Innholdsfortegnelse for November 7-20, 2022 i New York Magazine

1 In New York’s latest cover story, Simon van Zuylen-Wood mapped how pandemic-era restaurant sheds have reshaped the city’s streets (“Plywood Gourmet,” October 24–November 6). “As someone who enjoys reading about the built landscape, and someone who loves witty writing, this is a terrific piece,” @SaraSewsIdols tweeted. The cover depicted two rats, Taro and Mishi, posing at a miniature two-top. “I hate how adorable this is because it’s so nefarious,” wrote Law360’s Ben Jay. “There’s no evidence that outdoor dining has had any effect on the rat population.” @ZizekTheEchidna joked, “I don’t care about the outdoor dining debate. I’m a single-issue voter and that issue is believing we should have tiny restaurants for rats.” The Daily Beast’s Matt Fuller added, “The rat sheds—as I think they should be called—represent one…

ON A RECENT Monday morning, Sandeep Salter walked quickly down Henry Street, rounded onto Atlantic Avenue, and pushed open the door to her shop Salter House. We wound past the marble café tables and the rows of horsehair brooms and frilly checked pillows and into the recent addition: a cozy extension to the store, opening November 7, out of which Salter will sell the clothes she designs. “I want this to feel like a bedroom,” she said, showing me where hanging racks will line one wall, stocked with loose cotton dresses and floral corsets and coats that fasten with a bow. She sat down on a sofa (parabolic, taupe, antique, French), lifted her feet (white socks, lace) out of her loafers (brown, suede, low heel), crossed her legs under her,…

ASSISTANT FILES The Eyelashes Trixie Mattel Always Needs Close By Brandon Lim—who has worked for three years as a personal assistant to drag queen Trixie Mattel—shared various items his boss relies on to maintain “Barbie-like perfection.” ➸ According to Lim, Mattel’s signature eye look includes roughly 12 pairs of false eyelashes that she cuts into partials and then stacks for an ultrafeathery effect. Lim says Mattel so depends on these drag-industry-standard 301’s, which are “very full, curly, and black,” that when he once packed them in the wrong pocket of her travel bag while on tour in London, panic ensued. “As Trixie told me, ‘When the drag happens, if there’s any missing piece of the puzzle—be it the blush, liquid liner, whatever—that takes away from the whole fantasy.’ ” OUR…

A COUPLE WEEKENDS ago, as the sun was setting, cars began to pull up to the corner of Fulton Street and South Portland Avenue in Fort Greene. Passengers—a few in Halloween costumes, many dressed in puffer coats or beanies—exited the vehicles and made their way down the block, ready to stand on line outside Slutty Vegan, the meat-free fast-food stand that opened in mid-September to immediate crowds. “It’s a hot spot,” said a woman named Rachel who was making her first trip. She then pointed to Habana Outpost across the street. “It’s a poppin’ spot that’s been there for years,” she added. “I feel like this is a perfect location—it’s nice to, like, see something Black-owned.” Friends snapped pictures of one another or ran into people they weren’t expecting to…

➽ STEPHEN GLOVER shows up late to the interview in Gucci slacks and fur-fringed Gucci slides. “I gotta waste this money somehow,” he’ll half-jokingly tell me later. Straightaway, he mentions his vintage-car project and how expensive it’s been: “They’re a lot of work.” It feels almost like self-parody for someone like Glover, who calls himself “the funniest writer in the world, or at least America, but probably in the world, right now”—an introduction reminiscent of every trope of a (fairly) newly moneyed Black man in Hollywood. Except Glover, like the show he wrote for and executive-produced for six years, has a soft center and is much more interested in mulling over big ideas than bragging for bragging’s sake. Prior to his senior year, the younger brother of Donald Glover left…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. MOVIES 1. See The Fabelmans Portrait of the auteur as a young man. In limited theaters November 11, general release November 23. There’s no shortage of semi-autobiographical coming-of-age movies this year, but Steven Spielberg’s fascinatingly conflicted tale of falling in love with filmmaking has got to be the most tonally interesting. ALISON WILLMORE TV 2. Watch Gangs of London So good it should be illegal. AMC+, November 17. In the first season of Gangs of London, co-creators Gareth Evans and Matt Flannery mashed up martial-arts insanity and crime-world operatics into a series soaked in blood and obsessed with familial legacy. Shakespearean! The series returns with a larger role for the mesmeric Sopé Dìrísù, a new villain, and—fingers crossed—more bonkers fight choreography.…

WE ARE living through the twilight of the press baron. Once, there were conquerors of newspapers, magazines, and television stations who thought as much about shaping public opinion and their own place in history as they did the bottom line. Some barons were terrible people, but at least they weren’t dull. There was William Randolph Hearst, the warmongering inspiration for Citizen Kane, and Lord Beaverbrook, the Canadian British owner of the Daily Express, which a century ago was the largest-circulation newspaper in the world and beat the drum for “Empire isolationism” in foreign policy. There was Henry Luce, whose Time magazine narrated the American Century (that would be last century) and Ted Turner, inventor of the 24-hour news cycle. More recently, there was Jeff Zucker, who didn’t own CNN but…

BEST OF NEW YORK For Big Jobs in a Jiffy BALANCE ELECTRIC CONTRACTING, 718-752-0262 FILM FORUM SCREENINGS run until late at night, so if any electrical hitches arise—which they do, with four screens running—they need to be resolved during a short window in the morning. For this, the theater’s operations manager, Steve Knudsen, calls Balance Electric Contracting. The Long Island City-based team of three electricians, Knudsen says, consistently shows up right away and is “extra careful around our equipment, like the digital projectors, which have so many connectors you can’t even lightly bump them.” Film Forum has relied on Balance for a decade for these urgent fixes—like on the morning when staff arrived to a burning smell coming from the projectionist’s booth. Balance came and fixed the faulty breaker…

THE VELVETEEN RABBIT / STEPHEN GLOVER / POTTER STARS / CRITICS / TO DO THE BLACK INTELLECTUAL, that star-crossed figure on the American scene forever charged with explaining Black folks to white folks and with explaining Black people to themselves—often from the perspectives of a distance refracted by double alienation,” writes the late critic Greg Tate in his seminal essay about Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Flyboy in the Buttermilk.” When I read the quote to writer-director Nikyatu Jusu, we’re huddled in a corner of the French Senegalese restaurant Cafe Rue Dix, one of her favorite spots in the city. It’s a cool, gray October morning in Crown Heights, the kind when it seems a torrent of rain could burst forth from the sky at any moment. Nineties hip-hop thrums from the speakers…

Still Mostly Known for Wizardry ➽ Both Wright and Lynch have focused largely on work outside acting in recent years—Wright on environmental activism and Lynch on véganisme and animal rights. They each work with Rowling’s charity Lumos as well. Basically, both are big on the “Other Ventures” sections of Wikipedia. ➽ Felton’s new memoir details how, after appearing in another franchise film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, he felt lost in Hollywood. He’s since moved back to London, recalibrated, and made a stage debut on the West End earlier this year. ➽ Lewis had the internet’s favorite Potter glow-up and has since worked consistently in British film and TV. At the moment, he’s starring in the most calming series, All Creatures Great and Small. Good, respectable, and cozy…

COMPETE against your fellow New York readers to see who can best predict the money and laurels awaiting this year’s biggest and best films. With a “budget” of $100, figure out what combination of expected box-office performance, awards potential, and other factors will get your “team” of eight movies the most points in the run-up to the 2023 Oscars. Highest scores get Roku devices. The game began at vulture.com/movies-league on Halloween, but registration is open through November 21. Hurry: The earlier you sign-up, the easier your path to victory (and a Roku TV).…

NEW YORK ON MAY 29, 1966, Jamie Spears was 13 years old, an eighth-grade honor-roll student small for his age, the son of a father a friend describes as “a fireball on steroids.” Jamie had three siblings, ages 3 and 5 and 8, and there ought to have been another one, the second born, but Austin Wayne Spears died at 3 days old, leaving Jamie alone again with his parents. The family lived near the Mississippi line in Kentwood, Louisiana, 70 miles from the hospital where Austin Wayne was born, far from anything then and far from anything now. Generations back and generations forward they lived and would live here, in Tangipahoa Parish, in the bare little towns that ran along the train tracks. The baby had been buried below…

➸ FOR THE PAST YEAR, Tempur-Pedic’s Tempur-Supreme had been the Strategist’s most highly recommended mattress topper, praised for its extreme moldability and its skill in taking the pressure off tense bodies. Then, recently, writer Latifah Miles undertook the task of interviewing professional mattress testers and sleep consultants to ensure our rankings held firm. They did—sort of. Tempur-Pedic still easily beat out the competition with its locked-in-a-basement-somewhere-in-Kentucky proprietary foam formula, but its new model, the Tempur-Adapt ($419), is, according to experts, a clear improvement on its predecessor. Denser, more durable, and with handy straps to help secure it to the mattress, the Tempur-Adapt may also be upgraded to include a cooling cover (memory foam can, for all its many benefits, run a bit hot). “It contours around your body,” says Zoë…

ALICIA T. SINGHAM GOODWIN Unemployed, West Harlem How are you feeling about 2024? I don’t know what’s happening in 2024. The next presidential election. Oh, sorry. I truly haven’t thought about that election, or about Biden, at all. I’m laser-focused on our work in New York. I’m an abolitionist, so I work within the Racial Justice Working Group on the Defund the NYPD campaign. I also sit on the Socialists in Office committee. And I just read an article about New York City landlords holding nearly 90,000 rent-stabilized apartments vacant. I believe that’s happening in my building, so, yeah, I’ve got lots to think about. THE LOOK BOOK: DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS We heard there was a DSA choir? Yes. I was upset that they didn’t have time to sing “Solidarity Forever.”…

FOR 20 YEARS, Anthony Mangieri’s name has been synonymous with a monastic devotion to dough. At Una Pizza Napoletana, he became famous for his hand-mixed, wild-fermented crusts and super-puffed corniciones, but he maintains other interests as well. For example, he likes coffee. When Mangieri was younger, he’d meet his friends at Italian social clubs in New Jersey. “The espresso was great, but nothing else was,” he says. “It was more of a hangout for guys to gamble in the back room, smoke cigarettes, and curse at each other.” Somewhere between those smoke-filled social clubs and multiple trips to Italy, Mangieri became a coffee snob too. “I’m sometimes having eight shots a day,” he says. “When you drink an espresso that’s pulled correctly with coffee beans that are roasted in the…

YOU PROBABLY remember it. But if you don’t, it goes like this. A little boy receives a stuffed rabbit for Christmas. From a wise old toy, the rabbit learns that when a child loves you for a long time, you become Real, and the rabbit yearns to be Real himself. Eventually, he gets his wish: The boy plays with him all spring and summer, and the rabbit doesn’t mind that his coat has grown shabby and his stuffing is coming out, because he knows he is Real to the boy. But when the boy gets sick with scarlet fever, the doctor orders the rabbit to be burned alongside the other germ-ridden playthings. Shivering on the trash heap, the little rabbit wonders what it all was for. He cries a tear—a…