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May 6, 2013

Cover Story

Spring Interiors: The Design Gene

Is aesthetic sensibility as heritable a trait as eye color? Six case studies in the transmission of taste. By Wendy Goodman

On the Cover: Michael Reynolds and Eric Hoffman’s home in the East Village. Photograph by François Dischinger for New York Magazine.

Features

Smoke Without Fire

Electronic cigarettes want to be not just the future of smoking but its heyday: Their marketers envision whole bars full of people “puffing” away.

By Benjamin Wallace
Occupy Penn Badgley

Freed from the Gossip Girl machine, the actor is looking for a philosophy that he can truly embrace. Step one: embodying Jeff Buckley.

By Carl Swanson

Intelligencer

Culture

Columns

Is Quinn’s Flip Showing?

Christine Quinn’s shifting term-limits position may cost her—but not in the way everyone thinks.

Departments

Strategist