Innholdsfortegnelse for June 10-23, 2019 i New York Magazine

1 In New York’s most recent issue, Alice Hines revealed how the misogynistic young men who call themselves incels (for “involuntarily celibate”) are going under the knife to alter their faces and, they hope, their dating prospects (“How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?,” May 27–June 9). The actor Jimmy Wong called the story “eyeopening.” Amanda Marcotte tweeted, “The inclusion of photos that incels post of themselves is super-helpful … It removes all doubt that their actual problem is their repulsive personalities and/or utter unwillingness to engage women as fellow human beings. And plastic surgery will not change any of that.” Erynn Brook added, “This is a well-written piece about a subculture that I wish we wouldn’t spend so much energy trying to empathize with … Body dysmorphia…

ON MAY 24, after 2,000 episodes, Carson Daly’s late-night show came to an end, and as you read these words, I wonder if you can remember its name. To be fair, late-night shows tend to have sound-alike titles—Late Night, Late Show, Later, The Late Late Show—and Daly’s entry (let’s kill the suspense: It was called Last Call With Carson Daly) was no exception. So you may be surprised to learn that the show aired for 17 straight years in the same time slot with the same host—the longest such run of any contemporary late-night host. How? Last Call survived in part by changing its form radically over the years in response to budget cuts, cancellation threats, writers’ strikes, network conciliations to higher-profile hosts, and the general ongoing effort to figure…

YEAR ZERO Rib Wife Guy Adam From the Bible 30 B.C. I Can’t Live Without Cleopatra As My Wife Guy Mark Antony 1536 Beheading His Wives Guy Henry VIII 1597 Really Wish I’d Gotten That Note From My Wife Guy Romeo Montague 1895 Supporting My Scientist Wife Guy Pierre Curie 1919 The Acting President Is My Wife Guy Woodrow Wilson 1947 The Crown Wife Guy Prince Philip 2006 “My Wiiiiife” Guy Borat 2014 The World’s Smartest Lawyer Is My Wife Guy George Clooney…

RuPaul has become a genuine mogul. Who else has amassed true cultural capital? Who can bring home north of $1 million annually, or get cast in a Hollywood blockbuster? Here, after talking to talent agents and managers, club bookers, and Drag Race producers, as well as studying social-media influence, career longevity, and each queen’s “charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent,” we rank America’s top-100 Drag Race superstars. REPORTERS AND JUDGES MANO AGAPION, REBECCA ALTER, JOEL KIM BOOSTER, MARIA ELENA FERNANDEZ, MOLLY FITZPATRICK, CHRIS HELLER, E. ALEX JUNG, CHARLOTTE KLEIN, GENEVIEVE KOSKI, BRIAN MOYLAN, MATTHEW SCHNEIER, MATTHEW SILVER, AND CARL SWANSON THE TOP 2O NO.1 BIANCA DEL RIO Age: 43 From: New York, NY Season: DRAG RACE ➏ Winner THE QUEEN of all Drag Race queens and the most successful alum, Bianca…

The Tops (In alphabetical order by first name; asterisk denotes queen on most recent season.) ASIA O’HARA Age: 36 From: Dallas, TX Season(s): Drag Race: ➓ Fourth Place Asia was the first queen to use live animals in a lip sync, but in a fabulous fail, the butterflies that were supposed to fly out of her top fell to Earth. Some even looked dead. BEBE ZAHARA BENET Age: 38 From: Minneapolis, MN Season(s): Drag Race ➊: Winner; All-Stars 3: Third/Fourth Place Bebe took home $20,000 for winning the first season of Drag Race. The cash prize has since been upped to $100,000. BENDELACREME Age: 37 From: Seattle, WA Season(s): Drag Race ➏: Fifth Place; All Stars 3: Sixth Place In episode six of All Stars 3, after winning a lip sync competition,…

“There is extreme inequality in pay among drag performers. The TV show has turned us into celebrities. I became part of the economics of that, adjusting your drag to fit the expectations of the system. So last year I decided to stop working with the producers of Drag Race for touring and bar productions. Now I feel most comfortable performing when I’m the producer as well. I get a say in how the other performers are treated and compensated, how the bathrooms are labeled, how the meet and greet is run—all the details of manning a creative queer space. A lot of my productions have been done with sponsorships with Lyft or M.A.C Cosmetics, because they can provide the capital to make these things possible.”…

Closca Stack Packable Helmet $80 This helmet achieves its compactness through a concentric-circle design (it instantly conjures that “fashionable beehive” look). Lezyne Micro High-Pressure Pump $47 The best small pump on the market features a foot peg that folds out for easy pumping and a nozzle that fits various tire valves. Uniqlo Wellington Folding Sunglasses $15 You can find more expensive models, but since you’ll probably lose them, I suggest this far more affordable, stylish pair. Abus Bordo Granit X-Plus 6500 Lock $180 Unlike the standard U-locks, folding locks can wrap around odd shapes like the thick poles on scaffolding. Juvale Collapsible Water Bottle $11 for six These expandable sleeves attach to your belt. Label them (you never want to confuse the water with the vodka on a long trek).…

THIS SPRING, WE’VE SEEN a spike in a particular kind of viral star: the Wife Guy. Not just any man with a wife, a Wife Guy is someone who becomes famous because of something his wife has done or qualities his wife has. Wife Guys have been the subject of think pieces in The Outline, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, their profiles raised after two (Curvy Wife Guy and Cliff Wife Guy, see below) blew up over Memorial Day. For a Wife Guy, being married isn’t just one aspect of his life. It’s his persona, which can be used to attract social-media followers and generate income. The Wife Guy can have a wife, have once had a wife, or, more bafflingly, have been his own wife. Confused? A breakdown: Don’t…

2010 2 Locations First space, in Soho 1 city (NYC) 1,000 members 2011 4 2 cities (NYC, SF) 3,000 members 2012 7 3 cities (NYC, SF, LA) 4,000 members 2013 9 3 cities (NYC, SF, LA) 6,000 members 2014 23 First international locations in the U.K. and Israel 8 cities, 3 countries 16,000 members 2015 53 16 cities, 4 countries 40,000 members 2016 111 First Asian and Latin American locations 34 cities, 11countries 84,000 members 2017 200 65 cities, 18 countries 175,000 members 2018 425 100 cities, 27 countries 400,000 members…

“ I entered the amateur contest at Micky’s West Hollywood in 2011. I was getting 50 bucks a night, on a good night $250. Now my average going rate is $1,500. That is good for an artist in the 21st century! I have friends on Broadway who are making $600 a week! I’ve done not just nightclubs but speaking at companies, colleges. I’ve gotten to taste all kinds of food I never thought I would have gotten to taste in my life. I’ve been to Machu Picchu. But I’ve heard that the girls who were on the show since it moved to VH1 make as much as $5,000 a gig, and I’m over here still getting $1,500 and, well, this doesn’t add up. I’m iconic, bitch. Who the fuck are…

Drag Race contestants often take out loans and max out credit cards to arrive prepared. Trixie Mattel spent about $20,000 to go on All Stars 3; Manila Luzon spent $30,000 on All Stars 4. Here, what Acid Betty spent on her finale outfit for season eight: Hair: Packet of human hair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300 Three colors of hair dye. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$29 Hair spray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…

WHEN THE FINALE of Drag Race season 11 aired on May 30, two days before Pride Month, a sense of relief washed over me. It wasn’t that the season was bad (it wasn’t), or that Yvie Oddly, a genuine weirdo, didn’t deserve to win (she did), but the show had begun to feel relentless, and watching it like serving gay penance. Many people I know had either stopped or did so only sporadically; the fervor was gone. Arguably, it has been heading this way since Viacom moved it from the gay-for-gay network Logo, where it premiered in 2009, to VH1. This season, there were 15 contestants (the most ever), many of whom simply felt like lambs at the abattoir. Certain challenges and results seemed engineered; the feuds, tedious. Including the…

Here’s a question: If Tami Taylor had to die, how would that happen? Could it just be from natural causes? Yeah. Okay, good. Because I genuinely think Tami would just die of natural causes. More specifically, I think she would live to a ripe old age and then have a nice glass of white wine before bed and then die in her sleep. What’s a role you auditioned for but didn’t get? “I auditioned for Khaleesi. They didn’t know if they wanted a British accent or not, so I did it in both. It was mortifying.” “Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy. A few years later, I was at Disneyland. I was getting on the Guardians of the Galaxy ride, and I finally told my family I’d tried for…

Imagine a good old Italian-American meatball wrapped in spaghetti like a mummy, tossed into the deep fryer until the pasta turns crisp, and then served with a little marinara sauce on the side. That is not unlike the idea of the moo sarong on display at the new Thai restaurant Wayla, where the pork meatballs are of the mini variety, each one wound up in a single noodle. A basket of six comes with a sweet sambal for dipping, and if you think this sounds like the newfangled work of a young gastropreneur hoping to hit it big at Smorgasburg, you would be wrong. According to chef Tom Naumsuwan, moo sarong is an ancient snack once reserved for the aristocracy; you don’t see the dish in New York, because it…

1 Amazon ordered the pilot for Good People. In the half-hour comedy, set in the ombudsman’s office of a university, Kudrow plays Lynn Steele, a feminist seen as out of touch by millennial students. Cummings is executive-producing and co-starring in the show. Daniels is executive-producing, writing, and directing the pilot. 2 At the Public Theater, Daniels produced playwright Jordan E. Cooper’s Ain’t No Mo’, a satire that imagines the entire African-American population taking advantage of a free one-way flight to Africa. 3 All in the Family’s fifth episode, from February 1971, introduces an effeminate character named Roger, who wears glasses. Archie Bunker states, “I never said a guy who wears glasses is a queer. A guy who wears glasses is a four-eyes. A guy who’s a fag is a queer.”…

The Instagram Husband Need not actually be a husband gram Husband (a term colloquialized in a 2015 viral fake be your personal photographer. Someone willing to squat from as many angles as necessary to get the perfect shot or even a man. An Insta- PSA) is any person willing to and take 17 photos of you for your grid. The Internet  Boyfriend A guy (usually hot), who is almost universally beloved online to the point where people refer to him as their boyfriend despite not actually being in a relationship and likely having never even met the guy. After starring in the Netflix rom-com To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, 23-year-old actor Noah Centineo rocketed to internet-boyfriend status. The Woke Bae  A dude who must let people know how…

The Poet IT WAS 1970-something, and Sina was not yet teaching at the University of Hawaii—a Samoan poet who had not yet become the first Samoan full professor in the States, and who had not yet written of our oceans the watery skin of earth pulled back to expose a webbing of coral rough & prickly She was back in Samoa at a traditional Sunday feast with her mother, her brother Mike, her American sister-in-law, Carol, and three little boys so strikingly beautiful one would model professionally as a teen. They hadn’t yet sat down to eat, Sina remembers, when Mike announced that his wife and boys would not be able to eat most of what his mother had cooked, as they were now vegetarian. Also, everyone needed to stop…

Oh, hennnnny. America loves its drag queens. Moms do, kids do, your local gay bars do. Even McDonald’s does. From the blockbuster remake of A Star Is Born to the Met Gala’s pink carpet—not to mention the millions around the globe who’ve tuned in to RuPaul’s Drag Race for the past decade—what was once a glittery camp subculture on the edge of gay culture has become one of humanity’s pop preoccupations, with its own hierarchy of stars and story lines for fans to get behind and fairly steady Billboard chart-toppers. In the process, it has become a global business with its own star-power machinery attached. This is what we’re describing here: the rise of Drag Inc. Ten years ago, it wouldn’t have been possible to make a list of the…

“ I sure remember my payment for my first gig. Two drink tickets! For two numbers! You’d get your drinks before the show. You do two numbers and spend all your tips back on more drinks, so it really does wind up costing you money to work. Today, oh my God. The blowup is severely real. We’re going house shopping soon! People don’t realize that Drag Race is not the goal. The goal is, once you get on there, what are you gonna do after? We all get different gigs. A lot of girls make the mistake of doing quick-money gigs. That’s not my style. I’m looking at the long run. —LATRICE ROYALE “…

“I didn’t have a great time on Drag Race my first season. My look, the Barbie thing I do, went against the algorithm a bit. But I was happy to be the sleeper agent. I moved to L.A. and was on Twitter and Instagram three times a day. When you’re on Drag Race, you have borrowed fans. Your job is to invite them to become fans of you as your own independent thing. I was always touring. By the time I went on All Stars, I was fully booked—I probably canceled about $40,000 in gigs to do the show. So when I won, I really just won back the money I spent to do it.”…

For a less crowded Rockaways experience, head east. The area around Beach 86th Street is constantly packed, and the high 60s are surfing-only beaches where it’s not safe to swim. So I tend to gravitate toward 1 the beaches in the low 60s. They’re chill and filled with local teenagers and families. There’s a sprinkling of hipster-y people but minimally. Street parking is fairly easy to come by, but you could also take the A to Beach 60th Street, then walk. If I feel like getting food when I’m there, I’ll grab a bike (there are electric ones from Lime all over the place) and head east to this Caribbean spot DredSurfer Grill, which is on Beach 17th Street. And this season, I’ll probably go to Locals Collective, a café…

CIARA’S PUBLICISTS suck in their breath and grab each other’s forearms in the slightest of panics. Jada Pinkett Smith has just asked the singer a question about “blended families,” wondering if things are harmonious now between Ciara; Ciara’s husband, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson; and rapper-producer Future, Ciara’s former fiancé and father of her 5-year-old son, also named Future. “Is she gonna go there?” Publicist No. 1 whispers to Publicist No. 2, anxiously leaning toward the monitor in video village. We’re all watching a taping of Red Table Talk, the Facebook Watch show Pinkett Smith hosts with her 18-year-old daughter, Willow, and her 65-year-old mother, Adrienne Banfield Norris, in which they sit around a … red table in their Calabasas, California, home. Ciara arranges her face into a big, gleaming smile.…

SHINY, SAGE-GREEN SHARDS of porcelain peek out from beneath a potted philodendron. Julio Torres, the co-creator of two new HBO comedy shows and the writer behind Saturday Night Live’s most delightfully melodramatic digital shorts over the past two and a half years (see “Wells for Boys,” a fake ad for a Fisher-Price play set for sensitive lads to whisper their secrets into), hasn’t cleaned it up, it seems, out of respect for the life and death of the now-shattered vase it once was. He tells me he’s still in mourning. He picks up another, pale-blue vase that was once the broken item’s constant companion in his exquisitely decorated Clinton Hill apartment. “This vase was the other one’s little friend,” he says. It is intact and beautifully sculpted, resembling a shell…

WHEN I HEARD Jim Jarmusch had made a zombie comedy called The Dead Don’t Die, I thought, “That could be the subtitle of all his films!” His characters aren’t dead, but they’re resolutely deadpan, in the vaudeville coinage from the old definition of pan, meaning “face.” So, dead face. Jarmusch has cited Buster Keaton and Yasujiro Ozu as major influences, and he once co-founded an imaginary club called the Sons of Lee Marvin for white people with good cheekbones who barely change their expressions. The deadness of the pans points up the absence of human connection in Jarmusch’s films, but it’s a mistake to think his characters have no emotions. They yearn. They feel the void inside—and outside. They’re in sync with the infertile, poisoned landscapes. Jarmusch might be bummed…

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 FIFTH AVENUE Following hot on the heels of the stupendous Hilma af Klint show—the Guggenheim’s most attended ever—“Artistic License” (through 1/12) is a deep dive into the museum’s collection as selected by six world-famous artists. The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 FIFTH AVENUE Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson presents another of his incredibly beautiful, always moving endurance performances (through 9/2) in a seven-channel video with the National. Whitney Museum of American Art 99 GANSEVOORT STREET All viewers owe it to themselves to see the Whitney Biennial (through 9/22)—it’s over 50 percent women and artists of color. Boom! New Museum 235 BOWERY Great shows pour from this downtown spot like clowns from a Volkswagen, such as the first NYC museum presentation of the narrative witch and visual…