The power’s back on! Let’s dry our socks,

And turn the volume down on Fox,

Mix up a vat of eggnog, brandied,

And fling a last Bronx cheer at Sandy.

Kick out the jams! Swing wide the gates!

Yeah, everybody—celebrate!

Come on in, friends. Pull up a chair,

Or hunker by the fireplace there…

Continue reading Ian Frazier’s holiday poem: http://nyr.kr/UosJKl

A 2012 Media Highlight Reel: Ken Auletta on “The Central Park Five,” and this year’s other big media stories: http://nyr.kr/UaE6EW

Photograph courtesy NY Daily News/Getty Images/Sundance Selects.

 We want to see it—along with whatever else is happening as you head to the polls. Upload your photos here: http://bit.ly/UuxPn2 and on Wednesday, we’ll round up our favorites in a slide show on our site.

“Undeterred,” the Nov. 12, 2012 cover of the magazine. Here, the artist Adrian Tomine talks about the inspiration for his cover. 

Cartoon of the day by Robert Leighton. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/RRtVJd

Cartoon of the night. For more: http://nyr.kr/SbWoJ9

Cartoon of the night by Liam Francis Walsh. For more: http://nyr.kr/RBKdQA

It was hard not to feel a bit sorry for Mitt Romney as he rambled his way through an explanation of his “forty-seven per cent” comments at yesterday evening’s press conference. He has to apologize for not just one or two errant phrases, but for a full-length, stream-of-consciousness rant—the sort of fed-up, worn-out, over-emotional outpouring you might hear from your grumpy grandpa as dinner stretches into its second hour. It’s incidents like this that make you realize how unpleasant running for President must be. Temporary, adoring crowds notwithstanding, it’s just one apology and embarrassment after another.

Who will you choose in November? Divorcing parties vie for your support through friendly robocalls: http://nyr.kr/NuCbLK