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July 28, 2014 Issue
Cover Story
Bigger Eyes, Fuller Lips, Broader Minds?
�Ethnic plastic surgery� is booming. Just ask the doctor who told me what I might want to do to my face.
By Maureen O’Connor
On the Cover: Photograph by Bobby Doherty.
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Features
Hail Storm
Uber and Lyft, green cabs and black liveries: The Great Taxi Upheaval is here, elating (if perplexing) passengers, while leaving some cabbies steamed. By Christopher Bonanos
The Trials of the Kabbalah Capitalist
At first the powerful came to Rabbi Pinto, bearing cash and evincing great need. Later he knew how Job felt. By Steve Fishman
Jon Bon Jovi Is the Most Hated Man in Buffalo
All because he wants to buy its football team. Over these guys’ dead bodies. By Reeves Wiedeman
Intelligencer
Encores
The strange year of the posthumous performance.
Life in Pictures: David Hallberg
The American Ballet Theatre dancer, also a principal with the Bolshoi (on these shores for the first time in nearly a decade), dances Swan Lake at Lincoln Center.
279 Minutes With Elisabeth Weiss
Making house calls with New York’s most musical dog trainer.
Fantasy Land
Why fans are now more into free-agent negotiations than the games themselves.
The Cut
Paris When It Glitters
A week at the haute couture shows.
Strategist
Best Bets
The goal: Find an on-the-go bike pump for predawn flats and peace of mind on your haul up to Nyack.
The Look Book
�I’m a New Yorker through and through. I grew up in Washington Heights and then we moved to Parkchester.�
The Restaurant Review
Drew Nieporent’s Bâtard is already showing quite well.
The Dish
The NoMad Bar’s Madison Park Smash cocktail explosion.
Of Bureks and Bánh Mì
New York’s culinary past and present converge in Ridgewood.
Wharf Life
A one-bedroom cabin at the end of a Provincetown pier where the bay’s the backyard.
VFiles
A store that’s also a scene.
Culture
Tangled Up
How did Bob Dylan get so weird?
Book Town
A completely nonscientific survey of what the city is skimming this summer.
Archie’s Alternate Dimensions
A look at the comic-book favorite's many offshoots and alternate realities, spanning the goofy to the gruesome.
Meet Our Staff
Andy Freeberg on the art of the art-fair booth.
The TV Review
Clive Owen is a bigoted, coked-up MD in The Knick.
The Movie Review
The Kill Team pulls back the curtain on American war crimes.
The Movie Review
A Most Wanted Man features the last significant Philip Seymour Hoffman performance.
To Do: July 30�August 12, 2014
Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.
Departments
Comments: Week of July 28, 2014
Readers respond to our Truvada cover story.
The Vulture Crossword Contest
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The Approval Matrix: Week of July 28, 2014
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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