March 14, 2005 Issue
Cover Story
Best Of New York
Our annual guide to the city's finest everything.
EATING: The best dishes in town, plus a lineup of dream meals • BUYING: The finest clothing, accessories, furniture, and more • NIGHTS: From rooftop bars to megaclubs to dives • PLAY: Where to best enjoy your pastime of choice • VANITY: Impress your mirror with the latest in facials, manicures, and more • HELP: Get problems like ailing pets and iPod frustration solved for you.
Features
King Mike and The Quest for the Broadway Grail
When 73-year-old movie director Mike Nichols committed to the �special kind of hell� of directing a Broadway show, Eric Idle’s Monty Python�derived musical became the most-anticipated comedy event of the year. Behold Spamalot.
The Reinvestigator
Burned-out cop Jay Salpeter quit the NYPD, switched teams, and went to work as a private investigator to top defense attorneys. It was a job, that was all. Until he became obsessed with overturning the notorious murder conviction of Marty Tankleff.
Intelligencer
The Israel World
Israel’s reality-TV hero sets out to repair diplomatic relations.
When Eloise Met Norma Rae
The Plaza’s anti-condo crusader.
Color Schemes
Convicts’ uniforms? Pumpkin floats? How else to recycle The Gates.
Intelligencer: March 7-21, 2005
The feud over Jam Master Jay’s legacy.
It Happened Last Week
The week, a drab late-winter run-up to St. Patrick's Day, offered promise of future delights.
Quavering at the Terror Bar
Lynne Stewart conviction worries lawyers who represent accused terrorists.
Columbian Art
Columbia University's dean of journalism lends a painting to the Jewish Museum.
Columns
The Imperial City
The implosion of CBS News is among the many forces sending the media reeling back to the fifties�the 1850s.
Strategist
Best Bets
A vintage Art Deco bracelet, plus faux fruit and a very tasteful sneaker.
Ask A Shop Clerk
Jimmy Webb of Trash and Vaudeville
Shop News
Store openings this week.
The Best Seller
Clear Storage Containers
Sales & Bargains:
This week's hottest sales & bargains
The Look Book
A Soho-loving IT analyst.
Real Estate
The rise of supernatural sales techniques.
Green Day
There’s more to St. Patrick’s Day specials than corned beef and cabbage.
The Culture Pages
Smarty Pants
Thom Pain (based on nothing) star James Urbaniak and the power of positive reviews.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Reviewed
Everything about the musical works - except the music.
Romance Reviewed
This is vintage farce with no holds barred and all foibles bared.
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Reviewed
Nearly three hours of chaos.
Bad Boy: Kieran Culkin
The middle Culkin channels tabloid-related angst into his latest role.
Be Cool Reviewed
Clueless and surprisingly crass.
Art Review
The photographs of Diane Arbus are revealing but empathetic.
The Shield Reviewed
Glenn Close joins the cast, giving the treacherous Vic Mackey his very own Lady Macbeth.
Prozac Nation Reviewed
Those who've been waiting will be as sorry as the film itself.
Good-bye, �NYPD Blue’!
NYPD Blue heirs like The Shield are on HBO and cable, not the broadcast networks.
Narration Nation
A Who’s Who of TV Tour Guides.
Classical Music Review
NASA finances Laurie Anderson’s engaging work.
The Massacre Reviewed
50 Cent hawks himself into a corner.
Overheard
What the audience really thought about Tim Hawkinson.
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