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Fame: Shawn McCreesh • Baby, Remember My Name George Santos knows he deserves to be a star.

Neighborhood News: Billionaire Burger • Why the rich and famous are lining up for a taste of small-town America.

58 MINUTES WITH … Damian Williams • The SDNY U.S. Attorney has emerged as one of the country’s gutsiest prosecutors—and a huge potential headache for Mayor Adams.

Screen Time: John Herrman • Your Phone Is the Reason You Feel Broke It’s a microcosm of the weird, sour vibrancy of the economic moment.

The Campaign Is Going Great A REPORT FROM BIDEN ’24 HEADQUARTERS. • To Reelect the Extremely Old Man Dragged Down by Inflation and War and Trailing His Criminally Indicted Opponent

THE AGE GAPPERS • They say they’re happy. Why is it so hard to believe them?

AN AMERICAN GIRLHOOD IN THE OZEMPIC ERA • Parents, activists, and doctors are divided about giving children new drugs for weight loss. At age 13, Maggie Ervie decided to take them.

An Unfussy Iron

What to Get the Kids? • THE PARENTS ON STAFF at the Strategist have their own chat room—a place where these shopping obsessives share among themselves the not-so-attractive-but-attention-holding toy racetrack that was a huge hit and kids’ magazines that actually get read. We decided to infiltrate this brain trust and ask them to talk children’s gifts: the ones theirs have asked for directly this year, the toys that actually get the most use around the house, and what they’ll be buying over the holidays.

The Nutcracker at Lincoln Center • On a recent Saturday afternoon, kids and grown-ups put on their holiday best to see New York City Ballet’s annual production of the wintertime classic.

Cloud City in Tribeca • After Inna Khidekel and Bert van der Walt bought their first apartment, they let their designer, Timothy Godbold, surprise them.

Very Offline • Eulalie evokes another time, down to the phone calls.

THE YEAR IN CULTURE • 2023’S BEST TELEVISION SERIES, MOVIES, ALBUMS, ART SHOWS, BOOKS, PODCASTS, AND MORE.

LET’S DISCUSS … THE BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR • What’s that sound? Could it be the swan song of the franchise era? Critics Bilge Ebiri and Alison Willmore cast their bets—and name non-superhero favorites.

THE BEST MOVIES OF 2023, ACCORDING TO JOHN WATERS • WHEN MOST PEOPLE hear my name, they think of the city of Baltimore, where I still live, but few know I have kept a secret apartment in New York City for over three decades. Why? To see fucked-up foreign movies with full-frontal nudity. Here, what you should be watching this year—not at home but in a Gotham art house with a full-price ticket.

THE BEST COMEDY SPECIALS OF THE YEAR

LET’S DISCUSS … THE BEST TELEVISION OF THE YEAR • TV critics Kathryn VanArendonk, Jen Chaney, and Roxana Hadadi on the technological anxiety looming over the small screen.

THE BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

BEST SONGS

LET’S DISCUSS … THE BEST THEATER OF THE YEAR • Sara Holdren and Jackson McHenry saw a lot of excellent pandemic-adjacent plays—but also exhilarating productions about a fractious 1970s rock band, a six-foot vagina, and the awfulness of test prep.

THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

BEST VIDEO GAMES

THE BEST PODCASTS OF THE YEAR

THE BEST ART SHOWS OF THE YEAR

To DO • Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read. DECEMBER 20–JANUARY 3

LIGHT IT UP • One way to chart your visit through Dyker Heights’s delightfully over-the-top holiday displays.

GAMES

THE APPROVAL MATRIX • Our deliberately...