November 2005 Archives
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My Life in the Times
I, a Discerning Food Critic, Have Discovered a Genius
A culinary legend is immortalized in the hearts of critics and parents alike.
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Books
Masters of American Comics
The eponymously named tome that serves as the catalog for the Masters of American Comics exhibition at U.C.L.A.'s Hammer Museum and Los Angeles's MoCA contains work...
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Music
List of Lights and Buoys
List of Lights and Buoys is an eerie album by Norwegian vocals and keyboard duo Susanna and the Magical Orchestra. The music is bare bones with some sporadic distortion and...
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Letters From London
Vexed in the City
London is constantly changing—surviving bombs, rebuilding flats—so what’s there to hold onto when even the subway map’s an abstraction? Our longtime Londoner may notice only what’s missing, but his son sees the city for the very first time.
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Peanut
Guilt (September)
The conclusion to our writer’s saga of contemporary fatherhood, where all is revealed and most are forgiven, including a postscript with advice for new parents.
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Music
Do the Awesome
Rock music has had its share of two-drummer bands, but how many groups have sported three? Enter Bling Kong, a 15-member Brooklyn power-pop ensemble with a taste for chunky speed-metal...
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Reader Letters
Survival of the Financed
Dear Rosecrans and Andrew, This Wapshott article in the Telegraph, which you linked to in Wednesday’s Headlines, is spreading like wildfire, and I want to help you understand it...
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Guides
Fifteen Luxury Gifts Worth the Splurge
Maybe you’re feeling especially generous, maybe you did something unforgivable, maybe you’re just loaded. Our shopping expert suggests gifts they’ll remember for years.
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Books
Why New Orleans Matters
Writer and musicologist Tom Piazza weighs in on his adopted city with the poignant Why New Orleans Matters. This book is a bittersweet paean to what is, arguably, the most...
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Web
Edible San Francisco
New Yorkers like me believe we've got it the best among cities when it comes to dining out, but sadly there's no Big Apple comparison to Edible San Francisco, a...
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Travel
Holiday Travel Hell
It’s a toss-up for what’s worse about Thanksgiving: visiting the family homestead, or simply getting there. Our travel stories.
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Restaurants
Taco Chulo
For a city that prides itself on having every cuisine, New York sure does fail at Tex-Mex. Every Lone Star transplant has the same question: How can I find the...
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Birnbaum v.
Rick Moody
When novelists are listed among our most despicable citizens, can America claim to love literature? Our man up north talks to author Rick Moody about how we’re all on the same team when we’re reading.
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Books
Love Trouble
Students of Ian Frazier, fetch your Visas! How many young writers, humor lovers, Tina Brown haters have heard of Veronica Geng? If only for her piece "Love Trouble Is My...
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The Non-Expert
Is He Cute or Is He British?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help a forlorn reader determine if her new guy actually looks as good as he talks.
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Things
Pocky
Pocky, a coated stick-biscuit snack, is ubiquitous in Asia. Now that it's available at ethnic grocery stores in New York and other cities with Asian populations, U.S. youths can...
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Profiles
A Path of Destruction
Since 1980, the Shining Path guerrillas in Peru have been responsible for over 30,000 deaths. So why, now that the organization is effectively dismantled, are the seeds for revolution still being planted?
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Things
OJex juicer
It is sad, but I slobber over my OJex juicer. Compact, sexually alluring, and easy to clean, it makes me orange juice every morning (when I remember to buy oranges),...
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My Life in the Times
On the Occasion of My Retirement From Baseball
Today a short but glorious career on the base-paths drew to a close. And with it, the future of instructional league baseball appears hazy.
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Things
Fisherman’s Friend lozenges
Wintertime: when indoor heat turns your sinuses into Saharan sand cavities and everyone at work drips with plague and pestilence. Suffer the wheezes no more, though, with Fisherman's Friend lozenges,...
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Manufacturing Reality
Mirror, Mirror
Reality television depends on charismatic contestants, and the Ganz sisters, a pair of identical-twin casting agents, are among its chief suppliers. The first article in a series on the hidden workings of reality TV.
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Restaurants
Maria’s New Mexican Kitchen
Santa Fe is a small city of tourist squeezers wearing expensive belts, with lots of posh restaurants that were ready to sap my wallet. But among the joints I tried,...
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Peanut
Jack (August)
Surviving the delivery is one thing; living through weeks of midnight feedings, particularly when emergencies strike, is much worse. Our writer discovers the ancient conspiracy that keeps expectant parents in the dark.
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Things
Philips HE 592 earbuds
For the cost of the iPod, one should be able to expect near perfection. Odd, then, that the distinctive white earbuds--which make one a target for envy (and in some...
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The Non-Expert
Take Your Seat, Please
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we answer a question that has plagued us all since the day after we invented plumbing.
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Books
Diane…
In 1990, Twin Peaks followers wanted to know who killed Laura Palmer. The producers of the show, on the other hand, may have wanted to know how to make a killing...
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Personal Essays
Sharing Smokes With the Holy Spirit
Bumping into an acquaintance can change your day in profound ways. This is especially true when your friend has recently died, ascended to heaven, and been reborn as a vagrant.
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Web
PocketMod
PocketMod is a free internet app that turns any piece of paper into a customizable, completely portable (and totally disposable) personal organizer, with note pages, grids, calendars, conversion tables, and...
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Letters From the Editor
Ad Geek Wanted
We believe that advertising, when it's done well, complements a magazine's contents. It's true: Some ads are beautiful, and some ads are CLICK HERE FOR A FREE IPOD SHUFFLE NOW...
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Gallery
Flat Light
It’s hard making nature photography vivid, particularly when one man’s vista is another guy’s yawn. A gallery of Iceland pictures from pro shooter Tim Gasperak, plus a chat about how to make your mountain photos special.
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Music
Soft
If there's a TMN house band (besides Trail of Dead), it's Soft, a Brooklyn-based quintet currently blowing up with a finally-released EP. How five guys manage to recreate the Manchester...
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Op-Ed
Wrong Way Home
To rebuild the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast, Mississippi’s governor picked a panel of vaunted New Urbanists to submit plans. But is their nostalgia for small-town America appropriate, nevermind prepared for the task?
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Books
The Heart Is Also a Furnace
I imagine Magdalen Powers living by herself in a tiny cottage in the middle of a deep forest. Birds and wolves prepare breakfast while she sleeps. During the day she...
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Birnbaum v.
Ron Rash
Our man from New England talks to one of the Carolinas’ favorite sons about the strengths of southern writers, the benefits of teaching welders, and the crushing reality that awaits MFA grads.
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Books
Lorrie Moore
It doesn't really matter which book by Lorrie Moore you pick up first, because they'll all floor you. Not one of her stories is cozy or cliched. She takes the...
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Books
Melville House’s Novella Collection
Traveling soon? Melville House Press has released a bunch of classic novellas--everything from Kipling to Edith Wharton to Tolstoy's The Devil (sexy and tormented), to Stevenson's The Beach at Falsea ...
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Guides
To Blunt the Razor’s Edge
November is National Beard Month—but before you stop shaving you’d better have a close look at your options. An explanation of common facial hairstyles, including notes on those best avoided.
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Letters From the Editor
Copy Geek Wanted
The Morning News is seeking a copy editor. This is an unpaid position, but if the willing and able editor lives in New York City, he or she can expect...
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Music
Coles Corner
In Sheffield, England, Richard Hawley's hometown, Coles Corner is the place where lovers meet before an evening of romance. No other word could come as close to describing what his...