Next month, author Daniel Okrent will publish Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.
Eva Moskowitz, the controversial leader of the fastest-growing charter network in the city, wants to save New York public education.
Until recently, Fabrice Tourre was living the kind of life that most young masters of the universe dream of.
John Paulson’s wild ride from outwitting the crash to being partly blamed for it.
I know when they’re coming.
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Shrink revolt!
Last week, Shepard Fairey came to town to install a (legal) mural on the corner of Houston and Bowery.
Hustling Madison Square Garden—and everywhere else.
OK Go are rewriting the rock-band rule book one extraordinary video at a time.
Meghan Daum and Emily Gould on the ups and downs of writing their minds.
Anne Carson’s deeply moving scrap heap.
A splendid mini-morality tale from Nicole Holofcener and her muse, Catherine Keener.
Viola Davis, back home with Fences.
Glee’s non-sidekick effeminate boy represents for the show’s true icon.
Creepy-icky materials are the underpinnings of the work in the Museum of Arts and Design’s “Dead or Alive” show.
Obama doesn’t need a progressive on the court; he needs someone who can move it to the left.
Even those opposed to brunch ought to be excited about Marea’s new Sunday-afternoon service.
A fresh batch of next-generation film for Polaroid cameras, the bike-to-mat workout, and more.
“Fashion should be about the individual, so it’s cohesive with who I am.”
The storied chef’s new restaurant delivers familiar upscale fare for the Swifty’s set.
Until the weather gets hot, it’s a good time for spinach.
Week of May 3, 2010: Thistle Hill Tavern.
Sara Jenkins to open pasta-centric East Village restaurant this fall.
A former city couple follow their farmstead bliss.
The stodgy, Sherlock-in-the-fog coat is loosening up.
The storied eighties megaclub is reborn as a shopping emporium.
A volcano blows up in Iceland, and Craigslist’s New York real-estate section responds with quickie offers.
Readers sound off on New York’s social-media scene, Olivo Barbieri’s photographs, and more.
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.