Innholdsfortegnelse for February 13-26, 2023 i New York Magazine

1 New York’s most recent cover story asked readers, “Do You Know How to Behave?” (January 30–February 12). Its 194 rules prompted much debate, with Susan Brannigan joking, “I’m so glad we’ve moved on from arguing about nepo babies to arguing about etiquette.” Christian Brown wrote that what makes this “new etiquette guide so good is reading and nodding along like yep yep that’s normal yep of course yep and suddenly: bam, you’re told you have to text your friends three hours after you hang out to confirm that you still like them.” BuzzFeed published its own “Terminally Online Version of New York Magazine’s Etiquette Rules,” featuring 61 social-media guidelines, while the Guardian’s Arwa Mahdawi offered her advice for “those of us who lead rather more mundane lives.” On Slate’s…

JONATHAN MAJORS HAS an idea. We’re at the Whitney Museum to view the Edward Hopper exhibit, and he really thinks we should bring in our drinks. I am sure this isn’t allowed, but then again, this is the perfect setup for a rom-com-style first date. And have you seen Majors? The 33-year-old actor is irresistible: He’s tall and muscular (which means he’s a great hugger), he’s fine (a chiseled jawline; a striking nose; and full, pillowy lips), he’s a dog lover (he has four: Hero, Magi, Poet, and Captain), and he has a goofy personality that seems to make him unaware of his effect on you. How could I say “no”? It’s settled: We will attempt to smuggle our coffees into the exhibition. I’m hiding my chai latte behind my…

STRATEGIST TOY STORE Three Outstanding Outdoor Toys (for When It’s Freezing) Writer Latifah Miles talked to toy specialists and a day-care owner about the best cold-weather toys. Sarah’s Silks Rainbow Streamer Myllicent Felder, founder of the nature-based outdoor day-care program Sidney Ridge Nature Playschool, says these colorful silk streamers are a hit with young children all year, but “we especially love using them in the winter, as they encourage gross motor movement and keep bodies warm.” Supernatural Plant-Based Food Colors Felder’s students use these as their palette on fresh snow. They’re safe for both the environment and consumption (the inevitably eaten ice). SkimBe Disc Made completely of foam, this lightweight disc glides effortlessly across water, snow, and ice and is recommended by Toy Association content developer Jennifer Lynch. Kids can…

IT’S ALMOST LIKE a townhouse within a building,” Peter Vits says of the three-story Noho space in an 1858 cast-iron building that he and his wife, the architect Zoe Vidali, first moved into in 2015. The 4,200-square-foot loft hadn’t been redone since the 1980s, when it had been the home, studio, and gallery of an artist who was one of the original tenants of the building when it became a co-op. The artist had put in three spindly spiral staircases and a Jacuzzi bathtub in the middle of the bedroom on the lowest of the floors. The only source of natural light was a back wall of glass bricks and a high window. It was a bit like a casino with the real world blocked out. Still, Vits and Vidali…

IT’S A TROPE for supposedly transgressive comedians to show how willing they are to go there by introducing a word they are not supposed to say, then saying it a bunch of times. In his new HBO special, From Bleak to Dark, the comedian, actor, and podcaster Marc Maron offers an alternate vision of what difficult material looks like—by talking, and making jokes, about the unexpected death of his girlfriend and collaborator, the director Lynn Shelton. She died of undiagnosed leukemia in May 2020, and in the special’s centerpiece, Maron offers a portrait of grief that explores the possibilities that she was reincarnated as a hummingbird and was haunting him through theater-lighting systems. Getting people to laugh at how social distancing made the mourning process lonely and awkward: Now that’s…

SOME SUMMERS Tia and Joey went on adventures. They listened to Linkin Park, Chevelle, and Slipknot riding down too-steep hills on Dyno trick bikes with pegs on the front and back. They stopped at basketball courts listening to Beenie Man and Sean Paul, played two-on-two with older boys who were always trying to fuck Tia, and stole, maybe for the last time one summer, that last time they might be mistaken for children, snacks and toys from Kmart. All through Frankford and Mayfair and the Greater Northeast, they dug up dirt. They played knock knock zoom zoom where white folks owned houses and trimmed hedges and, whenever the knocking and the zooming wasn’t quick enough, answered the door with shotguns for those pesky kids. Everybody was escalating. It made Joey…

LOOK UP WHEN YOU WALK THROUGH the World Trade Center Oculus, and you can forgive almost everything: the $4 billion bill as the rest of the transit system starved, the skylight that was supposed to open but doesn’t because the rubber seal ripped, the underperforming mall with its dumpy little kiosks selling dumpy little souvenirs. Enter that hall, and it does what Santiago Calatrava said it would. Your eye is drawn up the marble walls and the white ribs, and you are reminded of the nave of a great cathedral. You can experience, as a commuter, a moment’s uplift. Cast your eye downward, though, and you’re back in busted-up New York. The white slabs making up the floor of the concourse are chipped and flaked at the edges. Corners are…

JUST BEFORE DAWN on January 5, 2018, a team of armed federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations arrived at 1158 Fifth Avenue, a luxury co-op overlooking Central Park. After securing the building’s exits and entrances, the agents headed to the top floor, where they positioned themselves around the door to the penthouse apartment. At the head of the column, Matthew Bogdanos, a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, listened for movement before knocking. The apartment belonged to Michael Steinhardt, a retired billionaire hedge-fund manager and one of the world’s most powerful philanthropists. Born in Brooklyn to a high-stakes gambler with ties to the Gambino crime family, Steinhardt had become one of the most influential investors of his day, competing for top earnings with the likes of George Soros and…

For Every Kind of Apartment Pet PETQUA 2604 Broadway; 212-865-7500; petqua.com SHOPPERS ENTERING Petqua, a 20-year-old UWS pet shop, are greeted by the resident parrot, Panama. In back, they’ll find George the tortoise eating mixed greens. In between, “it has the most extensive variety of things,” says animal trainer Lydia DesRoche, owner of a parrot, Guillermo; a dog, Grace; and three bunnies, Asaka, Ti Moune, and Armand. In addition to the usual supplies, Petqua stocks crickets and roaches to feed geckos, cages for parakeets, hay for rabbits, and aquariums filled with red-eyed tree frogs and royal pleco fish. And in the rare case its shelves come up short, Sam and Ed, who run the store, step in. “Whenever I’ve said, ‘Oh, I’d like to try this,’ they’ll order it,” DesRoche…

LAST FALL, SEPTEMBER 11 FELL ON A SUNDAY, AND KYRIE IRVING SPENT MUCH OF IT AT HOME IN WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. It was rainy and quiet, and his life was uncharacteristically lacking in drama. Irving had won an epic standoff with the Brooklyn Nets and the mayor of New York over his refusal to get vaccinated for COVID-19. His teammate and fellow oddball superstar Kevin Durant had withdrawn a recent trade request to stick by his side. Nike was preparing to release the ninth edition of his best-selling sneaker. On his Xbox, Irving fired up NBA 2K23 and activated a geeky, khaki-clad, one-inch-taller avatar of himself. He also began to livestream on Twitch, monologuing dreamily for three hours and 40 minutes to an audience of a…

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CONNOR HOBAN Belle Harbor Why’d you decide to do this? I had a lot of other jobs. I did a lot of DoorDash; I worked at the gym as a trainer. But I wanted a real, stable job, and I wanted something that was noble. My grandfather had a stroke in the summer, and seeing the way the EMTs were so nice to him and made him feel real good made me want to do that for others. Was the training intense? Very. It was paramilitary training. We had to be clean shaven, do push-ups, planking, running—it all sucked. It hurt and was painful. But then, all of a sudden, it’s the last day and you’re ready to graduate and the drill instructors are saying that we’ve blossomed. THE LOOK…

➸ FOR THOSE nights when wading through throngs of tourists feels just a little too much, Rita Sodi and Jody Williams have launched Via Carota Craft Cocktails (drinkviacarota.com), a new line of bottled classics: a gentle martini, negronis both red and white, a sharp Manhattan, a stiff old-fashioned, and yes, even an espresso martini. “If I got this at the bar at Via Carota, I’d be happy,” said one taster after a sip of a chilled negroni. Each bell-shaped, chevron-patterned crystal bottle costs $39 and contains the equivalent of four to six drinks (depending on your pour). If the launch goes well, the duo already has its next product planned: “We want to offer a spritz,” says Williams, “a negroni sbagliato.”…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch The Consultant A late-stage-capitalism nightmare. Prime Video, February 24. Since twice winning the Oscar for Supporting Actor, Christoph Waltz has made difficult-to-predict, appreciably odd choices in projects. That trend continues with The Consultant, in which Waltz plays the titular character brought in to improve a gaming-app company. In the trailer, his Regus Patoff clips his nose hair at work, smells his team, and is possibly involved in some kind of heist-and-hostage scenario. Employees played by Nat Wolff and Brittany O’Grady have their work cut out for them. ROXANA HADADI MOVIES 2. See Marlowe A hard-boiled detective in Hollywood. In select theaters, February 15. A new Neil Jordan film is always to be celebrated, and his latest—a period crime…