December 10, 2012 Issue
Cover Story
The Year in Culture 2012
Our critics reckon with the most gripping, unexpected, head-scratching, and lovely moments
in the arts over the past twelve months, then unveil their top-ten lists in Movies,
Television, Music, Theater, Books, and Channing Tatum, Carly Rae Jepsen, and the other standouts of 2012.
On the Cover: Collage by Jesse Lenz.
Features
4:52 on Christmas Morning
Before dawn on December 25, 2011, a fire engulfed a Victorian mansion in Stamford, Connecticut, taking the lives of three little girls and their grandparents. One year later, Matt and Madonna Badger, the girls’ divorced parents, are wrestling with the meaning of the tragedy. By Dan P. Lee
Chris Hughes Is About to Turn 100
The Facebook co-founder has already served as Mark Zuckerberg’s in-house humanist and Barack Obama’s digital consigliere. Now, in buying the venerable, century-old New Republic, he’s out to prove that a 29-year-old worth $600 million is just the man to make the �life of the mind� scalable. By Carl Swanson
Intelligencer
Gangnam-Buster Profits
How much is such a modern cultural achievement worth?
Combine Equal Parts Oprah and Martha
The new domestic ideal owes more than a little to the fading moguls.
There Will Be Bad Blood
But rivalries can’t be rushed.
The Neighborhood News
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Grover’s Best Trick
How he herds reporters.
180 Minutes With Kim Stolz
Playing hostess with the model and reality-TV star turned banker, author, and now tyro nightspot owner.
Columns
Outside In
To become mayor, Bill de Blasio has to harness the energies of the outer-boroughs�and paint Christine Quinn as a Bloomberg clone.
Strategist
Best Bets
New York at Night: Photography After Dark, Missoni Converse, and more new stuff in stores.
The Look Book
�I spent a year traveling as a punk with friends�riding freight trains and hitchhiking across the country.�
Get In and Get Out
Tactical mappings (stores! Snacks! Toilets!) of three gift-glutted neighborhoods, ideal for the time-squeezed power shopper.
The Restaurant Review
The legendary Le Cirque restaurateur opens a Tuscan-minded hotel outlet.
In Season
Pecorino di Fossa makes a good substitute for Pecorino Romano in this recipe for spaghetti cacio e pepe.
Parks and Rigatoni
For the High Line, a new restaurant from the Torrisi team.
Restaurant Opening
The Traif team opens south-of-the-border-inspired Xixa.
The Urban Forager
New takes on the fruit-studded, sugar-dusted Christmas cake.
The Light You Crave
When December’s short days arrive in this crowded city, everyone starts yearning for sun. These apartments can help chase away the seasonal doldrums.
Agenda
Table to Farm
Things come full circle at Applewood on December 11, when the Sheas return as guests of honor.
Departments
Comments: Week of December 10, 2012
Readers sound off on traffic fatalities, the War on Drugs, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of December 10, 2012
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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