New York Magazine: October 12, 2009 Issue

Table of Contents

October 12, 2009

Cover Story

The 0.5 Pandemic

Don’t panic about H1N1’s return—or the dangers of taking a vaccine for it—unless it mutates. Then: Panic!

Plus: What to know about the vaccine.

By Stephen S. Hall

On the Cover: Photograph by Horacio Salinas for New York Magazine.

Features

The Hunted

From Baghdad—frightening reports of gay pogroms, where homosexual men are targeted, tortured, slayed.
NeoJeter

The age-defying shortstop has put the Yankees back on top by being the best version of his old self.
The Smoke-Shop Signals of the Unkechaug

Mayor Bloomberg has declared war on a tiny Long Island Indian Tribe over cigarette taxes.

Culture

Intelligencer

Agenda

The Big Meatball

The New York City Wine & Food Festival begins with a bacon tasting and ends with a meatball orgy.

Strategist

Departments