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July 18, 2011 Issue
Cover Story
Cheap Eats 2011
Our annual guide to gorging with a light wallet, including a wide array of
low-cost discoveries, a selection of street-fair tasting menus, an introduction
to Xinjiangese chicken stew, and the best cheap-eats joint of the year.
Plus: A culinary tour of Queens.
By
Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld
On the Cover: Illustration by Zohar Lazar for New York Magazine.
Features
Bycatch 22
As a twisted consequence of overfishing regulations, commercial fishermen have no choice but to catch sea bass, flounder, monkfish, tunas�and throw them dead back into the sea. By Tom Gogola
It’s OK to Eat the Art
How Jennifer Rubell found her place at the table as an artist�by first catering it. By Kera Bolonik
'Little Gitmo'
When an upstate imam named Yassin Aref was convicted on a suspect terrorism charge, he was sent to a secretive prison denounced by civil libertarians as a Muslim quarantine. By Christopher S. Stewart
Intelligencer
Sino-Cinephiles
Why some American films go over better across the Pacific than they did at home.
The Stimulant Stimulus
Could something other than Rick Perry’s business-friendly policies be keeping the Texas economy buzzing?
Punch Line Drives
Reyes conquers clichéd haplessness in Flushing.
The Neighborhood News
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Sympathy For the Steamroller
Passing the ex test.
34 Minutes With Bobby Brown
Backstage at an unlikely New Edition reunion, the New Jack bad boy is grown up and sober.
Columns
Wanted: Economic Savior
The Tim Geithner era is almost over. And his replacement may be the most important appointment Obama ever makes.
Strategist
The Best Bet
Onyx’s stainless-steel ice-pops molds, slap-bracelet watches, and more.
The Look Book
Chris Benz, fashion designer, and Katlyn Masker, student.
The Urbanist’s Berlin
Drinking, dancing, and tank-driving where little is verboten.
The Underwater Penthouse
The richest co-op in town may be facing its first-ever foreclosure. How can that be?
Culture
We Must Be Superstars
In defense of pop (and maybe narcissism, too).
The Book Review
A new collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s early work shows him to be the world’s sweetest man of war.
The Movie Review
Does the final Harry Potter cast a spell? Plus: Errol Morris’s juicy Tabloid.
Based on a Half-True Story
Lately, it’s all about rewriting the watershed moments of the sixties.
Area Wizards
As the final showdown nears, New York’s imaginary Hogwarts alums suit up for battle.
Denizens of the Quotidian
The dependably wry power pop of Fountains of Wayne.
Agenda
What to Drink at the Meatball Shop
Opening next week in Williamsburg.
Departments
Comments: Week of July 18, 2011
Readers sound off on Frank Rich’s inaugural article in New York, Bradley Manning, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of July 18, 2011
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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