Table of Contents -- July 2-9, 2007 Issue of New York Magazine

July 2, 2007 Issue

Cover Story

The Summer Issue

The annual guide to post-vernal, pre-autumnal recreation and indulgence. Including an all-encompassing summer culture calendar, preemptive nostalgia for grimy Coney Island, a rundown of ways to relax on the waterfront without leaving the five boroughs, the inside scoop on outdoor drinking, a taxonomy of city fauna, parent-friendly kids� fun, listings of too-good-to-still-be-on-the-market summer shares, and more.

Features

Joe Meets the Head Case

For most of their lives, both Joe Torre and Alex Rodriguez bet much of their self-worth on the outcome of baseball games. Yet it seems the younger might be learning that the game can also be a source of escape�an insight it took the elder decades to make.

Castaway!

Camping on an abandoned island in Jamaica Bay is a great opportunity to connect in self-reliant fashion with ancient city history. As our writer discovered, the experience is less profound when it involves a torrential two-day downpour and something called �trench foot.�

The Pasty Days of Summer

While their contemporaries in the downtown-revival scene fade out or move uptown, Interpol are still alive, kicking it on the Bowery, and eager to let you know that they�re not as depressed as they look.

Long Hot Summer of Love

The summer of 1967 saw a coastal divergence in America�s counterculture. San Francisco happily charged ahead toward free love, but the New York hippies, unable to escape grit, irony, and nearby riots, landed somewhere in between a summer of love and a summer of hate.

INTELLIGENCER

Bad News Bernie Corrects Record

Clients, Hollywood scared by media.

Eric Idle Raises the Barre

Next project: A Python ballet!

Sunny�s Money On Display

Von Bulow art at the Morgan.

Are New York Girls Too Fast?

Actor Justin Theroux thinks so.

Legendary Writer Retires: Dillard�s Done

The Maytrees writer says she's done with writing.

It Happened Last Week

As the city was drenched alternately by rain and perspiration, Mayor Bloomberg fanned presidential-run rumors by announcing that he�d cooled on the Republican Party.

How to Buy an iPhone

Gaming the most anticipated gadget launch of the year.

The Strokes

Crawling around Manhattan.

Third Way Blind

Mayor Bloomberg�s cynical, egotistical presidential flirtations might actually do some good�that is, unless he becomes Ralph Nader.

Columns

The Imperial City

Reasons for optimism in Iraq�and reasons to be pessimistic about the predictable games politicians at home play with the war.

CULTURE

Renouncing the Dark Arts

The maturation of Banks Violette, death-metal installation artist.

The Movie Review

Michael Moore makes his best film.

Meryl�s Progeny: Mamie Gummer

Sara Cardace spoke with Mamie Gummer, 23, about starring with her mother Meryl Streep in Evening.

Knocked Up by the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!

As good as Knocked Up is, it�s a perfect candidate for Curvedom; in fact, we�ve recently heard people saying, �I don�t see what all the fuss is about.�

Influences: Werner Herzog

"I think I have a peculiar humor that becomes a cross that I bear. I always complain that nobody sees my sense of humor, but it comes across when you have a movie theater filled with people."