Playboy January/February 2010

COVER STORY
Tara Reid as Bunny Lebowski for the Coen brothers. A year later American Pie made her 2000's It girl. But she went wild at the wrong time; during the celebrity-tabloid resurgence. The 2010 Tara, sexier than ever, posed for photographer Sheryl Nields, and our Rabbit can't help but make the link that Reid is playing a Bunny again.

FEATURES
48 THE SINGULARITY
It's 2010. Where are our hovercars and cybernetic immortality? We'll check with oeing on the cars, but in the meantime CARL ZIMMER charts the progress scientists nave made toward understanding intelligence, both human and artificial.
70 THE MAN WHO CONNED THE PENTAGON
Meet the guy who used 9/11 and Al Jazeera to scam millions from taxpayers.
By ARAM ROSTON
74 THE KATE MOSS EFFECT
WILL SELF reflects on the "rexy" dynamo.
84 A CUT ABOVE
Your barber misses you.
By STEVE GARBARINO
88 GIUSEPPE PETROSINO AND THE BLACK HAND
JAMES DALESSANDRO brings the original copsand-mobsters story to life.
110 CARS OF THE YEAR 2010
When the going gets tough, the auto industry gets going—fast. KEN GROSS picks the best rides.
116 FUTURE OF NEW YORK
Plague, holy war and exodus.
By LUC SANTE
132 CUBA LIBRE
Travel to Havana with AARON SIGMOND before the embargo lifts and fanny packers ruin the place.
136 OF LOVE AND MONEY
TONI BENTLEY ponders who's more powerful: the one on top or the one getting paid?
146 THE NEW MODERN ART
Michelangelo had the Sistine Chapel; Banksy has the boulevard.
By DAVE HICKEY
INTERVIEW
43 SEAN COMBS
Diddy opens up to JERMAINE HALL about success, porn and life after death.
20Q
122 GUY FIERI
DAVID HOCHMAN grills the food dude.
FICTION
58 ANIMAL RESCUE
Bob's got a face only a stray dog could love.
By DENNIS LEHANE
PICTORIALS
52 THE NOTORIOUS TARA REID
The American cutie pie is all grown and ready for her close-up.
62 THE YEAR IN SEX
Celeb twits, a stupid human trick and (we hope) the last of Jon and Kate.
78 PLAYING HARD TO GET
Video-game goddesses convert our pages into a true fantasyland.
92 PLAYMATE: JAIME FAITH EDMONDSON
The former cop, Dolphins cheerleader and Amazing Racer is Miss January.
104 PLAYMATE: HEATHER RAE YOUNG
Miss February makes us rethink our perception of "mountain woman."
124 WHY WE LOVE THE '60S
Swing back to everyone's favorite decade with our groovy homage.
153 PLAYMATE REVIEW
A look back at the fine 2009.
CARTOONS
82 KLIBAN'S WORLD
It's a sexy, freaky place.
FASHION
SCOTLAND YARD STYLE
DAVID BAILEY snaps stately Victorian threads worn by the likes of Sherloc Holmes; consider it the Houndstooth of the Baskervilles.
By JENNIFER RYAN JONES
NEWS AND NOTES
13 WORLD OF PLAYBOY
Benedikt Taschen stops by the Mansion to person- ally deliver the first set of Hugh Hefner's Playboy; the new Girls Next Door present at the Fox Reality Channel Really Awards; Heidi Montag helps launch the new Stander energy drink at PMW.
14 HANGIN' WITH HEF
The Man mingles with the Prince of Monaco; the Shannon twins celebrate their 20th birthday and their one-year anniversary of dating Hef.
192 PLAYMATE NEWS
Say hello to the Playboy Playmate Dancers; pollster Frank Luntz learns a thing or two from our Centerfolds; Pamela Anderson keeps the skies safe from fur.
DEPARTMENTS
7 PLAYBILL
15 DEAR PLAYBOY
19 AFTER HOURS
26 REVIEWS
35 MANTRACK
39 PLAYBOY ADVISOR
108 PARTY JOKES .
200 GRAPEVINE
THE PLAYBOY FORUM
195 DECODING THE VEIL
Before we encourage all Muslim women to burn the Burka, MALISE RUTHVEN suggests we examine the most powerful piece of clothing on the planet. To Westerners it symbolizes women's oppression. But have we asked Islamic women how they feel?