Come Hell and High Water
Storm-battered city reels, then shrugs off disaster
By Aaron Gell
EDITORIALS
Crisis Managers; The New Jews?; Saying Thanks
COLUMNS
The Bombshell: ‘Ice’ Storm
By Nina Burleigh
Shrinking Brain: A Bad Man Is Easy To Find
By Kevin Baker
Up and Down the Street: The Humbling of Rajat Gupta
By Duff McDonald
Shindigger: Clip-Clop, Clippity-Clop
By Charlotte Lytton
FEATURES
Riding Out the Storm
From hibernation to evacuation, how New Yorkers spent the hurricane
By Observer Staff
On the Waterfront, There’s No Place Like Home
Bloomberg bristles as his waterfront development boom gets rained on
By Matt Chaban
Robbing Ryan to Pay Romney
Are the Ryan campaigns playing musical hotel rooms?
By Hunter Walker
The Toxic Avenger
Officials insist Gowanus Canal flooding is no cause for concern
By Hunter Walker
Stalking Sandy With Dr. Doom
The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore reaps the whirlwind
By Drew Grant
Escape to New York
As Sandy approached, some Manhattanites fled country homes for city sanctuaries
By Kim Velsey
THE TRANSOM
The Day After
By Colin Campbell
Rain or Shine
By Matt Chaban
In the Heights
By Kim Velsey
Make It Rain!
By Patrick Clark
BETABEAT
No Friend of Facebook
By Kelly Faircloth, Nitasha Tiku & Steve Huff
Sandy, Startup Style
By Jessica Roy
MANHATTAN TRANSFERS
Star Broker Ditches Loft
By Kim Velsey
No Laughing Matter
By Kim Velsey
One Bold Ask Inspires Another
By Kim Velsey
OFF THE RECORD
October Surprise
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
‘In the Papers,’ Sans Papers
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
The Fail Gale
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
ART & CULTURE
The Novel as Performance Art
The Constructed Realities of Chris Kraus, the Art World’s Favorite Fiction Writer
By Michael H. Miller
From Me to You
John Lennon’s letters show a thoughtful writer and a real curmudgeon
By John McMillian
Origin Stories
‘Materializing “Six Years”: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art’ and ‘Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe’ at the Brooklyn Museum; ‘Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos’ and ‘Judith Berstein: HARD’ at the New Museum
By Maika Pollack
Mise en Abyme
Robert Lepage’s concept production of Thomas Adès’s Tempest at the Met disappoints
By Zachary Woolfe
Cruise Control
With a constant Denzel Washington and a reawakened Robert Zemeckis in the cockpit, Flight takes off and soars at full throttle
By Rex Reed
Water Shock
‘Eco-apocalyptic nail-biter’ takes tired found-footage horror concept to new depths
By Rex Reed
High-Strung
Performances are worthy of standing ovation, but story tends to play a little sharp
By Rex Reed
Flickers of Inspiration
The high-wattage narrative of Indo-Guyanese immigration overpowers writer-director Shundell Prasad’s transition from documentary to features
By Rex Reed
Hard Breaking News or Political Smut?
It’s both!
By Ray LeMoine
Read All Over
At Sikkema Jenkins, Mark Bradford’s medium is the message; at Salon 94 Bowery, Jules de Balincourt is out at sea
By Andrew Russeth
Family Matters
Bad Jews is a sharp, succinct group portrait
By Jesse Oxfeld
The Eight-Day Week
By Daniel D’Addario
GALLERISTNY
Mr. Smith Goes to Manhattan
By Dan Duray
A Penetrating Discussion
By Andrew Russeth
