The Hebrew Hammer
How an Orthodox Jew is scamming the pants off NYC’s women
By Rafi Kohan
EDITORIALS
Flexible Flood Zones; None but the Brave; A Union Shill
COLUMNS
A New Yorker in Hong Kong: Squeezy Living
By Charlie Schroeder
Shindigger: Guildy Pleasure
By Benjamin-Émile Le Hay
The Bombshell: Women’s Wrongs
By Nina Burleigh
FEATURES
Fear of a Black Pundit
Ta-Nehisi Coates raises his voice in American media
By Jordan Michael Smith
Ain’t Too Proud to Keg
High five, dude! Here comes the sports-loving, beer-slamming gaybro army
By Myles Tanzer
Dance Dance Revolution
Grimy clubs rebuke Brooklyn’s kale-obsessed preciousness
By Billy Gray
THE TRANSOM
Brokers With Benefits
By Jordyn Taylor
The Book of Lena
By Rafi Kohan
Mouldlandia
By Ken Kurson
Tie One On
By Kim Velsey
POLITICKER
Bloomberg Doesn’t Like the Forbes Billionaires List
By Colin Campbell
Did Colorado Governor Take a Shot at Cuomo?
By Colin Campbell
Pete King: Rubio Has ‘Balls’ to Fund-Raise in New York
By Colin Campbell
BETABEAT
You Can’t Out-TED a TED Talk
By Nitasha Tiku
Snapchat Gets Its Own Winklevoss
By Jessica Roy
Nice to See You Again, Soraya
By Nitasha Tiku
Richard Branson Likes Working in Pajamas
By Kelly Faircloth
MANHATTAN TRANSFERS
A Nouvel Pad for Gallo
By Stephen Jacob Smith
Cut Glass: $60 M. for a Crystal Penthouse
By Stephen Jacob Smith
Reverse Psychology: Ellis Institute’s Daddy Issues
By Kim Velsey
Celebrity Chef Michael Symon Bounces From Balazs to Gramercy
By Stephen Jacob Smith
OFF THE RECORD
Ready to Mingle
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke and Drew Grant
Long Live the Written Word!
By Matthew Kassel
ART & CULTURE
No Fury
The Bowery’s changed, but Richard Hell doesn’t mind
By Nate Freeman
Explorers’ Club
Mark Dion has turned globe-trotting natural science into an art form
By Andrew Russeth
With Updates, Opera Rolls the Dice
Sin City would have been a fine setting for Rigoletto, if Rigoletto had showed up
By Zachary Woolfe
Game of Thrones
An American warlord grapples with a society’s reluctant emergence from imperial rule
By Rex Reed
Surrogate Saint
Mother’s ill-advised trip for a quick buck takes a harrowing detour on road to redemption
By Rex Reed
Gaiety! Glory! Glamour!
Oz’s countless computer-generated bells and whistles don’t quite capture the magic of the MGM classic—but this experience evokes memories of the golden age
By Rex Reed
Odd Couples
Led by Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson, WWII-era love story Talley’s Folly is a triumph
By Jesse Oxfeld
The Eight-Day Week
By Peter Davis
GALLERISTNY
Young & Caramel-y
By Dan Duray
Holy Flashback, Batman!
By Dan Duray
Art Dealers at 50
By Sarah Douglas
ON VIEW
‘Decenter’ at Abrons Art Center
By Will Heinrich
‘Allyson Vieira: Cortège’ at Laurel Gitlen Gallery
By Will Heinrich
Alan Uglow at David Zwirner Gallery
By Will Heinrich
‘Yashua Klos: We Come Undone’ at Tilton Gallery
By Andrew Russeth
‘Korakrit Arunanondchai: Painting With History in a Room Filled With Men With Funny Names’ at Clearing
By Andrew Russeth
‘Precision and Splendor: Clocks and Watches at The Frick Collection’
By Sarah Douglas
ON THE PAGE
A Map of Tulsa, Benjamin Lytal
By Dan Duray
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, Kristopher Jansma
By Sarah Douglas
OBSERVER COMICS
