A Silver Anniversary
Looking Back, Moving Forward
By Ken Kurson
My Love Affair With The New York Observer
By George Gurley
EDITORIALS
COLUMNS
Up & Down the Street: News You Can Lose
By Duff McDonald
Shindigger: Toto Recall
By Benjamin-Émile Le Hay
FEATURES
The Pied Pipers of Production
For its next trick, Alloy Digital will corner the online youth market
By Kelly Faircloth
The Quick and the Dead
How our anti-gun mayor moved so fast after Newtown
By Hunter Walker
Tweeding Frenzy
Spats off as longtime dandies decry shrunken-suited newcomers in retro style standoff
By Ben Widdicombe
THE TRANSOM
Comedy’s New Cellar
By Anna Silman
A Fishy Fete
By Jordyn Taylor
Sex by Southwest
By Nitasha Tiku
Marie’s Identity Crisis
By Drew Grant
MANHATTAN TRANSFERS
French Model Unloads Church Condo to Combo-Seeking Couple
By Stephen Jacob Smith
No More Witnesses
By Stephen Jacob Smith
Four Million Little Pieces
By Stephen Jacob Smith
Woman Who Brought You Creed Cashes Out on Park Avenue Penthouse
By Stephen Jacob Smith
THE FEED
The Swedish Are Coming!
At Aska, it’s a Nordisk Mad, mad, mad, mad world
By Joshua David Stein
ART & CULTURE
Beautiful Losers
Sam Lipsyte’s literature of lowered expectations
By Michael H. Miller
The Kids Aren’t Alright
Harmony Korine hits a pop-culture vein with Spring Breakers
By Drew Grant
Taylor Made
It’s about time audiences turned out in droves for Paul Taylor
By Robert Gottlieb
Inside Out
A confusing premise, but the intoxicating love story keeps its bearing and guides the loose narrative
By Rex Reed
La Vida So-What?
Viggo Mortensen more than plays his part, but his (dual) role can’t hold an anticlimactic Plan together
By Rex Reed
An Affair, Off-Center
A mess of one-dimensional double lives and flat ulterior motives
By Rex Reed
The Id Stays in the Picture
Rita Ackerman has gone abstract, but hasn’t lost her edge
By Andrew Russethd
Disorientation? There’s an App for That
Jon Kessler’s latest exhibition takes on Apple
By Dan Duray
By Their Bootstraps
Holland Taylor steps up to the podium and delivers a powerful performance as Ann Richards
By Rex Reed
The Eight-Day Week
By Peter Davis
GALLERISTNY
Voice Over
By Andrew Russeth
Norse Clods
By Dan Duray
An Art Fair Booth in the Nude
By Michael H. Miller
ON VIEW
‘Vivienne Griffin: The Me Song for Now Here’ at Bureau
By Will Heinrich
Jim Dine at Pace Gallery
By Will Heinrich
‘Al Held: Alphabet Paintings’ at Cheim & Read
By Will Heinrich
‘Piero della Francesca in America’ at The Frick Collection
By Maika Pollack
‘Blues for Smoke’ at the Whitney Museum
By Maika Pollack
ON THE PAGE
A Thousand Pardons, Jonathan Dee
By Molly Fischer
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Mohsin Hamid
By Mostafa Heddaya
Jacob’s Folly, Rebecca Miller
By Michael H. Miller
OBSERVER COMICS
