Innholdsfortegnelse for 1/8-1/21/18 i New York Magazine

1 For New York, writer Mattathias Schwartz and photographer Matt Black spent weeks in Puerto Rico this fall documenting the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria (“100 Days of Darkness,” December 25, 2017–January 7, 2018). BuzzFeed’s Matt Ortile wrote that “this week’s cover from New York is putting me through the wringer—heartbreaking photography with a quote up top that makes me want to vomit.” And Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum responded, “We need this administration to finally show some compassion.” Thomas J. Field, a spokesperson for the Army’s power-restoration task force in Puerto Rico—who was quoted in the story saying, “Just because you ask for something doesn’t mean you’re going to get it. FEMA has a responsibility to the taxpayer,” in response to an unfulfilled request to have a new generator delivered…

1. Where Does He Find These People? The president’s first national-security adviser was a paid agent of the Turkish government; his second communications director raised more awareness about auto-fellatio than about the Republican agenda. Trump’s hires in lower-profile positions have been equally interesting: David Friedman, ambassador to Israel: Trump’s former bankruptcy lawyer, Friedman believes that Barack Obama is anti-Semitic; that Israel has a legal right to annex the occupied West Bank; that liberal American Jews who disagree with him are “far worse than kapos,” i.e., Jews who carried out Nazi orders during the Holocaust. The Reverend Jamie Johnson, director of community outreach, Department of Homeland Security: To work with skeptical faith-based communities, Trump picked Johnson, a conservative talk-radio host who’d argued that “Islam is not our friend” and…

2018 AFTER A YEAR of eating his way through the city’s best oyster frittatas, Iraqi dumplings, Nagasaki eels, and goat-only menus, our critic Adam Platt has assembled his annual best-restaurants survey. Changes abound: Once a no-go zone, midtown is suddenly home to actually good places to eat. Beef is back, as is breakfast. It was the year of top-rate omakase and excellent global cuisine (like Guan Fu Sichuan, seen here and found in the basement mall underneath Flushing’s Hyatt Place hotel). And for those looking to forget that 2017 happened at all, there were lots of fine new bars to get completely blotto in while gorging on Manila clams and patty melts.…

WHERE SHOULD I BE EATING these days?!” is the question your humble critic always hears this time of year, echoing incessantly from colleagues and family members and even from dimly known acquaintances, as I stagger down the windswept avenues on the way to my next meal. The answer, as always in the roiling, ever-evolving cosmos of New York dining, is everywhere, including that perpetually challenged, overpriced region known as midtown, which lately has undergone a renaissance, replete with freshly renovated seafood palaces, futuristic cocktail bars, and even a new upscale destination taco joint. Elsewhere around town, venerable dining establishments are receiving all sorts of wild and modish makeovers, breakfast has suddenly become the new “It” meal among even the most ambitious superstar chefs, and inspired little establishments serving specialties from…

abcV 38 E. 19th St. 212-475-5829 Air’s Champagne Parlor 127 Macdougal St. 212-420-4777 Atla 372 Lafayette St.no phone Ato 28 Grand St. 646-838-9392 The Aviary NYC 80 Columbus Cir.no phone Bar Moga 128 W. Houston St. 929-399-5853 The Beatrice Inn 285 W. 12th St. 212-675-2808 Café Altro Paradiso 234 Spring St. 646-952-0828 Cervo’s 43 Canal St. 212-226-2545 Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare 431 W. 37th St. 718-243-0050 Chez Ma Tante 90 Calyer St., Greenpoint 718-389-3606 Claro 284 Third Ave., Gowanus 347-721-3126 Cote 16 W. 22nd St. 212-401-7986 DaDong 3 Bryant Park 212-355-9600 Daily Provisions 103 E. 19th St. 212-488-1505 Du’s Donuts and Coffee 107 N. 12th St., Williamsburg 718-215-8770 Eleven Madison Park 11 Madison Ave. 212-889-0905 Empellón 510 Madison Ave. 212-858-9365 Empire Diner 201 Tenth Ave. 212-335-2277 Fairfax 234 W.…

IN 2017, it was possible to see parables everywhere. A racist reality star was in the Oval Office, and actual neo-Nazis were claiming Taylor Swift as their Aryan princess; surely the time had come to scrutinize the content we consumed (binged, bought, shared, streamed, absorbed glassy-eyed) and determine what it actually said about the America we inhabited. It was the perfect year to take pop culture very seriously. On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump was sworn in as president. The same day, The Big Sick premiered at Sundance. From the Capitol steps, Trump declared that it would now be “only America first”; in Park City, Utah, a genial romantic comedy from Pakistani-American comedian Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, Emily Gordon, emerged as a festival favorite. The Big Sick would go…

Maura B. Jacobson, constructor of New York’s crossword puzzle from 1980 to 2011, died on Christmas Day at the age of 91. During her 1,400-puzzle tenure, she presided over one of the most well-loved and popular features in the magazine. In those three decades (until she dropped back to alternating weeks in her final year as our constructor), she never skipped an issue, not once. Her longtime friend Will Shortz, the New York Times’ puzzle editor, called her “a national treasure”—a distinction owed mostly to her knack for creating crossword grids that were unusually dense with theme clues, shot through with a distinctive and sometimes antic whimsy. Often, she’d build the grid around a funny rhymed verse that revealed itself as the puzzle was filled in. We have a memorial…

THE QUIZ DADDY is not, by his own admission, a pub-quiz guy. (He’s not much of a drinker.) Nevertheless, he is here at Amity Hall, an Irish pub in Greenwich Village, trying to remember the ship that took Charles Darwin to the Galápagos. “HMS Majesty?” the Quiz Daddy ventures. “No, not that. Darwin’s ship …” He trails off, and we sit in hard-thinking, pub-quiz silence. This is an unfamiliar position for the Quiz Daddy. He is by trade an asker, not an answerer, of questions. In 90 minutes, at 9 p.m., 700,000 people will pick up their phones and open an app called HQ Trivia to play the second of two daily live games. The Quiz Daddy—born Scott Rogowsky—will be their host. For now, though, he’s simply another contestant at…

Emily Weiss is standing on Lafayette Street, just north of Canal, wearing a red lace Valentino dress with a puffy pink fur jacket draped awkwardly over her shoulder. It’s an incongruous outfit for the season (mid-November) and the weather (brrrr) and the time of day (just after 9 a.m.), but it’s also exactly the kind of thing someone would wear if she expected to show up on lots of social-media feeds within the hour. Weiss is smiling as she ducks into a storefront: Its windows are opaque, but the whole thing is glowing red, matching her dress and her jacket—it’s just all so beautifully photographable. There are a few small letters on the front: GLOSSIER YOU, the name of her first fragrance. This is the pop-up shop to launch the…

1. Atla Enrique Olvera’s all-day post-gourmet coffee, breakfast, lunch, and dinner bar checks all of the boxes by combining the economy and comfort of first-class Mexican home cooking with the elevated sensibility and technique of a first-class kitchen. 2. The Grill Mario Carbone’s glamorous, endlessly hyped, elaborately priced ode to the fat-cat delicacies of mid-century Manhattan can be overwhelming at dinnertime, but if you go at lunch, when the service is less hectic and the temperature in the great room drops by several degrees, it’s one of the best new meals in town. 3. Cote Simon Kim’s pricey American-steakhouse–meets–rough-and-tumble Korean-barbecue concept is so ingeniously simple you wonder why no one ever thought of it before. 4. Ato We’re as weary as the next expense-account warrior of pricey omakase dinners, but…

SILVER LAKE’S LAMILL COFFEE SHOP is crowded for a late afternoon, just a few days after Christmas. The sleek black tables are dotted with white cups and plates and laptops open to Final Draft or some other screenwriting program. The gaudy, metallic-teal leather chairs are full of attractive people who look like they’ve answered a casting call: Extras needed for café scene, male or female, age: late-20s/mid-30s. Any ethnicity (but predominantly white). Talent should look hip; tattoos preferred. It’s the perfect scene for actress and writer Lena Waithe to walk into, wearing a vintage Tales From the Hood T-shirt, tapered heather-red Nike sweats, and sneakerhead-approved Nikes. And not just because she’s a screenwriter in fashion joggers in a coffee shop during working hours, or because this could easily be a…

1. “The Sunken Place” is: (A) A purgatorial realm in which innocent people are trapped by evildoers. (B) A bracing metaphor for the alienation black people feel in a world defined by white privilege. (C) The place the kids on Stranger Things disappear to. (D) The coffee shop on Friends. 2. Taylor Swift is: (A) America’s sweetheart. (B) An irrelevant relic of a genre of pop music built on systemic cultural appropriation. (C) The unwilling poster child of alt-right neo-Nazis. (D) Prominently featured on Time’s “Person of the Year” cover celebrating women who spoke out against sexual harassment, which, yes, she was involved in that one lawsuit, but still, it was kind of distracting. 3. Who is your favorite late-night host? (A) Jimmy Fallon. He just keeps it light! (B)…

POP 1. See Cracker & Camper Van Beethoven Double dose. Highline Ballroom, January 14. Texan singer-songwriter David Lowery is one of rock’s most underrated jugglers: His ’80s band Camper Van Beethoven recorded scrappy, wry gems like “The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon” and “Take the Skinheads Bowling,” and his ’90s flagship Cracker served considerably beefier fare, like the grunge-era standard “Low.” Dig the versatility as Lowery brings both acts out for the same Highline Ballroom night. CRAIG JENKINS ART 2. See Genesis P-Orridge: Tree of Life Vision of a post-Fluxus world. Invisible-Exports, 89 Eldridge Street, through February 4. By some measures, the artist Genesis P-Orridge is a living legend, branded in 1976 by a member of the British Parliament as a “wrecker of civilization.” Here we see works…

THE CORNERSTONE of Marine Serre’s 2016 graduation collection from La Cambre, the Belgian design school, was a print of a tiny crescent moon. Although the celestial symbol has links to a number of cultures and religions, it is most commonly associated with Islam, and it was in that context that Serre used it in her collection, which she named “Radical Call for Love.” Born in 1991, Serre is French, part of a generation that has grown up fearing terrorism but also the reaction to terrorism. The attacks in Paris in November 2015 and in Brussels four months later occurred during her final year at La Cambre. Her collection, which included references to 19th-century dress and contemporary sportswear, was a response to those events, although Serre stopped short of calling it…

LIZ KLEIN Art Adviser That looks like a very warm coat. It is. It’s Fendi. I like the cold. I don’t like to be cold, but I know how to dress for the cold. You have to channel Julie Christie and Omar Sharif from Doctor Zhivago and look like you’re about to set out across the tundra in a sleigh. In the winter, I only wear wool and fur. I look around and see people in jean jackets and sweatshirts and want to go up to them and say, “I can help you! No cotton!” Cotton is a plant, it attracts moisture. Where are you from? I grew up in Manhattan, on the Upper East Side, and went to an all-girls school—Nightingale. Growing up here, you miss out on pool…

Clickbait dishes. Yes, they’re part of the jangled, intrusive, interconnected world we all live in, and yes, some of them are works of genius. Most of them, however, are not. Really, really, really expensive restaurants. The cost of doing business is out of control, it’s true, but the increasingly conspicuously high barriers to entry, especially in Manhattan, are turning “fine dining” in this great dining city into a millionaire tourist’s game. Domineering-male-dominated kitchens. As many have pointed out, this tradition is as old as the history of restaurants. Here’s a little New Year’s wish that, at long last, we’re beginning to see the end of it. Gourmet breakfast sandwiches. I’m as guilty of the hype as the next breakfast-sandwich lover, but as wacky ingredients (and prices) keep piling up, this…

9-1-1 A new first-responders procedural from producer Ryan Murphy, airing on Fox. The show boasts a standout cast, including Connie Britton, Angela Bassett, and Peter Krause. Critics have praised it despite its familiar format, with one calling it “a pretty solid way to start 2018.” 9JKL A new sitcom created by actor Mark Feuerstein and his wife, Dana Klein, that debuted on CBS in October. It centers on a man in apartment 9K, with parents and siblings in adjacent units. Critics blasted its familiar format, with one lamenting the “jokes that are beyond stale.” Reno 911! A spoof series that ran on Comedy Central from 2003 to 2009, conceived as a satire of Cops. Largely improvised, the show featured members of the comedy troupe the State. One critic recommended it…

THE YEAR IS YOUNG (one week and counting) and, even in this season of resolutions, there’s plenty still unresolved about what’s coming up, culture-wise, in 2018. But there’s also plenty to get psyched about—and it’s never too early to feel unreasonably excited about things you’ll have to wait weeks (or months) to see, hear, or read. Here are seven. KEY Great Trailer 1 Black Panther Marvel Studios, February 16 WHAT IT IS: A superhero film about an African king that promises to be a) actually good and b) possibly revolutionary. GET EXCITED: Because you need to be excited about something these days—why not hotshot director Ryan Coogler (Creed), a cast to die for, and a movie that in every way seems determined to reinvent the stories that make…