Innholdsfortegnelse for 11/13-11/26/17 i New York Magazine

1 In New York’s most recent issue, David Marchese sat down with Jimmy Kimmel, late-night’s most unlikely political voice (“In Conversation: Jimmy Kimmel,” October 30–November 12 ). Former Kimmel colleague Rick G. Rosner tweeted about the cover story: “Great interview with best guy in Hollywood.” And Representative Ro Khanna tweeted, “Thank you [to Kimmel] for speaking out on issues like health care and common sense gun safety.” Not everyone was convinced of the host’s new liberal bona fides, though. Laura Bradley at Vanity Fair wrote that “the comedian seemed to wear his newly earned crown reluctantly—and peppered his responses with comments that might give a few of his new fans pause … Indeed, from the interview, it’s not difficult to discern a certain conservatism to Kimmel’s outlook, despite his occasional…

THE VERY FUNNY Swedish art-world farce The Square may have been a divisive pick when it won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, but there was one thing the entire international film community could agree on: the swooning. Claes Bang, the movie’s dashing and virtually unknown Danish star, might as well carry a fainting couch with him, considering how often he inspires fawning reveries from anyone who sees him, onscreen and off. “The main actor, I felt in love, I must say, and I’m not the only one,” said French actress-director Agnès Jaoui when asked at a press conference why she and other Cannes jury members had given The Square the top prize. “Yes! Yes!” enthused Will Smith, sitting next to her. Bang is six-foot-four with a…

THE REPUBLICAN ARIZONA state senator Steve Montenegro had a brief moment in the national spotlight earlier this year when he defended President Trump’s pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and accused the GOP strategist Ana Navarro of being a knee-jerk leftist on national television. Montenegro lost that debate and currently lacks the polish needed for the national political stage, but he offers a template for a new brand of politician that could be successful: the vehemently anti-immigration, nationalist Latino conservative. To date, Latino Republicans like U.S. senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have not gone down that road, but future politicians could. Democrats tend to take the Latino vote for granted, but there are many descendants of immigrants who are hostile toward further immigration and would prefer to pull up the…

THE SOUTH AFRICAN ARTIST Zanele Muholi’s self-portraits seem familiar at first: a sullenly glamorous, steady-eyed, dark-skinned woman, dressed up in what could be a nearly National Geographic vision of Third World exoticism. Except—wait, is that necklace made out of clothespins? And what is that pythonlike thing wrapped around her neck? “My travel pillows,” she says, laughing, when we talk in November in New York, where her work is on display at Yancey Richardson Gallery. “Turned back to front.” The effect is beautiful, playful, and disarming, but it’s the stories they tell that matter most to Muholi: The one with the jeweled tiara, for instance, is a reference to how, until apartheid ended in 1991, only white women could be crowned Miss South Africa (nonwhite women could become Miss Africa South).…

CHINESE Without the Buddhist-monk invention of the original mock meat—mian jin, or wheat gluten—there’d be no Tofurky or wheatballs. Find facsimiles of everything from jellyfish to lamb stew at Buddha Bodai (5 Mott St.). FRENCH The stronghold of saucisson and Camembert might seem like a vegan’s nightmare. But at Délice & Sarrasin , the escargots are oyster mushrooms and the foie gras is tahinibased (20 Christopher St.). INDIAN Few cuisines are as vegetarian-friendly as Indian, but vegans need to beware the ubiquitous ghee. This is not an issue at the NY Dosas street cart in Washington Square Park, where Thiru Kumar has peddled dairy-free dosas for 16 years. ITALIAN In the old country, the meat-starved cucina povera relied on beans, greens, grains, and stale bread. In New York, you’ll find…

Armie Hammer Armand Douglas “Armie” Hammer is an American actor best known for Call Me by Your Name, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and his performance as both Winklevoss twins in The Social Network. He is the great-grandson—and namesake—of the oil tycoon Armand Hammer. Armand Hammer Oil tycoon Armand Hammer ran Occidental Petroleum Corporation until his death in 1990. Hammer claimed to be named for the fictional character Armand Duval, though others suggest his father named him for the arm-and-hammer insignia of the Socialist Labor Party of America. Arm & Hammer Arm & Hammer is a trademark of Church & Dwight, a manufacturer of cleaning products. Apocryphally linked to Armand Hammer (Occidental did own a stake in the company), Arm & Hammer predates his birth by 30 years; it reputedly refers…

OVER A YEAR ago, in an era long past, I began inquiring into the matter of the apocalypse. It is important to remember that it was still possible, way back in the early autumn of 2016, to reflect upon the end of the world as an abstraction. I had decided that I was going to write a book about apocalyptic dread—about, among other things, its various manifestations in contemporary culture, as well as my own anxieties (as a father of a 3-year-old, and more generally as a human being) about ecological catastrophe, the instability of globalized economic systems, the prospect of nuclear devastation, and other sources of general bad vibes. The project required a cultural diet of raw apocalypticism. For me, a typical day might have involved kicking back with…

A View That Thrills UPSTAIRS AT THE KIMBERLY HOTEL 145 E. 50TH ST. | 212-702-1685 | upstairsnyc.com MIDTOWN NEVER LOOKED this good. Exquisitely designed for year-round enjoyment, Upstairs has a fully retractable glass roof and walls; offering a panoramic view of Midtown Manhattan, the East River, and the iconic Chrysler Building. Throughout the winter and fall, the heated floor, ivy-encrusted fireplace, and heat lamps keep you toasty as you indulge in savory dishes and specialty cocktails. During this holiday season mingle under the stars while taking in the incredible views of the New York City skyline. Lush, living green walls cascade down bronze panels framing the surrounding cityscape from every possible angle. A perfect view of the dazzling Chrysler Building is the star of the show. The…

HIGHBROW Thanks to Representative Rob Bishop of Utah, the Endangered Species Act is itself endangered. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the richest one percent of the population will get 48 percent of the GOP’s proposed tax cuts by 2027 … Harvey Weinstein reportedly hired ex–Mossad agents to befriend and dig up dirt on accusers and the journalists looking into those accusations … The Hollywood access-for-softball-questions reputation-protection industry has a reputation problem of its own now, just in time for Oscar season. Richard Prince’s empty, cynical “Ripple Paintings” at Gladstone Gallery. Billionaire owner Joe Ricketts shuttered the local-news websites Gothamist and DNAinfo after the staffs voted to unionize. ... Of course, as the Paradise Papers prove (again), it’s not like the superrich are paying their share anyway.…

The View From the Edge “There are lights skating up 51 stories to the copper tops of the buildings of the World Financial Center,” Julie Baumgold wrote. “They are lights from the windows of Merrill Lynch and Oppenheimer, Dow Jones and American Express. Each light is a Suit working late because of the stock crisis, guys in shirts looking at numbers and making late, painful calls, but downstairs, downstairs—it’s burning.” What was burning was Christian Lacroix’s first New York fashion show. It took place a week after what was already being called Black Monday, the day the Dow fell 22 percent. Baumgold had already been at work on a profile of Lacroix, the most-talked-about designer among the city’s socialites. His maximalist designs were ridiculous and funny, and could top $25,000…

CARDI B THINKS NOBODY is watching her as she practices in the backstage holding pen at Brooklyn Academy of Music, where Jimmy Kimmel Live! is taping a special. Everyone is, though: She’s built to watch, built herself to be watched; 12.8 million Instagram followers agree. But this is a jittery, private moment. She’s mouthing her lyrics into a handheld mic, nervously marking when she’s going to shimmy her shoulders, flip her hair, grind her hips, point at the audience. Cardi B—the stripper turned social-media sensation turned reality-TV star and, now, ascendant rapper—has performed her surprise hit “Bodak Yellow” dozens upon dozens of times before this. She’s done it at least five times this week, and it’s only Wednesday. In late September, with an assist from an online fan campaign, Cardi…

THE GOAL: Find the softest cashmere yarn. Expert knitters guided us away from yarns made of short hairs that pill quickly and toward longer fibers in plush, prewashed skeins. THE VERDICT : Rebecca Kevelson started her knitting career a decade ago as a shop clerk at String, an Upper East Side boutique owned by Linda Morse, the woman who, with Luxury Knitting, literally wrote the book on fancy yarn. When her mentor sold the shop, Kevelson went to write for Vogue Knitting, and she soon noticed a gap in the market for quality soft yarns. In August, she opened Clinton Hill Cashmere Company, offering threads measuring 15.5 microns, well below the usual cashmere count of 19 microns, making her fibers thinner and therefore silkier than just about everything else. Her…

For such outspoken sticklers for tradition, Italians have a little-known experimental streak. It’s on display at Mulino a Vino in Chelsea, whose opening chef Davide Scabin infused the menu with whimsies like cacio e pepe doughnuts. The restaurant’s owner, Paolo Meregalli, has expanded on the theme with a casual spinoff called Raviolo, where he translates classic Italian primi and secondi into a menu of dumplings (filled pastas) and buns (steamed-bread sandwiches), served dim-sum style with bamboo steamers and chopsticks. What prevents this notion from qualifying as fusion, says Meregalli, is the fact that every ingredient is Italian, down to the steamed buns, which are made in-house. They make a pillowy cushion for the only version of spaghetti alla carbonara you should eat with your hands. On the menu at Raviolo…

CASHEW BLUE-GREEN ALGAE, BEETS, AND TURMERIC Dr-Cow  Striking three-toned good looks (the spumoni of vegan cheese) with a rich and tangy flavor and a smooth texture not unlike a less dense terrine of foie gras. It’s made in Williamsburg by an Argentine hippie philosopher named Pablo Castro. ($13.75 for 4 ounces, at Dr-Cow; 93 S. 6th St., Williamsburg) CASHEW OF THE WOODS NUT-MILK CHEESE Punk Rawk Labs  As the name suggests, this is flavored with ’shrooms (shiitake, cremini, and button), and truffle salt. It’s bright and peppery with a nice note of fermented funk. ($12.50 for 4.25 ounces, at Orchard Grocer; 78 Orchard St.) MT. VESUVIUS BLACK ASH Miyoko’s Kitchen  Sharp and salty with the pronounced tang of an aged goat cheese, and firmer in texture than most. Chickpea miso…

If you need proof that the vegan life isn’t one of total deprivation, look no further than your local vegan bakery. Cane sugar, after all, is vegan, as are its equally plant-based cohorts: agave syrup, maple syrup, molasses, coconut sugar. (Only honey’s verboten, since it’s the exploitive product of bee labor.) Here, four standouts: CONFECTIONERY! 440 E. 9th St.  East Village outpost of two cult New Paltz brands: Sweet Maresa’s, which has mastered macarons without egg whites, and Lagusta’s Luscious, creator of the Furious Vulva bonbon and the better-than-Snickers Turtle Bar. DUN-WELL DOUGHNUTS 222 Montrose Ave., East Williamsburg; 102 St. Marks Place  The setting is ye olde apothecary, the soft-serve ice cream is made from cashews, and the crowd favorite among the daily-changing flavors is PB&J. FINE & RAW 288…

Zeroing In on Moving Targets MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER 800-525-2225 | mskcc.org On Location: Tracking Lung Tumors  Delivering the exact right dose of therapeutic radiation to a tumor as precisely as possible is complicated enough. So what happens when that tumor is a moving target? Such is the case with lung tumors, which are notoriously difficult to treat with radiation. With every breath, a patient’s lungs expand and contract, shifting the location of a lung tumor just enough to increase the chance that radiation may miss the cancer cells and damage normal tissue. Tackling the issue is Andreas Rimner, MD, a radiation oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center(MSK).Heisstudying the use of an internal tumor- tracking device for patients with lung cancer called Calypso® GPS for…

THE ANGER WINDOW is open. For decades, centuries, it was closed: Something bad happened to you, you shoved it down, you maybe told someone but probably didn’t get much satisfaction—emotional or practical—from the confession. Maybe you even got blowback. No one really cared, and certainly no one was going to do anything about it. But for the past six weeks, since reports of one movie producer’s serial predation blew a Harvey-size hole in the news cycle, there is suddenly space, air, for women to talk. To yell, in fact. To make dangerous lists and call reporters and text with their friends about everything that’s been suppressed. This is not feminism as we’ve known it in its contemporary rebirth—packaged into think pieces or nonprofits or Eve Ensler plays or Beyoncé VMA…

LIGHTNING ROUND Age: 11. Neighborhood: East Village. School: Epiphany. “We have to wear a uniform. I don’t mind it, actually.” Favorite TV show: MacGyver with Richard Dean Anderson. “I’ve seen every episode.” Favorite movie: “Hands down, Pirates of the Caribbean.” What he wants for Christmas: “A trick scooter and a Star Wars Lego set.” Did you have a good day at school? I had a few tests, got to see my friends. It was a good day. What’s your biggest fear? Good question; let me think about that. What am I most afraid of? Um … airplanes. And I really am so scared of horror movies. I cannot. I even got scared when we tried to watch The Mummy; I got scared of the…

Oil Low in essential fatty acids, high in saturated fat (more than butter!), this once-maligned, now-glorified product is best in smallish doses. Commonly found in vegan snacks and pizza cheese. (See “Pizza.”) Milk The result of blending coconut meat and water, then straining. Good for curries; not so great with cereal. Yogurt Rapidly expanding alt-dairy category; Anita’s is a popular, easy-to-find locally made brand. Butter Made by processing dried coconut flakes. Find it in health-food stores next to the nut butters. Sugar Evaporated nectar of the coconut palm’s flowers. Minimally processed but still sugar. Found in vegan chocolate. Whip Dessert topping, made by whipping and sweetening coconut cream. Found on top of vegan ice-cream sundaes and in canisters on store shelves.…

ARMIE HAMMER is six-foot-five, a general advantage in life but one that doesn’t serve him well on the dance floor. “When I dance,” he told me recently over lunch in West Hollywood, “I think, You’re really shit at this, and everyone around you knows it because you’re the tallest guy on the dance floor and you stick out like a sore thumb.” You can imagine Hammer’s embarrassment, then, when he had to shoot a dance scene for his new movie, the 1980s-set gay romance Call Me by Your Name. It’s a pivotal moment in the film that comes not long after his character, grad student Oliver, has arrived in a small Italian village to assist the professor father of our protagonist, 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet). The secret crush on this…

BEFORE AMY SCHUMER was your favorite Trainwreck, she was a comedian to watch. Ditto Kumail Nanjiani, who appeared in these pages in 2009. This year, in advance of the Vulture Festival L.A.’s “Comedians You Should and Will Know,” we polled top bookers and executives to come up with a list of the best up-and-comers. Here, a half-dozen: Marcella Arguello  THINK OF: A glamazon Dana Carvey. YOU MAY HAVE SEEN HER ON: @midnight on Comedy Central. SAMPLE PUNCH LINE: [Told while impersonating Beyoncé] “I was very disappointed that Solange, or as many of you know her, ‘Beyoncé’s sister,’ attacked Jay-Z … or as I refer to him, ‘Beyoncé’s husband.’” Langston Kerman  THINK OF: A high-energy Wyatt Cenac. YOU MAY HAVE SEEN HIM ON: HBO’s Insecure. PUNCH LINE: “I live in a…