The ‘Hipsturbia’ Myth
Times reports smug urbanites bailing for bigger houses and better schools, but exactly what is new here?
By Kim Velsey
EDITORIALS
Quinn Hangs Tough; Bashing Israel Again (This Time for … Tolerance); Gov. Cuomo Should Fill the Vacancy at MTA
COLUMNS
Up & Down the Street: Leaders Who Follow
By Duff McDonald
Shindigger: Tusk, Tusk
By Benjamin-Émile Le Hay
FEATURES
Don’t Call Me Groupie
Girls fetishists fight for space in an ever-expanding Lenaverse
By Ramona Emerson
Purim Miracle
New York pols give Dov Hikind a pass on blackface gaffe
By Hunter Walker
The Mayflower Marketer
Ex-madam Sydney Biddle Barrows is up to new tricks as a high-end customer service coach
By Charlotte Hays
THE TRANSOM
Let the Grown-Ups Talk
By Stephen Jacob Smith
Bikram Yoga’s Arab Spring
By Emily Anne Epstein
About a Boy
By Drew Grant
Oscar Party Hop
By Matthew Kassel
POLITICKER
Conservative Democrat Runs for Mayor and Forges an Odd Coalition
By Hunter Walker and Colin Campbell
Mayor Bloomberg Wishes the Press Would Let Obama Golf in Peace
By Ross Barkan
Brothers From Sicilian Mothers
By Hunter Walker and Colin Campbell
BETABEAT
The Increasingly Insufferable Fakery of Brands on Reddit
By Ryan Holliday
MANHATTAN TRANSFERS
Jenga! 56 Leonard Hits the Market
By Stephen Jacob Smith
Price Hike for Prewar Park Avenue Condos
By Stephen Jacob Smith
Girls Guy Tim Ives Wants to Cash Out of Cobble Hill
By Stephen Jacob Smith
OFF THE RECORD
Anderson Cooper Goes to Bat for Producer’s Book
By Matthew Kassel
Founding Dean of CUNY J-School Steps Down
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
And the Apology Goes to …
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
THE FEED
The Comfort Cut
By Joshua David Stein
ART & CULTURE
Let There Be Light
Judith Light Is on a Three-Year Broadway Winning Streak
By Harry Haun
How Literature Saved My Psyche
A therapy session with books at the Center for Fiction
By Michael Miller
Lost at Sea
This sinking ship of a script doesn’t blip on the radar
By Rex Reed
My Crazy Uncle
Korean filmmaker’s deranged gothic overtones stoke this critic’s sicker side
By Rex Reed
Is This Real Life?
Fictional Account of true heartache draws on raw emotion, but touching moments are overshadowed by navel-gazing direction
By Rex Reed
Get Yourself Free
The Madrid is an affecting, ambiguous tale of abandonment; The Dance and the Railroad deals with the limits of freedom
By Jesse Oxfeld
The Eight-Day Week
By Peter Davis
GALLERISTNY
Oslo on the Hudson
By Andrew Russeth
Do It Again
By Dan Duray
Documenting Documenta
By Andrew Russeth
ON VIEW
‘Gutai: Splendid Playground’ at the Guggenheim Museum
By Maika Pollack
‘Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By Maika Pollack
‘Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks’ at Roth
By Andrew Russeth
‘Alsoudani, Bacon, Guston, Rego’ at Marlborough Chelsea
By Andrew Russeth
ON THE PAGE
The Letters of William Gaddis, edited by Steven Moore
By Justin Taylor
Contagion: Why Things Catch On, Jonah Berger
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Mary Coin, Marisa Silver
By Zoë Lescaze
OBSERVER COMICS
