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January 11, 1999 Issue
"Hey, it's me! How ya feelin'? I'm going to look at Rudy's new apartment in Queens. I'll call you later this afternoon. See ya." GROUND RULES: Not everything in every issue appears on our website. If it is available online, the article title appears below as acolored, underlined "hot link," which you can click on to read the full text; ifthe article title below is black, the full text of the article is notavailable online. For more information on getting copies or reprints of articlesthat aren't on our web site, call New York Magazine's Information ServicesDepartment at 212-508-0755.
--Kristine Kupka's last communication, from "Missing You"
| FEATURES Missing You BY SHEILA WELLER Vivacious, popular, and five months pregnant, Baruch College honor student Kristine Kupka was thrilled about the baby and making plans for law school when she disappeared on October 24. Her family and friends are sure the unborn child's father -- a married Guyanese émigré and Kristine's former science instructor -- knows what fate befell her. But after ten discouraging weeks of searching, police aren't convinced it's an open-and-shut case -- and Kristine is still a missing person. Hot Paints After nearly a decade in which painting was déclassé, a crop of talented young artists are coming out of hiding, displaying their passion for . . . paint. Collectors and critics are surrendering to these understated new stars, whose work embraces precision, pop culture, and the intensely personal. New York, 1830 In his new book, The Jew of New York, cult cartoonist Ben Katchor invents an absurdist, theatrical history, including one man's plan for a Jewish state not far from Buffalo. Addicted to the Cure When Mayor Giuliani promised to phase out methadone treatment at the city's drug clinics, he drew a Bronx cheer from the nation's drug czar. But the mayor was right in one critical respect: Too often, clinics are set up to make a habit of dependency along with methadone. GOTHAM
| DEPARTMENTS The National Interest BY MICHAEL TOMASKY High-horse Republicans found plenty to admire in an earlier perjurer. Remember Ollie North? Media Rapid reversals of fortune have made the impeachment an eel-like topic for the mainstream papers The Underground Gourmet Radio Perfecto's perfect organic roast chicken; at Junno, great décor, so-so dinner MARKETPLACE On a roll in the home office; monkeying around with chopsticks Smart City Detox your apartment, your clothes, your life
| Sales & Bargains BY SHYAMA PATEL 'Tis the season for major sales at Barneys, Bloomingdale's, and Saks THE ARTS Affliction shows the tragic consequences of male mythmaking Books Gore Vidal invites us to a literary cocktail party for the ages Theater Four plays in search of a purpose Television Wiseguys get therapy in the whimsical mob miniseries Sopranos CUE Intelligencer Classifieds |