EDITORIALS

Enter Mr. Lhota; Safe City, USA; Capitol Hill's Hypocrites

COLUMNS

Eats of Eaten: People Get Ready for Mayfield
By Joshua David Stein

Shrinking Brain: A Sign of Personal Virtue
By Kevin Baker

Up and Down the Street: Future Stock
By Duff MacDonald

Shindigger: Come Out, Come Out!
By Emma Barker

FEATURES

Cue the Credits
A toast to the many unforgettable acts who took their final curtain calls this year
By Rex Reed

Grave Danger
9/11 families fight plan to put remains seven stories underground in flood zone A
By Emily Anne Epstein

Westward Whoa!
Manhattan makeover king Stephen Ross bringing his old razzle dazzle to the wild West Side
By Roland Li

A Very Vine Mess
Oenophile overlord Robert Parker has a short finish
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

THE TRANSOM

McSorley's as Muse
By Patrick Clark

Out of Time
By Patrick Clark

POLITICKER

Revisionist History in the NRA Gift Shop
By Hunter Walker

Quinn: Big Mouth on Campus
By Hunter Walker and Colin Campbell

Mr. Schatz Goes to Washington
By Hunter Walker

BETABEAT

TechStars Minus Tisch
By Nitasha Tiku

Fresh Starts
By Jessica Roy

MANHATTAN TRANSFERS

Holbrooke's Hole in One
By Kim Velsey

An Elle of Deal
By Kim Velsey

Where's the Beef?
By Kim Velsey

The Art of the Deal
By Kim Velsey

OFF THE RECORD

Ethicist Unchained
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

T Without Coffee
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

The Daily Undead
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

ART & CULTURE

The Meaning of All This
Talking to John Ashbery about his past past, present and future
By Michael H. Miller

Directionless
They're shaggy, good-natured and beloved by millions, but One Direction just can't dance
By Zachary Woolfe

Even Better Than (Some of) the Real Thing
Looking back on the Trocks' latest run at the Joyce
By Robert Gottlieb

The Eight-Day Week
By Betsy McAlpin

GALLERISTNY

Phillips, Sans Simon
By Sarah Douglas

ON VIEW

‘Nate Lowman: I Wanted to Be an Artist but All I Got Was This Lousy Career' at Brant Foundation Study Center, Greenwich, Conn.
By Andrew Russeth

'Société Anonyme: Modernism for America' at Yale University Art Gallert, New Haven, Conn.
By Andrew Russeth

'Trisha Baga: Plymouth Rock 2' at the Whitney Museum of American Art
By Andrew Russeth

'Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925' at The Museum of Modern Art
By Maika Pollack

'Christian Marclay: The Clock' at The Museum of Modern Art
By Maika Pollack