The beleaguered Wall Street Journal hopes to find calmer water as it sails into the weekend with its Saturday edition.
Gwyneth Paltrow retires from stardom with a bang; Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a savage Capote; Meryl Streep gets hysterical.
A rock punk takes the lead in Sondheim’s most gruesome musical; Taye Diggs joins the Army; Mia Farrow is back; and Elaine Stritch never left.
Zadie Smith on what’s wrong with her work; E. L. Doctorow takes on the Civil War; Bee Season’s Myla Goldberg stings again.
Nada Surf crashed but never burned; Harlem’s hardest-working rappers actually keep it real; Fiona Apple teams up with Dr. Dre collaborator.
Darren Star turns Anthony Bourdain into Carrie Bradshaw; scene-stealer Adam Goldberg gets his own show.
Robert Smithson’s posthumous Floating Island is this season’s Gates; Elizabeth Murray on her MoMA show and women in art.
The operatic version of The Little Prince lands at City Opera; Marin Alsop on conducting an orchestra that didn’t want her.
Mario Batali makes a gargantuan bid for four stars; Andrew Carmellini, Beard’s best New York chef of 2005, does affordable Italian.
Ralph Lauren makes a play for the A&Fers; an auction house for the auction-shy.
The 86–Day calendar.
Our deliberately oversimplified, totally speculative look at what’s coming up this fall.
Distinctive locks with combinations you can readily remember, a rare-motorcycle auction, and more great new stuff.
Paula Pritchett of Chloe.
This fall, the high-end-jeans craze ratchets up another level with jewelry and other fancy treatments. Here’s how fashion got there.
A prep-schooler with a very un-preppie style.
Adam Platt on two new restaurants that—despite slick appearances—serve authentic (and excellent) Chinese cuisine.
How to exploit eggplant season.
Local restaurants celebrate the love apple in all its peak-season glory.
Now’s the time to start slurping again.
A backup spouse can be a comforting notion, but reality usually intervenes.
Bobby Abreu, Phillies outfielder and aspiring Manhattan mogul.
A Freddy Ferrer primary win will give New York Democrats the best shot at winning the next mayoral election.
Google is still a steal, even at $280 a share. So why aren’t Wall Street analysts urging you to buy into the money-making machine?
Monica! The Musical!
The devastation that Hurricane Katrina wreaked on New Orleans concentrated the minds of New Yorkers.
Why are all the Hollywood movies opening in New York?
A history of hurricanes in New York.
