Features
Libet in Love
Her desires were simple: to have a relationship, adopt a child, do something meaningful with her life. So why did things between Johnson & Johnson heiress Libet Johnson and her weight-loss-guru boyfriend get so complicated?
The Un-Reformed
For twelve years, nobody could threaten Joe Bruno’s pugnacious hold on power. But now Eliot Spitzer finally has him on the ropes.
Intelligencer
Can Habaneros Heat Up Hillary’s Bid?
Going auténtico might win some Texas votes.
Snoop Dogged By Oprah Snub
Now he’s a feminist.
Boston Burger Bests Shake Shack
But was there vote fraud?
Rabbinical Rant Cancels MSG Benefit
Secular tunes? Feh!
Book Publishing Goes Paperless
A Hachette job.
It Happened Last Week
Political watchers spent last week looking ahead to primaries in Ohio and Texas.
Athwart History
William F. Buckley was always playing his role, even over lunch at home.
Not Ready for Subprime
New Yorkers behind on their mortgages try to save their homes. How’d they get in such a mess?
Virtual Threat
Scare at a Brooklyn prep school.
Columns
There Will Be Corn
How to profit from the coming agribusiness boom.
Culture
Oh, the Mendacity
Terrence Howard will always be true to himself—even if it costs him.
The Movie Review
You could call Paranoid Park another one of Gus Van Sant’s experiments. Except it works.
Part-time Slayer: Kate Beckinsale
The Underworld actress may surprise many in Snow Angels.
The Frog Prince
Paul Giamatti’s John Adams is no swashbuckler, but the HBO show rises like a hot-air balloon.
The Facebook Biennial
How social networks have taken over this year’s Whitney festivities.
The Biennial Annex
Tequila. Dancing. Heavy-metal nuptials.
Stalking the Gramno
A book-review procedural about Richard Price’s Lush Life.
The Theater Review
Passing Strange smashes Broadway clichés with an electric guitar.
Way Off the Deep End
Erykah Badu has always been one of the weirder pop stars, but this time she really goes for it.
The Approval Matrix: Week of March 10, 2008
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
Agenda
It’s a Toss-up
Clown-free juggling at Pratt.
Departments
Comments: March 10, 2008
Readers sound off on Carine Roitfeld, Heath Ledger, and more.
On the Cover
This week, we pitted five designers against each other in a competition to create our cover.
Artifact: I Have a Dream
Findings from the streets, files, and hard drives of New York.
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