‘Live, From the House of Souvlaki ...’
Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Bill Murray and other “S.N.L.” cast members hanging out in Times Square in the 1970s.
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Data You Can Believe In
By JIM RUTENBERG
How the precision targeting of “persuadable” voters that put President Obama over the top in 2012 could revolutionize the advertising industry.
Riff
My Kids Are Obsessed With Technology, and It’s All My Fault
By STEVE ALMOND
They crave SpongeBob. I craved Asteroids. But we’re both really looking for the same thing.
It’s the Economy
What Paintbrush Makers Know About How to Beat China
By ADAM DAVIDSON
Change your business all the time. Or don’t ever change a thing.
Eat
The Perfect Scallop, Raw or Cooked
By MARK BITTMAN
A dozen simple scallop recipes — grilled or straight out of the shell.
The Price of Loyalty in Syria
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Members of the Alawite sect are caught between support for their own increasingly brutal leaders and a rebellion that may want to wipe them off the map.
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The Man Who Captured a Times Square That Is No More
June 21, 2013
Kids Love the Darndest Things
June 21, 2013
Lives
My Manhattan Fantasies Realized. Sort Of.
By DAVID MARCHESE
A retro setting, $16 cocktails and a possible encounter with musical history.
Talk
Buddy Cianci Enjoys Life Without ‘the Squirrel’
Interview by ANDREW GOLDMAN
The two-time mayor of Providence, R.I., on doing time without his toupee and whether he’ll run again.
Abstract Sunday
You Made That
By CHRISTOPH NIEMANN and JON HUANG
An abstract-expressionist tool to create and share your own artwork.
From the Archive
In Libya, the Captors Have Become the Captive
Robert F. Worth’s 2012 piece on the captives becoming captors in Libya.
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Editors' Picks
Colum McCann’s Radical Empathy
By JOEL LOVELL
Four years after the publication of “Let the Great World Spin,” Colum McCann’s magnificent, cathartic 9/11 novel continues to help people cope with tragedy.
Billy Joel on Not Working and Not Giving Up Drinking
Interview by ANDREW GOLDMAN
And not caring what Elton John says about any of it.
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