January 3, 2011 Issue
Cover Story
Where to Eat 2011
Adam Platt’s gastronomical map of the city as it enters the New Year, with highlights including the rebirth of the tasting menu, a return to down-home Italian, and the best in predinner tipples and postmeal indulgences.
On the Cover: Má Pêche’s Juliet cut steak. Photograph by Danny Kim/New York Magazine.
Features
Peretz in Exile
For decades, Martin Peretz taught at Harvard and presided over The New Republic—a fierce, if controversial, lion among American intellectuals and Zionists. Now, having been labeled a bigot, taunted at his alma mater, and stripped of his magazine, he has found peace in a place where there is little: Israel.
The Columbia Kid
How do you get through college these days? You and four friends, police say, deal pot, coke, Adderall, ecstasy, and LSD. Until you make a few boneheaded mistakes.
The Trouble With Liberty
Libertarians, of both left and right, haven’t been this close to power since 1776. But do we want to live in their world?
Intelligencer
Boehner’s Tears: A Typology
So incoming House speaker John Boehner, as you may have noticed, is a crier.
NASCAR for Gleeks
How Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has succeeded at creating a new kind of New York entertainment.
The Insecurity Advantage
It makes you better at dating, says new research.
The Neighborhood News
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Bloomberg’s Blind Spot
Technocrat mayor overstocks laboratory of ideas.
182 Minutes With Liz Phair
The smart-girl hero says she’s finally made peace with her “so blue collar” career.
Strategist
Best Bets
An urbanite's desert fantasy, where to custom-decorate your Chucks, and more.
The Look Book
"When I go out in a tux, I’m ready to make mistakes."
The Song Remains the Same. The Apartment Does Not.
A decade ago John Legend shared an East Village walk-up with two college buddies. Things have changed.
Thin Isn’t In
The slender townhouse falls out of fashion.
Culture
Daryl Hall
The lighter half of Hall & Oates was never cool, exactly. And now, once again, he’s hot.
An Architectural Plan
What to do with the Whitney’s building after its art moves downtown.
The Movie Review
It’s the dense, high-wire performances of Williams and Gosling that power Blue Valentine.
A Final Flurry From the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!
Here’s what happens at the end of the year.
Still Booming
Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes might be 82, but he knows what emo means.
Departments
Comments: Week of January 3, 2011
Readers sound off on the many reasons to love New York, our city's pork craze, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of January 3, 2011
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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