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May 17, 1999 Issue
"In Colorado, there's nothing going on -- those kids just download a bunch of stuff from the Internet and watch TV -- there's nothing to look at but suburbs."
--Ted Rourke, age 18, from "It's a Teen Thing"
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| FEATURES It's a Teen Thing In the weeks after Columbine, the focus has come home, as parents agonize over their own elusive children. Mark Jacobson gauges the meaning of the massacre to his wired kids. Kids tell Nancy Jo Sales why it can't happen here; New York is much more tolerant of outsiders. And Michael Wolff reflects on the media culture's generation gap. Funny Girl Veronica Geng was known for her sharp editing, her sultry persona, and her biting humor pieces, just collected in Love Trouble. By the time she was diagnosed with cancer, she had either quit or been pushed from her sixteen-year job at The New Yorker and had cut off many of her friends. Still, they rallied around Geng, as prickly in dying as she was in life. If You Build It . . . One day in the coming weeks, a horde of pols will crowd the Farley Post Office for the most eagerly awaited unveiling in 35 years -- the new Penn Station, shown here for the first time. Now that we're on a roll, what about the airport link? The waterfront? The Second Avenue subway? Everybody's All-American Bored with foie gras towers and Peking-duck empanadas, the Insatiable Critic finds herself craving deviled eggs. Biscuits. Pot roast. American cooking, in all its fresh, regional, unfussy glory, is making a comeback at places like Wild Blue and Larry Forgione's revived Coach House. A cause for celebration. | GOTHAM The tumult at Vibe Ventures; U.S. Customs agents get carded GOTHAM STYLE Beads are back; so are Tretorns DEPARTMENTS Christian de Portzamparc's stunning LVMH Tower proves beauty can bloom within the zoning laws The Underground Gourmet Slavic crêpes and Jamaican jerk MARKETPLACE High-minded toys, high-quality totes, and highly packable tools Smart City Light touch: fine wines for summer quaffing Sales & Bargains Beach bums need not despair: deals on the East End in June
| THE ARTS Movies BY PETER RAINER In a star-studded Dream, Kevin Kline is a melancholy Bottom Theater The Blues grate, the Rules bore Classical Music Three women with strong musical personalities win the Fisher Prize Dance Puff pieces from the ABT Television CBS's Joan of Arc is high on violence, low on saintliness Pop Music Sex bomb Ricky Martin's crossover debut is soul-free CUE Intelligencer Classifieds |