Opening Shot: Long Days, Dark Knights

ON THE COVER

THE HOSPITALITY HONCHO
How Hotel Trades CouncIl Boss Peter Ward Became the city’s most powerful labor leader
By David Freedlander

EDITORIALS

Reinventing Midtown; Bain’s Fair Game; and Life In the Slow Lane

COLUMNS

Shindigger: Eastern Promises
By Sarah Grothjan

Thorns With Occasional Roses: A Failure of Cynicism
By Shalom Auslander

Culture Shock: Too Big to Care
By Chris Lehmann

FEATURES

The Mysterious Disappearance of Peter Winston
How does one of the world’s top chess prodigies just vanIsh from a New York street?
By Sarah Weinman

Chelsea Marketing
Is huge expansion plan perfect fit for Industrial complex?
By Matt Chaban

Pay it as it Lays
In the 50 Shades era, male escort servies are on the rise
By Rachel R. White

ART & CULTURE

Spot On
Between Louis Vuitton and the internet, YaYoi Kusama is everywhere
By Maika Pollock

Welcome to the Machine
Mobile sculptures and mind-BLowing op take over the New Museum
By Andrew Russeth

Really Advanced Art
Claire Bishop examines the towering inferno of spectatorship
By Alexander Provan

Overcoming All Odds
BeLow the Long-settLed stardust of studio 54, the courageous Ben Vereen inspires with time-tested triButes
By Rex Reed

Sexually Transmitted Disaster
Feature virgin Alexis Lloyd gets lost in the sheets and leaves the audience blue
By Rex Reed

Batman Goes Sploosh!
The Dark Knight socks us in the gut as we hunch over in pain—and we yearn for the caped crusader of yore
By Rex Reed

Egypt: Fashion Victim?
Met takes soMe Egyptian objects off display, to protect them from Costume Institute construction
By Laura Gilbert

Women on the Big Screen
Elad Lassry takes on the High Line billboard
By Rozalia Jovanovic

How Sweet It Is
Meet the Man behind dessert art
By Andrew Russeth

Puppy Love
Amidst cruelty of youthful Antics And tired war, two misfits find comfort in shared embrace
By Rex Reed

The Eight-Day Week
By Daniel D’Addario