Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2-15, 2023 i New York Magazine

In “The Year of the Nepo Baby” (December 19, 2022–January 1, 2023), Nate Jones wrote about the internet’s fascination with the children of famous people—accompanied by an exhaustive taxonomy of the Hollywood nepo-verse. The issue reignited the conversation about nepotism in the entertainment industry, and readers, celebrities, and some nepo babies themselves weighed in. The reaction was covered in the New York Post, BuzzFeed, and Variety, among other outlets. Here’s a sampling of the many responses. CORRECTION: Photographs in the December 19, 2022–January 1, 2023, issue (pp. 5 and 41) misidentified Malcolm Washington as his brother, John David Washington. We regret the error. Send correspondence to comments@nymag.com. Or go to nymag.com to respond to individual stories.…

JASON LAU, a luxury-real-estate agent, is pretending to bathe. Enclosed in the spalike white marble shower of a $2.6 million condo’s en suite bathroom, fully clothed, he holds the stainless-steel faucet head and mimes rinsing himself from his paisley scarf down to his Chanel loafers. Lizza Prigozhina, standing near the toilet in a crop top and blazer, choreographs while filming with her iPhone. “Now block out the camera with your hand,” she says. “Like, You can’t see this.” Lau complies. His business partner at the Corcoran Group, Marko Arsic (loafers: Prada), nods approvingly from the adjoining bedroom: “We do whatever Lizza says.” Prigozhina is the 23-year-old queen of New York Real-estate TikTok. Under her guidance, the star agents of Corcoran, Douglas Elliman, and Nest Seekers are flocking to the platform,…

I will not tell you my triggers, or the things I can no longer enjoy, because they are fluid and changing. Sometimes I look up at a sky with no clouds and all I can think of is how that was what the sky looked like on the day of the shooting, but sometimes I just think, I wish there were clouds because it’s so, so, so hot. The strangest part of being a survivor was how badly strangers wanted to touch me, like I was a living relic. They’d shake my hand, or hug me, or lean on me to cry. They also wanted to tell me about the tragedies that touched them. So many voices saying how their loved ones had been gruesomely shot and killed. I’m an…

For Resizing Rings GREENWICH ST. JEWELERS, 93 Reade St.; 866-985-0921; greenwichjewelers.com WHEN PUBLICIST Shannon Comstock got engaged in 2017 and needed to resize her fiancé’s grandmother’s silver wedding band, she scoured online reviews and found Greenwich St. Jewelers was particularly well known for the service. She went to the family-run Tribeca shop and was immediately struck by the Art Deco interiors, velvet stools, and warm lighting. “It’s an elevated experience versus just walking into a chop shop,” she says. The band was inscribed with her grandparents-in-law’s initials and wedding date, and on top of the resizing, Comstock had the same details engraved for herself and her fiancé. “I was afraid it’d get damaged,” she says, “but they somehow packed everything in.” Vintage reseller Elias Marte adds that the shop has…

AT ANY OF Tacombi’s 11 outposts in New York, you can purchase carneasada tacos and sautéed-mushroom quesadillas or guacamole and cold beer. Inside, the white-tiled rooms are uniformly pleasant. Whether you are at the store on Amsterdam Avenue or Bleecker Street or Austin Street in Forest Hills, you can find the same pineapple agua frescas and pastor breakfast tacos, which are—conveniently—“served all day!” according to the starburst note on the menu. You’d be forgiven for thinking that Tacombi is simply a collection of restaurants. It is that, but it is more than that. Tacombi is a surprisingly efficient delivery and catering operation. Tacombi is very good prepackaged tortillas that you can buy at Whole Foods as well as spicy-chicken burritos in the freezer aisle. Tacombi is a nascent empire, and…

Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read. JANUARY 4–18 TV 1. Watch The Last of Us The end of the world, again. HBO, January 15. Adapted from the wildly popular video-game series, HBO’s next big sci-fi gamble has a promising team, including stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, as well as Neil Druckmann, the man behind the game. Broadly about survivors of a pandemic bungled by the U.S. government, it is sometimes too familiar for comfort. ROXANA HADADI ART 2. See Nick Cave, Forothermore A neologism about creating space. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, through April 10. A gorgeous, condensed survey of this maker of sculptures that assume the form of clothes and transform into shape-shifting magical armor. We imagine Cave’s figures going to fight astral battles in these cosmic…

TY GASKINS Fashion editor, Paris How do you know Julie? She’s good friends with my manager, and he invited me. I also went to her “Barbie” party in the Hamptons over the summer, and that was such a good time. The best part of tonight was seeing Julie onstage with Ramona from The Real Housewives of New York City with this massive bottle of Champagne popping and flowing everywhere. Just seeing the joy in her face. It was nice. Do you go to a lot of theme parties?I do, and I host a lot of theme parties. I always host one for my birthday. This year was so basic. I called it “Ty in Paris,” like Emily in Paris, because I was in Paris. I wore head-to-toe Balmain, the recent…

THE BOOKSHELF MARKET is tough to crack. There are a couple reliable favorites: the Billy, for something cheap yet dependable; the splurgier (but quite handsome) Vitsoe shelving system. To find some less obvious options (and to see how those old standbys can best be styled), we asked authors, literary agents, and publishers to name the shelves on which they keep their own collections. Surprisingly, most everything recommended is actually available for purchase—from Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s (rather inexpensive) wall shelves to the wheel-around option Gabrielle Zevin uses for art books. Jason Reynolds AUTHOR I went with these because I needed something that was no fuss and had ample space, not just for my books but for mementos and tchotchkes. Okay … Ernie. I just needed a place for my cat, Ernie. Gabrielle…

I. DONALD TRUMP WAS CALLING from Mar-a-Lago. It was a Monday afternoon in the middle of December. He was at his desk in what is known as 45 Office, a room on the second floor, above what is known as the Donald J. Trump Grand Ballroom, 20,000 square feet festooned with 16 sedan-size crystal chandeliers and what he claims to be $7 million of gold leaf. Members of the Mar-a-Lago Club, who pay $200,000 initiation fees and annual fees of $14,000, may use the space, at an additional cost, for “important occasions that inspire, enchant, and exceed every expectation.” At the galas and bat mitzvahs and weekend weddings, Trump often wanders in. How could he resist a room like this? He smiles and waves. He joins groomsmen for photos. He…

CAT-LITTER FORMULAS tend to advertise their strengths—some promise especially simple cleanup, others odor control and less dust. But for one that manages to incorporate all of these qualities, as writer Karen Iorio Adelson found when talking to various feline-behavior specialists and veterinarians, there’s a clear standout: the aptly named World’s Best. Clumping formulas like World’s Best’s ($40 for a 28-pound bag) “allow for easy removal of urine and feces, and you don’t have to dump the whole box—just scoop up the part that’s soiled,” says veterinarian Carly Fox. And because it’s made of corn instead of the usual unflushable clay, the litter can go straight into the toilet. Most crucially, it actually eliminates smell. Cathy Bosley, a staff member at Best Friends Animal Society’s Cat World Sanctuary, says that of…

ON A CHILLY Monday afternoon in November, sequestered in a windowless private dining room at the American Girl Café in midtown, Allison Williams and I are celebrating a birthday. We just aren’t sure whose. ¶ Lit like a Duane Reade and seemingly decorated by a tween inspired by Pinterest photos of corporate break rooms, the space is mostly empty except for two American Girl dolls in little pink high chairs at our table. The dolls are a nod to the subject of Williams’s latest movie, M3gan, about an angelic-looking robot that goes on a rather artful murdering spree. But here they are inexplicably set up in a birthday-theme tableau: tiny gifts, party hats, flowers. After Williams and I confirm with each other that it’s neither of our birthdays, we sit…