Innholdsfortegnelse for 5/14-5/27/18 i New York Magazine

SO FAR, the biggest perceived effect of the most important data-privacy law ever has been a sharp increase in emails from social networks and web services alerting me that those endless contractual walls of text you thoughtlessly click OKAY on—privacy policies, data policies, and/or terms of service—will change, most of them conspicuously on the same date, May 25, 2018. Almost none of them mention what, exactly, has led to this mass update: the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. GDPR becomes law, as keen deductive minds might gather, on May 25, two years after it was adopted by the European Parliament and just a few months after Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal turned data privacy into a top issue for every ambitious politician and excitable journalist in the U.S.…

OVER LUNCH THIS SPRING, Nikola Burnett, a 15-year-old who always carries two cameras—one film and one digital—sat staring at an Instagram selfie, perplexed. The subject was Miquela Sousa, better known as Lil Miquela, a 19-year-oldBrazilian-American model, musical artist, and influencer with over a million Instagram followers, who is computer-generated. “She’s not real, right?” Nikola asked me shyly. She knew the answer, but something about Miquela made her question what her eyes were telling her. At first glance, or swipe, Miquela could understandably be mistaken for a living, breathing person. She wears real-life clothes by streetwear brands like Supreme and luxury labels like Chanel. She hangs out with real-life musicians, artists, and influencers in real-life trendy restaurants in New York and Los Angeles, where she “lives.” When Miquela holds her phone…

1 What other types of stores are doing okay? According to Faith Hope Consolo, chairman of Douglas Elliman’s retail division, who likes to say “Retail is my detail.” BEAUTY “They’re booming. It’s all about Sephora and Blue Mercury and Ulta. But whether it’s natural beauty”—since 2011, Aesop has opened ten New York storefronts—“or the new Korean cosmetics chains”—Amorepacific, South Korea’s Estée Lauder–like company, has opened Aritaum stores in the city; Innisfree has an experiential Union Square store—“a lot of the single brands are expanding like crazy, and they’re going onto Madison Avenue, into Hudson Yards: M.A.C, Kiehl’s, Jo Malone, Milk.” HOME “There’s a new crop of stores doing something special like bedding”—like Parachute Home, which is moving into a permanent Soho store soon—“or the new Casper mattress stores, where they…

IT’S SHAPING UP to be a very slurpy summer. In addition to German’s Soup (see below), there’s lots of Vietnamese pho coming our way. The folks at An Choi on the Lower East Side are branching out to Brooklyn with Di An Di, which means “Let’s eat” or “Let’s go eat.” As opposed to An Choi, where the spotlight is on bánh mì, the focus here is pho and more pho, plus a few other non-pho noodle soups. The menu looks great. In particular, we have our eye on the Pho Thin Hanoi (pictured), a tribute to the signature soup served at Hanoi’s famous Pho Thin restaurant, which comes topped with wok-seared fatty brisket and a poached egg. That and a fried cruller on the side, for dunking, should do…

FAHRENHEIT 451 debuts May 19 on HBO. WHEN I ASK Ramin Bahrani, writer and director of HBO’s new TV movie Fahrenheit 451, why he thought the world needed another adaptation of the Ray Bradbury sci-fi dystopian classic when there’s already a François Truffaut version from 1966, he points to my iPhone and says, “This thing.” Bradbury’s original 1953 novel imagined a United States that has outlawed books, which are referred to as “graffiti”; teams of “firemen” are tasked with burning them to suppress the dangerous ideas contained within. But two years ago, when Bahrani showed an early outline of his screenplay to a friend, the friend said, “I read this on my tablet, which has a million books on it—why do I care about burning paper books?” “It hit me:…

AS A SYSTEM, art fairs are like America: They’re broken and no one knows how to fix them. Like America, they also benefit those at the very top more than anyone else, and this gap is only growing. Like America, the art world is preoccupied by spectacle—which means nonstop art fairs, biennials, and other blowouts. Yet the places where new art comes from, where it is seen for free and where almost all the risk and innovation arise—medium and smaller galleries—are ever pressured by rising art-fair costs, shrinking attendance and business at the gallery itself, rents, and overhead. This art-fair-industrial complex makes it next to impossible for any medium or small gallery to take a chance on bringing unknown or lower-priced artists to art fairs without risking major financial losses.…

TWO DAYS AFTER Vladimir Putin won reelection on March 18, Donald Trump called to congratulate him on the victory. Within hours, someone with access to Trump’s briefing papers leaked word that his staff had provided him with explicit advice—in all caps—not to do so: “DO NOT CONGRATULATE.” It’s understandable that his advisers would have wanted him to bite his tongue. Why staffers might have leaked that advice is a different question: The congratulations had been extended, so the leak couldn’t influence a pending policy outcome. In terms of lending democratic legitimacy to an autocratic leader, the damage was done. If the intention was to air organizational disarray, well, even the most-dyed-in-the-wool Trump supporters get that it isn’t smooth sailing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It’s hard to see the utility, even…

I ’M DRIVING DOWN the San Diego freeway, searching for my exit, feeling jumpy and a little bit lost. I’m hoping a few wrong turns early in my drive won’t make me late. I still need time to stop off at a strip mall with a Starbucks and a big parking lot—someplace I can put on deodorant and maybe a little makeup after my cross-country flight. I prefer to think this is because I want to appear professional to the human man I’m on my way to see: Matt McMullen, the founder of Abyss Creations and its offshoot robotics company, Realbotix. But once I find a place to park and start brushing my hair, I realize that some deranged sliver of myself feels as if I’m primping for romance. This…

IT’S A STORE. BUT ALSO A RESTAURANT. AND A FLORIST. Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer opened the 7,000-square-foot Roman and Williams Guild in December. The sprawling Soho space includes a shoppable library, flowers by Emily Thompson, furniture (their own, plus one-of-a-kind vintage pieces), and a full-fledged French restaurant, La Mercerie. “Our dishes and napkins [that we use in the restaurant] fly,” says Alesch. “So do the stools and artwork—we put it up one day, and it’s gone the next.” IT’S THE LAST DAY OF APRIL, a chill still in the air, and Michael Goldban, head of retail leasing at Brookfield Properties, wants to take a stroll down the pristinely blighted western terminus of Bleecker Street. Wearing Dolce & Gabbana transition glasses and a black blazer (and trailed by a publicist),…

THERE WAS A TIME, not so long ago, before the “all-day café” and its carefully honed, millennial-friendly brand identity dwarfed the dining scene, when establishments like coffee shops, luncheonettes, and diners dotted the land. These places were known to serve coffee in the morning, alcohol later on, and food whenever thirst or appetite demanded, but they didn’t make a production out of it. Customers tended to become very attached to these places of business and the people who worked there and use them as their home away from home, rather than today’s office away from office. It is in this refreshing and somewhat antiquated spirit that Heather Fuller opened Madcap Cafe several weeks ago on a Carroll Gardens corner that loudly and somewhat confusingly advertises in one great cluster the…

MOVIES, TV, ART, AND MORE 1. Attend Vulture Festival This is us. Various locations, May 19 and 20. Vulture’s annual celebration of all things culture is back for a fifth year, featuring dozens of live events with the likes of Samantha Bee, Claire Danes, the casts of Mindhunter, Younger, and Queen Sugar, and the teams behind podcasts like S-Town and Crimetown. Early-rising Anglophiles should catch the royal-wedding watch party (May 19) with the hosts of Who? Weekly. POP 2. Listen to Wide Awake! Change of speed. Rough Trade, May 18. Brooklyn indie rockers Parquet Courts linked up with the hotshot rock-and-rap producer Danger Mouse for this spring’s new album. It’s Parquet Courts’ seventh overall, and it slows the pace on the band’s trademark peppy, punk-adjacent grooves and teases out a…

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NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD FLYNN MCGARRY has spent about half his life as America’s Teen Chef, working at world-class restaurants and running his own pop-up dinners. After Vogue called him “the Justin Bieber of food,” the label stuck. Now he’s opened Gem—with his sister Paris, who is 23 and old enough to get a liquor license—where the $155 tasting menu is cooked and served with excruciating care. Foie gras is sandwiched between Ritz-like crackers. Tiny fried artichokes blossom like high-end Bloomin’ Onions. All sorts of things are done to beets. It’s an ambitious menu for any chef, let alone someone six months shy of his 20th birthday. Now the food world wants to see if McGarry can fulfill his destiny as a culinary prodigy, or if he suffers a kind of Bieber-like meltdown.…

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Sean Hannity broadcasts live at 9 p.m. on Fox News, usually from Studio J in midtown, where the network is headquartered, but sometimes from a remote studio on Long Island, where he was raised and now lives. All White House phone numbers begin with the same six digits: 202-456. Hannity calls the White House switchboard, a number listed publicly, and reaches an operator. The operator refers to a list of cleared callers, a few dozen friends and family members outside the administration who may contact President Donald Trump through this official channel—among them his adult sons, Eric and Don Jr.; private-equity billionaire Stephen Schwarzman; media billionaire Rupert Murdoch; real-estate billionaire Tom Barrack; Patriots owner and also-billionaire Robert Kraft; and Hannity. The operator then dials the…

AMOLAK SINGH UBER, 3.5 YEARS “I’m logged in 12 hours a day, six days a week, and I often go home with empty pockets. Sometimes I wait 14 hours and still don’t get a fare. Uber is not easy money.” HOUSSEM YELLOW CAB, 4 YEARS “I want passengers to know we are human. They just see us as part of the car, like the engine. Do I have dreams? Yeah, I have a dream: to survive.” AHMED HEKAL BLACK CAR, 6 YEARS “My car is all paid off, so I’m making a profit. But I’ll only do this for a little longer. Forget job security—that doesn’t exist anymore.” SAFIQUL ISLAM YELLOW CAB, 6 YEARS “I used to make $300 per shift. Now I work six days a week, and it’s…

CLUSTER On May 1, city surfer shop Token Surfboards joined Chinatown’s summer-sports cluster. BIKES: GoGo Gone, 6KU Nebula 2 bike with gold wheels ($249); Zycle “fix prime” bike with white frame and drop handlebars ($320). SURFBOARDS: Token, Alessandro Simonetti x Token board (pictured; $900); a “kelp-colored” eight-inch fin ($53). BIKES: Dah Shop, blue plastic pedals by Animal Bikes ($20); Subrosa specialty frames ($300); crimson-red BMX bike chains ($65). SKATEBOARDS: Labor, classic eagle deck ($55); decks designed by skater Dane Brady ($55); 60-mm. wheels by Spitfire ($32). 2X2 Four pieces from Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek’s new collaboration with Ikea , now available in Red Hook (1 Beard St.). POPPING UP Through May, collector Raquel Cayre has opened Raquel’s Dream House, a townhouse full…

THE MULTI-HYPHENATE MODEL Be Five Stores Instead of One Since Saturdays NYC opened its part–menswear shop, part–coffee bar in 2009, retail hubs with many distinct components have multiplied across the city, culminating in the recent opening of the Roman and Williams Guild, a 7,000-square-foot homewares store (with a flower shop and a restaurant) in Soho. Scott Haven, co-owner of Greenpoint’s flower-slash-coffee-slash-retail shop Homecoming, believes this model gets more people in the store. “They come first and foremost to hang out. Then maybe they buy something. Or take a photo for Instagram,” he says. KATY SCHNEIDER Jill Lindsey 370 Myrtle Ave. Jill Lindsey has facials, a wine bar, and topaz earrings in her Fort Greene space—which she calls a truly modern department store. Jane Motorcycles 396 Wythe Ave. Jane, which opened…

AS HE DEMONSTRATED in The Seagull and would refine in the three (arguably greater) dramatic masterpieces that followed, Anton Chekhov had a genius for transforming seemingly idle conversation into music, with every instrument noodling away in its private sphere and yet somehow coalescing into a melancholy human symphony. The new film adaptation, directed by Michael Mayer from a script by Stephen Karam (who wrote the ghostly, neo-Ibsen drama The Humans), pares down the chitchat and breaks up some of that ensemble flow. The narrative beats are heavy, reaction shots abound, and wordless digressions are numerous. The intent, of course, is to make a movie rather than another stodgy piece of filmed theater, with the result being that some of Chekhov’s music is lost—but a surprising amount of tension is gained.…