Innholdsfortegnelse for 4/16-4/29/18 i New York Magazine

1 With essays by Jonathan Chait and David Cay Johnston and an exhaustive calendar of “501 Days in Swampland,” New York catalogued the boundless greed and graft that have become the hallmarks of the Trump administration (“The Stench of It,” April 2–15). “For Trump,” dsimon commented, “everything is transactional, so he believes that everything is transactional for everyone else. He can’t seem to imagine anyone acting out of a sense of public service or the general good.” Larry Slonim responded, “Lawsuits need to be filed and pressed in the federal district and appellate courts by state attorneys general. It’s so far proven to be the only effective avenue left to the public.” Steve Spaulding tweeted, “It’s clear that norms discouraging abuses of power and conflicts of interests are simply not…

SEVEN YEARS AGO, Erin Zapcica petite, muscular woman with hair dyed the raven-feather hue of Snow White’s—walked into Medieval Times in New Jersey, looking for a job. She was an aspiring actress who had just moved to the area (18 minutes away from Port Authority) to be closer to classes and auditions. Zapcic got hired in the gift shop and a month later was promoted to “bar wench”; after a few more months, she worked her way into the show’s cast, as one of the four rotating princesses who wait for a knight or a king to rescue them, two shows a day, three days a week. At that time, it never really occurred to Zapcic, now 29, that she might one day sit on the throne or that perhaps…

Jaron Lanier, virtual-reality pioneer. Founded first company to sell VR goggles; worked at Atari and Microsoft. Antonio García Martínez, ad-tech entrepreneur. Helped create Facebook’s targeted ad machine. Ellen Pao, former CEO of Reddit. Filed major gender-discrimination lawsuit against VC firm Kleiner Perkins. Can Duruk, programmer and tech writer. Served as project lead at Uber. Kate Losse, Facebook employee No. 51. Served as Mark Zuckerberg’s speechwriter. Tristan Harris, product designer. Wrote internal Google presentation about addictive and unethical design. Rich “Lowtax” Kyanka, entrepreneur who founded influential message board Something Awful. Ethan Zuckerman, MIT media scholar. Invented the pop-up ad. Dan McComas, former product chief at Reddit. Founded community-based platform Imzy. Sandy Parakilas, product manager at Uber. Ran privacy compliance for Facebook apps. Guillaume Chaslot, AI researcher. Helped develop YouTube’s algorithmic recommendation…

Cookies (1994) The original surveillance tool of the internet. Developed by programmer Lou Montulli to eliminate the need for repeated log-ins, cookies also enabled third parties like Google to track users across the web. The risk of abuse was low, Montulli thought, because only a “large, publicly visible company” would have the capacity to make use of such data. The result: digital ads that follow you wherever you go online. The Farmville vulnerability (2007) When Facebook opened up its social network to third-party developers, enabling them to build apps that users could share with their friends, it inadvertently opened the door a bit too wide. By tapping into user accounts, developers could download a wealth of personal data—which is exactly what a political-consulting firm called Cambridge Analytica did to 87…

Tracey Emin “SINCE I WAS 17 OR 18, I’ve been making paintings of myself with my legs open, masturbating. But the subject matter is really about being alone, purely alone, and everybody identifies with that, male or female. They’re not meant to be sexy images. As far as I’m concerned, people can fuck whoever they like, as long as it’s equal. But Balthus, the way he gazes on those girls, is not equal, not balanced. I don’t feel comfortable looking at Matisse, either, because he was making many of those paintings during the Holocaust and there’s no reference to war whatsoever. Yet Matisse was a beautiful painter. Willem de Kooning was as well. But he was horrific to women. I have a massive argument with a female art historian I…

LIVING WITH ART is easy enough. But what about living in art? On the following pages are three very different ways of doing just that. Take Doug Meyer’s recently renovated Chelsea one-bedroom (pictured), which is now a candy-colored fantasia of biomorphic walls-slash-sculptures. On Central Park South, we found collectors who purchased an awkward catacomb of adjacent apartments and enlisted D’Aquino Monaco to completely reimagine the concept of a gallery wall. And out in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, artist Leonardo Drew has turned a garage into a live-work wonderland. Plus, a preview of Peggy and David Rockefeller’s knickknack collection, on sale at Christie’s next month. FIRST LOOK This summer, London-based clothing-resale app Depop will open a shop in Nolita catering to both its buyers and its sellers (168 Mott St.).…

The fisherman’s breakfast on Cervo’s new brunch menu seems less like what an old salt might shove into his cooler next to the bait than an Iberian-accented take on New York Jewish appetizing. Instead of the bagel and lox, there are two slabs of expertly toasted sourdough bread, one topped with fancy Spanish sardines and a white-bean-and-fennel salad, the other with house-cured ocean trout and pickled red peppers. The fish changes, depending on whatever strikes the fancy of co-chefs Aaron Crowder and Nick Perkins, but the basic flavor and textural contrasts remain, along with the boiled egg that really telegraphs “breakfast,” fisherman’s or otherwise. On the brunch menu at Cervo’s; $19; 43 Canal St., nr. Ludlow St.; 212-226-2545. Icelandic ocean trout is cured gravlax style with salt, sugar, citrus…

WHEN YOU THINK prosciutto, you think Parma. You think San Daniele. And if Cesare Casella has his way, you’ll soon think Mapleville, Rhode Island (population 1,900), where Casella’s Prosciutto Speciale has been in production since early 2016. Launched last summer, the supple, meaty ham has made its way onto the menus of restaurants from Roberta’s in Brooklyn to Berkeley’s Chez Panisse. Manhattan diners might encounter it on a pizza at Marta or in its customary antipasto position at Houseman and Quality Italian. Casella is the perfect ambassador for pedigreed domestic prosciutto, a market that had heretofore pretty much been cornered by Iowa’s La Quercia. After a Tuscan childhood spent at the family trattoria and farm, he ran several New York restaurants including Beppe, Maremma, and Salumeria Rosi. Recently, he’s devoted…

Jordyn Woods: A social-media star-slash-model, a body-positivity crusader, and Kylie’s best friend. Also friends with Willow and Jaden Smith. Corey Gamble: Kris’s much-younger boyfriend; the two met when he was Justin Bieber’s tour manager. Younes Bendjima: Boyfriend of Kourtney, who finally swapped Scott Disick for a younger model. (Bendjima is also a model.) Jeff Leatham: The man responsible for the Kardashian-Jenner family’s elaborate and expensive floral arrangements and husband to fellow Who Colton Haynes. (See bottom of page.) Marina Acton: A Ukrainian entrepreneur and aspiring singer who started appearing in Kim’s Instagram feed after she bought Kim and Kanye’s old mansion for double what Kimye paid for it.…

Todrick Hall: Best pal to Taylor Swift, he’s a singer, actor, and dancer who’s been a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race and recently starred in Broadway’s Kinky Boots and Chicago. He’s 33 but calls his fans “Toddlerz.” Trisha Paytas: A YouTube pro who does it all on-camera: sings, dances, eats, and sobs uncontrollably. Tana Mongeau: Rose to fame via her dramatic “storytime” videos, such as “I FOUGHT A GROWN ASS COUPLE IN THE AIRPORT.” Liza Koshy: The 22-year-old got her start in 2013 making comedy videos on Vine and by 2016 was interviewing Barack Obama on YouTube.…

Ariel Winter, 20, grew up on ABC’s Modern Family. She’s a tabloid favorite for her tiny shorts, outspoken quotes, and complicated relationship with her estranged mother. Millie Bobby Brown, 14, plays Eleven on Stranger Things and is best friends with fellow young Who and Sia muse Maddie Ziegler. She recently announced a relationship with 15-year-old musical.ly star Jacob Sartorius. Yara Shahidi, 18, shot to Whodom as the eldest daughter on ABC’s Black-ish. Now she plays the same character on its Freeform spinoff Young-ish. She was recently accepted into Harvard with help from Michelle Obama, who wrote her a letter of recommendation. KJ Apa, 20, wasn’t born with red hair, but the hunky New Zealander plays Archie Andrews on the CW’s Riverdale anyway. (Didn’t you hear? Archie got hot.)…

TUESDAY FEB. 20, 2018 “ Emily Ratajkowski leaves little to the imagination as she goes topless for sultry Vanity Fair cover shoot … after claiming she’s at her most comfortable while naked.” DAILY MAIL WEDNESDAY FEB. 21 “TUM-THING DIFFERENT: Belly button shaping is the latest cosmetic surgery trend … and people are keen to copy Emily Ratajkowski’s ‘hooded oval.’” THE SUN THURSDAY FEB. 22 “Zach Braff Trolls Emily Ratajkowski in the Best Way Ever After She Posts Yet Another Nude Pic” HOLLYWOOD LIFE FRIDAY FEB. 23 “Model Emily Ratajkowski: SURPRISE, I’M MARRIED!!!” TMZ SATURDAY FEB. 24 “Chrissy Teigen ‘Oddly Mad’ She Wasn’t Invited to Emily Ratajkowski’s Wedding” E! NEWS TUESDAY FEB. 27 “What Emily Ratajkowski and Sebastian Bear-McClard’s Body Language Says About Their Relationship” COSMOPOLITAN WEDNESDAY FEB. 28 “Is Newlywed…

HOW DO scriptwriters invent memorable female characters? It helps to get it right from the very beginning, as Joseph L. Mankiewicz did introducing the woman who would be played by Bette Davis in his screenplay for All About Eve. “The CAMERA follows the bottle to MARGO CHANNING,” wrote Mankiewicz. “An attractive, strong face. She is childish, adult, reasonable, unreasonable—usually one when she should be the other, but always positive.” Not every writer takes the time to draw such an indelible character—some include few details other than an estimated age or a quick adjective, preferring instead to let the dialogue do the talking—but many of our most famous screen women were first created in those carefully composed sentences that just the actress, her writer, and their crew were lucky enough to…

Cynthia Nixon has deftly made the decaying, infuriating transit system a central campaign issue. How much she, or anyone, can do about it is an open question. The intensity of the subway’s troubles is new, but the problems themselves are not. JUNE 15, 1970 “Subway Roulette: The Game Is Getting Dangerous” “DELAYED TRAINS, begrimed windows, broken lights, incorrect signs, tattered advertising posters, the detritus of thousands of shifting, shuffling feet, a swaying, tortured ride with every man’s elbow your enemy—can anything be done about the appalling day-to-day state of the New York subways? … Roughly a third of the stations, mostly on the oldest line, the IRT, for example, are without running water. ‘Confidentially,’ a cleaners’ supervisor told me, ‘we use the closest hydrant.’” —Thomas R. Brooks JANUARY 26, 1981…

WE MET ONLY a few hours ago, and already New York City’s second-most-powerful politician has told me about the moment he learned he was HIV-positive, his former cocaine habit, his mother’s love life, his desire for a husband and kids, and how he barely gets laid. He has also invited me over to his tiny studio apartment so I can see precisely how small it is and presented me with a proposed theme for a potential 2021 mayoral run: “Stop Fucking With Us.” The slogan is not exactly bumper-sticker-ready yet, but to even the casual observer, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson has glitterbombed the city’s staid political scene since assuming the post in January. Flip through social media, and it’s hard to miss videos of Johnson, 35, belting out Lady…

PEOPLE ARE SOMETIMES surprised that painter Natalie Frank is not more, say, goth, given the often depraved sexual theatricality of her artwork. In person, the rather sensible 38-year-old Yale graduate, who lives not far from Union Square, could easily pass as the vice-principal of your child’s grammar school. Last summer, when I visited her at her Bushwick studio, we talked about the research she did for a series of fleshy and direct portraits of dominatrices and their subs (she’d spent a lot of time in dungeons, she told me, and was interested in how the encounters seemed less about sex than enacting a rigorous therapeutic fantasy). And she revealed that her next project, a series of pastel illustrations, was based on Story of O, the anonymously written 64-year-old classic of…

What sort of historian are you? I am working for a nonprofit and helping them write their organizational history, but on my own I’m working on a project about San Francisco, mostly focused on the ’70s and narratives of toxicity in the city’s built environment. I am not writing it for a specific place right now: I’m trying to sort of pull back and let the research lead that process. It’s hard for me to do, as I’ve always been reliant on validation of some sort. Where did you go to college? Harvard. I graduated last year. I met amazing people, and I also found an academic program that really meant a lot to me, but the social life and competition there is really hard to deal with; there’s so…

1 Ibérico Katsu Sando FERRIS 44 W. 29th St. If you’re up on the latest fancy-sandwich trends, you know the hottest thing going is the Wagyu katsu sando. This Japanese cutlet sandwich is traditionally made with pork or chicken, but that is not stopping some folks from substituting gazillion-dollar-per-pound Wagyu beef, dunking it in egg, rolling it around in bread crumbs, tossing it into the deep-fryer, and slapping the thing onto the customary crustless milk bread. Ferris chef Greg Proechel’s U.G.-budget-friendly answer to the movement achieves a remarkably similar effect by forgoing the high-grade beef for a super-tender shoulder cut of Spanish pork known as the presa, which is about as well marbled as Donald Trump’s bathtub ($12; pictured above). 2 Pork-Chop Sandwich MOMOFUKU NISHI 232 Eighth Ave.…

Lindsey Weber and Bobby Finger are the co-hosts of a podcast called Who? Weekly, a guide to “everything you need to know about the celebrities you don’t.” RITA ORA. BLAC CHYNA. COLTON HAYNES. ZENDAYA. BELLA THORNE. A Wholebrity (or just a “Who”) is the kind of celebrity—or “celebrity”—whose name makes many of us stop and ask: “Who?” The average celebrity-gossip connoisseur might have a difficult time matching a Wholebrity’s name to a face. But to ignore Whos, or pretend to be above them, is to miss out on the cultural conversation of the moment: We are living, increasingly, in a Who universe. These people, the sorta famous, have always been with us. They used to be known as C-through-Z-list celebrities. But today, everything has changed. The click-seeking media cover Whos…

Kaia and Presley Gerber: Cindy Crawford’s kids have parlayed looking like their mother into modeling careers. Austin Swift: Taylor’s brother has big Hollywood dreams, but most headlines about him still include his sister’s name. Paris Jackson: Michael’s daughter has appeared on the Fox show Star and is frequently seen with her godfather, Macaulay Culkin. Sofia Richie: Lionel’s daughter dates Kourtney Kardashian’s ex Scott Disick. Brooklyn Beckham: The son of David Beckham and Victoria is named Brooklyn and now lives in New York; he studies photography at Parsons.…

Professional hangers-on you’ll know from their appearances on Instagram and Snapchat. To help you remember who these thirsty helpers are and what they do, we’ve created a handy acronym, T.H.A.M.P.S.: T (trainer), H (hairstylist), A (agent), M (makeup artist), P (publicist), S (stylist). Jason Walsh: Responsible for hardening some of Hollywood’s hardest hard bodies—Bradley Cooper, Matt Damon, and Hilary Duff (whom he also once dated). Simon Huck: Owner of Command PR, Huck once starred in his own reality show, The Spin Crowd. It aired for one season. Sure, his only clients seem to be the Kardashians, but isn’t that enough? Mario Dedivanovic: You can thank @makeupbymario for “contouring”—a makeup technique popularized by Kim Kardashian that involves sculpting the structure of your face. You can also take his and Kim’s makeup…

Katie “Jordan” Price and Peter Andre: The two met on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! and were married for four years. They once covered “A Whole New World” from Aladdin. Gemma Collins: A breakout star from The Only Way Is Essex, Gemma has since gone on to great things, like falling in a hole onstage at the Radio 1 Teen Awards. Stephen Bear and Charlotte Crosby: After starring on Geordie Shore (the U.K.’s Jersey Shore), Crosby met Bear, an Ex on the Beach alum. They made headlines for repeatedly breaking and making up. Kem Cetinay and Amber Davies: They met on Love Island (the U.K.’s Temptation Island) and broke up 132 days later owing to hectic schedules. Ant and Dec: These comedians host Pop Idol and…

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever DECEMBER 11, 2011, TO JANUARY 29, 2012; TONY NOMINATION. THE CHARACTER: Melinda, a jazz singer who’s also the past life of a male florist. THE MUSIC: Jazz and scat singing, some of it from the Fred Astaire film Royal Wedding. HOW SHE MADE IT WORK: It was her first time on Broadway after years in Chicago theater, and Mueller says her co-star Harry Connick Jr. coached her on everything from vocal phrasing to handling the pressure. That she’d been a fan of his since high school also upped her game. “I had the person I wanted to impress most in the world in front of me every night.” The Mystery of Edwin Drood NOVEMBER 13, 2012, TO MARCH 10, 2013. THE CHARACTER:…

SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG WITH the internet. Even Mark Zuckerberg knows it. Testifying before Congress, the Facebook CEO ticked off a list of everything his platform has screwed up, from fake news and foreign meddling in the 2016 election to hate speech and data privacy. “We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility,” he confessed. Then he added the words that everyone was waiting for: “I’m sorry.” There have always been outsiders who criticized the tech industry—even if their concerns have been drowned out by the oohs and aahs of consumers, investors, and journalists. But today, the most dire warnings are coming from the heart of Silicon Valley itself. The man who oversaw the creation of the original iPhone believes the device he helped build is too addictive.…

Tim Berners-Lee Creator of the World Wide Web “The web that many connected to years ago is not what new users will find today. The fact that power is concentrated among so few companies has made it possible to weaponize the web at scale.” Sheryl Sandberg Chief operating officer at Facebook “We really believed in social experiences. We really believed in protecting privacy. But we were way too idealistic. We did not think enough about the abuse cases.” Pierre Omidyar Founder of eBay “Let’s build a comprehensive database of highly personal targeting info and sell secret ads with zero public scrutiny. What could go wrong?” Tim Cook CEO of Apple “I don’t have a kid, but I have a nephew that I put some boundaries on. There are some things…

THE WESTERN ART CANON is in no small part a parade of famous female nudes, from Praxiteles’s Aphrodite of Knidos from the fourth century B.C. to Manet’s 19th-century prostitutes (notably the recumbent, unamused Olympia) to John Currin’s Playboy-meets-Fragonard women—and almost all of them have been made by white male artists. Of course, as art historian Linda Nochlin famously observed, it was difficult for women to paint nudes when historically they weren’t even allowed to attend figure-drawing classes because of the naked people necessarily present. While feminist art critics have for decades pointed out the shortcomings of the “male gaze,” the post-#MeToo reckoning with the art world’s systemic sexism, its finger-on-the-scale preference for male genius, has given that critique a newly powerful force. And the question of the moment has become:…

IF YOU’VE EVER wondered how to use the bathroom in a ball gown, the answer is that you don’t. Or that it takes the help of two other people—a trusted confidante and a friendly bathroom attendant—to get the job done. This became apparent on April 8 in the ladies’ room at the Metropolitan Opera House, where a tall Toronto socialite named Sylvia Mantella could be found laughing at what the internet might call a “first-world problem.” In addition to the gold crown on her head, she wore a bulbous Dolce & Gabbana gown with animals like leopards hand-painted on it. (Mantella owns an exotic-animal sanctuary in Florida that houses a leopard named Jasmine.) But she wasn’t flustered. This is exactly the sort of folly that she and other Dolce &…

ILENE ROSEN may not have invented the salad, but there’s no question that she transformed it. Before Sweetgreen, before Chop’t, before words like vegivore and healthyish entered the lexicon, Rosen launched the salad bar at City Bakery, where for 15 years she combined Greenmarket sourcing and international flavors with an artist’s eye and pure quirk to make the act of filling a takeout container a thrilling culinary event. Now chef-partner at Brooklyn grocer R&D Foods, she’s published her first cookbook, Saladish (Artisan; $25), a compendium of recipes divided by season and punctuated by useful tips and techniques, treatises on texture and assembly, and pantry and equipment guides. While this might sound like every other vegetable-centric tome out there, Rosen distinguishes hers with images and recipes that reflect her unique eye…

RITA ORA British singer-actress. COLTON HAYNES Teen Wolf alum and BFF to the more famous. JULIANNE HOUGH Lifestyle influencer from Dancing With the Stars. HENRY CAVILL He plays Superman. BLAC CHYNA Instagram model turned Kardashian-family infiltrator. KALEY CUOCO The Big Bang Theory’s happy-go-lucky Everywoman. EMILY RATAJKOWSKI Model from the “Blurred Lines” video. JONATHAN CHEBAN Entrepreneur, Kim Kardashian friend, and Instagram foodie. BELLA THORNE Wild-child former Disney Channel star. ZENDAYA Mononymous actress, activist, and fashion favorite.…

Nick Viall (The Bachelor): A two-time Bachelorette runner-up who became the Bachelor of season 21. He and his winner, Vanessa, split; he was recently rumored to be dating January Jones. Robert Herjavec (Shark Tank): The Whoiest Shark competed on Dancing With the Stars and married his dance partner, Kym Johnson. Jon and Drew Scott (The Property Brothers): Tabloids love these home-rehabbing twins’ squeaky-clean image. Joseline Hernandez (Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta): She quit L&HH last year and dropped a diss track targeting fellow alum Cardi B. (She lost that battle.) She’ll soon have her own show, Joseline Takes Miami.…

Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn: All we know about him is that he’s blond, British, and a footnote in Swift’s Wikipedia entry. Britney Spears and Sam Asghari: The 25-year-old aspiring actor is seemingly as dedicated to fitness as he is to his famous girlfriend. Sam Smith and Brandon Flynn: Flynn plays a straight teen on 13 Reasons Why but has been seen making out with Smith in paparazzi shots the world round. Emma Watson and Chord Overstreet: When they got together, headlines wondered: “Who Is Chord Overstreet?” (He was on Glee.)…

Some celebrities are on the bubble between Whodom and Themdom. Julianne Hough is a prime example: She dances with stars on ABC—but is she one herself? The case can be made either way. She’s a THEM She starred in a Nicholas Sparks movie, Safe Haven. She’s a WHO She judges an ABC reality show. She’s a THEM Her wedding received extensive coverage (and a cover!) from People magazine. She’s a WHO She’s released two full-length country albums that no one has ever heard. She’s a THEM She has famous friends … She’s a WHO … Like Nina Dobrev, a Canadian TV actress. She’s a THEM She was invited to George Clooney’s tequila brand’s Halloween party in 2013 … She’s a WHO … She showed up in blackface. She’s a THEM…

“Calvin Buari is in court today to appeal his life sentence … This reckoning has been 22 years in the making. The judge addresses an almost-empty courtroom. There’s no jury for an appeal. I’m a journalist, and I’m the only person seated on the hard bench of the jury box. I’ve spent seven years following Cal’s story, seven years despite my best instincts and my best interests. I know all about the love story at its center and the turncoat and the betrayal and the perjury. I know that someone else confessed to the murders and that the justice system would not let that confession stand. I know that new eyewitnesses have come forward—I was the first to interview them—and I know that people have died waiting for this moment…