The New York Observer (New York, NY) back issues from August 2006:
Hamptons 2000: Here Come the Kids!(Home Page)
Aug 07, 2006 ... It was Saturday, May 6, a weirdly warm 85 degrees, and Noah Tepperberg, 24, and Jason Strauss, 26, the co-owners of the one-year-old Southampton nightclub Conscience Point, were trying to decide how to mark the entrance to the six-bedroom house on Noyack Street they'd bought for $640,000 ...
Swiss Masquerading as Turk, Victim of His Own Expertise.(Culture)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Mario Naves Among the many masterpieces regularly on the walls at the Frick Collection, there's an inconspicuous gem by the Swiss painter Jean-Etienne Liotard. Trompe l'Oeil (1771) doesn't offer a transformative glimpse into the human psyche or herald a profound ...
A Disappointing Pharrell Nurses His Contradictions.(Culture)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Jonathan Liu No figure embodies the ambiguous last decade of popular music quite like Pharrell Williams. His work as the public face of the production duo the Neptunes helped make ecstatic, percussive minimalism the default radio and dance-floor standard. Out of inchoate ...
Intercontinental Intrigue Ravishes Screen in Vice.(Culture)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Andrew Sarris Michael Mann's Miami Vice, from his own screenplay, celebrates a world of drug crime and undercover police infiltration in a manner far more passionately romantic and picturesquely intercontinental than was the case in the popular 1980's television series ...
What Makes Political Theater Effective--Or Not.(Culture)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: John Heilpern The mortal danger of all the political theater I've seen this season is whether it preaches pointlessly to the choir-or takes an imaginative leap to exist in its own dynamic right. All propaganda plays date quickly-unless the play transcends the ...
Dems Must Resist Voices of Outrage.(Politics)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Niall Stanage Courage. Conviction. Constancy. These are among the most prized of political virtues. They are also qualities that opponents of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton routinely excoriate her for lacking. In recent times, criticism has been ...
Putting on the Spitz: Eliot's Brain Trust.(Page One)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Jason Horowitz When State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sat down to breakfast with storied financial consultant Felix G. Rohatyn at the Regency this January, he was so eager to pick his guest's brain-and so intensely solicitous-that he barely had time to touch the food ...
Our Other War.(Page One)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Philip Weiss JERUSALEM-On July 26, the Israeli army suffered a historic blow when eight men from the elite Golani Brigade were killed in a battle in southern Lebanon. The papers reported that two of the men were from a settlement called Eli in the occupied West Bank, ...
Our Other War.(Page One)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Katherine Zoepf AMMAN, Jordan, Aug. 1-We're now well into the third week of what some Syrian friends of mine have started referring to, utterly without irony, as "the second Lebanese war." In Gaza, too, of course, the fighting continues. But here in Jordan, where about ...
A Mazelike Gothic Novel, Intelligent and Intense.(Culture)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Nan Goldberg When Danny was a kid, he and his cousin Howie-an awkward, overweight, nerdy sort of boy who didn't really fit in-used to play together at family gatherings. But one day, Danny, following his older cousin Rafe ("not the oldest cousin but the one they all ...
Is Chris Cuomo Running for GMA? Mario: 'No'.(Page One)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Rebecca Dana In a colorful e-mail to one ABC News colleague, Chris Cuomo-son of Mario, brother of Andrew; he of the perfect hair, bone structure and political pedigree-doubted his chances of winning Charlie Gibson's seat on Good Morning America. "I think I ...
Morris Toys With Sylvia; San Francisco's Ace Dancers.(Culture)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Robert Gottlieb "I am tired of the 'Six.' I am weary of Erik Satie. I am fed up with Malipiero. The music of Zoltan Kodaly has begun to pall on me. I have consigned my Arnold Schoenberg scores to the flames -. " So, in 1922, Carl Van Vechten, at that time America's most ...
Countdown to Bliss.(Love)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Daisy Carrington Amanda Danuser and Vince Parenti Met: Nov. 7, 2000 Engaged: Nov. 1, 2005 Projected Wedding Date: Dec. 2, 2006 Amanda Danuser, 29, the co-founder of the Green Room, a fashion showroom, intends to marry Vince ...
Maxwell Asher Isaacs.(Love)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Daisy Carrington Maxwell Asher Isaacs April 6, 2006 6:39 p.m. 7 pounds, 12 ounces New York University Hospital When Alison Lowenstein's water broke, it was in the middle of morning rush hour. She instructed her ...
The Transom.(The City)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Astor Family Circus "It's like a seesaw, isn't it?" said Peter Himler of Flatiron Communications, and Edelman's former chief media officer, yesterday on his cell. "One day the grandson commandeers the media, and the next day, the father! And the next day, the son grabs the ...
Save This Firm! Milberg Weiss Is Nearing Iceberg.(Page One)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Anna Schneider-Mayerson On Friday, July 28, a 160-foot-long yacht called Duchess docked along the Hudson River at 41st Street, decked out like a hula dancer for a corporate party with a Pacific-island theme. It's not rare for a big law firm like Milberg Weiss ...
No More to Rohm!(Finance)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Michael Calderone Back in the days when popular Manhattan bachelor and news anchor Dan Abrams was still hosting The Abrams Report, a Michael Jackson-heavy courtside show on MSNBC, he and his girlfriend Elizabeth Rohm went apartment hunting together. They ...
Agent Demoralized, But William Clegg Back With Vengeance.(Page One)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar In early 2005, the New York literary agent William Clegg-who at the time represented big league authors Nicole Krauss and Susan Choi, among many others-suddenly stopped coming in to his office or returning phone calls, leaving his writers orphaned and ...
George and Hilly.(The City)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: George Gurley DR. SELMAN: Good to see you. What's up? HILLY: Nothing. DR. SELMAN: Last time you were here, Hilly was about to go to Rome. HILLY: It was fun! It wasn't anything like when we went to Rome, because George wasn't there and I ...
Dysfunction Rules In Middle East Conflict.(Opinions)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Joe Conason The government of Israel appears to suffer from the same mental and moral dysfunctions that afflict the Bush administration: an urge to wage war without any plausible objectives, any viable plan for disengagement, or any rational assessment of costs and ...
Strawberry Fields--Forever? Potholed Plot Jolts My Mom!(The City)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Ralph Gardner Jr. As I've been waiting for the right occasion to call 311, the Mayor's complaint hotline, and it came when my mother recently almost took a header out of her wheelchair in Central Park. Let me explain. She was feeling rather depressed, so I ...
Our Other War.(Page One)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Joshua Mitnick TEL AVIV-Where is Hassan Nasrallah? On Eretz Nehederet, Israel's most popular satire show, the elusive Hezbollah leader suddenly bursts into the news studio, shimmying with Israeli folk dancers and baffling news anchors by showing off his ...
Why Didn't Times Back Lieberman? Joe Doesn't Know.(Media)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Tom Scocca "The goalposts have been moved," said Dan Gerstein, a former aide to Senator Joseph Lieberman and an informal advisor to the Lieberman campaign. Mr. Gerstein was referring to the work of the New York Times editorial board, which stunned and ...
An Angeleno's Angst: Red-Hot Temps, Pink Slips.(The City)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Bruce Feirstein As I sit down to write this diary, it's been 103 degrees in Los Angeles for six days running. The sky is yellow; the wind is hot; a fine white ash from distant brushfires has begun falling-like summer snowflakes-on cars left outside to broil ...
If It's Showtime!, Is It Giuliani Time?(Opinions)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Richard Brookhiser Who is the bottle blonde on the cover of the current issue of National Review? (N.B.: I am a senior editor at the magazine.) When did cross-dressing sink so low? During the Mayoralty of Rudy Giuliani, of course. That is the inner Rudy, ...
Starchild Abraham: His Trip to Tijuana For Chemo-Refusal.(Opinions)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Ron Rosenbaum Have you been following the "Starchild" chemo-refusal court battle? It's one of the most vexing ethical, political and philosophical controversies you can imagine. One that involves ambiguities and gray areas galore. And one that brings back to ...
I Look Sweet on a Bicycle For One.(Page One)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Spencer Morgan Albert Sipzener puts in 60- to 70-hour weeks as vice president of Shikiar Asset Management, an investment company that controls $300 million in assets. In the evenings, he works as a model. He teaches, on average, eight spin classes ...
Titan of Tenements Stakes Out West Side.(Finance)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Matthew Schuerman Mayor Michael Bloomberg failed to bring the Jets to the West Side. And now it looks like there's little he can do to stop a controversial landlord from moving there instead. Baruch Singer, who owns dozens of tenement buildings in the city's ...
Films of August: Illusionist Is Magic.(Culture)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Rex Reed Beaches beckon. Lobsters lure. Before I head for the hammock and a month's vacation, here's a brief lineup of some of the films that will open in August. Except for a few action thrillers like World Trade Center and Snakes on a Plane, the usual plethora of ...
California Dreamin'-- With Wide Open Eyes.(Culture)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Matthew Price You get a lot of strange reactions when you say you like Los Angeles in New York. A furrowed brow, sometimes a disapproving snort, usually followed by the inevitable comeback that San Francisco is so much better. I don't get this. Sure, San Francisco is ...
Letters.(Opinions)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Goading Galbraith To the Editor: Among the complaints that Charles Taylor has with Peter Galbraith's book on the Iraq war ["Breaking Up Is Good to Do: The Case for an Iraqi Split," Book Review, July 31] is a big one, which proves to be a major error, and a small one, ...
Editorials.(Opinions)(Editorial)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Across the Hudson, Corzine Gets Results When Michael Bloomberg left the private sector for the joys of running New York City, he inherited a political culture that had been changed radically by his predecessor, Rudolph Giuliani. That allowed him to focus relentlessly on the ...
Clever Girl with a Mystery Dad Turns into a Grieving Sleuth.(Culture)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Regina Marler In her senior year at St. Gallway High School, Blue van Meer fulfills the dreams of all bookish, lonely girls: to get in with the in-crowd, score a hot prom date, land an acceptance from Harvard, wind up as valedictorian and solve the death by hanging of a ...
Clever Girl with a Mystery Dad Turns into a Grieving Sleuth.(Culture)
Aug 07, 2006 ... Byline: Regina Marler In her senior year at St. Gallway High School, Blue van Meer fulfills the dreams of all bookish, lonely girls: to get in with the in-crowd, score a hot prom date, land an acceptance from Harvard, wind up as valedictorian and solve the death by hanging of a ...
As Pataki Turns: Could This Be It for George?(Home Page)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Terry Golway The late humorist Fred Allen wasn't thinking of Albany when he entitled his memoirs Treadmill to Oblivion. But the phase neatly describes the experience of recent New York Governors who saw the state's executive mansion on Eagle Street as a roadside motel ...
Our Gilded Youth in Crisis! Ennui and Grade-Grubbing.(Culture)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Alexandra Jacobs The Overachievers, by Alexandra Robbins. Hyperion, 439 pages, $24.95. There's a fearsome plague among us. It's not AIDS. It's not drug-resistant TB or the Ebola virus. It's a gnawing emptiness deep within the guts of children from rich ...
Hillary's War.(Opinions)(Editorial)
Aug 14, 2006 ... What does Hillary Clinton really believe? It's been a question that has dogged her ever since her Senate race in 2000, when doubts about Mrs. Clinton's sudden embrace of New York as an electoral playing field were further inflamed by her tendency to say or do things which ...
Echo-Filled Second Novel Ends on a Gooey Note.(Culture)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Celia Mcgee The divide between memory and fantasy, the past's reality and what the mind invents, is supposed to be clean, straight and deep. Then is then, now is now, and life gets on with itself. If a sudden, heart-ripping death occurs, that trough is a handy place for ...
Guffaw Firm.(Opinions)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Guffaw Firm To the Editor: In "Save This Firm! Milberg Weiss Is Nearing Iceberg" [Aug. 7], Anna Schneider-Mayerson mentioned the Arthur Andersen debacle. My question is this: Aren't the people jumping ship just as guilty-if they find wrongdoing in the ...
Countdown to Bliss.(Love)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Daisy Carrington Sarah Coombs and Andy Pratt Met: May 2001 Engagement: July 15, 2006 Projected Wedding Date: Fall 2007 Andy Pratt, 29, a laidback graphic designer who recently started an eponymous greeting-card company, is ...
Ruby Eloise Yuan.(Love)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Daisy Carrington June 6, 2006 1:05 p.m. 6 pounds, 12 ounces St. Vincent's Hospital Rosemary's Baby, part deux? Stephanie Adler Yuan's water broke two weeks before she was due, at the crack of dawn on a demonic date. Oh my ...
Chabrol's The Bridesmaid: When Family Is a Fraud.(Culture)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Andrew Sarris Claude Chabrol's The Bridesmaid (La Demoiselle d'Honneur), from a screenplay by Pierre Leccia and Mr. Chabrol, based on the novel by Ruth Rendell, develops a passionate love story amid a creeping malignancy that ultimately engulfs the two lovers. It is ...
Kiki and Herb Finally Grow Up-- But Is Broadway Ready For It?(Culture)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Choire Sicha After the show, Justin Bond's dressing room reeked with the powdery, meaty smell of foundation. On a table crowded with eye shadow, a box of Red Bliss chips and a Rockstar energy drink hardly seemed more edible. Mr. Bond was moisturizing. His dirty blond ...
Ancient Mayan Treasures Still Provoke Troubling Questions.(Culture)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Mario Naves Can a work of art be independent of the time and culture in which it was created? Can it thrive on the characteristics inherent in its shaping-on aesthetic merit alone? In today's theory-addled art world, no avant-gardist curio comes off the ...
Voters Turn Away From Bush's Error.(Opinions)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Joe Conason As Connecticut Democrats went to their polling places to choose a Senate nominee, waves of rhetorical hysteria burst forth from the mouths of excitable conservatives. At stake in the primary was not only the fate of a single politician, they cried, but the ...
For Lucky Opera Lovers, A Vibrant Munich Festival.(Culture)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Charles Michener When the great German bass Kurt Moll came out for his curtain call after the second act of Die Meistersinger at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich a few evenings ago, the audience gave him a hero's ovation. Mr. Moll had appeared only fleetingly as the ...
Nora Ephron's Sublime Wit Trained on Loss and Regret.(Culture)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Anna Shapiro This is a book about age and regret. Since it's by Nora Ephron, it's funny. A funny book about loss is a puzzle, and it's that puzzle that I, if not the author, tussle with in reading this delightful, maddening collection of personal essays whose wit is ...
Your Favorite Movie Is What? That's a Dealbreaker!(Love)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Doree Shafrir "If a girl puts down that her favorite book is The Fountainhead, there's no way I'm going to contact her," said a 30-year-old law student, quaffing a beer in the garden of an out-of-the-way Williamsburg bar called Lockinn, which features Scrabble-inlaid ...
The Girl Can't Help It: Jayne Mansfield's Allure.(Culture)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Charles Taylor If part of Hollywood's appeal is the lure of the artificial-not the entirety of its appeal, but some-then Jayne Mansfield is irresistible. For everything unbelievable, garish, overdone, over-everything about her, there's also something beguiling, funny, ...
Landmark Hotel Pennsylvania Needs Big Dose of Lysol.(Finance)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Chris Shott As a present for her husband Gary's 60th birthday, Diane Farnham, of Bath, England, booked a four-night getaway in the heart of Manhattan at the start of the summer tourist season. Ms. Farnham, 59, chose the historic Hotel Pennsylvania-the ...
In Northern Israel, Arabs Take Care Of Jews Under Fire.(The City)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Marie Brenner A telephone call a few miles from the Lebanese border brings the story of an unusual group of innocents, Arabs and Jews. It's nighttime, Wednesday, Aug. 2, at Kishorit kibbutz, a residence for 120 adults with special needs-autism, schizophrenia ....
Lieberman's Last Stand: He Loses to Neophyte.(Politics)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Jason Horowitz On the eve of the worst election day of his 18-year Senate career, Joe Lieberman's campaign bus slowly rolled under a white banner announcing "Welcome State Champions." The sign wasn't for him, but for the Little League team he had come to ...
Lieberman's Precarious Fate Makes D.C. Democrats Sweat.(Politics)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Steve Kornacki WASHINGTON-For Democrats in this swampy, overheated capital-where the Starbucks are closed by 8 and the best late-night snacks are in the vending machines at Union Station-the humidity isn't the main source of perspiration this summer. Connecticut is. ...
A Handy-Dandy Guide To U.S. Foreign Policy.(Politics)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Nicholas von Hoffman Q: What is the difference between a regime and a government? A: A regime is a government disliked by the United States. A government is a regime that the United States likes. Q: Are all axes evil? A: No. An example ...
Lonesome George.(Politics)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Before Governor George Pataki even had a chance to deliver his energy-policy speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.-the latest in a series of national auditions for his quiet Presidential aspirations-the verdict was already in. ...
Even Mister Rogers Had a Past.(Media)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Rebecca Dana In the summer of 2000, Melanie Martinez-who was fired a few weeks ago as the host of the PBS kids program The Good Night Show-responded to an ad in Backstage. Someone was seeking a "young-looking" actress who could play a short role in a public-service ...
Greta's Grabbo.(Finance)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Max Abelson Fox News anchoress Greta Van Susteren and her husband, John Coale, have traded in their fancy Essex House pied-a-terre for a penthouse-on Times Square. The host of Fox's On the Record and her husband, a D.C. lawyer, dropped $2.57 million for a ...
Luftmensch Reporter Watches the Rockets at Lebanese Border.(Politics)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Philip Weiss JERUSALEM, Israel-I've never been a war correspondent, and this failing has sometimes gnawed at me, say when I am watching Christiane Amanpour. Oh, I could do that, I think, and feel a little wave of inadequacy. Finally, my chance came: I'd traveled to ...
Viva Chairman Chao! Brooklyn Comrades Brawl on Craigslist.(The City)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Ken Bensinger On Monday night in Havana, Fidel Castro reportedly lay in a hospital bed, recovering from abdominal surgery and carrying the weight of the revolution on his shoulders as his nation held its breath. Twelve hundred miles away, in Brooklyn, his ideological ...
Rumsfeld Lies, Press Takes a Nap.(Politics)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Charles Kaiser Once upon a time, it was considered news when a senior official in Washington blatantly lied to a Senate Committee. No more. If the Bush administration has proven anything, it is that the Big Lie is just as effective today as it was ...
Does Society Matter? Ask Existential Arbiter David Patrick Columbia.(The City)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Choire Sicha Last Thursday, David Patrick Columbia, 65 years old, went from Michael's to Le Cirque to Swifty's, and then on Friday, he was at Swifty's again, for lunch. It was awful quiet in the restaurant, just a friend of Brooke Astor's having lunch with a young woman, ...
New York World.(The City)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Don't Call It an S.U.V. We've gotten a sneak peak at the headlines of various feature stories slated for future editions of The New York Times. Most of them seem likely to run in the paper's various weekly "bonus" sections (Circuits, House and Home, et al.), while others appear ...
At Con Ed Site, Solow Takes a Cue From His Peers.(Finance)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Matthew Schuerman It's been almost 10 years since Consolidated Edison decided to sell off its nine prime waterfront acres in the East 30's and developer Sheldon Solow emerged as its buyer-for $630 million. Still, nothing is built there. The Con Ed ...
Israelis, Arabs Agree-- U.S. Waging a Proxy War.(Politics)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Katherine Zoepf JERUSALEM, Israel, Aug. 8-Ostensibly, Jordan and Israel are at peace, and have been since 1994, when Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed a historic treaty at Wadi Araba. Still, most of the people I spoke to in Amman, ...
Lebanese General Watches War From Israel.(Politics)
Aug 14, 2006 ... Byline: Joshua Mitnick TEL AVIV-For 16 years, he was Israel's best friend in Lebanon, a general who commanded a militia of 3,000 that helped the Israeli army keep Hezbollah at bay. At home, he is reviled as a traitor and an alleged war criminal. This week, as ...