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In honor of TONY’s anniversary, our editors picked their favorite articles from the last thirteen years. Doing so got us in the mood to dig for more great features from the past so, we’re rolling up our sleeves and building up our archives. And we need your help. We hereby kick off this effort with these staff picks below, but we want to hear your choices for what you loved in print and would like to see online. Just leave us a comment below and we’ll be trawling on a regular basis for recommendations.
1. TONYPD
Our in-house copper Laura Leu is patrolling the streets and enforcing TONY law on our city's most annoying citizens.
2. Why the hipster must die
These trendy pantywaists have been clogging the city's cultural plumbing for too long. So why are they still here? We present a modest proposal to save New York cool.
3. The Wooster Group: An Oral History
As the Wooster Group turns 30, its surviving founders (and some of their peers) relive the saga of the provocative company that's still revolutionizing New York theater.
4. Chain reaction
Every night, out-of-towners face a daunting decision: Where to eat? Trolling for tourists outside franchise joints, TONY treats some unsuspecting visitors to an authentic New York meal.
5. The sorrow and the city
A writer looks south for the World Trade Center.
6. What a drag!
We took at top-to-bottom trek along Broadway and found our city's spine is much more than theater and lights.
7. Tiny town
Our pint-size writer proves that short people have at least one reason to live: 12-and-under discounts!
8. Model citizen
When a reporter donates his mug to six sketch artists in Central Park, they reveal more sides of his personality than he ever never knew existed.
9. Life in the fat lane"
Hoping to discover just what "too much of a good thing" really means, three gluttonous guys embark on an all-night foie gras marathon.
10. Santa Claus
St. Nick keeps his cool despite soggy kids, crumbly cookies and our naughty reporter.
11. Breakin' the law with Andy Dick
In four and a half hours, NewsRadio's Andy Dick flouts 16 laws. And nobody seems to care.
12. What's your fantasy
We asked New Yorkers to live out theirs and recorded the results, charting every fear, tear and squirting orgasm.
13. Real sex
Guest editor John Cameron Mitchell bares his inspirations for making the skin-filled film Shortbus—and sets out to explore what truly goes on in the city’s bedrooms.
Are you a real New Yorker?
(2007 update of the 2003 quiz)
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