August 12, 2013 Issue
Cover Story
What Is Chris Christie Doing Right?
The governor of New Jersey channels the profound rage found throughout the GOP, but uses it to fuel a
uniquely positive, if furious, agenda.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Plus: Following Cory Booker
The social-media whiz and senator-in-waiting is another successful case study in modern political tactics from the Garden State.
By Carl Swanson
On the Cover: Governor Chris Christie. Photograph by Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine.
Features
The Stench of the Potomac
Bipartisanship is alive and well in Washington. It just takes place once Republicans and Democrats (lots of Democrats) cash in. By Frank Rich
Nuke the Cat!
Damon Lindelof, blockbuster wizard par excellence, explains the inexorable logic of the ever-metastasizing apocalyptic flick. By Scott Brown
Up, Up, and Away!
At the Draper University of Heroes, tech dreamers are taught to don capes and believe in Silicon Valley’s most idealized version of itself. By Kevin Roose
Intelligencer
Tears for Goliath
The book world gets misty-eyed for Barnes & Noble.
Those Empty Summer Nights
�On Saturdays, there are always a couple of lights on, but the majority are out.�
They're Not Lovin' It
We polled 100 of the fast-food workers in New York City.
369 Minutes With Natasha Lyonne
Apartment hunting with the Orange Is the New Black star.
The Neighborhood News
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Strategist
Best Bets
Danny Seo’s Smashula, gemstone soaps, and more new stuff in stores.
The Look Book
�I live in London and grew up in Cornwall, a surf town. When I’m in New York, I love going to that surf shop and café Saturdays in Soho.�
The Underground Gourmet Review
Café Nadery and El Aripo Café are humble oases of expat culture, culinary and otherwise.
In Season
Purslane plays a starring role in this fattoush recipe from Almayass.
Now Scoop This
With the arrival of some serious new gelaterias, a couple of newfangled retro parlors, and the first local Dairy Queen in three decades, New York is virtually heat-wave-proof.
The Urbanist’s Lisbon
Street art, fado after-parties, and nouveau cod.
Culture
Special Topics in Imaginary Film Noir
Lit wunderkind Marisha Pessl plays detective with Night Film.
Culture Diary: David Gordon Green
The director of Prince Avalanche on everything he watched, read, listened to, and clicked on over a week.
A-Lister in a K-Car
Bill Murray wheels into Bay Ridge.
Loren Munk's East Village State of Mind
Her map paintings are the best part of the Freight + Volume Gallery show.
What's Your All-Time Song of Summer?
Vulture readers offer their sunblock-scented nominations.
The Movie Review
The Canyons is the Lindsay Lohan comeback you were expecting, sadly.
The Movie Review
Porn-star biopic Lovelace lets down its subject.
The TV Review
Breaking Bad's Heisenberg is about to get what's coming to him.
The Classical Music Review
The sound artists in MoMA's Soundings: A Contemporary Score all seem to live in isolation booths.
To Do: August 7-14, 2013
25 things to see, hear, watch, and read.
Departments
Comments: Week of August 12, 2013
Readers sound off on economic growth, the Sex Issue, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of August 12, 2013
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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