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Features
The Teenage Economy
BY DAVID AMSDEN
For many, allowance is a touchier subject than sex and drugs.
While parents struggle to strike a balance between supporting and spoiling, kids fend for themselves in their own very difficult
money culture.
The Dumbest Don
BY JOHN LOMBARDI
Pete Gotti�famously labeled a �moron� by his brother John�wasn�t
smart enough to run the Gambino crime family. But given the organization�s
long history of high-profile prosecutions, no one else was able or willing.
Inside the end of the reign of the Gotti boys.
Columbia�s Own Middle East War
BY JENNIFER SENIOR
A low-budget documentary accused several Columbia professors
of letting their anti-Israel rhetoric escalate into outright
intimidation of Jewish students. The fallout has put the principle of academic freedom up for review�and made the university the focus of a
national controversy.
Strategist
Best Bets
BY RIMA SUQI
Cheetah-print suitcases, plus Amazonian smoothies and
calf-hair sneakers
Mating
BY AMY SOHN
Today�s gold digger
The Look Book
BY AMY LAROCCA
A �streamlined� sneaker designer
Market Research
BY AJA MANGUM
A guide to lip balms
Map No 7
A map of Jackson Heights, Queens
Real Estate
BY S.JHOANNA ROBLEDO
The thriving market for stratospherically expensive rentals
Travel
BY TODD BALF
Panama is the new Costa Rica
Shop news
BY AJA MANGUM
Store openings this week
Ask a Shop Clerk
BY DENISE PENNY
Lindsay Sternberg of Foley + Corinna
The Best Seller
BY DENISE PENNY
Air-O-Swiss Ultrasonic, $135
Sales & Bargains:
This week's hottest sales & bargains
The Restaurant Review
BY ADAM PLATT
Brooklyn�s Manhattan-esque Applewood
In Season
BY ROB PATRONITE
A recipe for persimmon pudding
Ask Gael
BY GAEL GREENE
After Rocco, what? And should we care?"
The Underground Gourmet
BY ROBIN RAISFELD
Light, cheap Korean cuisine
Restaurant Openings & Buzz
BY ROB PATRONITE, ROBIN RAISFELD
New this week: BLT Fish, Bellavitae, Sandia, Bar Sasa, and Aquavit. Plus, one of the "greatest winter dishes known to mankind" and a pocket-sized guide to Italian wine.
Dining for Dollars
BY ROB PATRONITE, ROBIN RAISFELD
To raise funds for relief efforts in South Asia, altruistic local chefs are doing what they do best.
Toast of the Town
BY ROB PATRONITE, ROBIN RAISFELD
Suddenly, French toast is everywhere, and not
just at brunch. Have it for
breakfast in midtown
and later on for dessert on the Lower East Side.
Intelligencer
Intelligencer Gossip
BY JACOB BERNSTEIN, BETH LANDMAN, GREG SARGENT
Harvey Weinstein�s new, reduced plans...
It Happened Last Week
Epic suffering elsewhere in the world made the misfortunes of New Yorkers seem merely farcical by contrast, but they were real enough to those who experienced them.
Unpopularity Contest
BY GREG SARGENT
Bloomberg�s reelection guru on the mayor�s popularity problem
In Remembrance
BY JOHN HOMANS
Sarah Jewler, colleague and friend
Pity the Architect
If no one loves 2 Columbus Circle,
why stop him from redesigning it?
Shirley Chisholm: Front-Runner
Gloria Steinem on Shirley Chisholm
Tsunami Donations
BY KATE PICKERT
Following the money
In Relief
BY KATE PICKERT
Five other crisis situations
James Truman�s Exit Interview
BY CARL SWANSON
Before leaving Si�s court and moving to Spain, Cond� Nast�s Editorial Director talks to Carl Swanson.
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Columnists
Turf
What will a new stadium really mean for the Jets and
the Garden?
The bottom line on the West Side plan.
The Culture Pages
New Kid on the Block
Notoriously Nebraskan indie rocker Conor Oberst moves to the Lower East Side.
Theater Review
BY ADA CALHOUN
How to ruin No�l Coward and Oscar Wilde;
Long Story Short
BY BORIS KACHKA
Accusations
fly over Little Women
Chanteuse
BY BORIS KACHKA
A conversation with Ute Lemper
Overheard
What the audience really thought bbout Pacific Overtures
Art Review
BY MARK STEVENS
The beautiful
but unsettling photography of Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Blast Back
Dan Cameron defends his �East Village USA� exhibit.
Show and Tell
BY KAREN ROSENBERG
A retrospective on Peter Hujar, heir to Weegee
Book Review
An acclaimed graphic novel comes to America
Bugatti Queen Reviewed
BY BORIS KACHKA
NASCAR may now be a virtual byword for the hard-working, God-fearing red-state interior, but auto racing began as very much an upper-crust pastime.
Teen Novelist
BY BORIS KACHKA
New literary phenom Amanda Marquit
Television Review
BY JOHN LEONARD
Network-level predictability hampers Fox�s stab at gritty cable crime drama
Battlestar Galactica Reviewed
BY JOHN LEONARD
Sci Fi�s latest picks up as a weekly where the mini-series remake left off in 2003.
Meeting Osama Bin Laden Reviewed
BY JOHN LEONARD
While it may not explain the mystery
of faith-based evil, this anthology of interviews at least allows us to form a picture that isn�t a cartoon.
The Celebrification of Poker
The recent symbiotic joining of poker and fame�most evident on Celebrity Poker Showdown�has since turned the game into a small-screen phenomenon. Here�s a guide to who�s responsible.
Q&A With Mark Burnett
The executive producer of Survivor, The Contender, and The Apprentice discusses his influences
Departments
Letters to the Editor
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