New York Magazine: September 15, 2008 Issue

Culture

Nigerian Rhapsody

Choreographer Bill T. Jones brings the life of Fela Kuti to Off Broadway, this time as director.
The Movie Review

The refried yuks of Burn After Reading; the power and glory of Moving Midway.
DIY Coen Brothers

Burn After Reading sports some familiar ingredients.
New York Rocks Docs at Toronto International Film Festival

Once again, New York themes and filmmakers are swamping the documentary lineup in Toronto.
The Book Review

The even-timelier-than-expected novel about Laura Bush.
Cracked: Michael Greenberg

In depicting his daughter’s first psychotic break, Michael Greenberg sought to fill in something “missing in the literature of madness.”
The Architecture Review

A pair of critics size up the new Museum of Arts and Design.
The Gist: Damien Hirst’s ‘Beautiful Inside My Head Forever’ Sale

The art world is currently obsessing over Damien Hirst’s Sotheby’s sale in London.
The Pop Review

The Walkmen may no longer be the toast of Williamsburg, but that suits them just fine.
So Very Mercurial

The ups and downs and in-betweens of the Mercury Rev.
The Approval Matrix: Week of September 15, 2008

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

Issue Contents

Table of Contents

September 15, 2008

The Sixty-Day War

Features

Après George le Déluge

The Glass Stampede

Intelligencer

Pit Bull Palin May Skip Out on Soho

Hockey Mom Scores With Paterson

Retiree Bruno Not Dung Yet

DK and CK Go on Summer Safari

Hippie Pataki Goes Green

Foreign Actor Wants to Vote for Barack

It Happened Last Week

Bloomberg Without Limits

Third Term’s the Charm?

Bridge to Somewhere

Modern Machinery

Culture

Nigerian Rhapsody

The Movie Review

DIY Coen Brothers

New York Rocks Docs at Toronto International Film Festival

The Book Review

Cracked: Michael Greenberg

The Architecture Review

The Gist: Damien Hirst’s ‘Beautiful Inside My Head Forever’ Sale

The Pop Review

So Very Mercurial

The Approval Matrix: Week of September 15, 2008

Columns

On June 30, 2009, Buy an Apartment

Agenda

Big Drama, Very Small Kids

Ko by Day

Strategist

Back to School

Tweens and Jeans

Big in Japan

Ask a Shop Clerk: Mary Brockman and Mark Straiton

Target Opens Four Bullseye ­Bodegas

The Look Book

The Restaurant Review

In Season

Insatiable Critic

Restaurant Openings

Sex, Death, Dinner

Departments

Comments: Week of September 15, 2008

Artifact: This Should Clear Things Up

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