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