Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2, 2015 i New York Magazine

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Because It Makes Us Feel Like Connoisseurs Among Connoisseurs UNTIL VERY RECENTLY, people tended to think of the perpetual line as a feature of failed states, where "state" awaiting Moscow's first McDonald's. But if you live in a place like New York, you probably now think instead of public audience with Marina Abramovic. These are lines not as deprivation case studies but consumer passion thing, for almost any amount of time. ¶ These days, the DMV works pretty well, you can hire a TaskRabbit to hold improbably opting into, since the culture of yuppie abundance that should've brought about the end of waiting an incitement and part of the tribal appeal. What possible other explanation could there be for spending four innings of a Mets playoff game forged from Pat…

SPOTLIGHT opens November 6. WHEN TOM MCCARTHY, a preppy, generically handsome white guy, gets stopped on the street, it's usually by people who think he went to high school with them or perhaps was in their sailing class. You might know his name from the excellent modest-budget adult dramas he's written and directed: The Station Agent, The Visitor, Win Win, and his latest, Spotlight, which seems a shoo-in for a Best Picture nomination. (We'll get to his one clunker, 2014's The Cobbler, later.) He's also an actor, and if you've watched season five of HBO's The Wire, then you most definitely recognize his face. Likely as one you want to punch. It's the face of that weasel of a character Scott Templeton, possibly the slimiest, most despicable news reporter in…

GREAT PLAYS are usually great in one of two ways. They are either culminating examples of existing ideas or groundbreaking examples of new things entirely. The Humans, by Stephen Karam, at first seems like it will be one of the former. Taking place at Thanksgiving, in the large but creepy Chinatown apartment that Brigid Blake, 26, and her boyfriend Richard Saad, 38, have just moved into, it situates itself squarely in the theatrical tradition of family-at-the-holidays plays. Richard is wealthy and apparently easygoing, but the Blakes, from working-class Scranton, are under every sort of stress imaginable: marital, socioeconomic, romantic, cultural, medical, existential. The parents, Erik and Deirdre, have discomfiting news they keep hoping not to share; Aimee, Brigid's older sister, mostly maintains the brave face of someone who, having been…

THIRD ANNUAL PALEYFEST NY PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA. OCTOBER 10 TO 19. “Anytime Joss Whedon calls and says, ‘Hey, I got something for you,’ I say yes. I just hope it’s not kiddie porn.” —Neil Patrick Harris “There are a lot of times where people think my twin is me. He has to tell them, ‘I’m sorry, it’s not who you think it is.’ And they just look at him and tell him he’s an asshole.” —Rami Malek “Dominic West and I, we’re both British. I want the final reveal of The Affair to be that our characters, Alison and Noah, are actually British. They’ve been faking.” —Ruth Wilson “Abusing Bruce Campbell is pretty much the only benefit to working on Ash vs. Evil Dead. It isn’t his acting ability…

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A DOZEN YEARS AGO, John Edwards, then still the Democratic Party's fair-haired boy, had a signature catchphrase on the stump to describe the Bush administration's economic policy. He called it "the most radical and dangerous economic theory to hit our shores since socialism." That was the nastiest comparison Edwards could come up with—to an extreme and long-dead ideology. The reference worked only because Edwards's target audience of Democratic-primary voters could all agree socialism was as unworkable and monstrously evil as, well, the Bush economic program. In a few days, when the three remaining Democratic candidates for president gather in South Carolina for a forum hosted by Rachel Maddow, none will be using "socialist" as a slur. One of them, of course, adopts it as a proud identifier. Bernie Sanders has…

IT’S EASY TO SEE WHY "universal pre-K" has become the calling card of so many Democratic politicians. Because, really, who can quibble? Universal pre-K, or preschool, as Hillary Clinton prefers to call it, helps families in two important ways. It puts 3- and 4-year-old children in a happy, safe place for most of the day, where they are exposed to letters and numbers and are forced to share, and it allows parents to go to work. Lately, it's been seen as an achievement steroid, a school-performance boost especially powerful for those otherwise in need but an aid, truly, to everyone. It's so much a win-win—so incontrovertibly good for kids, for parents, for the economy—that a buy-in from liberal constituents can be taken for granted; even purse-string conservatives offer only muted…

“Should we smoke before we pray?” Cynthia Joye asked, tapping the Bible resting on her lap. Joye had just arrived at her friend’s home in Centennial, Colorado, a suburb south of Denver, for the fifth or sixth meeting—it was hard to keep track—of Stoner Jesus Bible Study. “I think the plant is sacred,” said Joye, a 51-year-old mother who wore her gray hair in a ponytail, as a pair of pipes made their way around the circle. “It puts people in a frame of mind where you think of God.” "The Bible didn't say you couldn’t smoke weed," said Mia Williams, who had been raised a Southern Baptist. Someone cited Genesis 1:29—"And God said, ‘Behold, I have given you every herb-bearing seed'"—and though no one smoked when they went to…

THE BROOKLYN UZBEKS seemed to be in a daze, as if they had no idea what had hit them. Immigrants who'd arrived in New York during the mid-to-late aughts, until quite recently they'd hung out on Coney Island Avenue, their days largely filled with the drudgery of working in gyro stands in Midwood and Kensington and selling sunglasses to nonbelievers in tacky suburban malls. This was what they knew of the polluted realm of the kafir. Sometime during 2014, according to federal authorities, the two young Uzbeks charted a different destiny for themselves. They began sending jihadist messages on Uzbek-language websites and watching videos of holy warriors chopping off heads. They were going to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS. They'd get on a plane and…

What he can’t stand are “basic-ass dude” clothes. “Like, everyone kind of looks like a graphic designer.” THE SINGER-SONGWRITER known as Father John Misty, who was once known as J. Tillman and whose friends call him Josh ("But I don't have any friends"), is feeling a bit disoriented. He's just arrived in Galway, Ireland, for the start of a 21-date European tour, having finished a U.S. tour less than 48 hours earlier. (These photos were taken in St. Louis.) "Right now, I'm in a house that looks like it's been set-designed for a movie about a 20-year-old who dropped out of college and moved into a house with other college dropouts, and I'm kind of wondering what the fuck I'm doing with my life," he says. The house is a…

1 CHICAGO THIN CRUST Emmett’s 50 Macdougal St., nr. King St. 917-639-3571 Chicagoans, it turns out, do not limit their pizza intake to deep-dish, the style New York pizza snobs refer to as a casserole with identity issues. That is the news at Emmett’s in the South Village, where the kitchen recently introduced New York to the pleasures of the Chicago thin-crust style ($18). Its defining features: a rimless 1/8-inch-thick crackerlike crust, a zesty tomato sauce minimally applied, and a three-cheese topping. The round pie is sliced into tiny squares, known as a party cut. A similar midwestern-style pizza called the Saint Louie can be found at Speedy Romeo in Brooklyn. 2 BREAD BAKER’S Mission Chinese Food 171 E. Broadway, nr. Rutgers St.; 212-432-0300 The dough has always been the…

SPECTRE is in theaters November 6. IN THE WEEKS leading up to the release of Spectre, the 24th official James Bond film, Daniel Craig suggested, with some un-Bondlike infelicity, that he wouldn't be keen on reprising his role as the dashing superspy after this, his fourth go-round. "I'd rather," he said, "slash my wrists." Presumably, after working on the Bond films for the last 38 years as everything from publicist to coproducer, her current role, Barbara Broccoli has been through this dance before. Despite how these elegant set photos, all taken at London's Pinewood Studios, may make it appear, "making a James Bond film is tough," says the daughter of original Bond-film producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli. She has co-produced all the 007 films since 1995 with her half-brother Michael G.…

Since 1997, the New York–based photographer Jason Schmidt has shot portraits of, he estimates, more than 500 artists—images since collected in a series of books. “You will never hear me say, ‘Pretend you’re painting,’” Schmidt writes in the afterword to Artists II. Schmidt photographed artist and provocateur Dash Snow in 2007, along with his partner, Jade, and their then-15-day-old daughter, Secret. The three were resting amid Snow and Dan Colen’s installation Nest at Deitch Projects in Soho. The idea for Nest, which was adorned with incendiary graffiti, came, says Colen, from “a road trip to Miami in the end of 2003,” wherein he and Snow, who died of an overdose in 2009, checked into cheap hotels, got naked and high, shredded phone books and down pillows, and crawled around the…

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AGE: 41 JOB: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; former San Antonio mayor LOCATION: Washington, D.C. FOLLOWED ON: October 1 8:39 am With a lot of travel and early meetings, I can't drop my daughter at school every day. But we live right next door, so I do it as often as I can. For Erica, my wife, this is the first time she’s ever lived outside San Antonio, but I've been pleasantly surprised at how well they adjusted. 8:50 am At night, I get a briefing book, so when I start the day, I'm briefed up. We’re driven by a security detail. Usually Rock Creek Parkway, because in the morning it isn't too bad—about 15 minutes. 9:36 am The day before, we'd had the possibility of a government shutdown.…

EVERYONE IS TREATED a certain way based on how they look. I don't think I'm treated too bad. Some people, you get the vibe that they just want to sleep with you or take advantage of you. But some people are genuine. Until I had my growth spurt, I was pretty scrawny and short. I never really saw myself like a model. I didn't realize it back in high school, when some of the upper-class girls were coming on to me. One of the first comments I remember getting was "You have amazing eyebrows." At that time, I thought that was pretty strange. People comment on my appearance a lot. Girls especially appreciate the long hair. It's given me somewhat of an androgynous vibe. I've been mistaken for a girl…

Gabriel Kreuther 41 W. 42nd St., nr. Sixth Ave.; 212-257-5826; gknyc.com GABRIEL KREUTHER belongs to the last great generation of highly skilled Continental cooks who came to the city to seek fame and fortune during those peaceful premillennial years, before the great fine-dining apocalypse blew the settled white-tablecloth world of their forefathers more or less to smithereens. Many of his colleagues have floundered since then, but Kreuther has kept his balance in all sorts of versatile ways. He's mastered French cuisine (at La Caravelle) and strange fusion techniques (at Jean-Georges) and is renowned, one of his former cooks told me, for breaking down small steers with an implement the size of a paring knife. He's won multiple Michelin stars over the years (at the Modern), has concocted successful lowbrow bar…

Making the Hobbling If the film Misery has an iconic moment, it's when crazed fan Annie Wilkes takes a sledgehammer to the ankles of her captive, novelist Paul Sheldon, in an effort to ensure he doesn't escape. (At left is the prosthetic from the movie.) Known as "the hobbling," it's a key moment in the plot, but as Will Frears, the director of the play, explains, that scene influenced his entire approach. "Everybody knows the scene is coming," Frears says, "and everybody thinks we're going to do it with mirrors. So not only does that mean we can't use sleight of hand, but we also have to do it in a way that makes the audience gasp. That led to the idea for the whole production: It had to exist…

THE FILM BROOKLYN is a study in homesickness, which in this case means you ache for a place that, once upon a time, you were aching to leave. It's the early 1950s, and the heroine, Eilis (pronounced Eye-liss) Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), seems dislocated everywhere. She's unable to find a decent job in her hometown of Enniscorthy, in the southeast of Ireland, and she cuts too undemonstrative a figure at dances to attract suitors. (Her best friend is the hot ticket.) Her father is dead, her mother housebound, and her much older sister, Rose, busy with a demanding bookkeeping position. It's Rose—fearful that Eilis will waste away in this stagnant culture—who arranges with a do-gooder priest (Jim Broadbent) for her sister to move to America, where Eilis will have a job…

THE PERSISTENT SUBJECT of Michel Houellebecq's fiction is the stunted French heterosexual male and his eventual desolation in the liberalized post-1960s sexual marketplace. In this sense, his new book, Submission, is of a piece with his five previous novels. The narrator, François, is a middle-aged professor of literature who drinks and smokes to excess, loses his job, is left by his ex-student girlfriend, pays escorts for sex, eats a lot of bad takeout, and is dizzy with self-pity and self-disgust. The book is a diary of a defeated man, and often a very funny one. But of course that's not the whole story. The novel is set in 2022, a time of political realignment in France that sees the rise of a Muslim president, Mohammed Ben Abbes, and the rapid…