corrections 11/22/05 11:17 AM Page 117 corrections 11/30/05 12:14 PM Page 3 38 106 75 TIDBITS JOURNALISM The Meth Mess Idiotic Inventive Crimes 8 Grace Carter 38 Mark Peters Must-Have Tech Gadgets 2005 8 Agha Khan TABLET: Fiction Recording in a Free World Phantom of Havana: 10 Paul Rouse 50 The Forgotten Legend of C.J. Fuentes El Rushbo, Gentle Arbiter Chris Wilson 12 Michael Serazio Flight 117, Tampa to Providence Insomnia Corner 55 Jennifer Farmer 15 Moisture Therapy Docents Against Darwin 59 Krista Jarmas 16 R.M Schneiderman ON THE FENCE TOCFrom the Left THE CCM INTERVIEW Sen. John McCain on 60 Dmitry Tuchinsky 18 Young Pros in 2006 65 From the Right Igor Finkel and Jonathon Scott Feit Ben Barron First Person SATIRE 70 Jill Dudones 21 A Good Day for John Bolton Seth Reiss 75 THE “F” WORD APHRODISIA CCM INVESTIGATES On Camping and Childbirth The NYC Security Paradox 23 Jen Karetnick 82 Team Coverage TRAVEL LOCAL FLAVOR: Anecdote Bluffed by Bali Adventures in Designer 26 Nicholas Gill 88 Handbag Shopping Amanda Joyce GLOBAL FOCUS Murder in Mongolia ARCHITECTURE 32 Claudia B. Flisi In Pursuit of Luxury issue92 Molly Klais #6 corrections 11/22/05 11:14 AM Page 4 124 102 92 MAGAZINES CONTRIBUTORS New York’s Arbiter of Cool JEN KARETNICK is a Miami-based freelance writer 99 Jonathon Scott Feit and poet. She works as the features editor for Wine 102 THE 6*4*6 News, the Miami stringer for Gayot.com and the restaurant critic for So.Florida Magazine, Las Olas LINES AND LISTS Magazine and Lincoln Road Magazine. Her poetry has ’s Band of 2005: Citizen Culture appeared in North American Review, River Styx, The 106 Garin Pirnia The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Greensboro Review, The Nebraska Review and others. 106 Best and Worst Albums of 2005 Jack DeVoss CHRIS WILSON is a writer and freelance journalist in Washington, DC. Phantom of Havana is one of a series CONCERTS White Stripes at Keyspan Park, of stories in a novel Wilson has been working on for 109 Coney Island several years. He is also working on a screenplay Andrew Battle adaption of his short story The Dry Season, which was The Top Ten Films of 2005 nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2003. He is a 111 Jeff Sneider graduate of the University of Virginia. BOOKS 112 Year of the Doomsday Book MARK PETERS is a writer, juggler, and teacher from Amy O’Loughlin Chicago. His writing has appeared in Mental Floss, Other, FILM Punk Planet, and Verbatim: The Language Quarterly. Chameleon Christian Bale 118 Amanda Feuerman with John Black Based in Italy, bicultural CLAUDIA FLISI writes for mainstream media such as Newsweek and corporate RESTAURANTS clients both Italian and international. She has a bonsai How to Earn a Promotion Over Lunch 122 Jonathon Scott Feit Doberman who will never go to Mongolia. 123 Restaurants: Editor’s Picks NICHOLAS GILL, 25, is a Columbus-based freelance PORTFOLIO writer, although for much of the past few years he has Waves of Mercy been everywhere but. He is the author of Peru Adventure 124 Scott Harrison Guide (Hunter Publishing, Summer 2006). corrections 11/22/05 11:14 AM Page 5 [email protected] Read your mission statement re: “free flow of ideas— Please feel free to reject me again in the future. As no matter how controversial.” Your lead item on Bill you choose to disregard all thought not posed to you Maher on the cover [Issue #5, May 2005] begged to by pre-approved pontificators, I encourage you to be picked up and read. 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