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Business Wire, June 11, 2004

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 2004

NEW YORK Magazine

On the Cover...

Stadium of Dreams       by Craig Horowitz

Dan Doctoroff's dreams, that is. With evangelical fervor,
Bloomberg's deputy mayor has been selling a plan to remake Manhattan's
West Side with a stadium for the Jets at its center. But when the
cheerleading stops, a question remains. Does the plan make sense?

Profiles...

Happiness Is ...        by Phoebe Eaton

Kimora Lee Simmons, wife of hip-hop impresario Russell, is
beautiful and brash. The model turned mogul is the face of Baby Phat
and quickly becoming a worldwide symbol of happy-go-lucky consumption.

Bloomsday New York      by A.M. Homes, Francine Prose, Michael Agger &
                        Rachel Cline

James Joyce's novel Ulysses traces the complex inner life of an
ordinary Irishman through a single day, June 16, 1904. It took seven
years to complete. One hundred years later, we asked four writers to
employ the same technique, each on a real New Yorker - and to do it on
a deadline.

Fashion ...

Pretty for the Prom     by Harriet Mays Powell, photography by Ari
                        Marcopoulos, styled by John Vertin

What happened to teenage innocence? Ari Marcopoulos finds it, in
six New York high-schoolers who are dressed to look more Bronte than
Britney for their big evening out.

Finance ...

Viacom SOS              by James J. Cramer

Mel Karmazin jumped ship, giving the entertainment company a
perfect chance to change its business model. Ad sales are out. Geeks
are in.

The City Politic...

Speaker and Yapper      by Greg Sargent

Why are the mayor and the tabloids beating up on Gifford Miller?
Because they can.

Sex and Dating ...

Head Case               by Amy Sohn

How one man's enduring obsession with pleasing women orally led to
a mind-numbingly thorough how to guide. Amy Sohn on Ian Kerner, author
of She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

INTELLIGENCER

Mister Softee's makeover ... How Bush helps the arts ... The cost
of Kabbalah ... Richard Hell on Robert Quine

SMART CITY:

Group Thinker: Will Leitch on how to make a living from focus
groups--if you tell them what they want to hear.

Rima Suqi's Best Bets: Hamilton's Khaki King watch, a city
golfer's bible, bookend picture frames

Roll Call: Rob Patronite scours the city for the finest Lobster
roll. (Mary's Fish Camp edges out Pearl's)

This week's sales and bargains * Deal of the Week: Savitts
sisters' bangle bracelets

PLUS... Critics:

MOVIES: Peter Rainer on the "silly, dull" remake of the Stepford
Wives: "all farce" and "camp jibes at decor and suburbia."

TELEVISION: John Leonard can't say a nice word about Monk, and of
The Simple Life 2, "only if you must."

DANCE: Laura Shapiro on the "ambitious" production of the
"cumbersome Russian spectacular" Raymonda.

BOOKS: Prize of the Yankees: There's a new Booker Prize in town,
open to Americans--and an anxious backlash in response. James Wood on
the new British literary insecurity.

ART: Mark Stevens on the Met's exhibit of furniture by "Art Deco's
greatest designer," Emile-Jaques Ruhlmann.

MUSIC: PJ Harvey is back and angry, but her new album Uh Huh Her,
lacks "anything compelling," says Ethan Brown.

RESTAURANTS: Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld on the "appeal" of
Fort Greene bistro Ici.

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