Innholdsfortegnelse for March 18-31, 2019 i New York Magazine

1 In New York’s latest issue, Simon van Zuylen-Wood asked, “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?” (March 4–17). Susan Simon responded, “The answer to your cover question … resides on the cover of your [Hudson Yards] issue,” which featured stories that portrayed the new development as a gilded community for the one percent. Of the socialism feature, Armin Rosen wrote, “Man, this is good. Really illustrates the weirdness of environments where everyone more or less thinks the same.” Others took exception to the focus of the story, which opened at a party. Maya Kosoff tweeted, “A more honest and incisive and less decadent story would have been one about organizers in New York and not media people at a party.” Emily Cameron wrote, “The stereotypes of ‘the nearly all-Caucasian DSA…

What do you know about American politics today that you didn’t know on the day Donald Trump was inaugurated? I think I underestimated the left’s response to Trump. I definitely underestimated the Democratic Party’s response. I get this rap for being pessimistic, but it’s inspiring to see. It’s really inspiring to see. You can certainly see that movement in how mainstream Democrats talk about race and approach questions of criminal justice. That said, right now Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are two of the leading contenders for the party’s 2020 nomination—both politicians who embraced some version of “tough-on-crime liberalism” earlier in their careers. Is it possible for them to earn the votes of those who value racial justice? Let me start by stipulating that I’m always gonna be the guy…

New York has also joined the world of podcasting. From 2015 to 2017, we partnered with Panoply to create three shows on television, food, and sex. On Vulture, we currently have two shows made in partnership with HeadGum: the long-running Good One, in which Jesse David Fox interviews comedians about a single joke, and What the Tuck, a recap show about RuPaul's Drag Race that has very quickly found a big audience. Last fall, we created an in-house podcast, 2038, a limited series about the near future, and in collaboration with Gimlet Media, we launched a weekly show, The Cut on Tuesdays. And in the spring we will debut a new show—Tabloid—in partnership with Luminary.…

Wil Williams and Gavin Gaddis host Tuned In, Dialed Up, an indie podcast about podcasts. WIL WILLIAMS: The best work is almost always coming from the most marginalized voices. Those are not necessarily the people who are being signed on to networks like Gimlet. The indies get to be really weird because they’re not beholden to any big-money opinions. So we get things like What’s the Frequency? that break apart what the medium was originally supposed to do and go completely away from that to make things that are innovative and gorgeous. GAVIN GADDIS: Look at Horse—it’s an indie podcast where two dudes talk about basketball, but they don’t talk about scores. WW: I don’t think they could’ve made Horse with ESPN breathing down their necks. G G : You…

1 “We’ll see a lot more Spanish listeners coming to podcasting.”2 “I expect to see more episodic fictional podcasts, and I expect more consumers to be looking for them.”3 “ Shows that tell a story and feel like TV will be big, now that there’s actual money in podcasts. I work with a really clever show called Bubble. It’s a scripted sci-fi series set in an alternate universe in which 20-somethings live inside a literal bubble similar to Brooklyn or Portland, Oregon. They live in the gig economy, but rather than driving for Uber, their gig is fighting monsters.”4 “The stereotype is that podcasting is something that’s created by white men for white men. I think that’s less and less the case.”5 “ Older generations of people are coming to the medium, and there…

KARL LAGERFELD, who died just before his final Chanel collection showed a few weeks ago, transitioned from fashion legend to true pop-culture superstar in the mid-aughts. He became instantly identifiable by his first name; his ponytailed silhouette; his funny, sometimes brutal comments; and later his social-media-celebrity cat, Choupette. I was lucky enough to watch this happen as I spent the better part of the summer and fall of 2004 around Karl—at his marvelously private, civilized home in Biarritz; in Milan for Fendi; in Paris for Chanel and in Saint-Germain for a party at his home; and in Tokyo, where a mob of Japanese teens gathered in awe, their camera phones raised, as he did a photo shoot in the street in Shibuya. We spoke for hours back then about fashion,…

What are your plans for the weekend? I’m heading to New Jersey. I go to Parsons, but I go there almost every weekend; I work at a farm-to-table restaurant near my parents’ house on Saturdays and Sundays. And—well, I’m seeing one of the sous-chefs. Which is funny, because I’m not much of a relationship person. Usually, I’m kind of a player. So how’d it happen? I started smiling at him. And asking him to do little favors, like fry me basil leaves. He’d say: “For you, I can do anything.” Then he asked me for drinks, and neither of us showed up. And then I was gone for a while because during the summer I work at a larping camp—“live-action role playing.” You work at a larping camp? Yes. It’s…

The combination of occasion, technique, and general old-fashioned deliciousness adds up, for as long as Rocco’s actually in the kitchen, to a very good 87. BITES IDEAL MEAL: Scallops and uni and/or truffle risotto with red shrimp, whole truffled chicken and/or sliced short rib of beef, baked Alaska. NOTE: Rocco is not a household name these days, which may be why there were plenty of tables available on my visits. OPEN: Dinner Tuesday to Saturday. PRICES: Appetizers, $16 to $95 (for an ounce of Osetra caviar); entrées, $29 to $49; large-format dishes for two or more, $62 to $139.…

KAWI is a play on the Korean word for “scissors,” and that tool will be put to good use at New York’s latest Momofuku restaurant. It will be deployed by executive chef Eunjo Park, known as Jo, a 32-year-old South Korean native who immigrated to Philadelphia when she was 12, and who was inspired to pursue cooking professionally after mastering such Americana as baked chicken and apple dumplings in home-ec class. “I learned about American culture through the food,” she says. That led to cooking school and stints at Daniel, Per Se, and Momofuku Ko, then to Korea, where she worked at Gaon in Seoul. All these influences meld at Kawi, where Park makes her own rice cakes and snips them tableside (that’s where the scissors come in). We asked…

It’s such a beautiful and brave, complicated portrait of one artist by another that I slowly fell in love with it. I like how unfinished parts of it seem not idealized—how the details aren’t that obvious, how you have to step back and take stock to see what’s going on. The great photographer George Platt Lynes is looking into a boxy camera at his own reflection and taking a picture of himself standing in the upper part of the picture, looking at a negative as a bunch of negatives hang to dry all around him. And that haunting, hanging mask form shows how these men were always in the shadows as a group. Not socially but artistically in the shadows, going against the grain.…

THEATER 1. See What the Constitution Means to Me Tony Kushner loves it. Helen Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street, in previews, opens March 31. Heidi Schreck’s intimate, unsparing, fiercely funny exploration of her past as a teenage debater and her relationship with the U.S. Constitution was my favorite show of 2018. Now it’s moving to Broadway. SARA HOLDREN ART 2. See A Specific Eye Cabinet of curiosities. Demisch Danant, 30 West 12th Street, through April 6. A head-spinning assembly of the wildest art, furniture, design, and bric-a-brac is on view at one of the world’s best 20th-century-design galleries. The groupings of objects, from seven collections belonging to well-known artists and connoisseurs (Huma Bhabha and Robert Gober among them), form an instant mystical Wunderkammer. Folk paintings and American stone axes…

Governor (The job she wanted most.) Senator (The job Chuck Schumer wants her to run for.) Veep (The job another white guy might want her for.) President  I AM SITTING IN A CAR with former Georgia House Minority Leader and recent gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. She’s just invited me in from the cold outside Manhattan’s Gramercy Theatre—where she’s soon to go onstage for an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes—but Abrams is signaling in some ineffable way that she’s not in the mood to talk. She’s checking her phone and, every once in a while, peering through the tinted windows at the long line of people hopping up and down in the February chill and in anticipation of seeing her. The event, for Hayes’s podcast Why Is This Happening?, sold out…

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1 “ Vocal filler—um and ah sounds—makes a recording sound natural. You have to cut some ums, though, to help things flow. Doing it too much can make a speaker sound clipped or robotic, so I cut maybe 65 percent.” 2 “A lot of technical problems can get in the way when you’re recording: bad mics or loud air conditioners. Sometimes you’re working that out in front of a VIP who doesn’t have much time to give you. I once held a mic up to Trevor Noah for an hour and a half.”3 “With media-trained interviewees who talk in complete, polished sentences, I rarely cut actual words. But with off-the-street interviews, I sometimes cut whole tangents. ” 4 “A recording has a lot of pauses or hesitation. I adhere to the…

THE PASTRIES FELT LIKE A DARE. They sat there between us: four rugelach; four miniature chocolate scones; and three glossy, heart-shaped palmiers on a teal ceramic plate, like adorable buttered Valentines. And neither of us touched them. Sitting across from Cathy Guisewite, the 68-year-old creator of “Cathy,” the wildly successful comic strip that ran in newspapers every day from late 1976 to 2010, I felt strangely incapable of knowing how to handle myself around baked goods. You see, Cathy, the character, had a notoriously tortured relationship with delicious treats. She wanted them all the time, a cookie monster in shoulder pads whose saucer eyes were always bigger than her stomach, a worker-bee drudge who trudged around her office in sensible heels looking for stray brownies, a brunette with a sixth…

THIS (apparently out-of-shape) ear is getting some long-overdue exercise. There’s a lot to be gained from taking your ear to the gym, as it turns out: According to Aimée Derbes, a licensed acupuncturist, having someone apply just a little pressure to minuscule adhesive-backed stainless-steel “ear seeds” can stimulate a wide-reaching network of nerves, which then message the central nervous system to relax or lessen pain. Derbes offers the treatment in tandem with acupuncture at Align Acupuncture clinic in the Flatiron (928 Broadway, Ste. 703) or as a standalone option at Clinton Hill wellness studio HealHaus (1082 Fulton St.) for a donation-based rate of up to $10. Strangely, this isn’t the only body part that’s getting special attention these days. The city is all of a sudden full of highly focused…

If you were out to disabuse the drinking public of the notion that all so-called craft-cocktail bars are tedious, pretentious places with zero potential for cutting loose and having fun—which apparently is the objective of Will Wyatt’s new East Village watering hole, Mister Paradise—you could do worse than putting a Hot Pocket impostor on the food menu. The funny thing is that these pastry puffs are no joke. Unlike the ones you can buy at your local Duane Reade and cook in the microwave for 120 seconds, they require a bit of work. Chef-partner Jeremy Spector spent weeks developing the buttery dough to get it just right—flaky but sturdy. He stuffs his savory Cubano version with pork butt that’s been brined and braised and generally babied for hours like a…

TERRY GILLIAM DOESN’T have an office; he has a lair. It sits atop the London Highgate home the Monty Python animator and director has lived in since 1985, and you reach it by climbing up four flights of narrow wooden stairs and through a pair of curtains. It’s the kind of magical space where you could imagine a character from one of his films living—a mad professor, maybe, or an exiled king. It’s embellished with Persian rugs and sculptures big and small, and there are books everywhere, on shelves, on tables, and stacked across the floor. My eyes, however, are immediately drawn to the many props from Gilliam’s movies. There’s the black-shrouded Angel of Death from 1988’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen hanging from the ceiling beside a model of…

ANASTASIA (closing March 31) Broadhurst Theatre, 235 West 44th Street If you were a tween in the early aughts, you probably had a soft spot for the animated film about a spunky Russian girl on a mysterious journey to the past (John Cusack voiced the love interest, for Pete’s sake!). Darko Tresnjak’s production of the musical adaptation takes one more whirl around the ballroom through March. THE BAND’S VISIT (closing April 7) Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 243 West 47th Street David Cromer’s gorgeous production of this story of an Egyptian military band stranded in a sleepy Israeli town (with a witty, seductive score by David Yazbek) is an indie gem bursting with humor, quiet beauty, and oddball life. Katrina Lenk’s Tony-winning performance is still the smoldering center of the…

WHEN YOU FIRST HEARD about podcasts, do you remember how excited you weren’t? Do you recall the first person who said, “Did you know you can now download audio files of people talking?” To which you might have replied, “Talking about … what?” To which they might have replied, “About … anything!”—at which point you realized that podcasts seemed like radio but more amateurish, which wasn’t the most compelling sales pitch. I’m going to guess you’ve listened to a podcast since then, maybe even a few. And I’m going to guess that you’ve even become obsessed with one or two. There are now an estimated 660,000 podcasts in production (that’s a real number, not some comically inflated figure I invented to communicate “a lot”), offering up roughly 28 million individual…

Start HereWith Some Popular Ones Like what you’re hearing? Go here for more Call Your Girlfriend Long-distance best friends Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman call each other and discuss everything from what tampons will be like in the future to the secrets of responsible personal finance. Binge Mode A deep dive into huge pop-culture staples, including an episode-by-episode recap of Game of Thrones and a chapter-by-chapter look at the Harry Potter books. Comedy Bang! Bang! This ten-year-old podcast might be the hub of the entire comedy universe as host Scott Aukerman and famous funny guests workshop new bits. Pod Save America Former Obama staffers Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor, Dan Pfeiffer, and Jon Lovett grouse about the crazy thing Trump just did and then interview their neoliberal friends. Savage Lovecast This…

ONE FEBRUARY MORNING, more than 160 people took their seats in the fashionably distressed brick-walled event space of Williamsburg’s Wythe Hotel. In the back was a bar, in the front a riser with couches and a large floating light box reading ON AIR in an angular block font. It was hour one of the Hot Pod Summit, a business-focused podcasting conference that had begun way back in 2014 with a gathering of around 30 people in a Silicon Valley conference room. That was the year of Serial, podcasting’s first blockbuster, which quickly spawned an army of imitators. It was also the year NPR refugee Alex Blumberg founded a start-up podcast company called Gimlet Media. Days before the 2019 summit, Spotify had acquired Gimlet for $230 million, a number that far…

WHEN THOMAS KELLER “curated” the Time Warner Center’s Restaurant Collection 15 years ago, the notion of jaded New Yorkers and gawking tourists riding mall escalators up multiple flights to fine-dining destinations with no street presence seemed outrageous. Now, 30 blocks south and two windblown avenues way west, that development’s brand-new sister project, Hudson Yards, makes the Columbus Circle shopping center’s culinary ambition look quaint. Between the seven-story Shops & Restaurants complex and José Andrés’s 35,000-square-foot Spanish-cuisine theme park next door, on a skyscraper-sprouting stretch of Tenth Avenue from 30th to 33rd Streets, there are 1,600 seats waiting to be filled, and that’s not counting all the fast-casual counters and pastry shops and coffee bars and ice-cream stands and the colorful riot of quick-serve kiosks in Andrés’s food hall. From familiar…

“THE YOUNG AND EVIL” at David Zwirner on view through April 13. BENEATH BOUNTIFUL American skies, an orgy of ferociousness: Bodies crowded onto a wooden panel, painted from above, beg for mercy and are watched with obscene indifference by a mob of white men in colored caps; some carry lead pipes, poles, pistols, bats, or pitchforks. Blood is everywhere. The picture is Paul Cadmus’s Herrin Massacre, commissioned by Life magazine and painted in 1939–40. It’s now riveting viewers in “The Young and Evil,” a great group show organized by critic Jarrett Earnest (one to watch) on the homosexual body in America as rendered by gay and bisexual artists from 1929 to 1957. The actual event pictured was a 1922 massacre of strikebreakers by laborers that left 23 dead in an…