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January 26, 1998 Issue
I’ve wanted to be mayor of New York since the third grade. And I’d like to be a U.S. senator. . . . But what you wanna be and what you need to be are two different things.”
-- Calvin Butts, "The Anti-Sharpton"
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| FEATURES The Anti-Sharpton BY CRAIG HOROWITZ A firebrand in his youth, Calvin Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church is now known more for making deals than for making noise. But can an insider who calls Governor Pataki a friend win the black vote if he runs for office, as he hopes to do? Al Sharpton, of course, thinks not. Leo’s Lioness Child of Mine Four-year-old Selena’s foster mother has been trying to adopt her since she was born. Selena’s birth parents were drug users who had ten children without raising any. Now they’ve cleaned up their lives and want their daughter. Whose little girl is she, anyway? GOTHAM | DEPARTMENTS The Body Politic BY DAVID FRANCE Beyond fen-phen: The frenzy for natural weight-loss products Restaurants D.J. Jazzy chef: The riffs at club-cum-restaurant 27 Standard are Miles ahead MARKETPLACE Pop furniture on Clinton Street; a grabber of a CD holder; a waterless scrubber Sales & Bargains Freshen up all your enamel: Sales on whirlpool tubs and laser drilling for cavities THE ARTS In Live Flesh, bad boy Pedro Almodóvar is back making comedy out of sexual passion Theater Silly Goose: Mike Leigh’s 1981 play depends too much on the cloddishness of its characters Art Artistic coo: Arthur Dove, overlooked early modernist, is celebrated at the Whitney | Classical Music BY PETER G. DAVIS Kiri Te Kanawa takes Strauss’s Capriccio, usually a piece for small audiences, to the Met—splendidly Dance Spectral vision: Kraig Patterson’s colorful Roy G. Biv Television How they got that way: PBS’s The Irish in America, despite omissions, richly chronicles the passage from potato farmers to Kennedys CUE Intelligencer |