September 28, 2009 Issue
Cover Story
Who Is Barack Obama?
A tenet of the president’s campaign was that rationality would ultimately break down the divisions that separate us. But while there may
not really be red or blue states, there are states of reason and states of emotion. And in American politics there is a war between those states as old as the country itself. By Philip Weiss
On the Cover: Typography by Marion Deichars for New York Magazine. Photograph by Mannie Garcia/AP
Features
Hardball
The grown-up pressures of a little-boy’s game.
The Archbishop of Charm
If anyone can repair the church’s image, it’s Timothy Dolan. Except there are only so many nice ways to say no.
Vu.
Post-boom, second-generation starchitecture; a helpful guide to moving back from Brooklyn; how to live in your office building; vacation homes within the city limits; discovering that the smallest apartment for sale in New York is actually pretty nice.
Intelligencer
Step It Up
City health commissioner Thomas Farley has a new initiative: getting us to take the stairs.
The Way She Was
Barbra Streisand returns to the Vanguard and the material that made her.
Subhampton
Mapping the future floodwaters.
The Neighborhood News
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Wild and Free
Jim Carroll outlived his own gorgeous myth.
88 Minutes With Mark Green
A disappointing primary night for the former�and still just possibly future�public advocate.
Joy Behar’s Big Break
�Hey Bruce!� Joy Behar calls out to Bruce Willis. �How are you, kid?�
Le Fils
Jean-Georges Vongerichten wanted his son to be a lawyer. But at 27, Cedric just took over the kitchen at Perry St.
Strategist
Best Bets
The High Line of Poughkeepsie, Tommy Hilfiger's new flagship, and more.
The Look Book
�I sort of have a Napoleon complex� I think I’m bigger than I am.�
The Underground Gourmet Review
Fort Defiance delivers on all its café-bar promises.
In Season
This heirloom broccoli-rabe variety has a cult following in California.
A (Mostly) Local Loaf
�When people hear �Orwasher’s,’ they think rye,� says Keith Cohen.
Restaurant Openings
Week of September 28, 2009: Ardesia.
Microbrews and Seating for 1,000
Lately, beer gardens have been proliferating faster than wine bars.
Culture
The Art Review
The Whitney’s welcome retrospective rescues Georgia O’Keeffe from sex and flowers.
The Movie Review
With The Invention of Lying, Ricky Gervais imagines a world without guile or faith.
A Foreign Affair
On September 25, the New York Film Festival opens in France, then closes October 11 in Spain.
Big Wheel Keeps on Turning
David Byrne adds bike evangelist to his eclectic résumé.
Let’s Go to the Audiotape
A Brooklyn label so retro it releases cassettes.
The Method Writer
For The Anthologist, a novel about a poet, Nicholson Baker found his narrator’s voice by singing to himself.
The TV Review
Male dysfunction on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Californication, and Dexter.
The Science Guy
Jim Parsons is TV’s leading nerd.
Agenda
The Pastavore’s Progress
What’s remarkable about Michael White is that the man can’t stop topping himself.
Departments
Comments: Week of September 28, 2009
Readers sound off on Neil Patrick Harris, marijuana laws, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of September 28, 2009
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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