New York Magazine: December 31, 2012 Issue

Table of Contents

December 31, 2012

Cover Story

Where to Eat 2013

Adam Platt sizes up our culinary scene, heralding the resurrection of the French feast, and the year when Brooklyn finally lived up to the hype.

On the Cover: A plate from Alison Eighteen. Photograph by Victor Prado/New York Magazine.

Features

Listening to Beck

The boyish 42-year-old songwriter’s latest project isn’t an album or a music video, it’s a book of sheet music, Song Reader.

By Dan P. Lee
Blues Cruise

A week after Mitt Romney’s defeat, a boatload of shell-shocked conservatives hopped aboard the National Review’s post election Caribbean cruise.

By Joe Hagan
The Black Orthodox

Two decades after the Crown Heights riots, what is it like to be both black and an Orthodox Jew? Photographs by Wayne Lawrence. Text by Molly Langmuir

Intelligencer

Agenda

Canal-Side Croissants

Runner & Stone aspires to be all things to all carb-cravers.

Strategist

Departments

Culture