June 24, 2013 Issue
Cover Story
Best Doctors 2013
The annual omnibus of medical professionals, selected by their peers, for everything from your head (neurologists) to your toes (orthopedic surgeons).
Plus: Three hundred doctors on Obamacare, the solvency of their hospitals, and whether they’d choose this profession all over again; 3-D-printed body parts are within reach; can information theory revolutionize private health care?; a camera-wielding EMT records one shift of emergencies.
On the Cover: Illustration by
Craig & Karl.
Features
The Boss Stops Here
For some in today’s workplace, the traditional hierarchical structure (worker bee, supervisor, manager, ad infinitum) is a relic of the industrialized past. What the new experiments in the bossless office promise are greater motivation, creativity, and transparency. Plus: firings by committee. By Matthew Shaer
Nelson Castro in the Machine
Ever since he was a little boy, Nelson Castro had political aspirations. What he likely didn’t dream of was wearing a wire for the government while representing the Bronx. By Steve Fishman
Scrubbed
It’s a truth universally acknowledged in the Internet age that your mistakes will dog you online forever. Unless you pay someone to trick Google into serving up more palatable fare. By Graeme Wood
Intelligencer
The Journalist Diplomat
The sad fact for Samantha Power is that you can be a media intellectual or a government official, not both.
240 Years of Leakers
What makes leakers leak when the fallout is often swift and severe?
124 Minutes With Mavis Staples
The gospel legend ices up her knee and dishes on the Obamas.
The Neighborhood News
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Columns
Eternal A-Rod
Ten years ago, Alex Rodriguez’s career might have been ended by a steroid suspension. Today, fans are just hoping Bud Selig can get over his PED crusade.
Strategist
Best Bets
A beach tote, a foldable cutting board, and more new stuff in stores.
The Look Book
�I met Sarah Jessica Parker during Fashion’s Night Out a few years ago and almost passed out.�
The Urbanist’s Amsterdam
Modern art, squatter nightclubs, and duck bitterballen.
Fashionables: Gladiators
Summer sandals are really Roman.
The Restaurant Review
The taco gets the Vongerichten treatment at ABC Cocina.
In Season
Collard greens are not as popular as its trendy cousin, kale, but they contain many of the same nutritional benefits.
History on the Half-Shell
Reconsidering the clam.
Culture
Mr. & Mrs. Architect
The beauty�and complexity and contradiction�of designing with a spouse.
Who Needs a Tony ...
... When you've got this? After every performance of Lucky Guy, swarms of Tom Hanks appreciators gather expectantly.
Three Courses of Orson Welles
In eighties Hollywood, the larger-than-life former boy genius sings for his supper.
Paul Feig Explains His Cultural Influences
In no particular order, these are the movies, books, cuisines, and teachers that inspired him.
The Pop Review
The Lonely Island lead the pop-parody boom.
The Movie Review
Superman gets a bleak new origin story in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel.
The Movie Review
Saoirse Ronan makes a perfect bloodsucker in Byzantium.
The TV Review
Matt Zoller Seitz on Futurama’s final (final) frontier.
To Do: June 19�July 3, 2013
25 things to see, hear, watch, and read.
Departments
Comments: Week of June 24, 2013
Readers sound off on Mariano Rivera, Stevie Nicks, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of June 24, 2013
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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