The Ultimate, Fabulous Guide to Deviled Eggs

by Emerson Beyer

The Night Clay Aiken Saved My Life

by Beth Boyle Machlan

The Cannibal Birds Of Burgazada

by Nathan Deuel

Three Poems By Shanna Compton

by Mark Bibbins, Editor

Sometime I’ll perfect my adoration.
 
 Here, let me practice:
 For you I’ll lose every button.
 and give up one of my pillows.

David Brooks: Won’t Someone Think of the Children?

“Young people’s brains are developing while they are immersed in fast, multitasking technology. No one quite knows what effect this is having.”
 — Unlike, you know, playing stickball in the street. Or running around catching fireflies in an…

You Should See “Monument Ave.”

Startup Launch Parties, Reviewed

“The party was friendly but ultimately like all other startup parties: serial startup consultants Rex Sorgatz and Rachel Sklar showed up, as did several members of the ad agency Barbarian Group… [People] were surprised to find I’d just asked my way into the party…

Elvis Costello Does Prince

Peter Falk, 1927–2011

Film Reviews as Advocacy: the ‘Times’ on ‘Bad Teacher’

“The story spends the requisite time on Elizabeth’s man-baiting and chomping ways, but it’s her relations with these women that help make Bad Teacher into something more than the latest in big-screen giggles and flatulence…. A funny…

Things to Do this Weekend

• Remember how I told you last week there were going to be fireworks in the East River, nicely visible from…