February 24, 2014 Issue
Cover Story
Good-bye, Public Life
And so long, MSNBC, and Shia LaBeouf, and New York, too. I’m through. By Alec Baldwin On the Cover: Photo by Steve Schofield/Contour by Getty Images.
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Features
My Addiction, Through My Eyes
Self-portraits by Graham MacIndoe.
The Four Most Desired People in New York
What it takes to be an online-dating superstar. By Logan Hill
The Plot From Solitary
If an isolated Supermax convict can launch a hunger strike of 30,000, then solitary confinement means what, exactly? By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Intelligencer
Rubio the Rube
How the GOP sabotaged the man who was once its savior.
Life in Pictures: St. Vincent
The indie musician gets some rare downtime in New York before the touring onslaught for her fifth album, St. Vincent.
135 Minutes With Lorrie Moore
Sizing up Nashville, her new town, with the short-story master.
Portrait: Catherine Deneuve
An icon at 70.
The Sext Paradox
Half the people who send lewd messages are just not that into it. So why press �send�?
The Cut
Backstage View
Bil Donovan paints the runways.
Spectral States: 15 Dazzling Spring Pieces
Maciek Jasik's striking, kaleidoscopic interpretations of the season’s brightest.
Normcore
Fashion for those who realize they’re one in 7 billion.
Strategist
Best Bets
Tribeca's mini design district, Space Ninety 8 opens in Williamsburg, and more.
The Look Book
�Right now I’m really into World War II clothes.�
The Great Room
At home with Picasso biographer Sir John Richardson.
The Restaurant Review
Mission Chinese's Danny Bowien tackles the taco.
The Dish
Fung Tu's original egg roll version 2.
50 Cheeses
From Adelegger to Zimbro, the current cheesescape defined.
Culture
For Their Consideration
In the most competitive Oscar season ever, a cabal of internet oddsmakers is keeping score.
Last Biennial on Madison
These seven artists will engage with the old Whitney building as they close it down.
Influences
The movies, performers, and cuisines that inspired Kristen Bell.
Alex Timbers Hadn’t Seen Rocky �
� When he knew he wanted to make it a musical. In the ring with the �boy genius� of theater.
The Movie Review
Wes Anderson moves out of the dollhouse with The Grand Budapest Hotel.
The Movie Review
If The Wind Rises is really Hiyao Miyazaki's last film, he’s going out on a high.
The Movie Review
Kids for Cash provides a measure of justice.
The Pop Review
Beck’s Morning Phase is expertly made, but a terminal bummer.
The TV Review
Don’t look for a God cameo in the new Cosmos.
See This Art
Jerry Saltz has created six walking tours of galleries, museums, and the street, singling out 44 particular pieces he loves.
To Do: February 26�March 12, 2014
25 things to see, hear, watch, and read.
Departments
Letter From the Editors
You may have heard that we are moving from publishing weekly to publishing biweekly. Well: This is it.
Comments: Week of February 24, 2014
Readers sound off on our Spring Fashion Issue, the Man Repeller, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of February 24, 2014
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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