Out August 2010

8 CONTRIBUTORS & INFLUENCES
10 LETTERS
12 BY THE NUMBERS
FOREGROUND
15 VAMPIRE DIARIES
As True Blood's latest addition, veteran bad boy Kevin Alejandro shows his good side
17 HOMO PLUS
Touring Toronto with musician Owen Pallett
18 LIVE THE LIFE
Sharp style and a short temper: tennis great John McEnroe
22 IN LIVING COLOR
Electric-hued wallets to lighten the mood. Plus: new Coach men's essentials
25 KITCHEN 411
Tasty revelations from the tapas Bible
26 FITNESS
Summer sport Rx: mesh and SPF
28 IMMERSION STUDIES
Take the plunge with a waterproof watch.
30 LIQUIDITY
Drinking Miss Daisy
32 DESTINATION
Fratty Philly discovers its cocktail side. Plus, a decadent dip into luxury ice cream
36 KIDS TODAY
Lisa Cholodenko's lesbian mom drama, The Kids Are All Right, takes a fresh look
at family.
SYMPOSIUM
Dispatches from the front lines of contemporary culture
39 A HITCH IN TIME
Christopher Hitchens's new memoir is rife with schoolboy love. So what?
41 THE BEAT GOES ON
What's left of Allen Ginsberg's East Village?
42 FUNNY GIRL
Inside Barbra Streisand's weird and wonderful world
43 GETTING THERE
Christopher Bram pays tribute to John Donovan's enduring young adult classic.
FEATURES
45 BODY BUILDING
The anatomy of growing old gracefully
BY JOSHUA DAVID STEIN
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOSHUA SCOTT
48 NO REFUGE
France's most transgressive director, François Ozon, has nothing to hide.
BY MICHAEL MARTIN
PHOTOGRAPHY BY STÉPHANE GALLOIS
54 THE OTHER LUCAS
How a nice Jewish boy from Moscow built a New York City gay porn empire
BY RICHARD MORGAN
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDY RYAN
58 BACK TO BERLIN
A strasse-by-strasse guide to writer Christopher Isherwood's most beloved city.
BY AARON HICKLIN
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANNA ROSE HANKOW
62 KYLIE'S CROSSING
Ms. Minogue's long-overdue arrival in the U.S. proves once again there's more to her than "The Loco-Motion."
BY NOAH MICHELSON
PHOTOGRAPHY BY XEVI MUNTANÉ
FASHION
70 LOVING LAS VEGAS
Say "I do" to summer fashion.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATTHIAS VRIENS-MCGRATH
DEPARTMENTS
83 SURVEILLANCE
Our guide to the finer things in life: Urban Archaeology's Wharf light, Hirst's foray into furniture, and the season's coolest camera
86 SCENE
87 STORE INFO
88 MODEL CITIZEN
Edward Lemonier, looking fine