Giuseppe Cipriani, New York’s Ballroom Untouchable
| Tags: Real Estate, Giuseppe CiprianiHe’s survived Spitzer, the unions, Morgenthau and Trump—can he beat the Toy Center’s landlord?
Billy Walsh, C’est Moi
| Tags: Arts & Culture, EntourageWho inspired Entourage’s temperamental auteur character? Onetime Sundance wunderkind—and wild man!—Rob Weiss, now a cigar-chomping writer for the show.
Oprah Cranks Up the Obama Machine
| Tags: Media, Politics, Barack Obama, Oprah WinfreyShe’s sold Middle America on everyone from Anna Karenina to Jonathan Franzen to Elie Wiesel; now, she’s trying her hand at politics—but can Obama’s girl sell her guy?
Art World Shivers After Lovers’ Double Suicide
| Tags: The CityThe sadly foreshortened life stories of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan are currently passing through the distorted mirrors of a bicoastal peer review.
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Fear and Loathing: The Rise of the Christian Right
In the sprawling, erudite The Politics of Heaven: America in Fearful Times, Earl Shorris argues that liberals do not understand the magnitude of the Conservative problem.
A Head Case and a Ghost Converse
Rupert Thomson’s serenely eerie, trans-genre eighth novel is a head trip. It takes place in a straightforwardly narrative 12-hour span, yet zooms all over in time, as thought does, and space, as dreams do.
Giuseppe Cipriani, New York’s Ballroom Untouchable
He’s survived Spitzer, the unions, Morgenthau and Trump—can he beat the Toy Center’s landlord?
The Enviro-Consultants Everyone Calls
Atlantic Yards, Yankee Stadium, Ground Zero—AKRF gets paid handsomely to gauge the impact of big developments. Is the firm too powerful or just too good?
Clubland Carouses East—Is It Chinatown?
Manhattan’s clubland is migrating to an unexpected zip code.
Shh! Why Is Hearst Over-Paying Near Columbus Circle?
Hearst Corporation has been quietly bundling up buildings south of Columbus Circle and selling others to major developers like Mort Zuckerman.
The Battle Hymn of The New Republic
Right wing pounces on Beltway bible’s Baghdad diarist; but who’s telling the truth about Iraq?
Oprah Cranks Up the Obama Machine
She’s sold Middle America on everyone from Anna Karenina to Jonathan Franzen to Elie Wiesel; now, she’s trying her hand at politics—but can Obama’s girl sell her guy?
Billy Walsh, C’est Moi
Who inspired Entourage’s temperamental auteur character? Onetime Sundance wunderkind—and wild man!—Rob Weiss, now a cigar-chomping writer for the show.
Art World Shivers After Lovers’ Double Suicide
The sadly foreshortened life stories of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan are currently passing through the distorted mirrors of a bicoastal peer review.
Clintons’ Pool Party
As Bill Clinton swept the Hamptons for Hillary’s big cash—From Perelman’s mega-dinner to Patricof’s House of Pancakes—Hillary does wonky thing, then arrives to play Mrs. Elvis.
Art World Shivers After Lovers’ Double Suicide
The sadly foreshortened life stories of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan are currently passing through the distorted mirrors of a bicoastal peer review.
Clubland Carouses East—Is It Chinatown?
Manhattan’s clubland is migrating to an unexpected zip code.
The Coolest Pool
Where is the super-chic public pool in New York? Red Hook ... Brooklyn! It’s big, it’s free and, JULIA HEMING reports, it’s where the hip dip, covered only with their Jonathan Lethem.
Senator Clinton, Itchy Kos Crowd in Bloggy Battle
This wasn’t her bunch to begin with, and she entered with dukes up.
Clintons’ Pool Party
As Bill Clinton swept the Hamptons for Hillary’s big cash—From Perelman’s mega-dinner to Patricof’s House of Pancakes—Hillary does wonky thing, then arrives to play Mrs. Elvis.
Oprah Cranks Up the Obama Machine
She’s sold Middle America on everyone from Anna Karenina to Jonathan Franzen to Elie Wiesel; now, she’s trying her hand at politics—but can Obama’s girl sell her guy?
Biden Campaign to Edwards: Enough With the Dean Routine
The analogy to the Dean campaign, if not the questioning of Mr. Edwards’ motives and timing, is hardly a stretch.
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Wise Guys / Opinion
Rep. Ron Paul Isn’t Going Away
Mr. Paul will not end up in the White House, but that doesn’t mean that the 71-year-old congressman from Texas isn’t a surprising force in the 2008 race.
Joe Conason / Opinion
GOP Tries Big Health-Care Scare
Listening to the Republican candidates for president, you might believe that national health insurance is really a plot to institute Soviet rule in the United States.
The New York World / The City
East End Edgy Over Hillary
For the past several summers, former United States President Bill Clinton and current U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton have made a salty pilgrimage to the Hamptons. Not everyone out there is thrilled.
Sex and the City / The City
Tales of the Pretty: Riding the Belle Curve
Four women met at an Upper East Side restaurant to discuss what it was like to be an extremely beautiful young woman in New York City.
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