Features

My Week As Robert Moses, With Oil Wells

What happens when an architecture critic and his 15-year-old son become co-mayors in the addictive world of SimCity? An exercise in the impact (and pitfalls) or urban planning, whether real or virtual. By Justin Davidson

Kaboom

Young lovers Aaron Greene and Morgan Gliedman suffered from more than a lack of direction. With a weapons fetish (his), a heroin habit (theirs), and a baby on the way (ditto), perhaps it was only a matter of time before the police came knocking at their Greenwich Village door. By Robert Kolker

Intelligencer

Jim McGreevey Needs Your Approval

The former New Jersey governor has rededicated himself to Christ�and to people-pleasing.

’Toons of Industry

CEO’s get the superhero treatment in comic books by Bluewater Productions.

The Divergent Values of Celebrities’ Kickstarter Come-ons

Dan Harmon wants your money.

57 Minutes With Amy Schumer

The breakout stand-up talks dirty while sipping her afternoon tea.

The Neighborhood News

Our roundup of news from around the city.

What’s Hebrew for �Playmate’?

Playboy magazine launches Hebrew language edition.

Columns

Why the Bombers Won’t Bomb

Despite their unprecedented austerity movement, the Yankees will win the A.L. East.

Strategist

Best Bets

Thomas Heatherwick’s Spun chair, Eleven Consignment Boutique opens in Brooklyn, and more.

The Look Book

�My daughters would say, �Don’t talk all that bullshit therapist talk to us, just talk regular!’�

The Urbanist’s Miami

Street art, shrimp shacks, and show-pony mansions.

The Restaurant Review

At Hanjan, Hooni Kim updates traditional joomaks.

In Season

Hass avocados are in the supermarket year-round, but their oil content increases in the spring.

Danish Revival

The once grand, then forgotten pastry stages a comeback.

Culture

Eva Mendes in Disguise

Who was that unibrowed woman in the sweatpants?

The Five: Game of Thrones

The most dragon-filled show on television returns to HBO for its third season on March 31.

Tom Hanks’s Big Break

At rehearsals for Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy.

�What Is a Man?�

Harvey Fierstein’s Kinky Boots is more than a drag show, which is precisely the point.

A New Don: Elisabeth Moss

On bossing men around on Mad Men, and stabbing one in Top of the Lake.

The Theater Review

On its way to the theater, Breakfast at Tiffany’s lost the Capote touches that kept it aloft.

The Theater Review

Jesse Green on Hands on a Hardbody.

The Movie Review

Ryan Gosling can’t save the overreaching The Place Beyond the Pines.

To Do: March 27-April 3, 2013

Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.

Departments

Comments: Week of April 1, 2013

Readers sound off on feminist wives, and more.

The Approval Matrix: Week of April 1, 2013

Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.