September 21, 2009 Issue
Cover Story
High-Wire Act
The actor once known as Doogie Howser now plays a womanizing cad on How I Met Your Mother, hosts the Emmys next week, and is about to become a Hollywood leading man. Incidentally, he’s gay. Neil Patrick Harris upends the conventional wisdom: It was after he came out that his career really took off.
On the Cover: Photograph by Art Streiber for New York Magazine.
Features
The Splitting Image of Pot
On the one hand, marijuana is practically legal�more mainstream, accessorized, and taken for granted than ever before. On the other, kids are getting busted in the city in record numbers. Guess which kids.
Krishna Gone Missing
A Nepalese woman’s 53 hours lost on the streets of Queens.
Intelligencer
Will Rule for Food
Two recruiters agreed to give opinions on job prospects for unemployed Masters of the Universe.
Textbook Obama
Which predecessor does his rhetoric most nearly echo? The data don’t lie: It’s Ronald Reagan.
Basket Case
Bruce Ratner SHoPs for respectability.
The Neighborhood News
Our roundup of news from around the city.
The Kennedy Who Said No
After the dynasty.
86 Minutes With Alec Baldwin
The Philharmonic’s announcer on his Mahler-conversion moment and his fantasy wife.
Has Fashion Week Overshot the Runway?
There’s no cash-for-clunkers initiative to save the fashion industry.
No Whitney Port
NYU grad Sean Patrick Murray, 22, thinks he can do MTV one better.
Columns
Lehman’s Lessons Learned
One year later, what the collapse of the banking colossus has taught us.
Strategist
Best Bets
Tasting beers by the dozen, new stuff in stores, and more.
The Look Book
�I skateboarded my whole life, so I’m pretty good with the balance thing.�
The Restaurant Review
With chef Dan Silverman at the helm, the Standard Grill rises above the faux-bistro competition.
In Season
Labor Day has come to mean the end of summer, but some warm-weather indulgences linger on.
Intentionally Temporary
The pop-up shops and food trucks of guerilla salesmanship.
Safe Isn’t So Safe
Those neighborhoods that never see a downturn? They’re seeing a downturn.
Culture
Scenes From a Marriage
Julianna Margulies enters Silda Spitzer territory with The Good Wife.
Really Good Karma
Ashton Kutcher’s new show explores the beautiful life. And he should know.
The Movie Review
Bright Star is Jane Campion’s pungent ode to the tragic affair of John Keats and Fanny Brawne.
Gerard Butler’s Road to Sudden Overexposure
Our hero is born in Glasgow in 1969.
Honestly Sincere
If the idea of reviving Bye Bye Birdie has you thinking �Camp Spectacular,� please adjust your mind-set.
This Is Michael McKean
The actor serves up redemption in the new Tracy Letts play, Superior Donuts.
The Architecture Review
The new Cooper Union building has it all: drama, elegance, and the most inviting stairs in town.
Getting Cross With David Cross
In his new essay collection, David Cross aims at targets big and small.
Hoboken’s Finest
How New Wave hot dogs Yo La Tengo have survived (and thrived) for 25 years.
Agenda
Reformed Pie
More than the name has changed at the storefront that housed Una Pizza Napoletana.
Departments
Comments: Week of September 21, 2009
Readers sound off on the late-night TV wars, foreclosures, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of September 21, 2009
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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