Innholdsfortegnelse for October 10-23, 2022 i New York Magazine

1 New York’s latest issue featured a special section examining “The New Asian America” (September 26–October 9). Radio producer Samantha Lui said it was “essential reading for everyone,” and The New Yorker’s Michael Luo praised the “fantastic, thought-provoking package. Sifting through it all and thinking about it all. Kudos to everyone … who worked on this.” Although the cover, a self-portrait by artist Susan Chen, was inspired by her survey of Asian Americans on what they were buying to protect themselves from violence during the pandemic, several commenters criticized the magazine’s use of it. Evelyn Yang, the wife of former presidential and mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, wrote, “This is awful framing and an editorial offense.” On Instagram, Jeff Li commented, “I can appreciate the intent of the message, but painting…

STEPHEN RILEY Designer, Upper East Side How long did you wait to get in? Four hours. Inside, it was kind of spooky, like the funhouse got shut down. But it also felt straight out of an episode of Sex and the City. Did you buy that couch? Yes. The second I walked in, I saw it and was like, This can’t still be here; this has to be sold. The aged brass nailheads, the patinaed leather. A woman came over and told me it was $1,000. I was like, “Okay, great.” And then someone else came over and they were like, “That’s $2,000.” I was like, “No, no, I wasn’t asking, somebody already told me the price.” Anyway, I just immediately sat on it because it was eat or be…

➽ SINCE ALAN HARDING opened Patois in the late ’90s, Smith Street has become known for its restaurants—and shuttered storefronts: For every Clover Club or Ugly Baby that perseveres, dozens of bistros, brasseries, and bars disappear soon after they arrive. (Remember Char No. 4 or Phil & Anne’s Good Time Lounge?) Blame steep rents, few tourists, a lack of population density (no high-rises), and unfavorable comparisons to Court Street just one block away. “The other night, I was walking home on Smith, passing a space that’s been abandoned for two years,” says Amy Honigman, a real-estate agent who lives and works in the neighborhood. “Next to it was an empty pit with a work permit that lists its ‘anticipated completion’ as summer 2019.” But where some see empty pits, entrepreneurs…

Her Prewriting Days Margaret Colleen Fennell was born in Sulphur Springs, Texas. She married her high-school sweetheart, Heath Hoover, at 20; by 25, she had three kids. She worked various jobs, including stints as a special-ed teacher and a Child Protective Services investigator. Her First Book Hoover began writing Slammed when she was 31. It tells the story of an 18-year-old who starts a romantic relationship with her 21-year-old neighbor before they find out (spoiler) that he’s going to be her high-school teacher. “I actually self-published at first because I just didn’t think that I wrote a real book,” Hoover recalled on the Off the Vine podcast. The book gained traction on blogs after its release in early 2012 and made it to the New York Times’ e-book fiction best-seller…

The CULTURE PAGES For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. OCTOBER 12–26 MUSIC 1. See Mary J. Blige The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul presides. Barclays Center, October 20. Thirty years removed from her beloved debut, What’s the 411?, Mary J. Blige continues to touch listeners with heartfelt love stories over bustling beats. Catch the New York icon touring her 14th album, Good Morning Gorgeous, for a reminder of just how long she’s been holding us down. CRAIG JENKINS TV 2. Watch Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Chills by the shelf-ful. Netflix, October 25. This new anthology horror series takes its name from Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 hardcover tour of his notebooks and influences. It includes two original stories from del Toro and offerings from his hand-picked selection…

Ask any three kids... what the future will be like and you’ll get three completely different answers. That’s the beauty of a child’s imagination: It’s limitless, and never is that more apparent than during creative play. Spontaneous, unstructured playtime fosters innovation, problem-solving, and confidence, in addition to helping children develop fine motor skills and learn to cope with their feelings. In fact, 95 percent of children in the LEGO® 2022 Playwell Study said creative play helps them try out new ideas. As a reminder of what the world could be like if only we dreamed it, we gave three kids piles and piles (and piles) of LEGO bricks and let their imaginations run wild. With the help of a LEGO Master Builder (yes, that’s a real job), they created everything…

I SPEND THE WHOLE entire spring and summer telling people not to procrastinate, to do a consult in spring or summer or to book me for the fall,” Joyce Szuflita says when her face fills my Zoom screen, sounding like a high-school soccer coach who warned everybody to run in the offseason. She doesn’t say the words, but her tone conveys the message: These people never fucking listen. It’s a rainy Wednesday morning, and I’ve managed to secure two hours with the most coveted dispenser of advice in Brooklyn, a one-name celebrity known simply as “Joyce” from Ditmas Park to Greenpoint. She is booked solid for the next three weeks. Clients are swarming her inbox to reserve one of the few remaining slots in November. For the better part of…

KARA SWISHER: My own mother, who votes in Pennsylvania, at dinner the other night said, “John Fetterman shouldn’t be senator because he had a stroke.” And I turned to her and I said, “You know, Mom, I had the exact same stroke.” And she said, “You’re different.” And I said, “No, it’s the exact same stroke. And I’ve never been more successful.” So I know what it’s like to go through what you’re going through. I didn’t realize I was having it until my brother told me I was having one because I had aphasia, where my voice—I wasn’t able to speak, essentially. It really was an emotional moment, the idea of losing your life or the ability to talk. What was your experience? JOHN FETTERMAN: What happened was I…

WHILE JUST about any foam roller will do something to help loosen up tight muscles, very few strike the right balance. Some are too smooth to penetrate deeply enough, while many ridged ones are so firm that they create brand-new pain points even as they relieve others, experts say. One exception is the TriggerPoint Grid Foam Roller ($37). It’s the one that trainers, fitness-studio owners, and several members of the American Ballet Theatre prefer, according to writer Karen Iorio Adelson. “A lot of rollers are too hard and will bruise rather than release,” says Radan Sturm, owner of weight-training gym Liftonic. “The TriggerPoint has just the right density to be effective without bruising.” Dancer Katherine Williams calls it a “deep massage in a roller” and says that, thanks to its…

THE KING’S JESTER NETFLIX. INSIDE HASAN MINHAJ, there are two wolves. One is a person Minhaj regularly describes in his new Netflix special, The King’s Jester: a loose cannon, a man who cannot control his wildest impulses. He’s daring. He stands up to power. He makes unwise, chaotic decisions that cause uproar in his family. That guy, that wolf, is the subject of Minhaj’s stories about himself. He appears largely in retrospect, a character reconstructed through the comedian’s memories of his own actions and occasionally through video or photographic evidence. But the other guy, the second version of Minhaj, is the one we actually see onstage. And that guy is a bit of a wet blanket. In The King’s Jester, Minhaj is every bit as rapid-fire and arms-flailing and slightly…

Self-reliance prohibited, walking barefoot forbidden. / … / Why would the shoemaker chase me / when he can criminalize my destination? /…/ Still one awakens in the mother tongue/sea of verbs./Should only the whale’s skeleton remain / I’d still want to find it in open water./…/ I wish to find a quill in the sky/among the sound waves’ consensus. Get out of the murky labyrinth/through diplomacy./ That’s what they say but some doubt./…/Some believe the Minotaur, the trees, and the shoemaker’s spawn/swallowed the maze whole/…/and it beats in our chests inciting our blood to seek the sun. (Translated from NorthernSámi by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs and Johanna Domokos; White Pine Press, October 18.)…

Who knew it could be this easy? In mid-September, I attended the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, where Republican politicians, right-wing thought leaders, and various party apparatchiks had gathered to articulate their vision of the conservative movement’s future. The National Conservatives are only one faction vying to define the Republican agenda, but in a short period of time, they have sharpened their focus and expanded their influence, and the conference gave them a forum to display the dominant position their ideas have achieved on the right. Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation and one of the conference’s speakers, recognized their triumph when he announced from the stage, “I come not to invite National Conservatives to join our conservative movement but to acknowledge the plain truth that Heritage is…

For Handbuilding CHOPLET, 238 Grand St., Williamsburg; choplet.com “EVERYONE goes to this class,” says illustrator Clemens den Exter of Choplet’s Beginner & Intermediate Wheel & Handbuilding ($480). At one of the 34 wheels, spread across the studio and backyard, a student works “elbow to elbow with people of different ages and nationalities,” he says, “as well as professionals and people doing ceramics for the first time.” Den Exter first took the seven-week beginner class in March to shore up his handbuilding skills, which he’d picked up as a kid in the Netherlands but now uses to create colorful masks, bowls, and stackable, totemlike vases that are 3-D versions of his illustrations. Choplet’s instructors push students past old habits, according to den Exter, by coaching basic techniques (“In the first…

colleen hoover / abba / tegan and sara / critics / to do DANIELLE BROOKS IS sitting in a corner of the Glass House Tavern’s upper level, brows furrowed, fingers furiously slashing across her phone screen. “Whatchu playin’?” I ask her. “Fruit Ninja, horribly,” she says. Her eyes, once focused on dicing digital citrus and berries, now convey a winsome giddiness. Those in the know tell me this tavern is where the cast of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson goes to kick it—to decompress after the latest rehearsal, to clown, talk shit, and bond. But on this early-fall Friday afternoon, the place is buzzing with layfolk, tourists, and theater nerds sipping on midday martinis before jaunting through a Theater District recovering from pandemic woes. And then there is Brooks, dressed…