Innholdsfortegnelse for July 8-21, 2019 i New York Magazine

STEFANO AND MARCO, two extremely buff Texans, are standing on the pool deck atop the brand-new TWA Hotel, grinning uncontrollably. Located right next to Jet-Blue’s Terminal 5 at JFK airport, the hotel is the result of a $265 million renovation of architect Eero Saarinen’s futuristic 1960s landmark, the TWA Flight Center. But the guys aren’t here for the period-perfect hotel rooms or to eat at its swanky restaurant. Despite the 90-degree weather, they aren’t even paying attention to the pool. “This is the place to be if you love planes,” says a giddy Stefano, 28. “I’m an avgeek,” as they call themselves. “Aviation is my thing, my niche, my kink, if you want to put it that way. I’m the happiest person today.” “I’m telling people I came in for…

What happened when the oldest nursery school in Brooklyn decided to become a little less old-fashioned? A class riot among the one percent. When you buy a home in Brooklyn Heights, you aren’t just purchasing real estate. The stately town-homes and converted carriage houses, with their window boxes of Algerian ivy winking over splendidly preserved original details—the Grecian columns, the soaring Romanesque windows offering a glimpse of curated furniture—connote a certain level of not just wealth and taste but respectability. These are houses not just for people who have money, but people who have values. From the 19th-century sea captains with their “great broods of future bankers and fashionable brides,” as Truman Capote put it in his famous essay “A House on the Heights,” to the “urban, ambitious young couples”…

By Christopher Bonanos LADY IN THE LAKE will be published by William Morrow on July 23. “BALTIMORE IS A city where they give directions according to what’s not there anymore,” Laura Lippman says, quoting an old newspaper colleague of hers named Linell Smith. Lippman ought to know because she, apart from several years away in her 20s, has spent her entire adulthood in town. She was a reporter for more than a decade at the Baltimore Sun, and in the past 22 years has set 23 crime novels and thrillers in and around the city. Her latest book, Lady in the Lake, takes place mostly downtown in the mid-’60s, and today she and I are headed out to find some places that used to be here. Baltimore is layered with…

OPHELIA IS THE ultimate female take-back-the-narrative movie. The novelist Lisa Klein and now the screenwriter Semi Chellas and director Claire McCarthy have gotten hold of the character with arguably the least agency of any in classical theater and given her control over her own destiny—to the point where they have to twist the source, Hamlet, into the kinds of knots you’d find in silly heist movies. Ophelia is pretty silly too, but give its makers points for chutzpah. To refresh your memory: In Hamlet, the teenage Ophelia is bullied and bounced around by three men: her priss-pot father, Polonius; the bloated King Claudius; and her boyfriend, the Danish prince himself. With her father inadvertently skewered and her boyfriend (her father’s killer) en route to England, Ophelia wanders into the court…

IN 2010, A COUPLE YEARS BEFORE the Brooklyn Nets first came into existence—with a shiny new building, a business plan built mostly around real estate, and Bruce Ratner (remember him?) implanted as Public Enemy No. 1—the new Nets ownership put up a billboard across the street from Madison Square Garden. The billboard featured, narcissistically, two of the owners themselves—brash Russian billionaire (and future candidate for president of Russia) Mikhail Prokhorov and future inspiration for Lemonade Jay-Z—with the slogan BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS. The message was clear, in typical swaggering New York City terms: The Knicks and the Garden have had their run, but the Nets and Barclays are the future. Seven years after that billboard went up, and five years after Barclays Center did, the Nets had the worst team in…

IN HER CHINATOWN STUDIO in June, Emily Adams Bode was recovering. It had been a busy few weeks for the designer. The night before, she’d thrown herself a 30th-birthday party, which ended with a midnight marriage proposal from her boyfriend. Ten days earlier, she’d won Emerging Designer of the Year at the CFDA Fashion Awards, having also been named a finalist for the LVMH Prize for young fashion designers in March. Now she was on to the next major life event: the debut runway show of her eponymous line, set to take place during Paris Fashion Week Men’s in just four days. The only thing standing in her way was a red-eye flight and the mountains of clothes, fabric, and sewing tools she had to cram into as few suitcases…

IT’S TAKEN FOR granted that a meme, once weaponized by the internet, will never return to the control (and profit) of its creator. See what happened to Pepe the Frog, who was never born to be a right-wing avatar. But when cartoonist KC Green saw one of his characters meme-ified for political purposes he didn’t agree with, he took action. Question Hound, better known as the “This Is Fine” dog, became famous for a simple, potent image that’s been used far and wide: He sits in a burning room with a dumb smile on his face, musing to himself, “This is fine.” STEP 1 BE AWARE THIS CAN HAPPEN TO YOU In 2006, Green published a comic in which a character draws an anthropomorphic phallus and names it Dick Butt.…

AS “OLD TOWN ROAD” closes out its third month on top of the Billboard “Hot 100” chart, it enters the company of the most successful hit singles of the past 20 years. It has already enjoyed a longer stay than event records like Pharrell’s “Happy,” Adele’s “Hello,” and Destiny’s Child’s “Independent Women, Pt. I.” Those songs still get burn today; they’re etched into the history of popular culture. Maybe, in the future, we’ll remember “Old Town Road” as a bright spot in strange times. This feat is doubly impressive because “Old Town Road” is Atlanta rapper Lil Nas X’s first official single. The last time a solo artist got this much distance on the first at-bat, Jimmy Carter was president: In 1977, vocalist Debby Boone, daughter of the wholesome film…

WHERE’D HE COME FROM? He was born on September 25, 1983, on Edwards Air Force Base in California, the oldest of a brood including three biological children, two adopted children, and one foster child. (His mother also ran a day-care out of the garage.) He grew up in Stone Mountain, Georgia, where the KKK was refounded in 1915 and which is home to an enormous Confederate monument carved into said mountain. He’s called it “a pimple on the ass of the earth.” BECAUSE HE WAS RAISED A JEHOVAH’S WITNESS, MOST POP CULTURE WAS FORBIDDEN (EXCEPT STAR WARS , WHICH HIS FATHER, WHOM HE’S CALLED A “BLACK NERD,” OKAYED) He would secretly tape the audio of Simpsons broadcasts and re-create them with his brother Stephen. (In high school,…

place—essentially, oversize cobblestones. It’s fascinating to see a software-powered universe come to grips with the physical world. The result is better than we had any reason to expect. Sidewalk’s CEO is Daniel Doctoroff, the deputy mayor under Michael Bloomberg who bequeathed to New York his signature project, Hudson Yards. Far from being the sequel to that district of glass megatowers, though, Quayside is the new city that Hudson Yards might have been: mixed, flexible, and humane. This is a mega-development organized not only around a corporate ledger, a politician’s ambitions, or a tech guru’s fantasies—though all those desires are in the mix—but also around a set of thoroughly road-tested urban needs. At Hudson Yards, financial mechanisms dictated what could be built. In Abu Dhabi’s showcase, Masdar City, technological goals dictated…

TV 1. Watch Queer Eye Okrrrrr . Netflix, July 19. It’s already time for season four of the feel-good makeover show, which finds our Fab Five again helping the style- and confidence-challenged in Kansas City, including Jonathan Van Ness’s high-school music teacher. JEN CHANEY THEATER 2. See The Rolling Stone Summer loving. Lincoln Center, through August 25. Set in Uganda and fresh from its London premiere, Chris Urch’s new play tells the explosive story of two brothers—a gay man in a secret relationship and a pastor who zealously denounces the life his brother is forced to hide. SARA HOLDREN POP MUSIC 3. Listen to Admission Miami metal. Relapse Records, July 12. Florida metal quartet Torche makes sludge seem buoyant, feeding bright, triumphant melodies through crunchy tones and textures. The band’s…