Intelligencer Gossip

The Naked Chef does school lunches, showgirls with sock puppets, Dave Eggers as required reading, and more.

It Happened Last Week

The city seemed to enter a judgmental mood, meting out chastisement to some while showing surprising leniency toward others.

The Fashion Kid Who Fought in Fallujah

Joseph Wood’s journey from Iraq to Parsons.

Can the Prius Replace the Town Car?

Are limousine liberals really willing to get in the backseat of a battery-powered Toyota? Graydon Carter says ‘sure’.

David and the Goliaths

Civil war breaks out among the summering big shots at East Hampton’s preeminent synagogue over whether to keep its charismatic chief rabbi.

The Imperial City

Will Jeff Zucker lose his job? Not a chance. The better question is whether he’ll end up as CEO.

The Power Grid

What the country needs now is a genuine brawl over a Supreme Court nomination. Really.

Best Bets

Spooky lamps, a Nike Air dress shoe, and other hot buys.

Shop News

Store openings this week.

Ask a Shop Clerk

Jill Alexander of Tory by TRB.

Look Book

An experimental folk-rocker with a passive shopping technique.

Fashion 5 X 10

From the catwalk to the closet: the trends for next season.

Restaurant Review

Nobu 57 exhibits all the symptoms of brand fatigue.

In Season

A recipe for Thai chile lime sauce.

Ask Gael

Give me a new reason to go downtown.

Restaurant Openings & Buzz

Week of Sept. 26, 2005: Bar Carrera, Fatty Crab, and Camino Sur.

Will Wait for Food

Is it worth waiting in the city’s longest food lines?

In a Pickle

The Lower East Side is awash in brine.

Tapped In

Break out the lederhosen—it’s time to celebrate Oktoberfest.

Mating

Are we all wannabe players waiting for the right seduction technique to come along?

Real Estate

Previously dedicated urbanites reconsider New Rochelle.

Letters to the Editor

Lines in the Sand

Jenny Holzer, who has had her sloganeering installations knocked off by Madison Avenue for years, is back with the real thing.

Movie Review

Buffy guru Joss Whedon’s sci-fi epic scores.

New York Film Festival

Critic’s picks for the 2005 New York Film Festival.

The Monster from Manhattan

Capote adeptly dramatizes the selfishness at the heart of journalism.

Influences: David Cronenberg

Q&A with the filmmaker.

Theater Review

Newcomer Rolin Jones’s play about robots turns out to be a hilarious and sensitive look at family life.

Spirit Reviewed

The evening’s real charm lies in its spontaneity, the sense that the actors might say or do anything, at any time.

Red Beads Reviewed

A billowing landscape of silk and wind, and dances that defy gravity.

The Rise of the Cliffs Notes Musical

This year’s musical-makers are borrowing from the greatest stories ever told.

Amber Alert

The surprisingly rabble-rousing poetry from teen star Amber Tamblyn.

The Gist: ‘The Diviners’

The lowdown on Rick Moody’s new novel.

Long Story Short

From banned book to celebrated literature in seven steps.

Art Review

A new exhibit of Russian art seems to have been neutered by the powerful groups that backed it.

The Approval Matrix

Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.