March 22, 2004 Issue
Cover Story
Best of New York 2004
One of the things that makes this city so great—and so vibrant, and so frustrating—is its compulsion to re-create itself overnight. Pawnshops become florists that become A-list nightclubs with lines around the block—and even the most plugged-in New Yorker can have trouble keeping up. With our annual “Best of New York” issue, we make the selections so you won’t have to. Plus, in the interest of balance, some of the most overrated, as well.
Eating: From the perfect prix fixe dinner at 360 to Daisy May’s Chili Cart’s soul-satisfying street food
Buying: Searching for cheap Prada bags? Avant-garde gadgets? The cutest doggy sweater?
Nights: Drinks both cheap and swank, dancing, and, yes, smoking: top nocturnal choices in the city that never sleeps
Play: Movieoke, video games, and all manner of classes for adults and kids, from beat-matching to knitting
Vanity: Rock your body: flawless pedicures, hard-core Pilates, and yoga for your children
Help: From spot removal to nude portraiture
Plus, Read the text from the magazine's cover.
Departments
Letters to the Editor
Readers sound off on Naomi Wolf, Harold Bloom and sexual misconduct at Yale.
Smart City
Sales & Bargains
Rafe knockoffs (by Rafe)
Plus: This week's sale listings
Travel
Planning the perfect trip to Paris this spring
Intelligencer
Intelligencer Gossip
Richard Ford, Colson Whitehead, Martha Stewart Jurors, Donald Trump, Allen Grubman, Michael Ault
Remembering Spalding Gray
After the discovery of his body, Spalding Gray’s wife talks about what she’ll miss most—and how she had already begun to say good-bye.
Big Girls Don't Cry
Out at Covent Garden, heading for Carnegie Hall.
Booked Club
What really takes place after hours? A close reading of the Sound Factory indictment.
Sign Language
A Brooklyn band gets some very writerly lyrics.
Admission: Impossible
Getting twins into the same school is twice the trouble.
Leaving Home
Who else could run Martha Stewart, Inc.?
Child Support
Rory Kennedy’s new documentary follows a young boy in trouble—a subject the filmmaker finds particularly agonizing now that she’s a mother.
Columnists
Class Action
It wasn’t just nepotism that brought down Joel Klein’s deputy, Diana Lam. It was her willingness to make big changes—and bigger enemies.
The Culture Business
Howard Stern, voice of liberalism? How Clear Channel radicalized a raunchmeister.
Media
Did former Ladies’ Home Journal editor Myrna Blyth leave her sisters twisted?
Naked City
When the guy you love has paid for love in the past
Real Estate
An unassuming Williamsburg site goes for megabucks—what’s next?
Critics
Movies
In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, love fades out, fades in; Dogville merely scrapes by
Art
The Whitney Biennial ditches the gimmicks and finally gets the balance right
Dance
Karole Armitage spices up the Cunningham technique; Paul Taylor impresses but fails to innovate
Theater
Small Tragedy and Wintertime are crushed by their own excess
Classical Music
Sweeney Todd kills at City Opera; Don Giovanni’s trio of women shine at the Met
Television
HBO serves up a tour of the wild, wild West
Restaurants
Aquavit’s masterful Marcus Samuelsson hits an off note with awkward Asian fusion at Riingo
The Week
Restaurant Openings & Buzz
This week's openings include BLVD and Picnic. Coming soon: Marc Murphy at Landmarc. Plus Gael discovers Dumont, another good reason to visit Brooklyn.
21 Grams on DVD
21 Grams, Shattered Glass, The Magdalene Sisters and more are new on DVD.
Top 5 New Directors/New Films Festival Films
The New Directors/New Films Festival, which previewed Raising Victor Vargas and My Architect last year, returns.
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