Features
Everyone’s got an opinion, and if they don’t, they will soon. Will Leitch forecasts how the Jets’ crazy quarterback experiment could succeed or end in tears; Joe Theismann draws up plays for both signal callers; Joe Namath, Rex Ryan, rabid fans, and college cheerleaders weigh in on the debate; Jerry Saltz explains why Tebowing is great art; and a statistical guru analyzes who should actually start.
When the mother of 16-year-old Andre McCollins sent him off to the Judge Rotenberg Center, she thought the school—with its unusual form of behavioral modification—would be a godsend for her developmentally disabled son. Then she got a call that he’d had a very bad day. By Jennifer Gonnerman
Intelligencer
A decades-old method for tapping ancient reserves of natural gas has become the big environmental flash point of the moment.
The limits of playing the race card.
The phrase every reporter seems to know.
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Misguided preservation effort.
Rifling through paperbacks with the eternal eighties darling, and new littérateur.
Columns
Sheldon Silver, the most gifted Albany player of his generation, kept a payoff quiet. Will Andrew Cuomo win?
Strategist
Plasti Dip’s Create You Color kit, a cluster chandelier, and more new stuff in stores.
Coleman Skatepark recently underwent a two-month, $400,000 overhaul. Here, a portfolio from opening weekend at the city’s coolest place to shred.
Split skirts open to the left, to the right, or smack down the middle.
At Rosemary’s, the Village trattoria meets the rooftop garden (with a Hamptons crowd).
For post–Labor Day picnicking, grab a few juicy, semisweet red plums.
Even the most urban soul has a little homesteader fantasy of a cozy back garden.
Culture
Michael K. Williams's disappearing act.
Zadie Smith points her literary compass in a new direction.
Comparing Zadie Smith's NW to N.W.A, NWS, and The CW.
Two artists turn a blue-chip Chelsea gallery into a junk-bin fantasyland.
The bad girls of Bachelorette throw a good party.
Agenda
Food-geek-megamarket All Good Things opens in Tribeca.
Departments
Readers sound off on Nora Ephron, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, and more.
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
Write a Letter to the Editor
Letters may be edited for space and clarity. Please include a daytime phone number.
- Mail to
-
- New York Media
- 75 Varick Street
- New York, NY 10013
- Email
- NYletters@newyorkmag.com
