Innholdsfortegnelse for 1/22-2/4/18 i New York Magazine

1 New York’s excerpt of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, on the chaotic first days of the Trump administration (“Sick of Winning,” January 8–21), quickly upended Washington—author Jared Yates Sexton called it “as must-read as must-read gets,” and The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf wrote, “Some of what is described here is the moral equivalent of treason.” The revelations also quickly received pushback from the White House: The day it was published, the president released a statement saying, “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind,” and he later tweeted that Wolff is “mentally deranged.” Sarah Huckabee Sanders dismissed it as “some trash [peddled by] an author that no one…

JANE BIRKIN DIDN’T much like the terribly sophisticated Serge Gainsbourg, 18 years older than she and already a famous singer, when she met him after being cast in the French film Slogan in 1968—she found him arrogant and snobbish. Or perhaps more to the point, she was convinced that he didn’t think much of her, a 21-year-old English actress who’d blown up after appearing, full frontal, in Antonioni’s Blow-Up, which was quite scandalous at the time. But she fell for him when they went out dancing, she’s always said. He kept stepping on her toes. “To find out that, in fact, he was extraordinarily timid and, yes, it was all just pretense,” recalls Birkin on a bright winter afternoon in the empty nightclub atop the Standard High Line, opened to…

THE GOAL: Find the best slippers that look like sneakers. After all, between Balenciaga’s sock sneakers, Allbirds’s wool slip-ons, and Adidas’s Primeknit racers, plenty of outdoor shoes feel like bedroom slippers. Surely the reverse must be true too. THE VERDICT: The One Love Socks by Fuggit ($60 at fuggitbrand.com) take aesthetic inspiration from the rarest, most coveted kicks on the market—in this case, Retro Air Jordan 1s—but are hand-crocheted by a team of female artisans in Turkey. Unlike most of the puffy slipper-sneakers available, Fuggits have a tapered, high-top silhouette and fake laces. And recently the brand’s founder, Richard Riley, started adding rubber soles—meaning you can even wear them downstairs to the deli.…

YES, WE KNOW it’s January and your fat-trimming resolutions have yet to melt away with the first snowfall. But there will come a time when you crave a burger. Here, three of the best new arrivals, distinguished either by compelling origin story or unique cooking method, and found where you might least expect them. 1 Mu Ramen’s the Harlan  This ramen(-shop) burger isn’t sandwiched between two piles of fried noodles but rather served on a housemade Asian-style potato bun. Into that fluffy cradle goes eight ounces of short-rib meat larded with dry-aged beef fat. Mu’s Joshua Smookler cooks the patties over hardwood charcoal in an oddball oven imported from Croatia expressly for this purpose; tops them with Taleggio, potato sticks, and—like at one of its inspirations, Minetta Tavern—deeply caramelized onions;…

SAD, MISUNDERSTOOD, and otherwise aberrantly unfunny clowns have been around since at least Pagliacci, but the past year has seen a kind of bad-clownaissance. From sewer-dwelling psychos to Boston city-council candidates, here are some recent standouts—and a look at how Chip Baskets, the clown Zach Galifianakis plays on Baskets, compares. Chip Baskets  THE CHARACTER: Chip is the title figure on the FX series Baskets, which stars Zach Galifianakis as a faltering professional clown. CLOWN CRIME: Failure—having trained at a prestigious Parisian school, Chip now makes his way as a rodeo clown while at times sharing quarters with his twin, Dale. BAD-CLOWN SCORE (OUT OF FIVE): Pennywise  THE CHARACTER: Pennywise—full name Pennywise the Dancing Clown—is the most common manifestation of a shape-shifting, sewer-dwelling creature that kills children in Stephen King’s 1986…

“I’M AN ASSHOLE. I’m abrasive. I am so sure that I’m right about virtually everything. I can sing you an aria of reasons to not like me,” says comics writer Christopher Priest, his bass voice rising to the brink of anger but never quite tipping over. “Not liking me because I’m black is so juvenile and immature, because there’s many reasons to not like me.” He’s speaking, as he often does, about the racism—both overt and structural—that he’s faced over his 40-year career. But his collection of attributes could double as a list of reasons to like him, or at least admire him—he’s unwaveringly outspoken, endearingly opinionated, as well as a pioneer in the comics industry. He’s also likely the only comics writer to have taken breaks from his career…

TV 1. Watch One Day at a Time Up on your feet. Netflix, January 26. The heartfelt and imaginative reboot of Norman Lear’s 1970s single-mom sitcom is back for a second season, with its core cast, including 80-something scene stealer Rita Moreno, returning from last year. MATT ZOLLER SEITZ POP 2. Listen to Man of the Woods Is it R&B? Is it country? RCA, February 2. No one knows what Justin Timberlake is planning to unleash on the world with his forthcoming outdoor-themed album. But with a list of collaborators that includes producers Pharrell and Timbaland and the singers Chris Stapleton and Alicia Keys, it’s bound to be worth a try. CRAIG JENKINS ART 3. See Survival Research Laboratories Noise, confusion, chaos. Marlborough Contemporary, 545 West 25th Street, through February…

IT’S 10:45 P.M. RIO DE JANEIRO TIME. Glenn Greenwald and I are finishing dinner at a deserted bistro in Ipanema. The restaurant, which serves its sweating beer bottles in metal buckets and goes heavy on the protein, is almost aggressively unremarkable (English menus on the table, a bossa-nova version of “Hey Jude” on the stereo). Greenwald avoids both meat and alcohol but seems to enjoy dining here. “I really believe that if I still lived in New York, the vast majority of my friends would be New York and Washington media people and I would kind of be implicitly co-opted.” He eats a panko-crusted shrimp. “It just gives me this huge buffer. You’ve seen how I live, right? When I leave my computer, that world disappears.” Greenwald, now 50, has…

There are few dishes in the Italian culinary playbook as irresistible as fritto misto—that hodgepodge of delicately fried morsels, traditionally a mix of offal or seafood plus assorted vegetables. When perfectly fresh and skillfully fried, these tidbits arrive golden and crunchy, mysteriously ungreasy, and dangerously addictive. Cheetos and Doritos have nothing on fritto misto. At Joe Carroll’s new Casino Clam Bar, chef Jeremiah Del Sol’s terrific version includes squid, shrimp, Spanish anchovies, Italian capers, Kalamata olives, sliced lemon, and, as you might expect given the name of the place, clam bellies. This being Williamsburg, Del Sol throws out a few well-placed curveballs, including house-pickled cucumbers, bell peppers, and Cubanelles. On the menu at Casino Clam Bar; $15; 160 Havemeyer St., nr. S. 2nd St., Williamsburg; 718-782-3474.…

I FIRST MET DECORATOR Cheryl Mowinckel when she and her husband, John, moved into my building in the Flatiron District. Their floor had originally been a small printing plant, after which it was the live-in studio of Lenore Tawney, a fiber artist and a member of the Coenties Slip artists’ group that at various times included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns, Agnes Martin, and James Rosenquist. Clouds of threads hung down from Tawney’s ceiling, and clouds of incense wafted into the elevator when it stopped on her floor. By the time the Mowinckels came, Tawney was long gone—and so were her collections of bird skeletons, eggshells, and rocks displayed along the seams in the floorboards, in descending order of size from the wall. Taken with the endless possibilities of…

“IT SEEMS SO OBVIOUS,” says the artist Hank Willis Thomas, who created the ALL LI_ES MATTER poster shown above, “that many people are lying when they say ‘All lives matter.’ If you believe all lives matter, then you’d also acknowledge that black lives matter, and those same people would be marching alongside if they believed that.” Obvious, perhaps, but certainly not universally believed, which is why Thomas applied his signature approach (eliminated letters, missing type) to that bland yet brutal slogan. His is among the visual statements contributed by 50 artists to New York as part of a project marking the magazine’s 50th-birthday year. The first of them, by the nonagenarian Alex Katz, appeared on our cover last fall, and is a drawing he did on the subway, an echo…

Laura Moser  Running for: U.S. House State: Texas A journalist and founder of the political group Daily Action, Moser became briefly internet-famous as the mother of the toddler who threw a tantrum on the floor of Obama’s office. She’s gotten loads of national attention for her race to replace nine-term incumbent John Culberson in a district that’s been red since the 1960s—but some major groups, like EMILY’s List, are backing one of her primary challengers, Houston lawyer Lizzie Fletcher. Stacey Abrams  Running for: Governor State: Georgia A tax lawyer, romance novelist, and former minority leader in the Georgia House of Representatives, Abrams has spent years registering new voters in her state. She’s campaigning in 2018 to become the first black female governor in the U.S. but has a formidable primary…

TADREE COPPEDGE Real-Estate Agent Are there any deals out there to be had? That whole Sutton Place area has some really interesting deals, believe it or not. Two-bedrooms over there are going for $2 million; the same apartment on 12th between Fifth and Sixth would be $3 million or even $3.5 million. What about anything … cheaper? Say, a two-bedroom under a million? Well, I only know Manhattan, and no, I really don’t see that kind of deal available. What one would have to do is find a small one-bedroom in a walk-up building with a studio adjacent, buy both, and then combine. Where do you live? I rent an apartment in the East Village. Do you live alone or do you have a partner? I don’t date anymore. I’ve…

ZACH GALIFIANAKIS’S HOME in Venice is only about 15 miles from Hollywood, but step inside the house of the inarguably successful and uncomfortably famous (at least for him) comedian, and it’s as if the town where he’s made a career doesn’t exist at all. There are no pictures of him and his old Hangover co-stars on the wall; no reproductions of his magazine covers; no photos from the opus of celebrity awkwardness that is his oft-viral online interview series Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis, which has featured Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, among many notable guests. There’s not even visible evidence of his current show, the deliciously absurd, frequently heartbreaking quasi-sitcom Baskets. In fact, there’s little indication that the guy who owns this place has done especially well in…

AS THE DISTINCTIVELY voiced and expertly inquisitive host of the NPR interview show “Fresh Air,” Terry Gross is well known to her legions of listeners. Or so they think! Gross, it turns out, is full of surprises—especially when she is on the receiving end of the probing questions. So who interviews the interviewer? Well, we did, and here is a quiz about the most surprising things we learned. TRUE OR FALSE? Terry Gross is friends with her guests. FALSE: “I figured out pretty early on that I’m not the kind of person who’s doing interviews to be friends with the guests. I’m not trying to prove that I’m smart or funny. I just want the guests to say things of value. I want them to be interesting, and I want…

The ’Sup Show  Caveat, January 25 Come for a look at this inventive new Lower East Side venue with variety shows on everything from science to cults; stay for this showcase highlighting queer, female, and gender-nonconforming performers. Butterboy  Littlefield, January 29 Names to know, like Hari Kondabolu, come through this weekly comedy show with a triple threat of hosts in Jo Firestone, Aparna Nancherla, and Maeve Higgins. W. Kamau Bell  Capitale, February 1 Expect topical humor galore from the CNN host and self-proclaimed “semi-prominent Negro” (above) as he takes the stage for two shows that will be filmed for a television special. Beautiful/ Anonymous Podcast With Chris Gethard  The Bell House, February 7 Hard to predict what the mood will be at this live taping of the podcast where television host and comedian Gethard…