High School Nights Bite
Manhattan press events are like so many proms: the bold and beautiful dance all night long, and the rest of us hug the walls. So why does James Beard Award-winner David Leite keep pulling on his blazer?
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Acmegate
The White House has a secret that not even an Acme Ultimatum Dispatcher could eke out.
17 October 2006
Innovative housing pitches for expensive homes include writing blogs, giving away a Maserati. An ex-drug dealer and burglar leads a wheelchair posse terrorizing Southern California businesses. Met Life agrees to sell Stuyvesant Town for $5.4 billion to investment group led by Tishman Speyer. The world's ugliest
Book Digest: October 16, 2006
The Trouble With Physics; Approaching Nowhere; Yale Book of Quotations; Ancestor Stones; Granta #95; Winter’s Bone; The Beautiful Fall
16 October 2006
Composer Harry Partch created a vast array of specially tuned instruments--you can play virtual versions of some of them here. New Yorkers will do anything short of burning down their apartments (or their landlords' apartments) to get rid of bedbugs. If finding a purpose is the aim of
American Cities
Catherine Opie photographs the backbone and the marrow of American cities. These portraits show not only a city’s architecture, but its character.
Welcome to Celebrity Magazine
In a world where everyone is famous, who’s going to do the reporting? Working at a glossy is never easy—especially not with this cast. The first installment in a new series.
Video Digest: October 13, 2006
Television vs. GooTube: Sorkin and Ugly Betty, the history of film condensed to 14 minutes, battling album covers, bands that sing their instruments, a touching tribute to video blogs, and another chapter in Sarah’s relentless love of K-Fed.
13 October 2006
Now that the Dow is breathing down 12,000's neck, why are we still saving up for new shoes? Italian sociologist to go under his rock and not come out; insert other academics jokes here. McBride cheaper than a Big Mac. Suspicions High Times editors have infiltrated CNN
The New Boss of Bossa Nova
Bossa nova was developed more than 40 years ago in Brazil, but one of its most lively contributors is working today in Brooklyn. A chat with Vinicius Cantuária about his music, how it’s changed, and what inspires him.