April 30, 2007 Issue
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Cover Story
Sex and Love
New Yorkers are skilled at cognitive dissonance�deeply romantic yet devoted to the quick thrill, lusty and then surprisingly conventional. But don’t ask us to choose: In this city, the answer to most either/or questions, but especially ones about sex and love, is usually �both.�
Intelligencer
Can Mayor Mike Become Anti-Gun Prez?
Dems’ skittishness leaves opportunity for Bloomberg.
Talk-Show Host Gives Birth
On camera! In a tub!
Passenger 57 Takes the A Train
Federal air marshals get MetroCards.
Bad Vice? Bohemian Tragedy
Hipster mag puts late actress Lily Wheelwright on cover for second time.
Bear vs. Germs: Inspections Hit Wall St.
Bear Stearns Cafeteria hit with 42 health-code violations.
UWS Opening for Bouley Lite
Star chef teams up with celebrity nutritionist to open health-oriented restaurant.
It Happened Last Week
In a week when the Dow hit a record high and Manhattanites sought tax-season shelter, everyone was rethinking their fiscal strategies.
AmeriToffs
Will New Yorkers fall for another faux London club?
Where’s McBeef?
Creative-writing teachers are regularly faced with disturbing student work. But is the writer dangerous?
Punky Brewsters
When you’re in heavy rotation on MTV and want to hang with the rejects, it’s time to open your own East Village bar.
Eyewitness News
The NY1 stalwart investigates his tortured personal history.
Columns
The Power Grid
Why Fred Thompson leads Al Gore by a neck in the ’08 dark-horse race.
Strategist
Best Bets
A coffee table made of old plates and other gems of repurposing.
Shop News
New store openings this week.
Look Book
The proud proprietor of baked hair.
Restaurant Review
Anthos is a top-notch entry in the haute-Greek frenzy.
In Season
Think of green almonds as nuts interrupted, harvested before the shells have hardened and the nuts have fully formed.
Insatiable Critic
"It’s a real find,� our producer friend Dasha promises, inviting us to discover the no-airs bistro Tree in the East Village. And I have to agree.
Restaurant Openings
Week of April 30, 2007: FR.OG, Suba, Móle, and Paradou Marché.
The Slowest Food
What’s up with snails?
Eating Out-of-Seasonally
Tomatoes and corn in April? At the Greenmarket?
Great Room
A rustic restoration that’s meticulously easygoing.
Real Estate
How apartment-hunting can test a relationship.
Pack Up Your Enthusiasm and Relocate
A month after Susie Essman put her one-bedroom on West 76th Street on the market for $869,000, she’s found a buyer.
Let the Walls Do the Talking
Ramrod-straight condo towers are so 2004. The aggressively sculptural buildings now coming on the market are much more interesting�but maybe not to everyone.
The Culture Pages
Life After Life
Mark Ronson, bigwig of the Caucasian-soul-singer industry.
The Movie Review
An admirably ambitious Raymond Carver adaptation goes occasionally astray.
Overheard
What the audience really thought about Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse.
Tribeca Squared
Where to find the Tribeca Film Festival’s most winning moments.
Cheryl Hines: Poker Genius
Cheryl Hines is one of the most cruelly hilarious players in Zak Penn's hysterical mockumentary The Grand.
Lukas Haas: Vigilante
In Gardener of Eden, a whip-smart directorial debut from Entourage star Kevin Connolly, Lukas Haas plays Adam, an asinine and utterly American character.
The Art Review
Misguided smugness at P.S. 1.
The Gist
�Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs.�
The Dance Review
The new wave of youngsters at New York City Ballet.
The Approval Matrix: Week of April 30, 2007
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
The Week
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Staten Island Zoo scales new heights.
Say You Saw Them When
Students at the country’s best conservatories, local and otherwise, play the city’s big halls.
Power Lunch, Jr. Division
April 26 is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, which means you’ll also have to take the budding young desk jockeys to lunch. A Midtown East selection.
Power Lunch, Jr. Division: Part II
On Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, think outside the kids’ lunch box. A Midtown West selection.
There Is Nothing Like a Dane
Highlights from America’s first festival of Danish children’s theater�a ten-day, family-friendly event at the New 42nd Street Studios.
Every Picture Tells a Story
These photographers� one a documentarian, two devoted to staged work�discover narrative in frozen moments.
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