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intelligencer
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Power
The felonious witness
in Mueller’s bell jar
By Olivia Nuzzi
18
Ranking
2020’s megarich
Democratic donors
By Gabriel Debenedetti
20
76 Minutes With ...
Vic Seixas, the
nonagenarian
Grand Slam champ
By Reeves Wiedeman
strategist
49
BestBets
Combat boots stomp
back to the catwalk
51
LookBook
“Women of Taste”
at Zitomer
54
Design Hunting
Chic and disorderly,
Manolo Blahnik style
ByWendyGoodman
58
Investigation
Mirror, mirror on
the selfie wall
60
Food
Platt on Franco-Japanese
fusion at Maison Yaki;
B(aconless)LT
theculturepages
63
Williams/Verdon
Michelle Williams
flips the billing for
Fosse’s partner
ByJacksonMcHenry
65
Here’s Proof That They
Were Really Friends
TheonewheretheFriends
gang celebrates their 25th
66
GowanusRecCenter
The WeWork-ization
of nightlife
By Madison Malone Kircher
70
Critics
tvbyMatt Zoller Seitz
Confronting our dark past in
The Terror: Infamy;
musicbyCraig Jenkins
The Bon Iver experiment
continues withi,i;
architectureby
Justin DavidsonA case
for gentrification
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ToDo
Twenty-five picks for
the next two weeks
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