New York Magazine: February 9, 2009 Issue

Table of Contents

February 9, 2009

Cover Story

“My Aircraft”

Why Sully may be the last of his kind. By Robert Kolker

On the Cover: Illustration by Sean McCabe.

Features

Going Deaf and Blind in a City of Noise and Lights

Rebecca Alexander has a condition that is robbing her of her sight and her hearing. But she can’t stop moving at 100 miles an hour.
Clash of the Utopias

When the Speyers bought Stuyvesant Town for over $5 billion, they were buying one of the last refuges of the Manhattan middle class.

Intelligencer

Agenda

Culture at the Greenmarket

Hawthorne Valley Farm has just begun selling its yogurt in handy single-serving containers.

Strategist

Departments

Culture

Three Pages a Day

John Updike’s permanent present tense.
The Art Review

On Kawara’s latest show calls for participants to read long lists of dates. Sounds easy, right?
The Movie Review

The stunning, oddly soulless film of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline.
A Fanboy Field Guide

The movie Fanboys and the New York Comic Con (both opening Friday) are only the tip of the nerd iceberg. Below, we identify the most obsessive tribes.
The Art of Survival

Chamber-music superstars the Emerson Quartet continue to thrive after 30 years.
The TV Review

With United States of Tara, Showtime has cornered the market on outsider heroines.
Fingerpickin’ Good

A rockin’ guitar goddess finds her voice.
The Theater Review

Mercedes Ruehl is a brilliantly monolithic matriarch in The American Plan.
Chekhov Czar: Denis O’Hare

Denis O’Hare has been weaning himself off Broadway, venturing into increasingly dark territory.