August 29, 2011 Issue
Cover Story
Fall Preview 2011
Movies: Brad Pitt learns statistics; Almodóvar and Banderas get creepy.
Pop: Blondie is
back, as platinum as ever; Das Racist dances into maturity.
Theater: Samuel L. Jackson, Hollywood badass, on Broadway.
Television: Prime time becomes ladies’ night; James Van
Der Beek, TV ironist.
Books: Péter Nádas turns modern Hungarian history into epic
literature; a hot first novel.
Art: De Kooning remembered.
Classical & Dance: Alan
Pierson plans a Brooklyn Philharmonic revival.
Food: The Feast of San Gennaro goes
gourmet.
Stores: Selling gadgets to urbanites who long for the great outdoors.
Nightlife: Where to boogie, imbibe, and bribe the doorman for the next three months.
Plus: A cultural calendar to fill every hour from September through November.
On the Cover: Photograph by Nadav Kander for New York Magazine.
Features
Swamp Dreams
In the heart of the Meadowlands, rising from a marsh steeped in centuries of botched schemes, is what promises to be the largest mall in the world. But mall doesn’t describe the half of it. By Robert Sullivan
The Placenta Cookbook
For a growing number of new mothers, there’s no better nutritional snack after childbirth than the fruit of their own labor. By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Intelligencer
Big-Box Logrolling
Looking to quell opposition to its plan to put a store in East New York, Wal-Mart has been pulling out the stops.
Talk + Walk
Why the Rex Ryan show keeps getting renewed.
Size Once Mattered
Width, height, and class.
The Neighborhood News
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Runaway Trucks
The gourmet street vendor is killed and reborn.
Columns
Perry’s GOP Shock Treatment
Five ways the Texas governor’s entrance is jolting the Republican race.
Strategist
Manhattan State Park
Two adventure-gear retailers stake competing claims for the local “urbaneer” market.
The Mamma of All Pop-Ups
The Feast of San Gennaro gets a gourmet upgrade.
Dawn Patrol
A three-month late-night parade through bunker lounges, dance fortresses, and gin joints inside coffee shops.
Culture
Brad’s Pitch
Why an A-list actor was willing to go to bat for Moneyball—an adventure story about sabermetrics.
Blondie, Unbowed
The leader of the cranked-up fun machine is now 66, blonde again, and glad to still be cranking it up.
Tell It on the Mountain
Samuel L. Jackson, action-hero badass and child of the segregated South, plays Martin Luther King Jr. on Broadway.
Up Van Der Beek’s Creek
The ex-Dawson exorcises the douchey version of himself—as “James Van Der Beek.”
The Man in the High Castle
Parallel Stories is being called a 21st-century War and Peace. Péter Nádas would settle for The Magic Mountain.
Why de Kooning Matters
On the eve of the AbEx master’s retrospective, his biographer (and our former critic) Mark Stevens chats with Jerry Saltz.
Brownstone Accelerando
The 154-year-old Brooklyn Philharmonic has no home, no subscribers, and an iffy budget. But it also has Alan Pierson.
Your 2011 Day Planner
New York is never so alive as it is in the fall.
Agenda
Let Them Eat Cookies
A branch of the Parisian pastry shop Maison Ladurée opens on Madison Avenue.
Departments
Comments: Week of August 29, 2011
Readers sound off on Andrej Pejic, Jenna Lyons, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of August 29, 2011
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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