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THE FOOD AND DRINK ISSUE SEP 24-OCT 7 Value MealsTen Great NYC Food Ideas for Under $30By Jeff Harris
Are we in a recession? A depression? Insofar as we have $45 in the bank and a lease-to-own plan on our bicycle, we’re not sure how all this is going to affect us. We do, however, like to eat well, and ... (more)
 SEP 24-OCT 7 Drink Local, Act DrunkThe Conscientious Objector Helps You Stock the Local BarBy Amanda Park Taylor
Drink. Mender of life’s ills, smoother of social discourse, soother of troubled minds. Unless, of course, you’re concerned about your carbon footprint, in which case your drinking habit may be keeping ... (more)
 SEP 24-OCT 7 Tuesdays with Kenny“I Don’t Cook Bad Shit!”By Carey Jones
Those looking for a lazy weekend brunch after a big night out should stop reading here: Shopsin’s General Store is not for you. Because in order to handle a meal at Shopsin’s, you need to begin conserving ... (more)
 SEP 24-OCT 7 The City Sweet ToothRed Velvet RivalryBy Abby Denson
In New York City's long-raging cupcake wars red velvet has emerged as a highly decorated officer. Here The City Sweet Tooth presents a field guide and checklist to assist NYC's cupcake fiends on their ... (more)
 SEP 17-SEP 23 The 2008 NIGHTLIFE AWARDS
It’s been a year since our little Nightlife Awards experiment succeeded, and this election year, partiers have once again run for their [night]lives. In preparation for November’s slightly more serious ... (more)
 SEP 10-SEP 16 ART
Rivington Arms Leigh Ledare: You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air. Ledare’s photographs have an unsettling appeal. Her earlier work consists primarily of intimate portraits and erotic staged shots, ... (more)
 SEP 10-SEP 16 THEATER
BAM Sunken Red Directed by Guy Cassiers In the American premiere of this Dutch drama, adapted from Jeroen Brouwers’ novel of the same name, a visibly shaken man (Dirk Roothooft) remembers his childhood ... (more)
 SEP 10-SEP 16 DANCE
DANCE BAM A Quarrelling Pair Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company Based on the play by Jane Bowles Marking the 25th anniversary of his dance company, Jones interprets Jane Bowles’ play of the same ... (more)
 SEP 10-SEP 16 OPERA
Metropolitan Opera Salome The Met’s season opens with an updated take on Strauss’ tragic retelling of the Biblical story. Karrita Mattila lends her rich and sensual soprano to the role. Opens September ... (more)
 SEP 10-SEP 16 CLASSICAL MUSIC
New York Philharmonic This fall, Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic team up to celebrate Bernstein’s role as arguably the finest conductor. Ever. For its opening concert: The Best of All Possible ... (more)
 SEP 10-SEP 16 The Crackdown on ArtIs the NYPD Targeting the City’s Artists?By Samantha Lang
Last I heard, New York City was kind of an artsy town. We have some of the best art museums and galleries in the world, there are concerts, readings, and performances every night of every week, and even ... (more)
 SEP 3-SEP 9 Queens for a DayLaurel Pinson Takes Fall Fashion to Long Island CityBy Laurel Pinson
Fall is really fashion’s golden season, when designers abandon floaty, dreamy cottons for weightier concerns: layers of rich textiles, wool, tweed, structure. Coincidentally, this season really is the ... (more)
 SEP 3-SEP 9 A FASHION WEEK PRIMERSeptember 5-12: How to Engage with the Madness without Starving or Breaking Your AnklesBy Laurel Pinson
There’s nothing New Yorkers love more than an event they can’t get into, and Fashion Week is the most exclusive of the exclusive. The sole domain of well-heeled,
The Lowdown
There’s nothing ... (more)
 AUG 20-SEP 2 Get SmartThe L Magazine Goes Back to College
While we’re horrified by people who have anything good to say about their high school experience, we’re always up for a little reminiscing about college (where, we admit, some good times were had). Now, ... (more)
 AUG 6-AUG 19 The Heart of the Heart of the CityMan Walks Along Famous Street, Writes Story About ItBy Adam Bonislawski
In honor of our Best of New York Issue, we sent our intrepid writer, Adam Bonislawski, on a daylong walk down this city’s great thoroughfare, the one and only Broadway, to see what he could see. Call ... (more)
 AUG 6-AUG 19 The Best of New York City
POLITICS
BEST DECISION AMERICANS EVER MADE. EVER.
Denying Giuliani Recall if you will the brief but terrifying period in our nation’s great history when it appeared not unlikely ... (more)
 JUL 30-AUG 5 RunBy Benjamin Percy
We wandered home from our jobs—tossing alfalfa bales into trucks and filing paperwork in legal offices and draining oil from diesel engines and serving steak-and-egg platters—we wandered home from our ... (more)
 JUL 30-AUG 5 Variations on Original SinFrom the novel-in-progress The DizziesBy Ed Park
Marjorie’s father, Poindexter Bantam, was my philosophy professor at Rue University. Set at the edge of a collapsing milltown, Rue was a power in the short-lived Modern American Football League and did ... (more)
 JUL 30-AUG 5 Kids NightBy Kevin A. González
This Thursday, Berlie is the first to arrive at the Inn, guiding her mom by the hand. She pulls out the stool next to my father and pats it, and her mom sits and orders a Seabreeze. Berlie pulls a pack ... (more)
 JUL 30-AUG 5 Bring the HeatBy April Wilder
He jumped on the bed and copped a boxer’s stance. He asked how she could sit by and let the country be taken over by a fascist regime. She said she sat by and let a lot of things happen. He asked if she ... (more)
 JUL 30-AUG 5 Security GrillesBy Adrian Hornsby
I’d almost have hoped to be further on by now but it’s been just so dark today. The boy, when they arrived this morning and parked the van and cut it, looked out haltingly from behind the passenger window ... (more)
 JUL 30-AUG 5 My DentistBy Lauren Wilkinson
“Do you know that dentist that lives on the corner?” my super, Orlando, asked as he was unclogging the drain in my tub.
“Of course. He’s My Dentist.”
“He’s dead,” Orlando said, wiping his hands on a ... (more)
 JUL 30-AUG 5 Prairie Rocket FireBy Jackie Thomas
Our mission to the logging camp begins in Vera's kitchen, where she holds a match on her tongue to keep from crying while she slices onions. She's making her husband enough food to last him the weekend ... (more)
 JUL 30-AUG 5 Pennsylvania: A Guide to LodgingVolume 1: The Inns of Western PABy Brian Booker
Checked in after regaining consciousness on access road, north end of soybean field. After nap, looked out window at scenery (pictured). Noted trail of bread-crumbs in upper hallway. Drank nine crème ... (more)
 JUL 16-JUL 29 The Private Lives of Public PeopleDo Sex Professionals Take Their Work Home With Them?By Mary Block and Benjamin Sutton
Legendary screen hooker Julia Roberts had a rule that her clients could never kiss her on the mouth. This, apparently, was to maintain some kind of barrier between the sexual transaction and the obvious ... (more)
 JUL 16-JUL 29 The Natural Redhead's Fun Time At-Home Advice Flow ChartBy Audrey Ference
How many times do you find yourself in the comfort of your own home wishing you had a sex columnist on hand to answer your questions directly? Happens pretty often, doesn’t it. Well, instead of waiting ... (more)
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