September 2004 Archives
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Gallery
Paper Faces, Paper Cities
What if the city was something you could remake every day, restoring bits you feared were lost? Pitchaya Sudbanthad talks to the street artist known as Swoon, including a full gallery of her fascinating work.
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The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman
Freshman Year
Elisabeth Eckleman just left home, and has a lot of difficult decisions ahead of her. In this installment, Elisabeth loses her high-school boyfriend and drives to college with her parents. You decide what happens next.
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The Guilfoile-Warner Papers
Improving Kerry
In 2001 Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner lampooned the new president in their book, My First Presidentiary. Now, with the real possibility of four more Bush years, they discuss the issues facing today’s voters. This week: how to fix Kerry’s image.
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Letters From the Editor
New York Diary: Surreal Notes
1. A man stood next to me on the subway platform carrying a dozen pink roses. He looked past me down the platform and back up again. We were the only...
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The Non-Expert
Hipster
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain how being a hipster is not necessarily a bad thing, and show how to determine if you are, in fact, really one of them.
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Gallery
In Place
Juicy private moments are often best kept private, unless they can be used for lasting art. Toronto photographer Robyn Cumming brings us a gallery of dramatic exposure, after the curtains are pulled back.
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Gary Benchley, Rock Star
Naming the Band
What name is good enough for a band meant to rock the world, and must it reference Elvis Costello somehow?
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Stories
The Silence of the Muse
After a lifetime of rejection slips, publishing can be a trying, if not life-threatening, business. GRADY MILLER exposes a history of correspondence between a desperate poet and his unfortunate editor.
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Opinions
Any Given Election
What’s a devout gambler supposed to do when the sports landscape looks so bleak? Why, turn to the current presidential race, naturally. A state-by-state rundown on your best bets.
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Letters From the Editor
Every Day, Yesterday, and Today
The Starbucks has outdoor seating. Every day a man, presumably homeless, sits in the chair closest to the door. He smokes, giggling constantly, full-out laughing in spurts. Yesterday a different...
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Birnbaum v.
Renata Adler
Our New Hampshire correspondent catches up with veteran writer Renata Adler to survey today’s journalism (when it seems like a PR agency for the government) and learn exactly why you don’t diss the Times book review chief.
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Stories
Give Me a Sign
Political conventions exist for the cameras, and the cameras like to see audiences with a sea of signs. But where do all those banners come from?
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The Guilfoile-Warner Papers
Flip-Flops & Conventions
In 2001, our commentators lampooned the new president in their book, My First Presidentiary. Now, with the real possibility of four more Bush years, they discuss the issues facing today’s voters. This week: what we meant when we said what we meant, and going completely rhetorical.
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Spoofs & Satire
Trailers for Everyday Life
Ever wonder why your life’s not more like Mel Gibson’s? Ever think maybe it’s because he gets better narration? Pasha Malla and Mike Baker bring us a batch of movie trailers scripted for real-life scenarios.
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Letters From the Editor
I Remember All The “Missing” Signs
“To all police and fire departments, to all volunteers, I know I speak for all NYC—We are and always will be profoundly grateful to all of you!” photo by...
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The Non-Expert
Computers
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain what’s inside a computer and how it works, how you can determine if you need a laptop model or a desktop, and the true difference between PCs and Macs.
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Letters From the Editor
Punchlines: Lost & Found
I spent Labor Day weekend by a lake upstate with friends. One afternoon we were lying on a dock, when a duck swam by and disappeared around the bow of...
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Gary Benchley, Rock Star
At the Pavilion
Is love different when it’s declared in the big apple, and if so, do you have to tell your co-workers about it?
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Personalities
Talking With Alex Ross
Classical music was said to be dead in the 14th century, so why are we still holding it hostage? We talk with New Yorker music critic Alex Ross about the state of the art, which composers might appeal to different segments of rock fans, and exactly what he listens to at dinner.
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Reader Letters
Why Hip-Hop Slang So Obscure?
In Cody Weiwandt’s article, in which he supplies the tough answers to Jadakiss’s hard questions, he gets a couple of things wrong. “A burner” refers to a firearm,...
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Letters From the Editor
Memo From Warner
From TMN Contributing Writer John Warner… As a liberal, I never thought I’d say this, but here it is: I feel sorry for President Bush. Politicians lie. We know...
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Opinions
Answers to Some of the Tough Questions Posed in the Song “Why” by Jadakiss
The popular and controversial hip-hop song asks a lot of questions, though it doesn’t get many answers.
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New York, New York
Grand Old Partying
Where’s the best party in town? Not here, apparently. After corralling an invitation to the Sunday night shindig thrown by the Bush twins, our good-intentioned correspondent learns how the other half lives and plays.