Greek Lightning
Grocer-turned-oilman John Catsimatidis spends millions to electrify long-shot candidacy
By Hunter Walker
EDITORIALS
Driving Home a Point; It’s the Economy, Silly; Bloomberg’s SOTC
COLUMNS
Shindigger: Snake Out
By Benjamin-Émile Le Hay
A New Yorker in China: Bucking Up
By Charlie Schroeder
The Bombshell: Trouble on Happiness Island
By Nina Burleigh
FEATURES
The Powder Broker
How dealing drugs taught Jay Morrison everything he needed to succeed in real estate
By Helaina Hovitz
Anand Jon and Me
How a naive teen from New Jersey was seduced by fashion’s rising-star rapist
By Jordan Michael Smith
The Broken Jukebox
The man behind New York’s best rock clubs battles to save his latest
By Drew Grant
The Old Man and the Secret
In a new memoir, GQ’s Michael Hainey takes on the mystery behind his father’s death
By Jordan Michael Smith
THE TRANSOM
Musto the Musical
By Drew Grant
A Return to Rock ’N’ Roll High School
By Drew Grant
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rain Forests
By Jane Gayduk
Game Night
By Nicola Pring
POLITICKER
Adolfo Carrión Is Running for Mayor, With or Without the GOP
By Ross Barkan
Senator Rubén Díaz and Gerson Borrero Don’t Like Each Other at All
By Hunter Walker
BETABEAT
Coco Does China
By Nitasha Tiku
Off Duty
By Patrick Clark
That’s So Startup
By Kelly Faircloth
MANHATTAN TRANSFERS
Billionaire Restaurateur Buys in Tribeca
By Kim Velsey
It’s No Graceland, but …
By Stephen Michael Smith
A Mystery on East 94th
By Kim Velsey
The Gold Coast of Gravesend
By Stephen Michael Smith
OFF THE RECORD
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Invasion of the Doppelgängers
By Jessica Roy
ART & CULTURE
Shine On
Anthony McCall spent decades making books for other artists’ shows
By Michael H. Miller
What Is an Art Star?
Big(-ticket) art is breeding big-time haters
By Anthony Haden-Guest
Cinderella and the Nance
For anyone Beane counting, the playwright has two shows lighting up the main stem this season
By Harry Haun
She’s Lost That Loving Feeling
Ruba Nadda turns to handsome pal Alexander Siddig to transition from affairs of the heart to those of the state
By Rex Reed
Low Tide
Josh Duhamel’s Julianne Hough and coastal Carolina are easy on the eyes, but lazy direction and elementary dialogue keep the sparks at bay
By Rex Reed
2013 in 2033
New York’s young art scene is more vibrant than ever
By Andrew Russeth
What Is Art Criticism Good For?
Yet another debate about the state of the genre
By Andrew Russeth
Stripped Bare by His Interviewer
Tuesdays With Marcel
By Dan Duray
Every Woman for Herself
Zosia Mamet is deviously captivating in Really Really
By Jesse Oxfeld
The Eight-Day Week
By Peter Davis
GALLERISTNY
New York Artists Now
By the Gallerist editors
ON VIEW
‘Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors’ at Luhring Augustine
By Andrew Russeth
Trevor Paglen at Metro Pictures Gallery
By Will Heinrich
‘Aaron Bobrow: Electric Bathing’ at Andrew Rosen Gallery
By Andrew Russeth
‘Doug Aitken: 100 YRS’ at 303 Gallery
By Will Heinrich
ON THE PAGE
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
By Carlene Bauer
How Literature Saved My Life, David Shields
By Dan Duray
Hopper: A Journey Into the American Dream, Tom Folsom
By Drew Grant
OBSERVER COMICS