New York back issues from July 2006:
The Etiquette Handbook.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 03, 2006; ... THANK YOU, ADAM STERNBERGH, for listing the most obnoxious subway behaviors and making me laugh out loud. I really wish the city could post "Mass Transit: Breaching Subway Decorum" inside all subway cars ["The Urban Etiquette Handbook," June 26]. CRYSTAL COOPER, Brooklyn ...
Best doctors.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 03, 2006; ... I TAKE ISSUE WITH THE boosterish approach in your "Best Doctors 2006" issue and fear the "celebrity" doctor system that you are fostering [June 19]. Although many, if not most, of these doctors may indeed be the "best" in their respective fields, the issue doesn't address a critical ...
ABC news.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 03, 2006; ... JOE HAGAN'S EXCELLENT article on the goings-on at ABC was not at all well served by the illustration of Elizabeth Vargas ["Charlie the Conqueror," June 19]. The woman looks ...
Will Shortz.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 03, 2006; ... I HAVE FOLLOWED Will Shortz's career since our undergraduate days at Indiana University in the early seventies ["The Puzzlemaster's Dilemma," by Clive Thompson, June 19]. His room was always filled with puzzles, and he often had conundrum sessions that lasted into the wee hours ....
AIDS timeline.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 03, 2006; ... WHEN I RECEIVED YOUR magazine a few weeks ago, I rolled my eyes at the Epcot Center-like cover ["2016," by Alexandra Lange, June 5]. When I finally finished reading the grueling account of next new hottest areas, I came upon the fascinating retrospective marking the 25th anniversary of the ...
Correction.(Correction notice)
Jul 03, 2006 ... Contrary to a statement in "Vu: What Went Wrong at Astor Place?" (by S. Jhoanna ...
It happens this fortnight.(Intelligencer)(Brief article)(Calendar)
Jul 03, 2006 ... 6/28 Superman Returns. But will the audience? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 6/28 NBA draft at the Garden Theater. 6/29 The Whitney turns 75. 6/30 Sotheby's ...
Inflate-a-roach gets Boulud tres mad: chef sues protesters.(case against Restaurant Opportunities Center)(Brief article)
Jul 03, 2006; ... CAN Daniel Boulud cook his enemies in court? The chef has filed suit against the Restaurant Opportunities Center, an advocacy group that has picketed Daniel four times in the past month. The center, which has conducted similar campaigns against Cite, the Redeye Grill, Shelly's, and Cafe ...
The ex-Green Cuomo machine: turncoats abound.(Mark Green on attorney general's race )(Brief article)
Jul 03, 2006; ... Mark Green has been squaring off in the state attorney general's race against not only Andrew Cuomo but also several longtime allies turned foes. Shortly before the Democratic convention in late May, Scott Levenson, who worked for Green as campaign manager and chief of operations for five ...
It's back to shul for Gelfand: Hamptons rabbi's new gig.(contracts with Jewish Center by Rabbi David Gelfand )(Brief article)
Jul 03, 2006; ... ON JUNE 30, Rabbi David Gelfand will be cast out of his beachy billionaire's paradise at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons. The center's board had refused to extend his contract, citing allegations of plagiarizing sermons and financial discrepancies that pit boldfacers against boldfacers ...
You think she's in love with you: no, seriously. You!(new music album)(Brief article)
Jul 03, 2006; ... DOES Jessica Simpson really know your name? Her first album on Epic, A Public Affair, is set to be released in August, and buyers will be able to insert the name of their choice into the lyrics of her single. The idea came about when Epic president Charlie Walk sang the chorus--"Hey, baby, ...
We hear ... Stern questions: coming for boss of "Page Six.".(case of Jared Paul Stern on extort $200,000)(Brief article)
Jul 03, 2006; ... REMEMBER the Jared Paul Stern gossip-ethics kerfuffle? The FBI does. Stern, a longtime freelance contributor to the Post's "Page Six," was accused by billionaire Ron Burkle of trying to extort $200,000 from him in exchange for keeping negative stories about him out of the paper. Now the ...
Goofus and gallant.(New york ranked top as most polite city)
Jul 03, 2006; ... IT SHOULD surprise no one that chivalrous behavior was prominently on display during a week in which New York was declared the world's most polite city. At JFK, Mayor Bloomberg greeted President Bush with a handshake ("You know, he's going through a rough period," Hizzoner noted ...
Thank you, sir: the city's S & M aficionados broke out the Sunday-morning leather for this year's street fair in Chelsea.
Jul 03, 2006; ... OUT IN SWINGIN' San Francisco, the long-running annual Folsom Street leather/S & M festival has taken on a state-fair quality, attracting not only fetishists but also hordes of good-natured voyeurs. Its Gotham spawn, Folsom Street East, is still a smaller and more subdued affair. Marking ...
Lots of luck: New York's green-card-lottery winners may soon become the last of their kind.
Jul 03, 2006; ... DON'T LOOK FOR testimony from Daily News gossip columnist Ben Widdicombe, Tipping Point scribe Malcolm Gladwell, or freelance fashion designer and Park Slope mom Ulrika Catarino at the traveling immigration hearings that Republican congressional leaders are promising this summer. But they ...
Street news.(survey on financial-industry professionals )
Jul 03, 2006 ... A random survey of financial-industry professionals we stopped outside their offices to check on how bullish they feel. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION ...
Suit 2.0: back in the nineties, Jason Calacanis was a Silicon Alley cowboy. Now, at AOL, he's in full corporate harness. Is that the only way for an entrepreneur to get to the top?(America Online Inc. acquires Netscape Communications Corp.)
Jul 03, 2006; ... BACK IN THE FALL OF 1998, on the night after AOL announced that it was undertaking the first great merger of the Internet era--its $4.2 billion takeover of Netscape, the seminal Silicon Valley start-up--I was having a drink with Marc Andreessen, Netscape's co-founder, and asking how he ...
The summer issue.(newyorkers in summer)
Jul 03, 2006; ... SUMMER IN NEW YORK is a study in perspectives. Depending on one's point of view, the city can seem like a sweaty, malodorous urban dystopia or a grown-up's playground of sylvan parks, twinkly rooftop parties, and impossibly attractive and sophisticated people wearing very little clothing ....
And God created Scarlett: and Woody saw that she was good. Their second collaboration, Scoop, is just one highlight in a summer calendar jam-packed with cultural thrills.(Movie review)
Jul 03, 2006; ... IT'S A CLASSIC summer dilemma: Nebbish guy meets beautiful girl-say, on a beach--and struggles to find some way, any way, to impress her. Not having washboard abs or bulging pecs or nonprescription sunglasses, he relies on what he does possess--smarts. Normally this story does not end ...
Graffiti in its own words: old-timers remember the golden age of the art movement that actually moved.
Jul 03, 2006; ... GRAFFITI TODAY is such an accepted part of youth culture that it's hard to imagine what New Yorkers experienced in the early seventies, as they watched their city become steadily tattooed with hieroglyphics. Some saw it as vandalism and a symbol of urban decay. But for the writers who ...
2 Last-minute planners, students, workaholics and the jitney-averse.
Jul 03, 2006 ... THE AGENDA THROW A GARDEN PARTY IN WILLIAMSBURG, SWALLOW A SWORD IN CONEY ISLAND, SAIL AROUND MANHATTAN. IF YOU ARE A FOP Pick up sandwiches at the Time Warner Center's Bouchon Bakery and picnic highbrow-style while Audra McDonald sings and Joan Didion ...
Pretend you're in Brazil ... 'TIS the season to eat, drink, make love on the dance floor, and worship soccer.(Brief article)
Jul 03, 2006 ... IN THE MORNING, unload your groceries from Rio Bonito (32-86 47th St., Astoria; 718-728-4300) and make a picnic breakfast: fresh white cheese and goiabada marmalade on Brazilian challah and jugo de maranon (cashew juice). Slather on tanning oil and wriggle into a string bikini. The only ...
Beat the heat: ten cool escapes (thermometer-tested).(Brief article)
Jul 03, 2006 ... 65[degrees] Nat Sherman Walk-in Humidor Flee from the oppressive Fifth Avenue shopping crowds to this tobacco humidor (500 Fifth Ave., at 42nd St.). 63[degrees] Sephora The cosmetic emporium is colder in the summer to keep makeup ...
Take a Nano-vacation: ten great weekends; No La Guardia required.
Jul 03, 2006 ... Hike the Hudson Valley [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] COLD SPRING, NEW YORK Urban hikers in search of a satisfying climb can take the Metro-North line to the Cold Spring station. Once off the rails, hit the funky Foundry Cafe for breakfast (55 Main St.) and then ...
No quiet on the ocean front: Long Beach Island will end up underwater unless it's shored up. Yet an alliance of wealthy weekenders and surfers is taking a stand to let it wash away.
Jul 03, 2006; ... THE FIRST STORM of summer is rolling toward the Jersey Shore, and for Randy Townsend that means one thing: Surf. A lean 26-year-old with spiky hair and freckles, Townsend cuts expertly through the waves as a half-dozen guys in wetsuits bob in the foam. His nickname is Randazzle, and he's a ...
3 Kids, tweens, teens and the parents who struggle to entertain them.(ways to manage your kid and teen)
Jul 03, 2006 ... THE AGENDA SERVE COTTON CANDY AT A BBQ, GO TO A SKATE PARK, AND RIDE THE NEWEST ROLLER COASTER. IF THEY ARE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL Register (before July 10) for the Friends of the High Line's Children's Photo Project: Kids get disposable cameras to shoot the ...
Build a six-figure tree house: so much for Thoreau.(Brief article)
Jul 03, 2006 ... IN A NOT-TOO-FAR-off suburb of Long Island, where nothing is ever too good (or too much) for the children, some parents are spending up to $100,000 on professionally designed tree houses. There's enough backyard building that the sub-sub-specialty has its own starchitects, each with their ...
Take your licks: Adam Platt's daughter and niece seek out the city's best vanilla cones.(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
Jul 03, 2006 ... 1 MAGGIEMOO'S ICE CREAM AND TREATERY [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ($4.12 for single vanilla cone) 1437 Second Ave., nr. 74th St. 212-472-6249 The judges approved of the vivid pink color scheme and somewhat ridiculous cow motif in this newly arrived chain. They ...
See a 65-foot kaleidoscope and other child-friendly destinations that don't suck for parents.
Jul 03, 2006 ... 1. BBQ AT THE ZOO Van Saun Park, Paramus, N.J. Just fifteen minutes from the George Washington Bridge is a refreshingly retro zoo with lions, alligators, tortoises, tamarins, bison, and bobcats. Bring a cooler and have a picnic--barbecuing's allowed. And if all else ...
Travel in harmony.
Jul 03, 2006 ... MUSIC YOU WON'T FIGHT OVER IN THE CAR. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Grand old class war: in one of the stranger races in recent memory, a helmet-haired East Side matron and a former Yonkers mayor are in a mud fight for the soul of the New York GOP.(Grand Old Party)
Jul 03, 2006; ... IN HIS PASTEL tie, Ed Rollins was all smiles and looking strangely father-of-the-bride at KT McFarland's reception in the Garden City Hotel's "Societe Suite." It was the night before the State Republican convention kickoff at Long Island's Hofstra Arena, and all the pyrotechnic WELCOME ...
4 Bathing beauties, 98-lb. weaklings, preeners and their admirers.
Jul 03, 2006 ... THE AGENDA SOAR IN A HOT-AIR BALLOON, CLIMB A LIGHTHOUSE, AND TAKE IN A POLO MATCH. IF YOU ARE A FOODIE Take a private cooking lesson from Wooden Spoon chef Allison Fishman, who has devoted her life to making the microwave generation more comfortable in ...
Pick a beach, not just any beach: perfect stretches of sand for every oceangoer.
Jul 03, 2006 ... 1. FOR FAMILIES [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WEST BOARDWALK LONG BEACH, LONG ISLAND East Hampton's Main Beach has long been touted as an idyllic spot for families, thanks to its soft white-sand dunes, gentle surf, well-kept facilities, and quaint snack stand ....
Download this five genres, five sure-to-be hits.(pop albums)(Brief article)
Jul 03, 2006 ... POP [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Christina Aguilera "Ain't No Other Man" Based on the tambourine-happy first single (and the fact that she isn't yet pumping out babies like arch-nemesis Britney), Aguilera hasn't grown out of her deliciously dirty ...
Amy Sedaris gets up in your grill: and she hopes you'll love her new movie. Just not too much.
Jul 03, 2006; ... AMY SEDARIS wiggles her toes. She's sitting in a makeup chair, wearing bright-green high heels and a black-and-white print dress with a full skirt, admiring her perfect pedicure. "I love this color," she says, gazing down at her silvery-green toenails. "It makes them look like ...
5 Triathletes, jocks, watermen and athletes of the spectator variety.
Jul 03, 2006 ... THE AGENDA WINDSURF SOUTHAMPTON, KAYAK THE HUDSON, CATCH "ROCKY" IN BRYANT PARK. IF YOU ARE A FITNESS FREAK Run the steps, knock out Apollo, and scream "Adrian!" with Rocky in Bryant Park on August 21. Watch some real fitness freaks finish the ...
Pretend you're in Cali ... Surf breaks, raw food, pneumatic blondes--they're all here, if you know where to find them.(Brief article)
Jul 03, 2006 ... GET UP WITH THE SUN AND CHECK the Gilgo Beach surfcam at Bunger-surf.com. If you think you know what you're doing, hit the early-morning glass. If not, talk to Charlie at the Bunger Surf Shop (50 E. Main St., at Deer Park Ave., Babylon; 631-669-2323): He's been surfing Gilgo since 1962 and ...
Sweat seven days a week: without setting foot in a gym.
Jul 03, 2006 ... Mondays: Starting July 10, the Summer Sunset Rooftop Yoga class meets on the roof of the Greenwich House ($20; 27 Barrow St., nr. Seventh Ave.; 212-414-2903) at 7:30 P.M. Be sure to preregister, as it fills up quickly. Tuesdays: Riverside Park South gives free Pilates classes at ...
Swim to Brooklyn or die trying.(Brief article)
Jul 03, 2006 ... IMPROMPTU crossings of the East River are an extremely bad idea: Besides the highly dangerous tide-influenced currents that switch directions twice a day, there's the matter of those thousands of dirty barges. Such a trip should be done only in the company of experts--the ...
Catch your supper: right here in the Rockaways.(Brief article)
Jul 03, 2006 ... CATCH-AND-RELEASE is the law of the land and sea in city parks, so the best place to hunt dinner in the five boroughs is the Rockaways, where Jacob Riis Park falls under federal jurisdiction--and striped bass and bluefish abound. Fishing's allowed (and most productive) from 8 P.M. to 8 ...
Ride your bike--to Montauk and tick off the first "century" of your life.
Jul 03, 2006 ... CYCLISTS CALL a hundred-mile stretch a "century" and consider riding one to be a signal accomplishment, their sport's equivalent of running a marathon. More than a thousand cyclists race in the Montauk Century each May, but don't consider it a missed opportunity. Riding to The End is more ...
Hit the links for $400,000, $5,000, or $51.(golf clubs memberships)(Brief article)
Jul 03, 2006 ... 1. The brand-new, 162-acre Liberty National Golf Club on the Hudson in Jersey City is a jewel--with a price tag to match. The course cost $130 million, a world record, and charges a $400,000 initiation fee, which buys the privilege of aiming directly at the oh-so-close Statue of Liberty on ...
6 dinner with a side of sky; Twenty-five perfect places for outdoor eating: everything from a romantic rooftop restaurant in red hook to a suburban BBQ in Soho.
Jul 03, 2006; ... 1 Alma 187 Columbia St., at Degraw St., Red Hook, Brooklyn 718-643-5400 A restaurant in Red Hook made for romance: Start with a mojito, stuffed with mint and served in a latte-size glass, and end with the just-as-fresh Key-lime pie. Service is spacey, but we like to ...
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... Parker Posey! The nonstop life of our local superhero.(THE CULTURE PAGES)
Jul 03, 2006; ... TWO DAYS AGO, the perpetual-motion machine known as Parker Posey was on a red-eye from Los Angeles, having wrapped a guest-starring stint on the TV series Boston Legal; four days from now, she will be on a flight to Paris, to shoot her role in Broken English, the feature debut of cinematic ...
Lost Island; Richard Greenberg almost captures a sepia-toned New York. Plus: Spring Awakening's kids are all right.(The House in Town)
Jul 03, 2006; ... WHEN RICHARD GREENBERG told The New York Times Magazine a few months back that he has seen The Light in the Piazza many times because "it's a place you just want to return to," I didn't know what he meant. It's never occurred to me to feel that way about a show. Then I saw his new play, ...
Inside the disco inferno: thirty years ago, a mostly fictional article in this magazine led to the movie Saturday Night Fever. But the pictures that ran with that story couldn't have been more real.
Jul 03, 2006; ... Though he wasn't born until 1977, Tony Manero, the disco-dancing, white-suit-wearing, finger-pointing-to-the-sky hero of Saturday Night Fever, exists now as a mascot for "the seventies" in the way, say, that Gordon Gekko exists as a mascot for "the eighties," or Mickey Mouse exists as a ...
The anxiety of influence: ninety years later, Dada should give Chelsea the willies.
Jul 03, 2006; ... IN NEW YORK, the exhibit "Dada" at the Museum of Modern Art could--if we're lucky--develop an interesting double life. Officially, it is an educational account of the style that flourished during and just after World War I. It deftly grounds that idiom in a war whose horrors made a mockery ...
The monster in the room: after technical woes--and head trauma--Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal finally get a Vietnam allegory onstage. Just in time for Iraq.
Jul 03, 2006 ... IT WAS DECADES in the making, and had a shaky opening in early June in Los Angeles, but composer Elliot Goldenthal's Grendel, directed by his longtime partner, Julie Taymor (best known for Broadway's The Lion King), is finally onstage. It's the first opera by the Grammy-, Tony-, Emmy-, and ...
The approval matrix: our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
Jul 03, 2006 ... "Bodies," the show featuring human cadavers, puts a poster inside Bellevue Hospital. A Klimt painting sells for a record $135 million, which seems high, given it's on display in every dorm room in America. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Finnish crime writer Tuula ...
Vacation verse.
Jul 03, 2006; ... Across [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1 Belief 6 Grand Canyon State 13 Teaching unit 19 Police identifying method 21 More distant 22 Giving off a blinding light 23 Start of a verse 26 Sunday ...
Summer issue.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 17, 2006; ... KUDOS ON THE "Summer Issue" [July 3-10]. Although I'm certain readers with obscure interests will write to express their disappointment that their nontraditional sport ...
Graffiti.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 17, 2006; ... FOR THE VAST MAJORITY of us who lived and worked in New York City in the early eighties, the obliteration of every surface on every subway car with graffiti was a nightmarish symptom of a city out of control ...
Long Beach Island.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 17, 2006; ... I READ WITH INTEREST David Kushner's story "No Quiet on the Ocean Front" [July 3-10]. I owned two homes on Long Beach Island--in North Beach Haven and in Loveladies Harbor. I owned the former home at the time of the March 1962 storm. I arrived at the island two days after it hit and talked ...
Etiquette.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 17, 2006; ... ALTHOUGH I AGREE with most of the recommendations in your "Urban Etiquette Handbook" [June 26], I beg to differ regarding the fortunes to be found in the back of a taxicab: My 8-year-old daughter and I recently found $261 in loose bills, and we ...
Gitmo lawyers.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 17, 2006; ... STACY SULLIVAN'S "The Minutes of the Guantanamo Bay Bar Association" [June 26] was excellent. However, it seemed to imply that "gender relations have proved difficult" for lawyers at Paul, Weiss. That suggestion is inaccurate and mischaracterizes the relationship we have developed with our ...
Dogs in the park.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 17, 2006; ... ROBERT HOLDEN should be commended for bringing to light the out-of-control dogs in our parks ["Intelligencer: Free-Range Pups," by Janelle Nanos, June 26]. But why stop there? Some people have vicious, unrestrained children. I recently saw two charge a young aspiring model-actress in ...
Best docs.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 17, 2006; ... I ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD to "Best Doctors," [June 19] and I especially liked the recent issue. However, it's a shame that the moment you decided to design a cover featuring two doctors, no one felt strongly enough that one of them should be a woman. JENNIFER ...
It happens this week.(Brief article)(Calendar)
Jul 17, 2006 ... 7/10-7/14 Restaurant Week--let them eat cake! 7/13 "Manhattanhenge": Sunset lines up perfectly in the middle of every Manhattan street. 7/14 Bastille Day! ...
Something wicked this way comes: Clinton at intermission.(Bill Clinton)(Brief article)
Jul 17, 2006; ... THOUGH HE moved too quickly for any photographers to catch him, Bill Clinton (Chelsea in tow, Hillary MIA) was indeed in the opening-night audience for Macbeth at Shakespeare in the Park, upstaging the likes of Steve Martin and Meryl Streep. He duly shook hands and signed programs for his ...
Lit non-hoax revealed: pseudonyms don't move units.(Jonathan Lethem and Christopher Sorrentino)(Brief article)
Jul 17, 2006; ... Jonathan Lethem and Christopher Sorrentino, high-school friends turned New York literary superstars, wrote a book together--but no one knew about it (until now). The duo wanted to take a playful poke at book-world scams, and do it anonymously. "Riffing on authorial fraud" is how ...
Further Lane barn burner: buy this house, get seven for free?(Adelaide de Menil )(Brief article)
Jul 17, 2006; ... HAMPTONITES are once again wondering whether Adelaide de Menil Carpenter's Further Lane estate is finally changing hands. Rumor has it that she's poised to donate to the village and town of East Hampton seven eighteenth- and nineteenth-century houses and barns she's collected on her ...
Grass-fed beef in City Parks: is ersatz turfunsafe?(Brief article)
Jul 17, 2006; ... FIRST IT was the field at Chelsea Park, then Hecksher Playground in Central Park, among many others. To date, the Parks Department has rolled out artificial turf in more than 40 parks and has pledged $50 million for more. "It's like the Blob," says Bill Crain, a City College professor and ...
MySpace, but for models only: too many uglies out there.(modelling site launched)(Brief article)
Jul 17, 2006; ... THE LATEST MySpace knockoff is exclusively for knockouts (regular-looking humans can knock but won't be let in). Male model Jesper Lannung, 24, fed up with the "poseurs and wannabes" on MySpace, is launching modelshotel.com this week, a social-networking site that requires representation ...
Returns accepted.(state owned business enterprises closed in Atlanta protesting against sales tax)(Lil' Kim released from jail)(George Steinbrenner resurrects)
Jul 17, 2006; ... AS THE CITY basked in the rockets' red glare above New York Harbor, it was a week to savor many happy returns. There was rejoicing in Bergen County for Lil' Kim--less to celebrate her freedom from prison than for her choice of a tight white release-day ensemble that showed off her new, ...
Notes on camp: executives quit the rat race to manage the sack race.
Jul 17, 2006; ... AS THE CUBICLE CLASS spends its summer under fluorescent light, Roger Black is officiating at a hockey game played with a frozen Twinkie. After nearly a decade as a general manager for restaurateurs like Drew Nieporent and Terrance Brennan, a burned-out Black, 32, quit to buy the ...