Tom Wolfe made his name as a writer by dissecting the status pretensions of hippies, astronauts, and the New York elite for sport.
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At last week’s town-hall debate at Hofstra University, Long Island was somewhat improbably cast in the role of “Real America.”
Lance Armstrong walks into a moral philosophy class
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How one country used architecture to help boost test scores.
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Jimmy Kimmel comes to Brooklyn,and a competitivenew time slot.
Kylie Minogue takes an art-house vacation in Holy Motors.
Movie critic vs. book critic on the Wachowskis’ adaptation of Cloud Atlas.
You think high technology obliterates the touch of an artist’s hand? Wade Guyton disagrees.
Maya Beiser tackles four millenniums’ worth of female mistreatment in the “cello opera” Elsewhere.
Both campaigns know that in the swing states, women are the swingers.
Jake Dickson and Robbie Richter create an offbeat alternative to holiday turkey.
Carbon Audio wireless speakers, a West Elm stockpot, and more new stuff in New York stores.
“I race bicycles in Prospect Park and Central Park and at an abandoned airfield in South Brooklyn called Floyd Bennett.”
A nineteenth-century Fort Greene firehouse gets an update for the ages.
A Momofuku veteran finds fertile culinary ground across the Hudson.
Cauliflower comes into its own in the fall, when the Greenmarket overflows with orange, purple, and snowy-white varieties.
Thirty Acres’ Kevin Pemoulie isn’t the only Momo alum to achieve great things after graduating from that prolific talent incubator.
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Readers sound off on Barack Obama, the Clintons, and more.
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.