In the December 24, 2012 Issue …

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Deconstructing Larry
Is the enamel starting to chip for the world's most powerful art dealer?
By Aaron Gell

EDITORIALS

Bloomberg's New Role: Stopping the Madness

COLUMNS

The Bombshell: Appoint a Gun Czar Now, Mr. Obama
By Nina Burleigh

Shrinking Brain: Loaded Questions
By Kevin Baker

Shindigger: Affair at the Pierre
By Benjamin-Émile Le Hay

FEATURES

Big Balls Are Back
Good news for New York charities: Grander parties, fatter checks and happy fund-raisers
By Kim Velsey

You Don't Know Jack
Brit actor Sam Riley on playing Kerouac in On the Road: 'It's mad to me'
By Kelly Faircloth

Parks & Wreck
A furious Durst bails out of Hudson River fix-up
By Matt Chaban

THE TRANSOM

Cruise Control
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Beat the Clock
By Kim Velsey

BETABEAT

Hackers Take Aim at Westboro Baptist
By Jessica Roy

Uber's Back, Baby
By Nitasha Tiku

MANHATTAN TRANSFERS

That's Capital
By Kim Velsey

A Deal Deferred
By Kim Velsey

OFF THE RECORD

Fool Me Twice
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

ART & CULTURE

Cartoon Blues
The life of The New Yorker’s favorite depressive cartoonist is drawn out in new bio
By James Camp

Wake Me When It's 2013
The year in boks
By Michael H. Miller

Bagging bin Laden
SEAL team snoozefest sits on its real-life laurels, crashes and burns
By Rex Reed

Reacher Feature
Based on books about a brazen behemoth, Jack shrinks to fit the silver screen
By Rex Reed

The Chain Gang
Tarantino offensive, bloody mess is no history lesson, but so what?
By Rex Reed

Road Trip to Nowhere
Bizarre billing aside, mother-son flick stalls out before ever hitting the road
By Rex Reed

The More Things Change ...
Robert Battle's sophomore-year tweaks at Ailey don't do the trick
By Robert Gottlieb

Things Fall Apart
Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan and Melissa James Gibson's What Rhymes With America are superb, moving
By Jesse Oxfeld

The Eight-Day Week
By Daniel D'Addario

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