Issue of March 16, 2009

Man on the Street
Bill Cunningham, photographic magpie.
by Lauren Collins

Q. Is Cunningham's talent in his eye at finding fashion and images or his skill at juxtaposition and presentation?

Nowhere Woman
Yasmina Reza returns to Broadway.
by Judith Thurman

Q. Who are Reza's (female) peers? Author, playwright, director?

Made in U.S.A.
Is it still possible to buy American?
by Patricia Marx

Q. Why have the remaining American manufactured products "remained"? Why have the others fled?

Baring Arms
by Robin Givhan

Q. Do you agree with Givhan that MO's arms represent power and control? Or was she just born with good genes?

Why Dracula won’t die.
by Joan Acocella

Audio: Joan Acocella discusses the enduring appeal of vampires.

Q. Horror and Sci-Fi. How are they simliar? Different? Were Vampire fans the first "Trekkies"?

Inside the new Alice Tully Hall.
by Alex Ross

Q. Does Ross cover the acoustics of the new hall as well as Goldberger covered the architecture?