Table of Contents for the December 23-30. 2002 issue

December 23, 2002

Cover Story

New York Awards 2002

During the past year, while still licking our wounds, we began to get back to typical form, which was, typically, outstanding.

Features

Classic New York

The city — we knew it before, but never more so than in the past year — is more than its skyline. We explore its DNA.

Columns

Gotham

All the Trimmings

O Christmas-tree ornament! You fill our memory vacuums so nicely.
Boy Vey

En garde, ‘N Sync! From the Catskills to Far Rockaway, the Hamsa Boys are an Orthodox pop sensation.
Aural Pleasures

Move over, Ira Glass! Yes, every sensitive young woman and her gay brother has a crush on the host of “This American Life.”

New!

Naked City

Who said three’s a crowd?

Critics

Movies

Daniel Day-Lewis’s chilling, larger-than-life performance can’t lift Gangs of New York to the level of greatness
Books

Annie Proulx’s That Old Ace in the Hole is masterly, if somewhat cold
Classical Music

Baz Luhrmann deftly tricks up La Bohème – without dumbing down Puccini
Theater

Baz’s La Bohème trades away real operatic soul for mere “accessibility”
Art

A quilt exhibit at the Whitney returns art to its inspired, unpretentious roots
Television

TV Notes
Pop Music

Jay-Z: back in the hip-hop retread shop
Restaurants

Charlie Palmer simplifies at Kitchen 22