Innholdsfortegnelse for March 27-April 9, 2023 i New York Magazine

1 For a cover story by Irin Carmon, New York gathered 17 leading broadcasters to reflect on how Barbara Walters shaped the news industry for women (“Let’s Have a Real Conversation About Barbara Walters,” March 13–26). “If you’ve obsessed about women in TV news since you were a little girl like I have,” wrote The Hollywood Reporter’s Rebecca Keegan, “this piece is your Avengers.” Eileen Clancy praised the writing as “incisive but not mean. A bit sanguine, but not gushing,” while Jessica Ghilani called it a “super dishy must-read” and @reallyhillary tweeted, “I want to sit next to Connie Chung at lunch.” Fellow broadcasters commended the feature, with CNN executive Katie Hinman noting, “What a joy to read @irin’s unvarnished take on Barbara Walters and feminism and TV news, full…

KARA SWISHER: In almost every interview you do, you’re asked about the dangers of releasing AI products and you say it’s better to test it gradually, when the stakes are relatively low. Can you expand on that? Why aren’t the stakes high right now? SAM ALTMAN: Relatively is the key word. KS: Right. What happens to the stakes if it’s not controlled now? SA: Well, these systems are now much more powerful than they were a few years ago, and we are much more cautious than we were a few years ago in terms of how we deploy them. We’ve tried to learn what we can learn. We’ve made some improvements, and we’ve found ways that people want to use this. In this interview (and I totally get why), I…

SOON AFTER Emily Henry left Hope College, a small, Christian-values-lite school in a tiny town in Michigan, she found herself living back in Cincinnati, trapped in her first postcollege job doing technical writing for the city’s phone-and-cable company. She’d always liked creative writing, but it seemed as plausible a career choice as her childhood dream of being a WNBA player. However, she discovered while spending her days writing company manuals and handbooks for set-top boxes that nothing makes the creative spirit bloom more than a mind-numbing job. So she woke up early before work and started churning out a YA novel. When it was done, she Googled agents until she found Lana Popovic Harper, who agreed to represent her. Henry wrote four books in three years, teenage coming-of-age stories full…

THIS THING’S INCREDIBLE I Only Drink Tall Boys of This Diet Root Beer Sprecher Brewery Low-Cal Root Beer Soda Cans, $32 for 12 A LONGTIME MISSION in my life is finding the best diet root beer. That ineffable mix of vanilla, licorice, and wintergreen flavors, a little bit of anise or nutmeg, perhaps—it’s a liquefied spice cake of a drink. Despite its being an East Coast invention, I’ve found it difficult to obtain a quality root beer in Brooklyn. Diet Barq’s was my favorite until recently, when I was introduced to Sprecher’s Low-Cal Root Beer. It goes down like velvet but has the gentlest sparkle on the tongue. The sweetness (and the 45 calories) comes from “pure Wisconsin honey,” whatever that means, but it tastes less artificial than others.…

FIFTEEN YEARS after the Penicillin and Benton’s old-fashioned appeared on the city’s cocktail menus, drink names can still feel like a secret code. Take the seasonal lists at Koloman (16 W. 29th St., nr. Broadway), chef Markus Glocker’s upscale French restaurant inside Nomad’s Ace Hotel. There was the Jacqueline Rose, which an educated drinker could understand to be a riff on the apple-brandy classic Jack Rose; the Tennessee Gentleman signaled a drink made with Tennessee whiskey; and now there’s the curiosity known as the Trummer. “Um,” I asked Meg Lazar, the head bartender, as I looked up from the menu one recent night, “is this drink set on fire?” Yes, she confirmed. Yes, it is. The Trummer is named for Albert Trummer, the Austrian-born bartender whom fans know as a…

MY WORK HAS always been about making the private public but to a very limited audience,” says the photographer Nan Goldin, ashing an American Spirit. We are sitting in her sunny living room in Clinton Hill, treetops visible through the window. On the coffee table are cans of La Croix on Hilma af Klint coasters from the gift shop at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, which recently showed six of Goldin’s slideshows and video installations in a retrospective titled “This Will Not End Well.” Peter Hujar’s black-and-white portrait of her friend the artist and activist David Wojnarowicz hangs above the mantel. The show in Sweden (Amsterdam is the next stop) isn’t what’s making Goldin anxious; instead, it’s Laura Poitras’s documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which tells the intertwined stories…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch Tiny Beautiful Things Meet your new favorite advice columnist. Hulu, April 7. In this new series based on Cheryl Strayed’s book of the same name, Kathryn Hahn plays Clare, a disillusioned wife, mother, and author who gets recruited to write an advice column. If you think that dispensing advice might give Clare deeper insight into her own issues, all I can say is, “Spoiler alert.” JEN CHANEY MOVIES 2. See Rye Lane The rom-com goes abroad. Hulu, March 31. It feels like we’re forever declaring the death and subsequent return of the romantic comedy, but Raine Allen-Miller’s directorial debut makes the genre look so light and effortless that you wonder why we ever fretted about it. Vivian Oparah…

For Less-Oppressive Hot Yoga LYONS DEN POWER YOGA 267 W. 17th St., second fl.; 646-964-4583; lyonsdenpoweryoga.com UNLIKE BIKRAM YOGA studios, which are steam-heated to 105 degrees, Lyons Den is warmed with infrared light to 90-to-95 degrees. Its 60-minute power vinyasa classes are designed to quickly build strength and endurance. Tatiana Boncompagni, founder of food-delivery service Eat Sunny, who is also a certified personal trainer, was surprised by how tough it was. “Not every yoga class is a workout,” she says. “I remember doing a crow pose three-quarters of the way through and hearing sweat run off the top of my head and hit the mat like rain. I had never felt so physically challenged and inspired by yoga. I was hooked.” The 90-minute Sunday Service, often taught by founder Bethany…

EVERY ASIAN BADDIE I know has been talking about Rice Thief, a ghost kitchen in Sunnyside that turns out batches of ganjang gejang, a classic recipe of raw crab marinated in soy sauce and aromatics. News of the Korean delicacy’s arrival last year spread through group chats: “Study this menu,” said one friend, who dropped in the PDF. Another quickly responded, “If you don’t invite me, I will drown myself in soy sauce.” It wasn’t just the people in my immediate vicinity, either: Social media has a way of seizing on weirdly specific things, and raw crab has become an unexpected star of mukbangs and TikToks, like a clip posted by a dietitian named Blair Cooley, who tried a super-spicy version from H Mart—made with gochugaru marinade—for the first time…

know your stans / nan goldin / fall out boy / the phantom of the opera / critics / to do IT DOESN’T not look like Beyoncé, except you know Beyoncé would never wear a wig this bad. It has the deep-brown eyes, the brows arched high, the arm outstretched and hip swirled right, knees cocked in frozen forever choreo—they got it past scary, just short of uncanny. The lips are closed, and they are glossy. The gaze is fixed, and it is dead, dead, dead. And we can’t really tell: Did they make Beyoncé orange? Or is it just the shit lighting at the Hollywood Madame Tussauds? ¶ Dominique Fishback stepped back to appraise. It was early March, and we’d spent the past hour wending through the chambers of…

IN THE shopping center, there are several flights of escalators going up and down between levels, including an inclined moving walkway that allows for access with a shopping cart. There are more inside the superstore, connecting the two levels: two going up, but only one going down. In these moments when we are forced to stand still, one behind the other, glances are exchanged between the people going up and those going down. We can peer at one another with frank curiosity, like the passengers of two trains moving slowly through a station in opposite directions. In what way are we present to each other? At times, here, I feel like a smooth surface reflecting other people and the signs hanging over their heads. (Yale University Press, April 4)…

➸ AS TOM SCOCCA writes (see p.32), most LED bulbs make everything look … well, bone-chillingly awful. And in a few months, when incandescents are banned, they’ll be our only option. So Strategist writer Erin Schwartz spoke to architects, designers, and LED enthusiasts to find the best lightbulb in a sea of bad options—ideally, one that’s dimmable and affordable (in the past, they’ve been neither) and casts an actually bearable, pleasant glow. For a standard screw-in bulb that mimics the warmth of incandescent light, our experts say the Philips LED Dimmable A21 Soft-White Lightbulb ($20) is the top choice. It has a five-year life span, is dimmable (but doesn’t buzz or flicker), and manages to emit a soft-white glow that Schwartz says is “cooler than the old-school halogen burning in…

JENN LAM Marketing and brand-partnerships manager, Bedford-Stuyvesant What is your experience playing mahjong? My grandparents played the game pretty much every day that I’ve known them. So while I was growing up, at every family gathering the table and tiles came out. I was never really taught because I think in Chinese culture they’re a bit impatient, so they just have you sit on the side and absorb through osmosis. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I asked my parents to teach me formal strategy, but by that point, obviously I knew the game already. I specifically know how to play Hong Kong style. How does Hong Kong-style mahjong differ from others? I think American mahjong is really different because a new scorecard comes out every year, which…

➽ WHEN FUNSO AKINYA moved to Brooklyn from Nigeria two decades ago, his first job was cooking at a McDonald’s in Sheepshead Bay. There, he gained some crucial insight into this country’s palate: “Americans like mayonnaise, they like pickles, they like garlic,” he says. “I studied it to know what fast food is all about.” It took time, but he is now putting what he learned to work at his first restaurant, Akara House (642 Nostrand Ave., nr. Dean St., Crown Heights; akarahouse.com). In addition to West African staples such as suya and jollof rice, Akinya takes akara sandwiches—made with his shop’s namesake fritters and common in Nigeria—and turns them into burgers, an idea he had after chicken sandwiches and “plant based” patties exploded in popularity. “It’s a little Nigerian…

SHAKIRA’S SHAKIFANS CALLING CARD: (For 2009’s She Wolf.) HOW FAR THEY’LL GO: Following “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53,” her new name-dropping diss track about her ex Gerard Piqué allegedly cheating on her, one stan who owns a restaurant reportedly asked Piqué and his new girlfriend to leave his establishment. A stan’s false claim that Shakira gave computer lessons to Bill Gates went so viral news outlets had to fact-check it. LIKES: Her son Milan, who wanted her to work with Bizarrap on the diss track. DISLIKES: Piqué, for cheating them out of the music she could’ve made if she hadn’t prioritized family life. ARIANA GRANDE’S ARIANATORS CALLING CARD: HOW FAR THEY’LL GO: In 2019, a stan used her Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and an LG smart refrigerator in a desperate…

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA will end its 35-year Broadway run on April 16. IN 1988, new york MAGAZINE ran a cover story about the arrival of a new Broadway show. Described as an “old-fashioned, romantic musical that assaults the senses,” The Phantom of the Opera told the tale of a deformed composer—the masked Phantom—who falls tragically in love with a beautiful soprano. The actual composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, had written it for his mistress turned wife, Sarah Brightman; their affair had been all over the tabloids back in London. Interviewed at the couple’s $5.5 million duplex in Trump Tower, Lloyd Webber called the show his “favorite” to date, all due respect to Evita, and, in any case, it was hard to argue with a record-breaking $17 million in advance…