June 16, 2008 Issue
Cover Story
Best Doctors 2008
Our annual list of the area’s top physicians as selected by their peers.
See Also:
Listening to Hypochondria
Would You Want to Know If You Carried a Mutant Gene?
Who Still Dies of AIDS, and Why
Six Medical-Ethics Dilemmas, Examined
Columns
I’m Not Totally Sure We Can
Ten November scenarios to give an Obama supporter agita.
Intelligencer
Love Supreme for Carrie Bradshaw
Black robes meet Manolos.
Equanimity Training for Equinox Rage
Gym teaches instructors to calm clients. You go, girl!
Rushdie’s Love Lines
Borrowed from an Italian stallion.
Frumpy Fey Loves Capri Pants
She’s too old for shorts.
Greasy-Spoon Crisis Grips W. Village
It’s getting haut.
Wait-List Winners Create College Chaos
Trading up, down the line.
It Happened Last Week
As the price of smokes shot through the $10 barrier last week, even nonsmokers were fired up.
Proust-à-Porter
YSL and the idea of dangerous luxury.
The Unsmokables
Higher cigarette taxes mean more bootlegging.
The Builders
The sixteen people who’ve died this year in the building of a new New York.
Strategist
One Father's List
Derrick Mize, head buyer for the New York Wine Co., picks what he wants for Father’s Day.
The Look Book
"Since the minute he was born, he was always running around and we couldn’t find him."
The End of Grease
Picking a household cleaner at the market can be like sorting through paint samples at the hardware store.
The Underground Gourmet
Three quirky new joints attempt to redefine the Brooklyn pie-eating experience.
In Season
Plump and firm-fleshed, fluke, or summer flounder, caught off Long Island are at their best right now.
Insatiable Critic
There is no mule tethered to a lamppost out front of Hundred Acres.
Restaurant Openings
Week of June 16, 2008: Talay and Shalizar.
Fill ’Er Up
If you need a reason to get over your anti-boxed-wine bias, here it is.
Union Square Meat Market
The farmers’ market: It’s not just for veggies anymore.
The Very Leggy Summer
They’re tiny (on women) and just ubiquitous (on men). A season of shorts has begun.
How to Buy a European Castle
And make your pal’s Bridgehampton house look like a whole bunch of nothing.
Culture
The Falls Guy
Olafur Eliasson has seduced Mike Bloomberg with a spectacle to rival The Gates.
The Movie Review
Adam Sandler makes his Jewish mother proud. Meanwhile, Werner Herzog tries to avoid penguins.
On Deck: June Releases
Persepolis, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Be Kind, Rewind, and more.
The Theater Review
Would half as much Neil LaBute be twice as good?
Improbable Broadway Musicals: The Quiz!
Can you tell which of the musicals described below are really in development?
A Punk in Exile
Tod A. lit out for parts unknown when W. was reelected—and made an album of his journeys.
The Approval Matrix: Week of June 16, 2008
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
Agenda
Pro-Pigeonism
New Yorkers’ feathered friend, not foe.
Departments
Comments: June 16, 2008
Readers sound off on what they had for breakfast, the return of Aaron Brown, and more.
Artifact: The Last Cigarette
Findings from the streets, files, and hard drives of New York.
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