Innholdsfortegnelse for January 21-February 3, 2019 i New York Magazine

1 Would seeing what the Border Patrol does change your mind about the border? Mattathias Schwartz went to McAllen, Texas, to find out (“‘Come On Down to the Rio Grande Valley. I’ll Show You Around,’” January 7–20). Former DHS official Scott Shuchart tweeted, “This … article on Border Patrol culture is superb. ‘The agents want to be the gunslinging border cops,’ and are miserable that their actual job is helping distressed women and children.” Vox’s Matthew Yglesias pointed to the fact that the Border Patrol is majority Latino by highlighting, “Important theme running through [Schwartz’s] great report on the Border Patrol is that Latino political identity is often not what Democratic Party professionals and white liberals would like it to be.” Ricky Garza, a staff attorney for the Texas Civil…

BY THE TIME WE MEET, at 11 on a Wednesday morning in December, Shaun King, masterful activator of instant-react liberal anger and would-be digital-media titan, has already retweeted a double-digit string of articles to his 1 million followers on everything from the assassination of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi to the much-critiqued arrest of Jazmine Headley, a Brooklyn mother who was videotaped clutching her 1-year-old at a public-benefits office before police forced her hands behind her back. (“Shame shame shame on this city for the trauma they caused this wonderful mother and baby boy.”) Sitting at a table in Lula, a cozy Bed-Stuy coffee shop, King is still mulling over that last incident: “I’m just trying to figure out how did she spend four nights in Rikers because she was sitting…

THE LIL TAY FAIRY TALE begins not with “Once upon a time” but “YOU ALREADY # KNOW WHAT IT IS.” ¶ If you were on Instagram or the internet at all last spring, you very well may. Her toilet, Lil Tay announced, costs more than your momma’s rent. So does her wardrobe, her bed, her jewelry—really anything in her vicinity. Her kitchen is bigger than your entire living room. She wears Gucci belts across her chest like sashes and Louis Vuitton belts draped around her waist. She’s almost exclusively seen holding a stack of cash. “And I’m only 9 years old!” Not only has the grammar-schooler driven a Rolls-Royce (granted, only for five feet in a parking lot), but she has kicked one so hard she left a dent. She…

ON A STRETCH of 18th Street near Fifth Avenue, between a SoulCycle and an Athleta store, sits Trellis, a storefront fertility center that could easily pass for a monstera-plant-adorned, natural-light-filled recycled-sneaker start-up. Or a monstera-plant-adorned, natural-light-filled on-the-go facial bar. Or a monstera-plantadorned, natural-light-filled kickboxing gym. Trellis is not the first clinic of its kind. Over the past year, quite a number of medical start-ups resembling wellness studios have sprung up in New York: concierge doctors’ offices with white-oak floors instead of linoleum tiles, repackaged-for-2019 acupuncture clinics with vanity mirrors and bergamot spray in place of Buddha figurines and incense sticks, and a handful of places that serve as spa and doctor’s office both. This is happening, in part, thanks to the ever-ballooning wellness industry. But it’s also a direct result…

Membership-based medicine is not new. It started a decade ago, when private solo physicians in well-to-do enclaves began transitioning their practices to a concierge model, in which patients pay a monthly retainer for a bundle of services. But in the past couple of years, very modern, stylish concierge practices have come to New York. Though their offerings are extensive, none take health insurance—they’re meant to be used as supplementary care. THE TECH-Y ONE Forward 555 Madison Ave. THE PRICE $149 a month. THE OFFERINGS Unlimited office visits, specialized preventive visits, a personalized health plan, genetic testing, vaccines, and on-site blood work; access to a Forward-developed body scanner that takes detailed information about your weight, BMI, and other vitals; take-home devices related to your health concerns, like mini skin sensors for…

PERUVIAN-AMERICAN chef Erik Ramirez first put a modern New York spin on his ancestral fare at Williamsburg’s Llama Inn and its West Village counter-service spinoff, Llamita. Next, in the 60-seat Greenwich Village space previously occupied by Tertulia, Ramirez and his business partner, Juan Correa, will soon showcase an aspect of Peruvian gastronomy that’s seldom exported elsewhere: Nikkei cuisine, the culinary consequence of Japanese immigration. What began as the newly arrived community’s attempt to cook its traditional food with the ingredients at hand evolved into something new and distinctly Peruvian; at Llama-San, Ramirez will honor the cultural confluence with a purposely vague, au courant ingredient-list-like menu that largely leaves cooking technique and presentation a surprise. The “chicken thigh, walnuts, Alfonso olive, nori,” for instance, will materialize as a maki roll of…

JIM CARREY HAS played a lot of transcendentally strange characters in his career, always bringing a dark side to the light and mapping a complex landscape of pathos, pleasure, risk, and fiendish discontent. Now this same winter of his discontent is being brought to bear on the current administration in his viciously perceptive drawings of Trump & Co., which he posts on Twitter. Carrey draws every day, and unlike much of Hollywood, which pats itself on the back at award shows or dons a button on the red carpet for photo ops, he puts his pencil where his passions are—and puts it out there despite dire warnings that being this honest would be “bad” for his career. This hasn’t stopped him at all. Carrey paints as well, but his drawings…

OVER THE COURSE of her career, Glenn Close has had her fair share of famous onscreen husbands, from Robert Redford to Christopher Walken (twice!). Now she’s won a surprise Golden Globe for her lead role in The Wife, in which she plays the long-suffering spouse of Jonathan Pryce’s Nobel-winning literary behemoth. (The twist this time is that she’s the real genius in the family.) We wanted to know: Which of her movie husbands was the best, and which was the worst? The legendary actress ranked them for us. 1. Robert Redford The Natural He’s a baseball star, she’s the sweetheart he hasn’t seen in years, and she wants to make sure he’ll be a good father first. “I don’t know how many women in movies have actually thrown Robert Redford…

“Too long ‘undiscovered’ and out of print, Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale (Library of America; October 1), these eloquent, deeply involving, acute stories are about women amid women (or sadly lacking that bond), acting in a man’s world of implied expectations underlying its structure. Like fine silk, herself, Nancy Hale shines as she rumples in distress. There’s so much to discover in these stories: factually, but also within the brilliant writer’s range from major to minor, never without wit, often lyrical, sometimes played with a nod to Freud.”…

THIS IS THE DOMED meditation room at The Well, a 13,000-square-foot wellness club opening this spring in the Flatiron District. A couple of rooms down, there is a reflexology lounge, a dedicated yoga studio, and a handsome suite of doctors’ offices, whose staff will be advised by holistic-medicine bigwig Dr. Frank Lipman. A social worker will be on hand for, as the company put it, matters of the head and the heart, along with a slew of internists and a sports-medicine expert—A-Rod’s, as it happens. For more startlingly high-design doctors’ offices, see page 50. FIRST LOOK In February, homewares company Industry West— it has furnished Google and Airbnb offices—will open its first shoppable showroom in New York with 25 different brands (14 Crosby St.). Café: A bar that…

EMSCULPT An electromagnetic core-strengthening machine that, by stimulating the abdominal muscles, claims to do the equivalent of 20,000 sit-ups for you. Says founder Dr. David Colbert, “The Victoria’s Secret supermodels came and did it before the show.” CRYOTHERAPY ROOM Two chambers that plunge to minus-220 degrees to boost collagen production; clients wear North Face bootees and soft cotton bathrobes. IV INFUSION ROOM Offerings include intravenous and intramuscular vitamin therapies to address general wellbeing, adrenal chronic fatigue, focus and memory, hangovers, skin issues, and depression. TREATMENT ROOMS Eight of them, with quartz floors and interlocking fiberglass walls, where one can get a host of treatments, including five types of facials, lymphatic massages, a session in an infrared-light-therapy bed meant to relieve joint pain ($250), and body shaping via four different types…

“THE IDEA HERE was to create a really comfortable space where women could come for fertility treatment—everything from figuring out the best diet when you’re trying to get pregnant to the actual freezing of the eggs. We’ve done hundreds of blood tests already, which measure your AMH levels and tell you how many follicles are visible in your ovaries. We picked Flatiron because it’s central and also because of the brands in the area—SoulCycle, Bandier. They, like us, represent the modern woman. The design of the space was key: We have metallic wallpaper, an Instagram-friendly mural with a quote from Michelle Obama on it, a full juice bar. Plush couches, phone chargers everywhere, Turkish bathrobes instead of paper gowns. We get a weekly delivery of peach Juliet roses; there’s a…

IF YOU’VE NEVER SEEN struncatura on a menu in this Italian-food-crazed town nor even heard of it, blame it on the name. The ancient cucina povera specialty of Calabria is typically a long, flat, multigrain pasta that comes with anchovy, garlic, chiles, bread crumbs, and a not-so-lip-smacking backstory. Translated from the Calabrese dialect, struncatura means “scraps” or “crumblings” or “sawdust” and, in this case, refers to the floor sweepings of the grain miller’s shop, which frugal cooks turned into a rough-and-ready pasta served with a piquant sauce designed to mask the noodle’s shortcomings. The good news is that although chef Jordan Frosolone of the new Seaport District branch of Milanese restaurant 10 Corso Como toasts farro and mills his own rye flour to make his struncatura, he is no stickler…

EVER SINCE THE PHRASE “the Chipotle of” went from convenient prefix to industry category, the fast-casual model has been applied to cuisines from Lebanese to Vietnamese. Now a few New York–based chefs have begun deploying the user-friendly vehicle of the quick-serve grain bowl to deliver the diverse flavors of the African diaspora. At the West Village’s Berber Street Food (35 Carmine St.), Mauritania-born Diana Tandia invites diners to customize “Afro-fusion Express Bowls” by combining millet or turmeric-fried rice with sides like black-eyed-pea stew and proteins like “backyard” jerk chicken. And it was a bowl of jollof rice in Ghana that reportedly inspired JJ Johnson to launch Fieldtrip (109 Lenox Ave.), a fast-casual exploration of global rice traditions, slated to open in March. Possibly the most immersive quick-serve introduction to Pan-African…

NETFLIX HAS SPENT the last few years on a crusade to be taken more seriously as a film distributor. Now, with Roma on the verge of Oscar glory, it may have achieved its goal. But what about all the other films it has released? We’ve done the hard work of watching and ranking all of them. Be sure to read the full entries on vulture.com. Unranked: Cam The filmmakers are friends of mine, so no ranking—but it’s an inventive and cerebral cyberthriller. 201. The Do-Over The most noxious entry in Adam Sandler’s fruitful collaboration with Netflix. 200. Game Over, Man! What kind of kompromat does Adam Devine have on Netflix’s board members? 199. The Outsider When will Jared Leto be stopped, and who among us can do it? 198. You…

“The performances are critical to the work, Rebuilding of the Cotton Gin Motor. In its history, this motor operated with people working behind its mechanization. Like an extension of a production line, except there is a very different output in this context. Artists developed these performances as responses to the motor and the sounds channeled through the installation. Bring no expectations.”…

AARON JONES Student and After-school Teacher Where’re you off to? Radical Political Thought class. I go to New School. It’s an introductory class where we talk about traditional liberatory left politics. Good stuff. I’ve been radicalized since middle school; I was the kid reading volume 3 of Capital while my friends played Super Smash Bros. tournaments. Growing up, my friends and I would do things like organize camps for homeless people in abandoned buildings. You know what’s interesting? It wasn’t just homeless people living in those spaces. There were a lot of people who just wanted to leave society proper. Do you ever consider leaving society proper? Oh, certainly, yes. Every day. Just jump on a freight train and go.…

THIS WINTER, Mount Sinai is unveiling three major projects. The first, Lab100 (1468 Madison Ave.), is a clinic that, via a series of cutting-edge exams, aims to help patients understand eventual health risks. To give the space a futuristic look, Cactus, a firm that created interactive Nike stores and rooms in the Color Factory, was called on to design it. Next, Mount Sinai partnered with nonprofit Man Cave Health to open a practice (625 Madison Ave.) that offers prostate-cancer-related services in a space with mahogany walls and footballs signed by athletes like Joe Namath. And later this year, the hospital will open a clinic for residents of Hudson Yards (55 Hudson Yards) featuring marble countertops, plant walls, and giant windows overlooking the river.…

“HERE’S WHAT I THINK we should do,” says Dan Levy, fingering a rack of Balenciaga at L.A.’s freshly opened Dover Street Market. He gives me a glance I’m familiar with, amused and slightly conspiratorial, his lips curling like a scroll. It’s a restrained version of the unbridled facial reactions he delivers as his character, David Rose, on Schitt’s Creek, the sitcom he co-created with his father, SCTV legend and American Pie regular Eugene Levy. Or the look he gave Larry King when the octogenarian host asked him to explain pansexuality on TV. “I say we do just a full fashion look,” Levy continues. “Label whore–y.” He pulls on an oversize matte-gray Balenciaga hoodie and a pair of black Vetements sweatpants. Total retail price: about $1,730 before sales tax. “David would…