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NEW YORK MAGAZINE SELECTIONS * For the rest of Vanessa's NYM stories, visit her page on the magazine's website. 08.05.2019 IVANKA AETERNUM She can't go back to the city that made her. 01.14.2015 CAMPBELL BROWN The Most Controversial Woman in School Reform 09.21.2014 HOW TO START A REVOLUTION Columbia University's new activists. 08.02.2014 THE JUSTIN BIEBER EXPERIMENT A little boy grows up. 10.27.2013 JUICE HEADS How the newest liquid-nutrition cultists are mastering their intestines. 04.07.2013 TRAVELS IN THE NEW PSYCHEDELIC BAZAARThe synthetic drugs being invented, refined, and produced today-and often, shipped in from China-would have blown Timothy Leary's mind. Who knows what they're doing to the brains of users. 01.20.2013 BRET EASTON ELLIS'S REAL ART FORM IS THE TWEET 08.15.2012 THE BELLES OF B-BALL How NBA players' wives vie for fashion dominance. 05.13.2012 BLOW UP THE BOX After a career in which he firebombed the traditional television model from multiple angles, Barry Diller talks about his latest effort to torch the tube. 04.15.2012 KARMA CRASH Sex and the fall of an all-American yogi. 05.01.2011 OUR LADY OF MALAWI Kabbalah teaches that only giving will bring a soul out of the darkness. So Madonna planned a splendid gift for an impoverished African nation. Somebody turn on the light. 02.21.2011 KIKI'S CLOSET To be Don Draper's daughter, you have to look the part. And 11-year-old Kiernan Shipka loves to talk cloth. 12.06.2010 WAKING UP FROM THE PILL Fifty years ago, birth-control pills gave women control of their bodies, while making it easy to forget their basic biology -- until in some cases, it's too late. 09.03.2010 BURNING MAN TURNS 25 With photos by Craig Maldonado. 08.15.2010 IMAGINING DAPHNE A fashion icon who found herself by going to clown school. 03.28.2010 GROWING UP GAGA The self-invented, manufactured, accidental, totally on-purpose New York creation of the world's biggest pop star. 01.10.2010 REMEMBRANCES OF A PUNK PROSE POETESS Patti Smith, along with her friend Robert Mapplethorpe, lived a particular New York dream. 11.01.2009 WHY IS NANCY PELOSI ALWAYS SMILING? Like Obama, she is more pragmatist than liberal ideologue. Unlike Obama, she doesn't care what you think of her. 07.02.2009 THE NYC REALITY FREAK SHOW Is NYC Prep's Manhattan really that bad? 06.07.2009 BARGING IN TO VENICE Brooklyn artist Swoon is invading the Venice Biennale on boats built from New York City garbage. 04.05.2009 DO YOU OWN FACEBOOK? OR DOES FACEBOOK OWN YOU? Trust is a fragile commodity. 03.29.2009 125 MINUTES WITH LADY GAGA The Sacred Heart girl turned bisexual disco queen was never a lazy drug addict. 10.27.2008 THE AUTUMN OF THE I-BANKER The meritocracy wasn't supposed to work this way. 11.21.2007 THE LEOPARD CHANGES HIS SPOTS We thought we knew Roberto Cavalli -- animal prints, plunging necklines, thigh-high slits, showgirl glam. We were wrong.  10.22.2007 EVERYBODY SUCKS (COVER) Gawker and the rage of the creative underclass. 06.18.2007 WHAT DOES TINA BROWN HAVE TO DO TO GET SOME ATTENTION? With a new book on Princess Diana, Tina Brown -- the hyper-ambitious British blonde editor who did more than anyone else to pump up the volume on celebrity culture -- returns to her roots. 05.28.2007 TOM FORD AFTER SEX With a new super-high-end men's store, the former Gucci designer explores who he is without all that libido to sell. 02.05.2007 EVEN BITCHES HAVE FEELINGS Judith Regan is a walking cartoon, an equal-opportunity bigot -- and hardly the only villain in the sordid O.J. publishing scandal. 01.22.2007 MOVE TO A FANTASY ISLAND How Maui taught me to love New York. 12.18.2006 THE GENIUS COLLECTOR Louise MacBain uses her classified-ad fortune, her string of art magazines, and her stunning appearance to bring some of the world's most talented people into her orbit. To what purpose? Even she doesn't seem to know. 11.6.2006 BILLIONAIRES ARE FREE And, these days, a dime a dozen. But even for today's b boys, there are some things money can't buy. 05.14.2006 YOU TOO CAN BE A CELEBRITY JOURNALIST! Jancee Dunn, grand wizard of the celebrity profile and all-around nice Jersey girl, reveals the secrets to making any star open up in her new memoir, But Enough About Me.  12.05.2005 SEX AND THE CITY: THE HORROR MOVIE (COVER) Peter Braunstein had a full pantheon of female style icons (Edie Sedgwick, Jane Fonda, Kate Moss) and a passion for Manolos as intense as Carrie Bradshaw's. Then, fired from his job at Fairchild, jilted by a girlfriend, he descended into a world of dark fantasies -- into which he allegedly brought a former colleague in a bizarre assault. The making of a tabloid monster. 11.07.2005 PRINCE STREET PRINCE Hotelier turned developer André Balazs moved to Soho in 1984 and reimagined downtown in his own oh-so-tasteful image.  10.03.2005 CONAN ON THE COUCH (COVER) Conan O'Brien talks constantly about how no one cares about his show because it's on too late. But in four years, when he takes over for Jay Leno, he'll no longer have that excuse. Does comedy's crown prince need a whole new shtick?  07.25.05 CELEBRITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS (COVER) A diagnosis. 02.07.2005 2 BLONDES (COVER) With Martha Stewart in jail, the company's face is a woman who looks a lot like her -- former ABC Entertainment chief Susan Lyne. Her strategy? Put Martha Stewart back in the center of the gospels, and wait for the resurrection. 01.24.05 SMOOTH OPERATOR Has Jay-Z -- one of the best rappers of his generation -- really forsaken art for commerce? 12.20.2004 "IT" GIRLS LOST IT From Paris Hilton's sex tapes to Mary-Kate's anorexia, the girls du jour had big problems -- which is just the way we like it. 11.08.2004 THE ONLINES (COVER) Only children are just like most New York kids -- sophisticated, precocious, sometimes a little lonely -- only more so. 09.06.2004 PARTY GIRLS In a city where their dad is an interloper, the Bush twins are totally at home. 08.23.2004 DONNA KARAN'S VISION QUEST In the eighties, she changed the way New York women dress. Now, with the radical new life that came with the sale of her company and the death of her husband, she's much more interested in the inner Donna. A portrait of a seeker in mid-voyage. 07.19.2004 PAYBACK A gossip revenge saga, starring Richard Johnson, Lloyd Grove, a pretty girl, her spurned lover, and the ink-stained wretch who took the fall. 06.28.2004 IN HIS OWN HOTHOUSE (COVER) From Before Sunrise to Before Sunset, Ethan Hawke has never stopped trying to grow. But into what? 04.05.2004 A DYING TREND The four NYU students who've jumped to their deaths grimly illustrate new research: Suicide can be a fad. 03.08.2004 ARE YOU BIOPOLAR? (COVER) Mild bipolar disorder may be to this decade what depression was to the nineties, thanks to a new drug and an expanding definition. But when do ordinary peaks and valleys become pathological? 12.08.2003 A DEATH OF ONE'S OWN Founding feminist, Virginia Woolf scholar, and strong-willed enemy of the patriarchy (as well as mother, grandmother, and wife), Carolyn Heilbrun lived her ideals. The right to choose death -- she committed suicide in October -- was one of them. 06.09.2003 THE BOYS OF SUMMER This summer, a handful of young, ambitious, Manhattan-bred guys has cornered the market on nightlife in the Hamptons. They make sure Tara Reid is in the house, everyone's drinking $400 bottles of Perrier-Jouët, and, in return, they get one big payoff: the chance to become boldfaced names themselves. 04.07.2003 WHEN LIZZIE MATTERED Not so long ago, an entitled PR girl was the only terror we had to worry about. 01.13.2003 THE NEW POSITION ON CASUAL SEX (COVER) The rise of Internet dating has brought a sexual openness (not to mention one-night stands) to the younger generation not seen since the seventies heyday of Maxwell's Plum. But can there be too much of a good thing? 05.20.2002 BABY PANIC (COVER) The city's single women knew we could do everything men could, even in our Jimmy Choos. But while we were busy with business, bars, and Barneys, did we miss out on motherhood? For the Sex and the City generation, it looks like the rules of the game have changed. 02.04.2002 THE SINGLE-MOM MURDER (COVER) Christa Worthington left the glitz of the Manhattan fashion and journalism worlds for the simpler life of a single mother on Cape Cod. But when she was murdered, she left behind a beautiful 2 and 1/2-year-old daughter, a long list of potential suspects, and the realization that her life wasn't so simple after all. 11.19.2001 FLEX APPEAL (COVER) In the last few years, yoga became downtown's glamorous answer to organized religion (not to mention a way to lose stress -- and fat). But after September 11, the discipline has taken on new meaning. The story of one woman's body search. 07.09.2001 PAY MONEY, BE HAPPY (COVER) For thousands of new yorkers, happiness is a $375, three-day self-help Seminar. Welcome to EST: The Next Generation 03.19.2001 MONICA TAKES MANHATTAN (COVER) Monica Lewinsky came to New York in search of a second act. And so far, she's made a better go of it than, say, Bill Clinton. She attends glamorous parties, goes on "half blind" dates, and has a nascent business designing purses. In fact, she seems to enjoy life as a one-name celebrity -- though she'd rather not discuss what she's famous for. 02.26.2001 CHRISTIAN CURRY'S NAKED AMBITION It's been a whirl of stretch limos, Veuve Clicquot, and $1,000-a-plate charity dinners for Christian Curry ever since his scandalous case with Morgan Stanley was settled. So what if the firm claims they didn't pay him a dime? He's the life of the party. 12.04.2000 THE MODEL VANISHES Lourdes Gruart walked the runways in Milan and Paris for more than a decade. But as her career waned and she felt her jet-set social life slipping away, she became engulfed in paranoia, romantic obsession, and an enthusiasm for Santeria. Then she disappeared. 10.23.2000 YENTA TAKES MANHATTAN If you're young, sexy, stylish, slim, and upwardly mobile (preferably Jewish too), boy, does Janis Spindel have the guy for you! 10.02.2000 BEST IN SHOE Stiletto king Manolo Blahnik, hitting Manhattan for just 24 hours, brings the city to heel. 07.31.2000 HAMPTONS 2000 / WEEKEND IN BRAND-HAMPTON Synergy Spa is "All about the A-list bonding with product," says its hostess. But where's the A-list? 05.01.2000 GRAMERCY'S GADFLY O. Aldon James Jr., the eccentric president of the National Arts Club, wants to convert Gramercy Park into a public Garden of Eden. But some neighbors think he's the snake. 03.06.2000 SILICON ALLEY 10003 (COVER) Long before the suits logged on, a small group of prep-school slackers had faith in the Web. Now they're the alley's establishment. 01.03.2000 BOY, INTERRUPTED Rob Bingham lived the fantasy life of a literary bad boy: a charismatic, arrogant, fabulously wealthy wildchild who died just before the publication of his much-anticipated first novel. 08.09.1999 WELCOME TO THE FUN HOUSE What happens when you cram 20-odd singles into a Hamptons hideaway and give each of them a queen-size bed? Less than you might think. 04.19.1999 REGINE'S LAST STAND Her empire of nineteen discos has dwindled to seven, and her New York club draws more of the gold-chain set than of the glitterati. But for the 69-year-old Queen of the Night, the party is far from over. 12.14.1998 A MODEL WORDSMITH His latest tale, Word, is a jazzy, ironic appreciation of writing, filmmaking, and chasing skirt. In two of those arts, at least, downtown novelist Coerte v. w. Felske seems more than passingly adept. 12.07.1998 WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE (COVER) Perky, pretty, and remarkably plugged-in, a pack of young publicists have become the darlings of New York's demimonde. But be careful -- they bite. 08.03.1998 HAMPTONS HEAT WAVE: THE POWER AND THE GLOSSY "Hamptons" magazine is an empire built on party pictures. But for publisher Randy Schindler, it's blood sport. |
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