ON THE COVER
Big Rich Marin’s Wild Ride
Staten Island ferris wheel brings it full circle for banker-turned-carnival barker
By Matt Chaban
EDITORIALS
Profile in Courage; Quit Horsing Around; and A Red-Ink Warning System
COLUMNS
Shrinking Brain: How to Steal a City
By Kevin Baker
The Bombshell: Sh*t My Mom Says
By Nina Burleigh
Shindigger: Global a Go-Go
By Benjamin-Émile Le Hay
FEATURES
The Crispy Crimes of Guy Fieri
Frosty-haired flag-waver foists foul, fattening fare
By Joshua David Stein
The Lapdog of Luxury
High-emd puppy palaces offer every amenity but an owner’s affection
By Kim Velsey
Life Got You Down? Say Uncle!
Bungalow 8’s esteemed DJ Uncle Mike just keeps on spinning
By George Gurley
Teenage Fan Club
It’s a comic, it’s a Tumblr craze, it’s a $2 M. Kickstarter windfall
By Kelly Faircloth
THE TRANSOM
Do You Know the Moustache Man?
By Dan Duray
Crossing Over
By Kim Velsey
He’s Back
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke and Hunter Walker
Mo Monkey, Mo Problems
By Drew Grant
BETABEAT
Outlook Hazy
By Kelly Faircloth
Parallel Universe of Porn
By Nitasha Tiku
Map-Maker, Map-Maker, Make Me a Map!
By Nitasha Tiku
MANHATTAN TRANSFERS
Shipman Manse Sets $48 M. Sale
By Kim Velsey
740 Park Strikes Gold, Man
By Kim Velsey
Park Slope’s End Zone
By Kim Velsey
Property Rights
By Kim Velsey
OFF THE RECORD
NYT Everywhere
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Return of the Empty Chair
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Rocky Mountain Bye
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
(Very) Temporary Changes at Condé Nast
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Inside.com Back in Play
By Jim Hanas
ART & CULTURE
You Say You Want a Revolution
Don’t look for it in L’Elisir d’Amore
By Zachary Woolfe
And the Very Rich Are Very Different
In Plutocrats, Chrystia Freeland introduces us to the new global elite
By Patrick Clark
Thirty-Five Years Young
Despite a hard-knock life, Annie’s hardly showing her age
By Harry Haun
A Beautiful Nightmare
Infamous for its brutally honest take on the Australian Outback, restored Kotcheff classic shakes us awake
By Rex Reed
From Concentrate
Julian Farino’s saturated direction weighs down disastrously dense story
By Rex Reed
Spread Thin
Jason Micallef’s script is blue-ribbon worthy, but Jim Field’s overcooked Butter is a mess
By Rex Reed
Swampwater
The Paperboy is a long way off his route in this sunburnt adaptation
By Rex Reed
Gone Underground
In a new memoir, Salman Rushdie looks back at his fatwa
By James Camp
Transformers
Ambitious installations are altering the reality of New York’s galleries
By Andrew Russeth
Sea Spume, Magic Hands and Miniature Worlds
Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher, ‘Trailer’ at Derek Eller Gallery; Michael Bell-Smith, ‘mbs_fp_090712’ at Foxy Production; Louise Fishman at Cheim & Read
By Will Heinrich
Brothers (Up) in Arms
A trim, healthy Enemy of the People is a strong candidate this election season
By Rex Reed
Daily Housework
David Levine makes acting a chore
By Michael H. Miller
The Eight-Day Week
By Daniel D’Addario
GALLERISTNY
Canvassing Mitt
By Dan Duray
Coast to Coast
By Andrew Russeth
Metspace
By Andrew Russeth
