Innholdsfortegnelse for September 12-25, 2022 i New York Magazine

1 For the cover of the Cut’s “Fall Fashion” issue, Allison P. Davis visited the California home of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and wrote about what her life has become two years after she and her husband departed the royal family (“Meghan of Montecito,” August 29–September 11). The story made global headlines, with particular praise for Meghan’s candor. @AgathedeLili tweeted, “I love everything about the Cut interview. Meghan is testing the limits of her freedom. And I enjoyed every part of it. It’s like she is relearning how to be carefree.” English broadcaster Jasmine Dotiwala wrote that the “most powerful parts question why she would play nicely with people who call her child the N word, and also ‘how toxic tabloid culture has torn two families apart.’” Many in the…

BACK ON PRIDE WEEKEND, in the early hours of the morning, I stumbled into a semi-secret rave in East Williamsburg called MORE MORE MORE. There, down in the basement, I encountered the DJ Memphy. Everyone at that point in the party was looking sweaty and strung out—me included, I’m sure—but she looked flawless and unbothered and enraptured the entire dance floor, snapping the crowd back from its druggy stupor. I was immediately a little bit obsessed and wanted to know more about her. Around a month later, I meet up with Memphy at her friend’s birthday party in a very spacious loft in Tribeca. It belongs to two 20-something scene kids who apparently are doing something right in life (or maybe their parents did?). Zachary Quinto is here for some…

PART 3 ON A THURSDAY NIGHT, Lauren Gold, a cashier at the Trader Joe’s on the Lower East Side, picked up a black ceramic electric cooking pot with a glass lid from a battered stoop on Ludlow Street. “I walk to work a different way every day, but on my way home I always come up Ludlow to see what’s out,” she says. “Some days it’s a gold mine.” Over the next 20 minutes, an employee from a nearby taco spot came by on her break and selected two hammered-copper Moscow Mule mugs from the steps. “I’m going to use them for ice cream,” she sheepishly tells me. A man in tattered clothing carrying a plastic cup filled with coins grabbed a deodorant stick and put it into his pocket.…

WENDY LI Sales associate, Staten Island How would you describe the KCON Tour? It’s where a bunch of smaller, newer groups—we call them “rookies”—come together to perform. Which means it’s not that crowded compared to a BTS or Blackpink show, which I really like. For those shows, people will camp out a week before the concert. Was the crowd more relaxed, too? Oh, much more kind. When I went to see Aespa, it was horrifying and so scary how much people were pushing. One of my friends was wearing high heels to help her see, but she fell over and then people were stepping on her ankles. Do you have a favorite artist? Yes, Blackpink. And my bias is Jisoo. Have you ever seen them? So they’re having a concert…

LISTEN FOR THE YOWL that splinters like a live wire and you’ll hear Karen O attempting an exorcism. Her shows with her band, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, in the early 2000s were crotch-grabbing, microphone-fellating, olive-oil-drizzling art-punk chaos, performed in outfits by the artist Christian Joy that looked like the next morning’s hangover. If you felt she was working something out, she was. “I was going through some shit,” she says. “Times, like, a hundred.” ¶ After a nine-year hiatus, Karen O and her bandmates, Nick Zinner and Brian Chase, return with Cool It Down, spurred by another sense of crisis. Their first LP, Fever to Tell from 2003, channeled the wreckage of post-9/11 New York; their latest contains the threat of environmental apocalypse. When Karen O began playing with the…

TO LOOK WITHOUT FEAR is now at MoMA. OVER THE COURSE of his 36-year career, the photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has created what I think of as a new sublime. His work conveys that the bigness of it all is no longer in God, the ceilings of the Renaissance, the grandeur of nature, or the allover fields of the Abstract Expressionists. Tillmans intuited that the sublime had shifted, had alighted on us. It’s in an overhead shot of friends wearing camo and military garb sprawled on the beach in a frondlike configuration and cradling one another—becoming a single organism with tentacles. It’s in a man holding a naked woman’s legs apart and looking below her exposed bush to the grassy dunes beyond. The people we see are often Tillmans’s friends: artists,…

THE PATIENT IS NOT EPIC. Unlike several of the major shows arriving on TV of late—House of the Dragon, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power—it does not boast dizzying visual effects, take place in a fictional realm, or have any connections to a larger cinematic universe. While they go big, The Patient remains appropriately, suspense-fully intimate and contained. For long stretches, it functions as a two-hander with scenes that involve a pair of actors doing exceptional work opposite each other: Steve Carell as therapist Dr. Alan Strauss and Domhnall Gleeson as Sam, a patient with homicidal tendencies. Much of it is set in a single room, the spare finished basement of Sam’s isolated home in the woods. Most of the ten episodes run…

“WHEN YOU WERE GOING to a show 20 to 30 years ago, only you could see it first. Social media is something else: Instagram, YouTube … If they recognize a track—if you are looking at the finale of the show and it’s Madonna, for example—they will mute the post. So for presentations like Deveaux’s, we create a special soundtrack that is free of rights. When I did the Kith show, I had a DJ play with the composition I made for the livestream.” A rights-free version of the Deveaux soundtrack will stream at 11 a.m. on September 14 at nyfw.com.…

➸ THE WORLD OF houseplant fertilizers at first seemed to Strategist writer Erin Schwartz like “an impenetrable maze of chemical symbols, ratios, acronyms, and hyperspecific nutrient blends.” But after speaking to various landscapers and plant doctors, they found it comes down to picking a formula with balanced levels of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (a ten-ten-ten ratio should effectively address leaf, stem, and root growth, plus help with flowering and fending off disease) and not adding too much (follow the directions for dilution on the package). For perking up a run-of-the-mill living-room succulent or philodendron, experts repeatedly directed them to Dyna-Gro’s all-purpose fertilizer ($20). Chris Satch, an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden, has used it since graduate school and chose it over Miracle-Gro for its healthy dose of calcium.…

APRIL 24, 2020 Florence Pugh is cast along with Shia LaBeouf and Chris Pine. “@oliviawilde is my idol,” Pugh writes on Instagram, praising “this fecking incredible cast.” SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 LaBeouf departs the movie—reportedly because of a scheduling conflict—and Harry Styles replaces him as Pugh’s onscreen husband. NOVEMBER 2020 Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis end their seven-year engagement. DECEMBER 24, 2020 Variety reports that LaBeouf did not leave the film owing to a scheduling conflict but was fired for poor behavior. JANUARY 4, 2021 Wilde begins dating Styles per “Page Six”; the pair are photographed holding hands at the wedding of Styles’s manager. FEBRUARY 6, 2021 A Puck newsletter reports that Pugh is unhappy with how often Wilde and Styles disappear together on set. One source says they witnessed a…

For Limited Editions SEE EYEWEAR, multiple locations; seeeyewear.com WHEN JENNA JOHNSON, the editor-in-chief of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, followed her favorite salesperson from Moscot to See Eyewear in Cobble Hill, she was surprised to find that she was unfamiliar with many of the shop’s styles. The publishing world is filled with Warby Parkers and circular black Izipizis, Johnson says, but See Eyewear “doesn’t make a lot of each frame”—they’re designed in-house—“so if you buy there, you’re probably safe from running into yourself all over the city.” See has six locations in New York and releases unusually small runs of 18-to-25 styles a month. Each store usually gets one pair of a new design, which range from standard Pantos and square styles to the 8634 Suns ($149), a Max Headroom–esque…

POTATOES ARE PROBABLY not the first ingredient you think of when you imagine items that could quickly bankrupt an otherwise successful restaurant, but chances are good that you do not purchase 50 pounds of potatoes every week. Chef Matt Le-Khac, who owns the Vietnamese restaurant Bolero in Williamsburg, does, so when he noticed the price of his preferred fingerling potatoes shooting up, he knew he needed to do something fast. This past spring, a case of the long, knobbly potatoes might have cost Le-Khac about $50. “But in June, it was up to $121,” he says. “That’s unsustainable.” The reason: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world’s third-largest producer of potatoes, which, when combined with Russia itself, is responsible for 10 percent of the global spud supply. Suddenly, there were far…

WHEN VULTURE STARTED compiling “Comedians You Should and Will Know” in 2013, the curation process was easy. Comedy Central plucked comedians from relative obscurity and turned them into stars overnight (Amy Schumer and the Broad City leads were on that first list). Talent would get buzz and high-profile development deals off modestly budgeted web series (Issa Rae was on that list as well). There were stand-ups who were both established and beloved in the comedy community but found themselves waiting for Hollywood gatekeepers to catch up (i.e., Kumail Nanjiani, John Mulaney, Hannibal Buress, Pete Holmes). ¶ Nearly a decade later, the meaning of success and being “known” has changed completely. Although many comedians still make a name via the traditional Hollywood route, TikTok, Instagram, and podcasting have given them the…

SEPTEMBER 14–28 TV 1. Watch Abbott Elementary School’s in. ABC, September 21. Last year’s enormous breakout comedy hit, Abbott Elementary, returns for its second season, now with an old-school 22-episode season order and a bevy of Emmy nominations under its belt. KATHRYN VANARENDONK DANCE 2. See New York City Ballet’s Fall Fashion Gala Fancy dance for fancy-pants. David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, September 28. The New York City Ballet celebrates the tenth anniversary of its Fall Fashion Gala with a program featuring a world premiere by Gianna Reisen with costumes by Alejandro Gómez Palomo of Palomo Spain and a debut ballet score by Solange, as well as a new Raf Simons–designed costume for Justin Peck’s Solo. Send your black tie to the cleaners. WENDY GOODMAN MUSIC 3. Listen…