August 21, 2006 Issue
Cover Story
What If 9/11 Never Happened?
Andrew Sullivan sends dispatches from an even scarier world.
Plus: musings on war with China, peace with Iran, success for the London plotters,
and more could-have-beens from Thomas L. Friedman, Bernard-Henri Lévy,
Frank Rich, Tom Wolfe, and others.
Also:
Everyday items recovered from the wreckage of the Trade Center.
Photographs by Sivan Lewin.
• Eight 9/11 survivors discuss what they’ve gotten over, and what they never will.
Features
The Angriest Auteur
Spike Lee and his wellborn wife spend half of their time in Manhattan apartments, Caribbean vacation spots, and four-star restaurants with fellow members of the black elite. So how does he summon the outrage to spend the rest of his time giving people hell?
Big Man on Camp
A 48-year-old returns to his summer camp looking for revenge and finds an alien landscape of positive reinforcement, camaraderie, and tolerance whose only common ground with the humiliating arena of his youth is the presence of bug juice.
Intelligencer
Is Parsons the New Bloomberg?
Plans afoot to be the next moderate Republican media baron turned mayor.
Society Welcomes Boy Publisher
He’s Ally-Sheedy-famous now.
Frey’s Back Writing Catalog Copy
Catch his new stuff—it’s fiction for real this time!—at 57th Street art gallery.
Et Tu, Mulberry? Arboreal Scandal
Shakespeare tree a fraud.
Martha Stewart Exec’s Stripping Biz
He’s making money at it!
Rebranding
It was an extraordinary week for attempts at self-reinvention.
Hot Spots
An illegal eBay for parking spaces?
Can Tasini Pull a Lamont?
Underdog Hillary challenger thinks so, even if nobody else does; in basement HQ, he wonders why voters don’t see the parallels with Lieberman.
Bohemian Boot Camp
Being an artist in New York is no picnic. Creative Capital takes them upstate to teach them to survive.
They Built This City
Would construction workers actually want to work in all these buildings they’re putting up?
Arm Go Bragh
How a 218-year-old Irish boxer’s petrified remains came to Midtown.
Tea Party
A stinky drink for Hollywood yogis.
Strategist
Look Book
An architect and proud “Urban Nerd”.
Underground Gourmet
From the name on down, Food keeps things admirably simple.
Restaurant Openings & Buzz
Week of August 21, 2006: Province, Roll and Dough, Boqueria, Subtle Tea, and Macchiato Espresso Bar.
Best Bets
A swanky raincoat, a sophisticated duster, and more hot buys.
Shop News
Store openings this week.
Ask a Shop Clerk
Anya Nordeen of Girlshop.
Insatiable Critic Gael Greene
A duo of fine-dining veterans have created an imperative year-round destination on Long Island.
SoHell Map
Forty things to do, see, and eat, in the up-and-coming South Hell’s Kitchen hood.
Real Estate
The true tale of cats inheriting a Queens apartment.
The Culture Pages
Burning Down the House
Junior rock band Care Bears on Fire puts a new spin on the playdate.
Process
Bridging the gap between dancer and conductor.
Book Review
The futility of analyzing the New York friendship scene.
TV Review
Three sharp documentaries tackle catastrophe and its aftermath.
Tune In to the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!
Now that TV’s leaked onto the Internet (and vice versa), high hopes for a new series can be dashed even before the show premieres.
The Approval Matrix
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
The Week
On the Fringe
More Fringe Fest picks: four new plays and musicals from this week’s Off-Off extravaganza.
Taming a Raucous Circus
Spiegeltent goes multigenerational.
Dancing on the Edge
The Fringe Festival isn’t all about theater.
An Afternoon in the Hudson Valley
Given that everyone in the art world goes to the country at this time of year, why shouldn’t you?
Columns
Cityside
How 9/11 grief became co-opted, sentimentalized, and made dangerous.
Departments
August 21, 2006
Readers sound off on Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards development.
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