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March 10, 2014 Issue
Cover Story
Sterling Cooper Draper Olson
Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss is very good at what she does, but that doesn’t mean she takes it all seriously. By Willa Paskin On the Cover: Elisabeth Moss. Photograph by Cass Bird for New York Magazine. Styling by Heidi Bivens at The Wall Group; Hair by Tommy Buckett for Garnier Fructis at The Magnet Agency; Makeup by Hung Vanngo for CK One Color Cosmetics at The Wall Group; Special thanks to the Greenwich Hotel. Denim overalls from What Goes Around Comes Around; Safety-pin earring by Loren Stewart.
Download the iPad edition to watch seven years of Peggy Olson on Mad Men, read excerpts from Moss Hart's memoir, see a selection of artwork from this year's Whitney Biennial, and more.
Features
The Greatest Showbiz Book Ever Written
Moss Hart’s self-mythologizing autobiography masked more than people guessed. By Frank Rich
The Gavel Drops at Sotheby’s
Hedge-fund activist Daniel Loeb wants to see the old auction house act more like a Wall Street bank. By Andrew Rice
Is San Francisco New York?
With rents higher than Manhattan’s, the lefty city is at a philosophical crossroads. Dispatches from an ambivalent boomtown.
Best of New York
Our annual guide to the pinnacle of products, food, and services in the city, whether you need shoes resoled or a rare orchid.
Intelligencer
The Joshua Generation
Jason Collins and Michael Sam are heroes. More important, they are forefathers.
Life in Pictures: Jemima Kirke
The Girls free spirit narrates a day at home. (Best read with lilting British accent).
68 Minutes With Matt Taibbi
Raging against hacks with the muckraker turned magazine-maker.
Spring Break: A History
The parts we can remember.
The Women Who Run Hollywood
And the slacker husbands they’re over.
The Cut
Sneakers in the Audience
In New York, Milan, and Paris.
What’s Out There Now
Four classic sneaker styles�with a twist.
Nicolas Ghesquière’s Rousing Debut at Louis Vuitton
Clothes take advantage of technology without sacrificing the brand’s history.
The New Coach Coat
The handbag giant surprises with outerwear.
Culture
Lars’s Real Girl
French pop royalty (and willing Nymphomaniac) Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Decision
Novelist Benjamin Kunkel vowed to become a Marxist public intellectual. And so he has.
�It’s Ugly Out There.�
Can the Weather Channel survive a hail of competitors?
The Art Review
There’s a smart show buried in this big bland Whitney Biennial.
The Movie Review
Nymphomaniac: Everything you always wanted to know about sex.
The Movie Review
Le Week-End is unbelievably marvelous, in light of its depressing trajectory.
The Theater Review
Everything’s up to date in The Bridges of Madison County.
The Classical Music Review
How can the Vienna Philharmonic change without changing?
To Do: March 12�26, 2014
25 things to see, hear, watch, and read.
Departments
Comments: Week of March 10, 2014
Readers sound off on Alec Baldwin, Normcore, and more.
The Vulture Crossword Contest
Figure out the hidden theme to win a New York subscription.
Competition: Biography in a Couplet
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The Approval Matrix: Week of March 10, 2014
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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