December 19, 2011 Issue
Cover Story
Reasons to Love New York 2011
Seven years into our annual swoon, we’ve got 42 more reasons to be smitten, including a novelist who gets his own Times Square billboard;
a governor who shows that "career politician” isn’t a slur; four famous public toilets; a restaurant
that lets you pay what you want; a Washington Heights apartment
that doubles as a jazz club; a tabloid czar that is his own best story; a mother who took a bullet
for her child; and a couple that
got a chance to make it legal after 64
years.
On the Cover: Photograph
by Danny Kim/New York Magazine
Intelligencer
Livelihoods of the Poets
Poet Tomas Tranströmer is having a good two weeks.
Blitz!
How sports journalists learned to go for the hard tackle.
These Games Are So Much Work
Zynga’s American dream.
The Neighborhood News
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Playing With Mud
The hobbyist oppo researcher.
102 Minutes With Nicolas Berggruen
An uptown layover with the “homeless billionaire,” who has just a few plans for saving the world.
Columns
Circus Iowus
A playbill for the GOP’s midwestern gladiatorial showdown.
Strategist
New Stuff
A beach towel, a new barbershop, and more.
The Look Book
“I’m always in the market for a tree. I’m a sucker for the holidays.”
The Restaurant Review
The newly modernized Le Bernardin loses something (and one of our stars) in translation.
In Season
The earthy beet can get a bad rap—its distinctive taste seems to some, well, dirty.
The Greatest Thing Since …
It’s a crackly-crusted, open-crumbed, local-floured moment in dough.
Who Wouldn’t Want to Occupy It?
A more livable lower Manhattan is emerging.
Culture
Kim Wayans Makes It Out
The zany comic takes her first dramatic role, in Pariah.
The Theater Review
The Tao of Oak Bluffs, laid bare in Stick Fly.
The Movie Review
Tinker, Tailor is no relic.
The Devil and Brook Busey
With her new film Young Adult, Diablo Cody hopes to become grown-up famous.
Agenda
Selling Like Hot Cakes
The owner, a former Daniel pastry chef, bakes the tender, buttery madelines to order after 3 p.m.
Departments
Comments: Week of December 19, 2011
Readers sound off on Levi Aron, Bronx Science, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of December 19, 2011
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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