Innholdsfortegnelse for February 27-March 12, 2023 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Simon van Zuylen-Wood wrote about Kyrie Irving and his tumultuous tenure with the Nets (“Head Games,” February 13–26). Rolling Stone’s Jeff Ihaza said the profile was “really good, non-hysterical writing that respects the complexity at hand,” and Hunter Walker called it “a nuanced look at Kyrie, the rise of internet conspiracy ideology, and Black-Jewish relations.” But radio host T.J. Legacy-Cole criticized the story as “an anti-Black hit piece … with racial undertones disguised as substantive journalism … Dehumanizing Black athletes has become such a perverse fetish in media.” Arianny Mercedes added, “I can’t stand Kyrie Irving for basketball reasons, but this is just an attack on him as a person.” Myles Brown countered, “This was thorough and fair, which is all I can…

THE SENATOR HAD no idea it was Valentine’s Day. “When is that? This weekend?” Bernie Sanders asked when I greeted him for dinner on February 14 at Young Chow, a Chinese restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue that he likes. No, I told him, it is Valentine’s Day currently, right now, as this very meal is taking place. He was grumpy: “Why is Valentine’s Day in the middle of the week?” Not that I was expecting a softer, sweeter Sanders just because of the holiday. Or even because he is 81 years old and has been a politician for much longer than I’ve been alive. This date would have no frills. We drank ice water. We ordered right away (him: pork noodle soup; me: dumplings). He wasn’t in the mood for chitchat.…

CELEBRITY SHOPPING Nepure Korean Exfoliating Mitt, $10 “I used to go to this amazing Korean bathhouse in Los Angeles with one of my dear friends, Liv Tyler. One of the things they used when they scrubbed you down were these mitts. I started asking, ‘Can I buy these?’ They sent me to the right place.” TaylorMade Distance+ Golf Ball, $20 “I started golfing when COVID started. Now, I golf all the time in Monaco, where I live, and I’ve been lucky enough to golf at Augusta. I always travel with my gear. TaylorMade is an iconic brand, and they make great golf balls. They somehow end up in every one of my bags. I find them everywhere.” Paravel Cabana Pet Carrier, $295 “I just had this custom bag made for…

AS TANGRAM MALL (133-33 39th Ave., btn. Prince St. and College Point Blvd.)—the two-story retail component of an enormous new office and residential compound in Downtown Flushing—continues to be built out, its first-floor food hall has already become the main draw. There are a handful of restaurants anchored throughout the rest of the mall and an upcoming conveyor-belt sushi counter that cannot open soon enough, in my opinion, but it’s the neon-lit collection of stalls that will most make you feel like you’ve been transported to an Asian night market. 1 HOMEMADE ROAST DUCK Juqi It’s enough that you can get Peking duck in a mall. It’s even more impressive that this is one of the crispiest, juiciest versions I’ve had. Order the whole duck, mostly as an excuse to…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch Alaska Daily Warm hearts and cold cases. ABC, March 2. It’s rare for a network series these days to distinguish itself from the pack, but there’s something endearing about this news-reporting drama, which returns for the back half of its first season. Although it began with Hilary Swank playing a big-city hotshot disgruntled about taking a job in Anchorage, it has become a warm ensemble celebration of shoe-leather local journalism. KATHRYN VANARENDONK MUSIC 2. Listen to Endless Summer Vacation Miley’s love letter to L. A. Columbia Records, March 10. Miley Cyrus changes up every album, so there’s no telling what her eighth will try. Lead single “Flowers” suggests glossy dance pop, but this set could be a grab…

NOBODY LIKES AN I-told-you-so. But before Microsoft’s Bing started cranking out creepy love letters; before Meta’s Galactica spewed racist rants; before ChatGPT began writing such perfectly decent college essays that some professors said, “Screw it, I’ll just stop grading”; and before tech reporters sprinted to claw back claims that AI was the future of search, maybe the future of everything else, too, Emily M. Bender co-wrote the octopus paper. Bender is a computational linguist at the University of Washington. She published the paper in 2020 with fellow computational linguist Alexander Koller. The goal was to illustrate what large language models, or LLMs—the technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT—can and cannot do. The setup is this: Say that A and B, both fluent speakers of English, are independently stranded on two uninhabited…

For Snakebites, Philtrums, and Tongues OREN MISHOLY AT CHERRY BOMB 231 Eldridge St.; 929-434-8004; cherrybomb.studio → THE HEAD PIERCER at Cherry Bomb, Oren Misholy is best known for their skill with complex face piercings (such as snakebites or tongue piercings) and for being extremely hands-on and patient with clients. When barber and bartender Elona Hoffeld went in for a cheek-piercing consultation, Misholy advised her “for an hour,” she says. They are highly cautious and knowledgeable and talk clients through every possible outcome—they told Hoffeld they don’t recommend cheek piercings because “there’s a salivary gland in your cheek that, when pierced, may occasionally leak.” She and Misholy eventually landed on doing spider bites (two piercings on the left side of the lower lip)—Hoffeld says they helped her pick out jewelry best…

ONE YEAR AGO, after Russia invaded Ukraine, New York Magazine asked 30 young people in Ukraine to share their experiences of life under siege. Since then, Ukrainians, who continue to beat back Vladimir Putin’s army, have endured a Russian campaign of atrocities against civilians—bombings of electrical grids, razings of residential neighborhoods, murder, rape, torture, and deportation. More than 5 million Ukrainians have been forced to leave their homes and start over in new cities or regions, and more than 8 million have crossed the border entirely. We spoke with a group of our original subjects to hear how their lives have changed since February 24, 2022. As told to Megan Paetzhold, Bridget Read, Amelia Schonbek, Laura Thompson, and Reeves Wiedeman. INNA ZADOROZHNA, 26, virtual assistant BEFORE THE INVASION: Cherkasy.…

A LITTLE OVER A DECADE AGO, we simply didn’t have stickers to suck the oil out of our zits; now, the pimple-patch market has become fairly expansive. There are patches with tiny needles to pierce cystic acne and patches shaped like stars. In an effort to find the kind that works best for most skin types, Strategist writer Rachael Griffiths spoke to dermatologists and beauty writers and discovered that Hero Cosmetics’ Mighty Patch ($13) is the one that really zaps. It contains medical-grade hydrocolloid, an ingredient that quickly draws the excess fluid and oils from pimples without drying sensitive skin. The patch also helps the skin maintain an “optimum pH level, which can prevent bacterial overgrowth and promote healing,” says New York Dermatology Group’s Dr. Amy Perlmutter, who recommends Mighty…

FREDDY SHANDS Entertainmentcompany founder and CEO, Northeast Bronx How long have you smoked weed? For the last 52 years, and I’m 61. I was around when they had weed in brown-paper bags. So I’m not only an avid smoker; I’m a connoisseur. So what’d you think of the dispensary? First of all, it is so tacky. It looks like a Waffle House. Also, it’s the yuppie crowd. They put this in the area where the white people are, where the money’s at. So now I gotta go down into Manhattan, into their area, to buy their weed. The government figures they’ll close all the smoke shops and no one will have a choice but to go to the places they open. But I know a lot of people that won’t…

➸ DOZENS OF wonderful bakeries (some with lines around the block, some without) have opened in the past couple of years. Still, something has been missing since 2019, when Roger Gural closed his beloved office-lobby bakery, Arcade: the so-called laminated baguette, a singular creation that managed to turn a loaf of French bread into something like an extra-long croissant. The Arcade space has been reborn as Frenchette Bakery, but the butter-laced baguette remains MIA. Now, it will finally return thanks to Amadou Ly, a Senegal-raised pastry chef turned baker who worked at Arcade for four years and was Gural’s protégé. He will open ALF Bakery in Chelsea Market (75 Ninth Ave., at 15th St.; alfbakery.com), where he’ll offer his own version of the baguette, tweaked—doubling the lamination—so that its flakiness…

IF YOU WATCH enough movies, then you’ll know the Chrises, Jake Gyllenhaal, Oscar Isaac, and Timothée Chalamet. Their checks have cleared and probably will keep clearing, but this is Hollywood, where there’s always high demand for fresh blood. We’re getting a rebranded James Bond; Marvel is shifting gears from phase four into phase five. Someone’s gotta fill all these key franchise roles—and maybe even fit in an awards-bait drama or two. So who is in the running to be America’s Next Top Matinee Idol? Here’s a taxonomy of the biggest breakout hunks 35 and under who haven’t (yet) been the lead of a major superhero film. Some are aiming to be critical darlings (three are up for Oscars this year), some are trying to book 007, some can even sing—and,…