Innholdsfortegnelse for July 20 - August 2, 2020 i New York Magazine

I’D LIKE ONE of everything on the menu, please,” a well-masked Underground Gourmet said to the chef (also masked) behind the counter of Dame Summer Club on Macdougal Street the other day. “One fish and chips, one fish sandwich, one tomato sandwich, a Pimm’s cup, a spritz, an Eton Mess, and, oh yes, some disco fries.” The chef, Ed Szymanski, and his partner, Patricia Howard, exchanged wide-eyed looks of surprise followed by knowing glances of approval—game, as they say, recognizing game. Although the menu at DSC is short and sweet, it’s a lot of food. “You order like we do when we go out,” said the chef, before darting back to the kitchen to fry the fish. In certain culinary circles, the one-of-everything order signals that the customer is up…

“I GET WILD DMS,” Ziwe Fumudoh tells me as she scrolls through her phone. There are suggestions for guests on her Instagram Live show, where she asks subjects discomfiting questions about race: Candace Owens (“I could see it working in studio”), Rachel Dolezal (“The time to talk to her was 2015!”), or some random racist person (“My audience would be confused”). There are those who ask her to do emotional or intellectual labor for them when Google is just a click away. Then there’s a certain flavor of kink, where “men specifically ask me to dominate them in this race way,” she says. “There is a humiliation fetish.” She has dressed the part: an all-black outfit (tube top and bike shorts), cowboy hat, and, for the pièce de résistance, latex…

ON JUNE 3, comedian Hasan Minhaj released a surprisingly personal and passionate 12-minute monologue called “We Cannot Stay Silent About George Floyd.” In it, he discussed not just the May 25 police killing of Floyd and the protests that erupted in its wake, but also the hypocrisy he saw in his own South Indian and Muslim communities over race. Minhaj managed to be sincere, powerful, enraged—and shockingly funny. The segment has been watched by more than 4 million people on YouTube alone. How did you decide to do this piece? The New York Times had put out a video that was the street view of the whole incident, and it’s really powerful because you see Cup Foods [where Floyd was arrested for allegedly passing a counterfeit $20 bill]. Then we…

IT’S A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT when the entire city of New York gets behind the same song—greater still when it unites behind a homegrown talent. Music strengthens bonds and closes gaps in style and taste that divide the boroughs. Summer 2014, when Bobby Shmurda tossed his Knicks fitted hat into the sky in the “Hot N----” video and it stayed there, might have been the last time we knew true peace. (Not long after the “Shmoney dance” Vine went viral, a different video ushered us into darker days as we watched the freshly slain Michael Brown baking in the Missouri sun and a fresh, pained movement for equal rights began.) Three years later, during the hot, stressful summer of 2017, Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” climbed charts and rocked parties from Brooklyn…

“WE’VE SEEN DEMAND GROWTH flatten recently with the rise of COVID-19 cases,” Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian told investors during the company’s latest earnings call on July 14. Delta lost $7 billion in the second quarter of this year and served 93 percent fewer passengers than it had in the same quarter last year. In early June, things had been looking up: Bookings were rapidly accelerating as customers prepared to resume travel. But in recent weeks, demand has, as Bastian notes, “flattened,” with coronavirus surges making customers less eager to fly. Delta, like its competitors American and United, had to pare back its plans to add more flights over the summer. And it’s not just airlines that have seen demand flatten in recent weeks—the once-sharp recovery has stalled across…

IT’S STRANGE THAT we now see America threatened by a plague. Because without plague, America, as we know it, wouldn’t exist. It may have been the most devastating epidemic in the history of humankind—surpassing in its mortality rates any before or since, including the Black Death in the Europe of the mid-14th century. Smallpox arrived in America with the first Europeans and went on, with several other imported diseases, to wipe out up to 90 percent of the Native population in a relatively short amount of time—millions and maybe tens of millions died. They were horrible, harrowing deaths. The virus Variola major incubated for two weeks, followed by an intense few days of fever, before the pustules emerged: first in the mouth, throat, and nasal passages, then all over the…

KO TO GO ➸ For the first time ever, Sean Gray and his Momofuku Ko team are offering takeout and delivery, and options range from ready-to-eat cold fried chicken to heat-and-eat duck pie. The burger pack has everything you need to replicate the Ko bar experience at home, including four Martin’s hot-dog buns slicked with clarified butter and hot mustard and the three-ounce rectangular dry-aged-beef patties shaped to fit them. House wines are on offer too. Preorder required (8 Extra Pl., nr. 1st St.; ko.momofuku.com). SMORGASBURG, DAILY AND ONLINE ➸ A brave new stripped-down, safety-first iteration of outdoor feeding frenzy Smorgasburg called Smorg To Go debuts this week with a rotating roster of just ten vendors and a takeout-only policy. In pre-COVID days, the way Smorgasburg worked was as follows:…

PICTURE A NATION already gripped by political chaos that finds itself afflicted by a plague so new that no one understands its properties yet. Its ruler is a demented senior whose underlings use his decline as camouflage for enacting their own agendas. As citizens turn against one another, medical experts operating on the scientific method study the pandemic and present their latest findings to officials at every layer of government. They are met with indifference, stupidity, naked self-interest, and craven pandering to higher-ups. Things keep getting worse. The body count rises. There’s no end in sight. This is the world of Kingdom, an engrossing South Korean zombie series set in the 16th century. Watching its 12-episode two-season run right now is an eerie experience, because although it started shooting in…

IN APRIL, as cheers for essential workers were becoming a 7 p.m. staple, St. James Place in Clinton Hill turned into a dance floor. The party originated with one family: president of the block association Gail Bryan-Vill, 63, whose husband, Jo Vill, 63, and son, Chad Vill, 31, started playing music from their brownstone to accompany the nightly clap. The celebration grew from there, and now, Friday through Sunday nights, crowds of up to 100 people come on bike and foot from Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan to dance, Rollerblade, Hula-Hoop, and blow bubbles. “We’ve come closer as a community because of it,” Chad says. “The opera singers Paul Grosvenor and Imani Mchunu Grosvenor across the street, who have performed at the events, have lived there for two years. We didn’t…

I first saw Andy at openings at Dick Bellamy’s Green Gallery and at the Pop Art show at the Sidney Janis Gallery on October 31, 1962. It was the very first show of the original seven Pop artists—Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, Segal, Wesselmann, Dine, and Indiana—and it so outraged and offended the old-guard Abstract Expressionists (de Kooning, Rothko, Motherwell, etc.) that they all resigned from the Janis Gallery in protest. It was the Halloween that changed art history. Several days later with my friend the painter Wynn Chamberlain, I went to the opening of Andy Warhol’s first one-man show, at the Stable Gallery. It was right after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and everyone believed a nuclear war could actually happen at any moment. Gold Marilyn Monroe hung on the wall as you…

BLISTERS ALL OVER HER. She smelled like the end of the world,” recalls Lyndsay Caleo Karol of the tugboat languishing in dry dock in Stonington, Maine. “It was like perfect, perfect, perfect for us!” Not everyone would jump at this opportunity, but Caleo and her husband, Fitzhugh Karol, knew their way around projects that might intimidate others: They founded the Brooklyn Home Company in 2007 with a cadre of artisans and family members to build and renovate houses. Lucy is a 49-foot recreational motor yacht (the class is called Lord Nelson Victory Tug) built in the late 1980s in Taiwan and designed to evoke the romance of the classic tugboat. Caleo and Karol are the vessel’s fourth owners, and they renamed her after Caleo’s late dog, who loved the water.…

ON THE VENN DIAGRAM of eating strategies during a pandemic, picnicking is where takeout meets outdoor dining, and if you snag the right socially distanced plot of turf on the right balmy afternoon, it’s better than both. Tompkins Square Park might not exactly be the Great Lawn, but it benefits by its proximity to some of the city’s funnest, funkiest kitchens, many of which have pivoted to picnic-friendly fare. 1 Hearth 403 E. 12th St., at First Ave.; 646-602-1300; restauranthearth.com With his new “picnic basket” for two (actually packed in a shopping bag), Marco Canora provides everything but the blanket: chickpea-flour pancakes with olive tapenade, sunflower-seed hummus, fava-bean salad, giardiniera, butter beans with pesto, and half a Tuscan fried chicken. Plus brownies for dessert. 2 Momofuku Noodle Bar…

SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER saying they were “ashamed” that President George W. Bush was from Texas over his determination to invade Iraq—not an easy stance to take in the country-music world at the time—and 14 years after releasing Taking the Long Way, a Grammy-winning middle finger to their critics and the album that gave the wronged folks of the world an anthem in “Not Ready to Make Nice,” the Dixie Chicks are now simply and succinctly called the Chicks, and they’re back with a new album, Gaslighter, to go with their new name. It’s their first record since 2006, and a lot has happened, from lead singer Natalie Maines’s divorce—they get into it—to Donald Trump’s election. (The album also gets into that without ever having to, well, get into that. A…

WELL, somebody’s been brushing up on their naval jargon. Tom Hanks actually wrote the screenplay for the WWII maritime thriller Greyhound, adapting it from C.S. Forester’s 1955 novel The Good Shepherd, and the film is so packed with commands repeated and nautical terms and naval minutiae that you’d be forgiven for thinking it had been penned by a retired admiral. This is, by and large, a good thing: Greyhound won’t blow any holes in the solemn ship of state that is modern cinema—it’s a sweet, swift 91 minutes long, and only about 80 if you skip the credits—but it’s a surprisingly immersive affair, and the authenticity that writer-star Hanks and director Aaron Schneider bring to it is a huge part of its appeal. (Let’s give plenty of credit to Forester,…

POP MUSIC 1. See Black Is King Bow down. Disney+, July 31. Beyoncé has made a visual album inspired by her work on The Lion King, and it seems safe to predict that social media will light all the way up when it debuts. JEN CHANEY AUDIOBOOKS 2. Listen to Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass A tonic for summertime sadness. Simon & Schuster Audio, July 28. For fans too eager to wait for the fall publication of Lana Del Rey’s first book of poetry, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, there is the audiobook read by Del Rey herself. Jack Antonoff contributes spectral, gorgeous guitar to the spoken-word piece “Patent Leather Do-Over.” CRAIG JENKINS MOVIES 3. See Idiot Prayer Live in London. dice.fm, July 23 at 10 p.m. ET.…