December 31, 2012 Issue
Cover Story
Where to Eat 2013
Adam Platt sizes up our current culinary scene, heralding the resurrection of the classic French feast, the bounty of terrific sandwiches, the explosion of Asian Hipster cuisine, and the year when Brooklyn finally lived up to the hype.
On the Cover: A plate from Alison Eighteen. Photograph by Victor Prado/New York Magazine.
Features
Listening to Beck
The boyish 42-year-old songwriter’s latest project isn’t an album or a music video, it’s a book of sheet music, Song Reader, that he hasn’t recorded. And he’s just as curious as his fans to hear how it will sound. By Dan P. Lee
Blues Cruise
A week after Mitt Romney’s defeat, a boatload of shell-shocked conservatives hopped aboard the National Review’s postelection Caribbean cruise to contemplate the wreckage—and go snorkeling with Ralph Reed. By Joe Hagan
The Black Orthodox
Two decades after the Crown Heights riots, what is it like to be both black and an Orthodox Jew? Here, a handful discuss negotiating righteousness and double-consciousness. Photographs by Wayne Lawrence. Text by Molly Langmuir.
Intelligencer
Try to Stay Calm
School-shooting specialist Bill Bond on why lockdowns save lives.
The 2 Percent Solution
Could big investors accomplish what Congress can't?
Crowdsmashed
No-go logos.
The Neighborhood News
Our roundup of news from around the city.
No Brown-Bagging on the Big Bird
Air Force One food bills add up.
97 Minutes With Grace Meng
Celebrating the festival of lights with New York’s first Asian-American congresswoman.
Strategist
Best Bets
Wire sparklers, glow-in-the-dark gifts, and more new stuff in stores.
The Look Book
“I came here to be an artist, but we Africans, our families don’t want us studying art. So I’m studying accounting.”
The Urban Suburban Basement
Slumber parties, Ping-Pong marathons, Seven Minutes in Heaven. The subterranean high jinks of your teenage years have migrated aboveground and into the city. Here’s how to take part as a grown-up.
Culture
The TV Review
Downton Abbey teaches an unlikely lesson in austerity.
Uncostumed Drama
The Downton Abbey cast on season three.
Downton Abridged
In anticipation of the show's season-three premiere, an episode-by-episode recap.
Quiet, Please
The panic about the New York Public Library’s renovation plan is overwrought.
The Movie Review
An escaped slave gets long, bloody revenge in Tarantino’s Django Unchained.
The Movie Review
Haneke’s Amour stares coldly into the face of human agony.
The Movie Review
David Chase’s Not Fade Away is a dream of the sixties.
The Movie Review
Jack Reacher already feels like it belongs to another era.
Beware the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!
New seasons of Girls and Justified should help us through a cold winter.
Is This Book Worth Getting?
A no-frills buyers’ guide to just-published books.
Agenda
Canal-Side Croissants
Runner & Stone aspires to be all things to all carb-cravers.
Departments
Comments: Week of December 31, 2012
Readers sound off on Reasons to Love New York 2012, General Petreaus, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of December 31, 2012
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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