1. Despite the layers of tape securing his jaws, building security wouldn’t allow this alligator inside for our interview with cast members from History Channel’s Swamp People.
     

  2. Jeff Garlin, one of our 2012 Chicago Men of the Year, hits the red carpet alongside MJ publisher Chris McLoughlin for the opening night of our Gear Lab Collection. Photograph by Jeff Schear

     

  3. Gerard Butler, the world-trekking, ATV-riding, Romanian model-dating action hero, photographed by Sam Jones for our November 2012 issue.