Anderson Cooper’s on-air breakdown was an honest expression of his complicated personality—and a breakthrough for the future of television news.
Since Sex and the City put the Magnolia Bakery on the map, the cupcake business has become cutthroat.
They’ve ruined friendships and sparked legal brawls. But how do all these cupcakes taste?
Lindsay Lohan to direct, class warfare, Hamptons-style, Chuck E. Cheese’s shocks Park Slope moms, and more.
New Yorkers reacquainted themselves with the dubious pleasures of actually putting in a productive day at the office.
Young designers are being inundated with sponsorship cash from buzz-hungry corporations tenuously connected to style.
Freddy Ferrer’s campaign manager on trying to make a democratic town vote democratic again.
A New York medical examiner on the necessary, horrifying process of identifying the dead in New Orleans.
If 9/11 failed to wake up America, will Katrina be any different?
The Clinton Global Initiative could not be better timed to showcase Hillary’s new mad-as-hell populism.
Vintage reptile-skin bags, the new Taylor electric guitar, and more.
Store openings this week.
Nelson Pitts and Colyn Hunt of Oren’s Daily Roast
A Gap designer on how to accessorize like a pro.
Navigating the LES-like environs of South Williamsburg.
The dishes at Jean-Georges’s newest restaurant are superb but may not be worth the hassle of getting in the door.
Long beans.
Am I Awake? I See David Bouley Cooking.
Week of Sept. 12, 2005: Zucco: Le French Diner, Cercle Rouge, D’or Ahn.
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Two highlights of Circle of Taste, the weeklong Time Warner Center foodie bash. (For details, visit circleoftaste.com.)
With the humidity behind us and autumn’s chill ahead, September’s the ideal time to eat outdoors. A garden grazing guide.
What to do in Shanghai.
How a coach can help you on a first date.
Will a new law make the co-op application process less painful?
Salman Rushdie is to literature as the Yankees are to baseball.
The newest wry-chronicle-of-adolescence flick makes chronic thumbsucking a laughing matter.
Fox’s fall lineup has its moments.
It is amazing what intelligence and talent can do on television without ever mugging or shouting.
Be warned that these 60 minutes are angry and sad.
A primer on TV presidents.
Anyone can play a bitch. The trick is to play a bitch we can root for.
Joan Snyder painted her feelings, but she was far from sentimental.
“Most of my work, except the ‘LOVE’ paintings, is bound up in autobiography, bits and pieces of my life, my geography, my history, my friends.”
Suggested CMJ festival itineraries for rap fans, Elliott Smith mourners, and more.
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
