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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

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1 When New York writer-at-large Rebecca Traister was deciding how to cover the politics of abortion in the post- Dobbs landscape, she came up with several major story ideas, from Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer’s successful abortion messaging in the 2022 midterms to the Biden administration’s failure to emphasize the issue. In the end, she combined them into one expansive feature that tied all of the threads together, and in the resulting cover story, “Abortion Wins Elections” (March 27–April 9), Traister surveyed how Democrats finally started putting reproductive rights at the center of their agenda. Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, wrote, “Traister’s story is an important read. If the midterms showed us anything, it’s that when you invest consistently in building an infrastructure to mobilize reproductive rights…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

37 MINUTES WITH …Paul Schrader

PAUL SCHRADER is late and hasn’t eaten. He’s been stuck in his apartment on a Zoom call with Antoine Fuqua of Training Day, trying to get the director to sign on to a new script he’s set on calling Three Guns at Dawn. It follows three brothers—a dirty cop, a serial killer, and a drug dealer—who hate one another. At 1:30, he appears in the restaurant, orders three eggs scrambled and a scoop of cottage cheese, mixes it all together, and huffs it down, his heavy gold bracelet thumping the table. Then he looks around. The space is sterile but tasteful: big windows overlooking Hudson Yards, vaguely mid-century furniture, an open kitchen. Everything smells of jasmine. “Living in this place feels like living on the Cunard Line,” he says. “Sometimes…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

EMMA TUCKER’S DEADLINE

Emma Tucker got her first inkling that something bad might be happening on the afternoon of March 29. Two months into her job as editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, she was having a business-as-usual meeting with Liz Harris, her managing editor. Harris, an Australian, had followed Tucker to New York from the also–owned–by–Rupert Murdoch Sunday Times of London. Harris mentioned, almost as an aside, that a 31-year-old foreign correspondent named Evan Gershkovich had missed his daily check-in. The last time he’d been heard from, he had just arrived at a steakhouse in Yekaterinburg, Russia, to meet a source. Not to worry; these things sometimes happen. Tucker, 56, paused and thought for a moment. She had been introduced to hundreds of people since Murdoch announced in December that he was…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

Best Bets

COMPULSIVE SHOPPING The Brooks Brothers Shirt Designer Bob Mackie Has Been Buying Since 1957 Brooks Brothers Stretch Supima-Cotton Oxford Button-Down-Collar Dress Shirt, $118 I WAS A VERY fussy teenager and would wear a brand-new shirt to school every day. When I was in high school, the Ivy League look was very popular with those two buttons in the front of the collar and the button in the back. I was around 17, and I went into a Brooks Brothers and bought a shirt that was too expensive, but I liked it. I realized how much nicer it was than the ones I was buying in the men’s store in the mall. I wear a style called Regent. They fit me so well; the collar sits in the same place.…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

A Trippy-Looking Place for Making Your Life Better Through Ketamine

WHEN ARTIST AND BUILDER Randy Polumbo heard about the three-year-old “healing, recovery, and awakening” organization Cardea, which his friend Dimitri Mugianis founded, he wanted to help. Polumbo joined as a partner, pitching in on the new location on Canal Street, where Cardea’s team would hold sessions with clients involving the use of the drug ketamine. “I worked on things from negotiating the lease and picking space to the final build-out and furnishing the space, all with vintage items from my personal collection and other partners’ libraries of cool stuff, books, records,” he says. “And, of course, mushrooms.” Polumbo thought it natural to work with reishi-mushroom mycelium to create special pieces for the décor. It’s a material he was already familiar with. Regarding the tables, light fixtures, and some of the…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

She Can’t Believe She’s Still the First

ONE AFTERNOON IN February, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith sat at a long table in the center of her studio in Corrales, New Mexico, surrounded by images and motifs that she returns to again and again in her artwork: sketches of George Armstrong Custer, coyote heads cast in resin, and paintings of reimagined maps of the United States. To her left was a pile of notebooks, in which she collects words and phrases. She read from one: “Canoes. Empty Promises. Treaties.” Thumbing through another, she found a note to self: “Land acknowledgment: What’s it for?” ¶ Just as these lines could serve as the starting point for much of her work, small talk with Smith soon grows into something bigger. She speaks deliberately and at length—about a book she’s reading, an artist…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

Why Are My Secret Spotify Songs Following Me Around?

A FEW WEEKS AGO, I was at a Brooklyn cocktail bar called the Great Georgiana when I heard something strange. Make that five somethings strange. Over the course of the night, the bar played “Khala My Friend,” by the ’70s Zambian rock band Amanaz; “Like a Chicken,” by WITCH, a more popular Zambian band from the same era; “Red Lady,” a B-side by psychedelic rocker Phil Cordell, whose only No. 1 hit came on the Swiss charts; “Good Time,” by Donnie and Joe Emerson, two Washington State teenagers whose 1979 home-recorded album was essentially unheard for decades; and, at least twice, “Somebody Made for Me,” by the singer-songwriter Emitt Rhodes, once hailed as the “one-man Beatles.” It was a motley collection of tunes, but I knew them all by heart—because…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

THE new york CROSSWORD

High Notes By Matt Gaffney Across 1 De Lesseps of “The Real Housewives of New York City”6 Winning11 Potential queens16 Top pilot or pitcher19 Cooler brand20 “The Right Stuff ” novelist21 “___ Abroad” (BBC show with traveling chefs)22 Did a half-marathon, say23 Sound made by a sparrow that’s just caught a worm?26 Time-buying utterances27 Elliott with four Grammys28 Blue text in an email29 Rice seen in many countries in the aughts31 Whirling, in verse33 On the mend35 Full figured36 Vineyard, in French37 Is greeted by one’s fellow doves?41 Creator of the Odyssey43 Ear holder44 Play Maryland’s state sport45 Fail to take your time46 Cutting ceremony47 Steve and Debbie, say50 Volunteer’s phrase54 Has grown hoarse from talking to one’s fellow ducks?57 “___ in Paris”58 “Gimme one ___”59 Get knocked out60 Al…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

The Body Politic: Rebecca Traister

INSIDE: Smoking out rats in Brooklyn / A legendary screenwriter’s new digs / The way we divorce now WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS charged with 34 felony counts for falsifying business records—the legal fallout from the alleged 2016 bribe payment to Stormy Daniels to stay quiet about their affair—and descended on lower Manhattan like a perfectly toasted Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, I remembered how I felt the day Harvey Weinstein was convicted of assault by a jury in 2020. I was meeting a friend for lunch and saw two women embracing in celebration on the street in Tribeca, a neighborhood Weinstein used to dominate, where he had once berated me and assaulted my colleague. My friend greeted me with jubilation: Have you heard?! I had. And I felt nothing. No pleasure; no…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

Second Acts: Allie Jones

WHEN REESE WITHERSPOON announced that she was divorcing her husband of 12 years, Jim Toth, in late March, she did so in the manner we have come to expect from celebrities facing such a challenge: She posted a brief, conciliatory joint statement on Instagram and asked for privacy. “It is with a great deal of care and consideration that we have made the difficult decision to divorce,” read the statement, which dropped on a Friday afternoon—no doubt in order to minimize press coverage. “We have enjoyed so many wonderful years together and are moving forward with deep love, kindness, and mutual respect for everything we have created together.” The post, naturally, was closed to comments. These days, this kind of statement is customary for A-listers going through a separation. But…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

The Case of the Fake Sherlock

COQUILLE, ON the Oregon coast, is a two-stoplight town where mist rolls off the Pacific and many of the 4,000 residents work in lumber and fishing. On the night of June 28, 2000, a 15-year-old named Leah Freeman left a friend’s house and set off on her own. She was seen walking past McKay’s Market, the credit union, and the high school, but she never made it home. At a gas station, a county worker found one of Leah’s sneakers. The local paper published Leah’s school photo: big smile, mouthful of braces. Police and a donor put together a $10,000 reward for information leading to her safe return. K-9 units swept the school grounds, and police set up roadblocks and interviewed motorists. On its sign, the Myrtle Lane Motel posted…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

The Best LANGUAGE CLASSES

BEST OF NEW YORK For French COUCOU, 253 Centre St., second and third fls.; coucoufrenchclasses.com → INSTEAD OF EXCLUSIVELY plodding through a textbook, Coucou instructors—all native French speakers who are everything from artists to actors by day—teach students grammatical rules before explaining how modern French speakers actually talk. (For example, je ne sais pas is often contracted to j’sais pas.) So class, held in Coucou’s cozy space in a remodeled Soho townhouse, feels like a conversation with an interesting Parisian instead of school. Nikkitha Bakshani, author of the forthcoming novel You Don’t Know Hunger, who first signed up for a beginner class, appreciates how classes often revolve around group activities like board games rather than lectures. She has since taken several classes and gone to some of Coucou’s one-off…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

Who Ordered All the Turbot?

This big flat fish is everywhere. MAY I?” asked our server as she drew a knife down the spine of my dinner. I was at Foul Witch (15 Ave. A, nr. E. 2nd St.; foulwitchnyc.com), the East Village wine bar that opened earlier this year, and a gleaming platter of whole turbot had just arrived at the table. It was placed on a small trivet, sloping the dish slightly so that a sauce of vin jaune pooled to one side. “Because it’s such a rich fish,” she continued, “the juices will constantly collect—you’ll want to baste it as you go along.” She then glazed the otherwise unadorned seafood with additional drippings and began to delicately carve off the fillets. “When you’re ready, we’ll flip the fish over and go to…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

Monocrop on 41st Street

UP EIGHTH AVENUE and down 41st Street, ears of corn are sprouting from banners on every light pole. They lead right to the Nederlander Theatre, the façade done up with blinding Minion yellow. A giant decal declares, WE’RE HERE, WE’RE EAR, GET USED TO IT!, attributed to the “Grain Men’s Health Crisis.” There are ads plastered across subway stations promoting a mysterious “new musical comedy” with gag reviews (THE MUSICAL THAT HAS BROADWAY ALL A-TWITTER!) from fake critics (“Elon Husk”). Some just say the show’s name: shucked. Shucked is a show about corn. And at a time when New York theatergoers shell out for Sondheim revivals, jukebox musicals, and celebrity casting, Shucked may be the most surprising viral hit in recent Broadway history. The production came straight from Salt Lake…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

CRITICS

ART / JERRY SALTZ Big Little Things Sarah Sze’s interstitial worlds take over the Guggenheim. IT’S ALWAYS WONDROUS when an artist is allowed to play with the idiosyncrasies of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, a spaceship laboratory whose interior is all spiraling ramps, sloping floors, and secret stairwells, topped with a Cyclops-like oculus. It is also a huge void, an empty vessel for filling with meaning and looking inside ourselves. In 2002, Matthew Barney scaled its parapets dressed in a tartan kilt. In 2013, James Turrell turned it into a chapel where viewers peered up at spectral colors that echoed the northern lights. Now, using only a fraction of the building, Sarah Sze has given its swooping white curves something like a consciousness. Sze, a 54-year-old winner of the MacArthur…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

Neighborhood News: A Rat Hunter Takes Bushwick

ON A COLD MORNING in December, Elias Schewel enters a community garden in Bushwick followed by his two small dogs, Sundrop and Moonbeam. The dogs tremble with anticipation but not for a game of fetch. They are here to hunt. Schewel bends down to unleash them, and they dart off, weaving around sheds and bushes, using their diminutive size to their advantage in the search for their quarry: the New York City rat. Armed with his two companions and a smoke machine to chase rodents from their burrows, Schewel is a rat hunter, a trade associated more with the 19th century than the 21st. His company, Rat Hunt NYC, provides a valuable service at a time when a “war on rats” has become a top priority for Mayor Adams, who…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

HOW STORMY DANIELS SEES IT ENDING

STORMY DANIELS saged the room and shuffled the oracle deck. It was the evening of April 1, and the woman at the center of the legal drama that led to the first criminal indictment of a U.S. president had agreed to ask the guides for help to see more clearly the past, the present, and what she calls “the potential or likely outcome.” Daniels doesn’t claim to be a fortune teller. “Nobody can predict the future,” she said. “We all have free will.” But she can for sure identify fortune’s fool. She raised her hands and pressed the empty space between her palms. She spoke quietly. “What can you tell Olivia about Donald Trump?” She waited for a moment. Nothing. “What the fuck?” she said. “That’s weird.” She was having…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

A Portable Projector That Functions Like It’s Full Size

THE LOOK BOOK GOES TO A CATHERINE LACEY BOOK TALK . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A TRIPPY KETAMINE-THERAPY OFFICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TURBOT, TURBOT EVERYWHERE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

Catherine Lacey’s Book Launch

KYLE REA Bookseller, Bushwick Did you help Catherine sign the books? We pull everything off the floor and bring it to the back, then somebody opens to the page Catherine will sign, hands the book to someone else who hands it to Catherine to sign, then she hands it to someone else who stickers the book for people to buy. I did most of the stickering, so anyone who bought a book with a signed copy sticker, that was all me. Are you a writer, too? Yes. I just graduated with my M.F.A. from the New School in 2022 and wrote a novel as my thesis, which I’m currently looking to get an agent for. It’s a romcom thriller about a lesbian couple who live in Brooklyn. They’re both aspiring…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

The New Alphabet City Scene

WHEN LUCIE FRANC DE Ferriere was looking for a place to open her first bakery, From Lucie, she gravitated to the East Village, motivated in part by nostalgia. She used to live in the neighborhood and always loved its small scale. Pre-pandemic, the area was starting to feel a bit like Murray Hill South, but as the CVS outposts and Chase banks have receded, it has become, in the words of Foul Witch co-owner Brandon Hoy, “affordable for weirdos again.” And over the past year, the lettered avenues have become home to an ice-cream shop that turns into a tapas bar in time for happy hour, a showcase for all-day-every-day brunch, and a destination for Burmese noodles and shrimp curry. “This cycle happens a lot in New York neighborhoods,” says…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

Confessions on Jessie Ware’s Dance Floor

THAT! FEELS GOOD! is out April 28 from EMI. A ROLLER DISCO seemed within the comfort zone of newly minted dance diva Jessie Ware. Except this place is more like skate night at the school gym: a gray, concrete, sparsely filled pop-up in the middle of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Terminal Mall. And we don’t hear any actual disco—the DJ is spinning ’90s and aughts hip-hop for Throwback Thursday, which makes Ware, at 38, feel old. It’s been years since the singer’s Rollerblading days with her husband, and she’s admittedly out of practice. As we approach the rink, she trips forward and grabs my waist only to glide right past me; a few minutes later, she skates backward a few steps like it’s nothing. Ware has become a master of getting bodies…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

To Do

APRIL 12–26 For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch Dead Ringers Two Rachels are better than one. Prime Video, April 21. David Cronenberg’s cult classic gets a gender-swapped remake in this miniseries starring the inimitable Rachel Weisz, who plays twin gynecologists. Whether the show’s emphasis on the business side of health care will work is up in the air, but Weisz has never turned in a bad performance—this time, we get two. ROXANA HADADI THEATER 2. See Prima Facie Working-class hero. John Golden Theatre, opens April 23. Jodie Comer, the rising British star of Killing Eve and The Last Duel, is bringing her stellar interpretation of an accomplished young barrister Stateside after winning acclaim in London. JACKSON MCHENRY MUSIC 3. Listen to Multitudes Intimate and…

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New York Magazine|April 10-23, 2023

SPRING FEVER

Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Webster Hall, April 13 through 16. The New Zealand psych-funk trio celebrates the release of its lush, sprawling new album, V. Expect a mix of gorgeous new songs alongside enduring favorites. Depeche Mode, Madison Square Garden, April 14. The synth-pop veterans hit the road for a bittersweet affair, at once a celebration of a great new album and a back catalogue reaching new ears every year and a tribute to founding member Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, who died last spring. Reba McEntire, Madison Square Garden, April 15. The country-music and comfort-television mainstay extends her career-spanning tour, where you can experience ballads like “The Greatest Man I Never Knew” and bangers like “I’m a Survivor.” The Walkmen, Webster Hall, April 24 through 28. Relive the sweaty exuberance of the…

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