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July 16, 2012

Cover Story

Eat Cheap 2012

Our Underground Gourmets have ferreted out the best dumplings, seasonal greens, and expensive-looking foods whose looks may just deceive.

Plus: A survey of pizzaiolo innovation; the pork-bun explosion; and Adam Platt’s ranking of the city’s truly dirt-cheap meals.

By Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld

On the Cover: Photograph byChristopher Griffith for New York Magazine. Food styling by Karen Evans.

Features

In Conversation: Spike Lee

The auteur of Brooklyn talks about his new movie, Red Hook Summer; what it was like meeting Mitt Romney; and why Malcolm X couldn’t get made today.

By Will Leitch
Reddit in the Flesh

With 35 million users each month, Reddit is perhaps the most influential community on the web, a hive of traffic-spiking opinion.

By Matthew Shaer
The Art of the Flame-Out

Yayoi Kusama came to New York in 1958 to be famous and ended up back in Japan in a mental hospital. Which did wonders for her career.

By Carl Swanson

Intelligencer

Culture

Columns

This Could Be Amazin’

For the Mets, 2012 was supposed to be a lost year. Now another miracle seems possible.

Agenda

Press to Play

City Bakery chef-owner Maury Rubin transforms the bakery’s small back counter into a juicing station.

Strategist

Departments