Table of Contents ï¿½ October 16, 2006 Issue of New York Magazine

October 16, 2006 Issue

Cover Story

Stephen Colbert Has America by the Ballots

By Adam Sternbergh
When Colbert’s show debuted a year ago, it seemed like a daily faux-celebration of demagoguery, viciousness, stupidity, and dishonesty might be a bit of a narrow joke. But Washington politics seems to have followed his lead. These days it is reasonable to ask: Besides demagoguery, viciousness, stupidity, and dishonesty, what else is there to talk about?
Plus: ï¿½Stephen Colbertï¿½ offers some bipartisan advice on how to win in November, a midterm mudslinging scorecard, and Joshua Green on Karl Rove’s most trying hour.

Features

The Organ Grinder

A disgraced ex-dentist named Michael Mastromarino is charged with stealing bodies to harvest bones, skin, and other tissue to meet the growing demand for spare human parts. But the most shocking thing about this case is everything he did that’s legal.

Meet. Mate. Multiply.

Speed-dating is for wimps. Today, lonely and not-so-young- anymore urban professionals turn to speed-marriage. And then speed-pregnancy.

Intelligencer

McGreevey’s McGrievance

Ex-gov didn’t want to just read a ï¿½Top Ten List.ï¿½

Tinsley Mortimer Exported to Japan

Some friends scoff.

You’re in Good Hands With Freddy?

Ferrer, insurance man.

Frank Bruni’s New Boss Pans Prose

ï¿½Ripe fruit basket.ï¿½

Gossip Queen of Queens

Rupert Murdoch branches out to the outer boroughs.

Otherworldly

It was a week filled with the supernatural.

The Posture People

Alexander Technique disciples want New Yorkers to straighten up.

Reynolds Rap

Upstate Dems try to figure out a tasteful way to tag a GOP congressman with the Foley scandal.

The Rapture Takes Manhattan

New Evangelical video game meticulously re-creates the city so you can destroy it in a battle against the forces of darkness.

Strategist

Best Bets

A canned beer that’s worth pouring, the next-generation flashlight, a new ball for the NBA, and more.

Ask a Shop Clerk

Q Adjarenimako of Todd Oldham by La-Z-Boy.

Crew Cuts Opens on Prince Street

At J.Crew’s new kids’ store, the label’s signature prepster gear is shrunken for children.

Handbook

How to spyï¿½and not get spied upon.

Look Book

Cousins en suite.

Restaurant Review

If only there were a less-unruly place than his new restaurant to enjoy Joël Robuchon’s brilliant cuisine.

In Season

Taïm’s spicy Moroccan carrots recipe.

Insatiable Critic

For deliciously ostentatious swank that’s infinitely cheaper than a status handbag, you must try the $85 black-truffle pizza on the new ï¿½Brasserieï¿½ menu in the bar at Café Gray.