Innholdsfortegnelse for 3/20-4/2/17 i New York Magazine

1 David Marchese’s interview with David Letterman on everything from the old late-night wars to the man he calls “Trumpy” (“In Conversation: David Letterman,” March 6–19 ) was just the prompt many readers needed to convey how much they miss him. “I would pay good money for an app that I could turn on at any time and listen to Dave endlessly rant,” wrote commenter Fritzo. “Dave, whether you accept it or not, you are an American treasure!” added DanteB1. “Please, please, please find a media outlet—a podcast, a once-a-week show, or anything in between.” Not everyone remembered Letterman so fondly, though. “I stopped watching Letterman years ago after he made crude jokes about Sarah Pal-in’s daughter being ‘knocked up’ by A-Rod on his show … Denigrating a woman on…

“I feel like the disclaimer should just say: ‘White people, you may be offended.’ ” THEY’RE PROBABLY HAPPY here now that Trump is president,” the Kid Mero says, attempting to empathize with the sea lions in front of him. We’re at the Bronx Zoo, watching the gray-whiskered creatures swim around and flop on the rocks, and it’s taken a total of four minutes for the president to invade the conversation. “They’re like, ‘Yo, we’re safe in here, they’re feeding us fish, we won’t get deported.’” His friend and collaborator Desus Nice disagrees. “Trump would shut this place down. Like, ‘No, it’s animal welfare. Make them try to get jobs. Release them into the streets.’” “ ‘Get them outta here,’ ” Mero continues. “‘These seals need to be working to earn…

ON THE THIRD FLOOR of the West Wing, one flight past the stairwell portrait of President Donald Trump talking on his Android phone, is an office once occupied by Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to Barack Obama; Karl Rove, senior adviser to George W. Bush; and First Lady Hillary Clinton. By cramped White House standards, it’s an expansive space, complete with a desk, a conference table, a couch, a bookshelf stocked with a single copy of The Art of the Deal, a duffel bag full of family photos and a couple of pairs of Spanx—and, through the blinds, a view of the Washington Monument. And on this February day, its current tenant, Kellyanne Conway, was explaining how her life had changed in the nine months since she joined the campaign of…

THERE’S A theory that humans are wired to find the most standard features attractive because features that hew to a norm take less work for our brains to process. The more noselike the nose—that is, the less it taxes the brain with novelty and variation—the better we like it. It’s the theory that launched a thousand onscreen look-alikes. But the first time I saw Alia Shawkat, as Maeby Fünke on Arrested Development, she jammed my brain. I mean this in the best, most complimentary way. I was struck by the dark eyes shooting lasers from the freckled baby face, the contrast between her unruly curls and her steely nerves. Shawkat played the first cousin and highly inappropriate love interest of Michael Cera’s awkward teenage George Michael Bluth, whose tongue-tied adoration…

EVEN IF YOU haven’t heard of Millennial Pink, or didn’t know that it went by this name (it’s also known as Tumblr Pink and Scandi Pink), you’ve seen it. At first, in 2012, when this color really started showing up everywhere, it appeared as a toned-down version of its foil, Barbie Pink, a softer shade that looks as if all the blue notes have been taken out. By the time everyone started calling it Millennial Pink in the summer of 2016 (thanks to our colleagues at the Cut), the color had mutated and expanded to include a range of shades from beige with just a touch of blush to a peach-salmon hybrid. Colors always come in and out of fashion, and as our fashion editor-at-large, Amy Larocca, points out, often…

I THOUGHT PANTONE’S DECISION to name Rose Quartz color of the year in 2015 was very smart from an opportunistic standpoint in terms of where we are with conversations about gender fluidity. It felt like a statement. The color we’re seeing now is a lot more muted than the original Pantone Rose Quartz, and I think that sort of subtle pink is in many ways a loud appropriation of the color pink. Millennial Pink, or Tumblr Pink, as I’ve also heard it called, is a political appropriation of color. Pink has a history of being such a polarizing color, relegated to Barbies and bubble gum, and that’s changing for political reasons as opposed to aesthetic ones. It’s a question of ownership, and I think that’s very exciting. For an ad…

FEBRUARY 2017 Design blog Sight Unseen posts a blush-pink sofa on Instagram with the caption “It would be a cliché if it weren’t so damn gorgeous.” The same month, its story on Guillermo Santoma, a Spanish designer with a pink home, goes viral. Sight Unseen co-founder Monica Khemsurov’s current feelings on the shade: “Posts with a pink thing in them perform better. A normal post might get 1,500 likes, and the pink ones get 4,000, so it’s hard to break out of the cycle, because that’s what people want. It’s hard for us to say pink is over, because our readers and followers still love pink, and I still like it in furniture and objects. What we are sick of, though, is pink as a lazy styling crutch. Like, I’m…

The other night, an awe-inspiring exhibition of appetite: A young Vietnamese woman took a seat at the dining counter of the East Village’s new Hanoi House and proceeded to devour three chè sundaes in quick succession, like a sailor on shore leave knocking back shots of cheap whiskey. This feat was not only a reflection of her joy at finding a taste of home but a comment on the appeal of the dessert itself—an inspired version of chè, the broad category of sweet soups, drinks, and puddings studded with any combination of tender-chewy legumes, jellies, tropical fruits, tubers, cereals, beans, and seeds. In Hanoi, you might encounter them mixed with shaved ice; on St. Marks Place, they’re layered with black-sesame ice cream from Il Laboratorio del Gelato. Only 12 are…

Jake Weary Actor, Animal Kingdom “I’ve been really into Carly Rae Jepsen recently. I pulled up to a red light the other day and I was bumping ‘Run Away With Me.’ These two kind of hard-looking dudes gave me the weirdest look.” Hunter McGrady Model, Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue “The new Bruno Mars song, ‘That’s What I Like.’ I love doing my makeup to stuff like that.” Ansel Elgort Actor “Next on my list is really listening deep into Sgt. Pepper. I’m trying to understand music history.” Matt Skiba Blink-182 “I can’t get enough of Blackstar, by David Bowie, his last record. And I recently got turned on to Grimes. A little late to the game, but I love her.”…

From sympathy … In the first year of the Reagan-era homelessness crisis, we called it “the shame of the city.” MAURICE HAS A face like Michelangelo’s statue of Moses, angry eyes glowing out from the midst of white glaring hair, a patriarchal beard touching his chest, a beaklike nose, and a high-domed forehead. Long ago, he taught physics at one of the city’s major universities. And now, from the depths of his illness, his language and manner parody a professor’s. A reporter is writing about the homeless, he is told. Would he mind answering some questions? “Well, it’s the robbery rate. It’s the problem of finding something to eat,” he begins, ticking off the points on his fingertips. Suddenly, he seizes a reporter’s notebook and writes across it the word…

DONICE FORD-BENSON, 49. Resident with her husband and two of her sons of Help 1 in East New York. HOMELESS SINCE: August 2013 (most recently). BECAUSE I’M IN the union, sometimes I work, sometimes I don’t. I always get laid off and have to go back to the shelter. I’ve been in and out, in and out.1 The first time was when my kids were little—1992. They sent me to a Red Cross shelter. I was there until 1997, when I got Section 8. I found an apartment with my voucher and then there was a fire. I ended up finding another Section 8 apartment. I was there for about five years. I had to keep calling the city on the landlord, because for over a year I didn’t have…

THE GOAL: Find a glamorous silk pillowcase, which, unlike cotton and even satin, creates minimal friction against the face and head and is thus said to reduce irritation, wrinkles, and hair frizz. THE VERDICT: The Slip (from $79 at dermstore.com), which was developed by Australian Fiona Stewart 13 years ago after a dermatologist recommended silk for her sensitive skin, is made of exceptionally soft and cool-to-the-cheek pure mulberry silk. Since it launched in the U.S. in 2015, the Slip’s weight of 22 momme—a measurement that correlates with softness and typically hovers around 19 with other silk pillowcases—has helped build its loyal following among beauty experts like celebrity dermatologist Dennis Gross. Instagram bonus: It comes in that highly photogenic shade we’ve come to call “Millennial Pink”—whose staggering popularity we chart beginning…

1767 Jean-Honoré Fragonard paints The Swing. 1968 Mexican architect Luis Barragán (who reportedly had his maid prepare him entirely pink meals) completes the pink Cuadra San Cristóbal. 1970S Furniture designer Milo Baughman makes pink-and-chrome credenzas and swivel chairs. 1980S Faded “Nantucket Reds” are actually pink. 1981 Ettore Sottsass founds the pink-centric Memphis Group. 1985 Florent restaurant opens with a pink ceiling and walls. 1987 David Hicks uses light-pink wallpaper for his Vila Verde house in Portugal. 1998 Juergen Teller photographs Kate Moss lying in bed with pink hair. 2003 The Simple Life premieres, and Paris Hilton introduces a lifestyle out of pink. 2005 Paul Smith opens a neon-pink store in L.A. (years later, thanks to washed-out Instagram filters, the building’s exterior becomes a Millennial Pink backdrop for…

’70S: An advertisement for Frigidaire presented a kitchen with this shade of refrigerator, dishwasher, oven, and stove top. Your friends’ bathrooms had avocado-green toilets, sinks, and baths. ’80S: Mark Woodman, former president of the Color Marketing Group and an interior designer, remembers the era as the great “mauving of America.” It got so big that Delta redesigned its stewardess uniforms in the color. EARLY AUGHTS: In The Devil Wears Prada, Meryl Streep schools Anne Hathaway on cerulean’s evolution from Oscar de la Renta’s gowns to “some tragic Casual Corner where you no doubt fished it out of some clearance bin.” EARLY OBAMA YEARS: As Woodman puts it, “It became a part of the Zeitgeist that purple is not red state or blue state but a middle ground.” It didn’t hurt…

EILEEN MYLES: genital though not an excited one NATALIE DIAZ: Natives are not red any more than African or African-American people are black or Asians are yellow. Most white people, however, are pink, not white. A more accurate color than Millennial Pink might be: white. A shady white, as white can be so often. PATRICIA LOCKWOOD: looks like a pig who got scared KEVIN COVAL: Kanye’s polo/exposing the fragile/idiocy of the gender binary.…

CONGEE, ALSO KNOWN AS JOOK , or rice gruel, has long been the breakfast of billions in China—filling, cheap, energizing, and easily digestible, fit for infants and nonagenarians alike. Some swear by it as a post-exercise pick-me-up; others as a superb hangover cure. Its soothing properties are considered so powerful that congee is even served at funerals. In its most basic form, it’s white rice cooked in water or broth until the grains disintegrate, seasoned with everything from preserved eggs to pig’s blood. Part comfort food, part blank canvas, it’s gone beyond its traditional Cantonese Chinatown setting to approximate a cornstarch slurry in Mission Chinese Food’s Westlake Rice Porridge, and to turn a popular Vietnamese roasted-shellfish street food into Hanoi House’s clams and congee. In this wellness-obsessed, vegan, gluten-free age,…

What is it about the white working class that has such a strong hold on American politics? We have a racialized definition of workers, which is much older than this past election. For instance, when historians or normal people talk about America before the Civil War, they don’t tend to talk about enslaved workers as workers. They are units of race—they’re not unpaid workers with no rights. If you include those people in your concept of the American working class, it changes the generalizations and it changes the history. A similar example is the migration of Southerners out of the South during the First World War and after. This occurred for southern people generally, both white and black. But most people don’t pay attention to the Great Migration of white…

“I would like to be known as something other than the would-be assassin. And although I do artwork, I do music, no one knows that.” AT 2:30 ON SATURDAY afternoon, September 10, a hired SUV pulled up to the curb of a low-slung brick-and-wood house in suburban Virginia and let a passenger out. The man, who wore a tan baseball cap and a black T-shirt, did not glance at the paparazzi lenses trained on him but walked straight inside. He is far older now than in the notorious photos, but in many ways John Hinckley looks the same: blond, pudgy, nondescript. On June 21, 1982, a jury found Hinckley not guilty by reason of insanity for shooting and attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan in a display of romantic devotion…

LIGHTNING ROUND Age: 25. Born: São Paulo. London neighborhood: Belgravia. Favorite hangout: The Arts Club. Favorite nightclub: Loulou’s. Favorite store: Rellik. “It’s a vintage store in West London; I recently got a 1940s kimono there.” Favorite TV show: The Killing. Currently reading: ‘Avant-garde’ Art Groups in China, 1979–1989, by Paul Gladston. JESSICA CINEL Graduate Student Why this particular shade of pink? It used to be that pink was associated with spoiled girls, daddy’s little girls, you know? But this pink is fun. It’s a cooler pink. I found the top and pants at Urban Outfitters in London, where I live, and the sunglasses I got for £8 on the street in Beijing. What’s nice is that you can please young girls, like my little…

A conversation between Fabiana Faria, co-owner of the then-new Lower East Side shop Coming Soon, and Emily Weiss, founder of then-about-to-launch beauty line Glossier. EMILY: I love your pink chairs. I’m working with the same color for my new company. FABIANA: I thought we were being rebellious when we first started using it. I hadn’t really seen it anywhere before. EMILY: Yeah, here’s a photo of what our makeup tubes will look like. [Shows Fabiana an image.] FABIANA: We’re using it on our lighters, too! [Shows Emily a pink Coming Soon lighter.]…

Amy Larocca: Frequently you hear those Pantone predictions and you’re like, Whatever. It doesn’t actually yield any sort of trend that you can feel or see, but in this case it really happened. It was the one time when you’re like, Gosh, Pantone, I see what you’re talking about. It’s fundamentally a great color that had been gendered to the point where it became obsolete, and now that maybe people can relax about that, it’s just a great color. I had a question for you, Jerry: The Virgin Mary, this height of femininity, is always pictured in blue. How did that then transition? Jerry Saltz: Blue is inward suffering. She’s blue because she’s demonstrative. If you look at Mary beside the cross, she’s a mess; she knows within what’s going…

“Last year was a giant year for my heart. I’ve never thought to keep anything private. That’s not what I’m like.” MOST PILLOWS are just pillows, but for Jenny Slate, the floral-print puffs arrayed on her pristine white linen couch in her freshly rented apartment in L.A.’s Silver Lake are metaphors. For a bright future. For a new life. For freedom. The Obvious Child star and her bichon frise, Reggie, just moved into this sunny one-bedroom in February, and every time she looks at those pillows, she gets so excited because she remembers how she’d bought them while still married to editor-director Dean Fleischer-Camp, her husband for three years, but had to stow them away because she realized it felt like they were living in a box of tampons. Now…

COME FROM AWAY BOOK, MUSIC, AND LYRICS BY IRENE SANKOFF AND DAVID HEIN. GERALD SCHOENFELD THEATRE. WHEN AMERICAN airspace was closed in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, more flights were diverted to Halifax, and more passengers to Vancouver, than anywhere else. But the small town of Gander—a former refueling stop in Newfoundland, with a two-person police force—was probably the most altered, its population of about 9,000 swollen for nearly a week by the arrival of 7,000 “plane people” (and a few animals) who had been en route from Europe to the U.S. The enormous job of housing, feeding, and caring for them all is the subject of the unlikely and aggressively nice new musical Come From Away, which opened on March 12 in a production…

“You can choose your husband, which I suppose means you can unchoose him. But you can’t choose your dad. Whether you like it or not, whether you like him or not, you are fused together. Like that time when I was four and dozing on his shoulder at daybreak as he carried me through the majestic ruins of New York’s old Penn Station, the felled granite column strewn like giant pick-up sticks across the marshy junkyard of New Jersey’s Meadowlands. I was part of him, my small body lifting and subsiding with his every breath.”…