Innholdsfortegnelse for May 8-21, 2023 i New York Magazine

“There’s kind of no more ‘It’ girls. Like that was the thing with this package that kind of got me a little sad … Do ‘It’ girls even exist anymore?” —Lindsey Weber, Who? Weekly YAHOO! upstatebitch BARBARA BUSH THE DAUGHTER WAS AN IT GIRL?! YEAH ON PLANET ELEPHANT FLAG. LITERALLY NO ONE IN NYC KNOWS STEVE JOBS’ DAUGHTER? EVE? WHO DAT? WE STILL TALK ABOUT OLIVIA PALERMO?UM OK. BRANDEE DOESN’T EVEN LIVE HERE ANYMORE! A PUBLICIST WAS AN IT GIRL? NIKI TAKESH WAS EXCLUDED? OH HELL NO. I OBJECT! @nymag@thecut VOGUE “Its are more than the sum of their parts. They are pure zeitgeist, charisma incarnate, hard to describe linguistically.” —Raven Smith, Vogue INSIDER “As millennials’ wealth builds, however, their nostalgia for simpler times remains, as seen in the revival…

Baldwin had just come from the set of Rust, the low-budget western in which he was playing a moody patriarch dealing with the aftermath of an accidental killing. At the sheriff ’s office, he was wearing the bushy white beard he grew for the part and a navy-blue T-shirt and dark jeans, having changed out of his costume, which was covered in fake blood and now considered evidence in a criminal investigation. Just a few hours earlier, Baldwin had shot Joel Souza, the film’s director, and Halyna Hutchins, its cinematographer, with a Colt .45 that wasn’t supposed to be loaded. Souza and Hutchins were in the hospital, and Baldwin didn’t yet know that Hutchins had just been pronounced dead. Baldwin called his wife again. “How is everyone at home?” he…

For Greeting Cards and Vintage Stickers GREENWICH LETTERPRESS, 15 Christopher St.; 212-989-7464; greenwichletterpress.com IN 2005, SISTERS Amy Swanson and Beth Salvini—whose parents and grandparents were in the paper business—opened Greenwich Letterpress with personalized stationery, wedding invitations, and baby announcements, all made in-house or at their letterpress in Brooklyn. Now, the pastel-pink walls of the shop, which is tucked into the first floor of a townhouse in the West Village, spill over with greeting cards. Their specialty is situational, actually kind-of-amusing cards, like one for new parents that says “Don’t Fuck It Up”—there are racks and racks of them. They also have a sticker center in the back of the shop with wheels of vintage “Peanuts” characters; unusually scented scratch-and-sniffs (onion, pineapple); and glitter letters, shapes, and animals, which is…

Do you remember your first Cronut? It was June 2013. I missed the initial month, which still bugs me. But for the first anniversary, Chef Dominique gave out Cronut holes in the original rose-and-vanilla flavor, so I got to try it then. There have been 121 flavors in New York. Which were the best? Everything from the first year: lemon-maple, coconut, chocolate-Champagne. The other flavors that stand out were combinations I didn’t think would work, like matcha and pineapple. And you’ve traveled to the bakeries in other cities? I’ve had Cronuts in Tokyo, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and London. It’s like, Hey, if it’s an excuse to go to London, why not? Has the Cronut changed at all? I feel like they have less filling. In the first year, when…

OF THE TELEVISION creators whose work possesses the authorial stamp and social heft needed to sustain an academic conference, and the fan devotion required to make them household names, Shonda Rhimes is in a tier with only Norman Lear. The Chicago screenwriter’s first megahit, the long-running medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, premiered in 2005, while her most obsessed-over follow-ups, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder, redefined appointment viewing for the Obama era. Each took audiences on a savvy, soapy ride through the work and sex lives of a refreshingly multiracial cast of horny careerists while hauling in millions of dollars and eyeballs for ABC. But after a public falling-out with her longtime creative home, Rhimes left network TV for Netflix in 2017. The diamond of that deal so far…

1. THIS YEAR, THE MOST NOMINATED SHOW ISN’T THE FRONT-RUNNER FOR THE BIG PRIZE. ➽ Some Like It Hot has 13 nominations, including recognition for its leads Christian Borle and J. Harrison Ghee. It’s a little old-fashioned but well executed, the niche Tony voters love—yet it’s not the favorite for Best Musical. Nor is Shucked, blessed with an uncountable number of jokes about corn and nine nominations, though a “Vote for the show that made you laugh hardest” campaign could take it far. The smart money is on Kimberly Akimbo, a quirkier, smaller-scale, and much more emotionally engaging story about a teenager with a rare disease. VOTER NO. 1: “I wasn’t crazy about Some Like It Hot. I felt it was slick and a bit soulless.” 2. FOR REVIVAL OF…

FOR SOME NEW YORKERS, Jordan Neely was dead even before Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny allegedly choked the life out of him on the floor of a subway train. Modern America, including New York, designates some categories of people as socially dead—part of an underclass that is subject to exclusion, indifference, or even outright hatred and violence. To be Black, destitute, homeless, and mentally ill in our city is to be one of those outsiders, existing in a kind of internal exile from society’s circle of care and concern. “I don’t have food, I don’t have a drink, I’m fed up,” Neely screamed in the final minutes of his life, according to Juan Alberto Vázquez, a freelance journalist on the train who recorded the incident. “I don’t mind going to…

“I WAS BORN IN 1943,” E. Jean Carroll said by way of explanation. That Carroll is old is a salient fact in her civil case against Donald Trump, almost as important as her charge that the former president raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1995 or 1996 when she was already 51 or 52. Corroborating witness Jessica Leeds is, at 81, also old and testified that Trump felt her up as if “he had 40 zillion hands” when she was seated next to him in first class on an airplane in the late ’70s. She said she had considered the risk of being assaulted on a plane simply part of the “rigors of travel” for working women. Even when the women are younger, like 58-year-old Natasha Stoynoff,…

TO SPEAK INTO SILENCE IS something very dramatic” is something Jorie Graham is given to say, and it is a statement that seems true when she in particular says it. Silence “is the sound of the earth.” Silence “does not need you to interrupt it.” Interrupting the silence is something one must justify, ideally by becoming the person who can write the book worthy of breaking it. In February 2022, it had been four months since her diagnosis, 15 since her husband was helicoptered to a hospital, two years since she watched her mother die. She lived on an island formed 20,000 years ago by a moving wall of ice. The day is long, she once wrote. It flirts with nothingness. It always does. The clock in her kitchen read,…

Walk us through your look today. You guys caught me on a really bad day, honestly. It’s finals week. I have been barely sleeping, trying to finish this magazine project I have due tomorrow. So I’m running on an hour and 40 minutes of sleep and a bunch of yerba. I always wear this hat when I’m too lazy to style my hair. So tell me about this magazine. Basically, we have to create and print our own fashion magazine—all the styling, the photography, the art direction, the writing, and the layout. Mine’s called Type A, like the personality type, but also A for Amaris. What’s your style generally? It ranges anywhere from Y2K to 40-year-old man. I’m really close with my dad, so a lot of his preppy old-man…

WHEN NICK MORGENSTERN OPENED his first stand-alone ice-cream shop in 2014, he was excited to introduce one new scoop in particular: durian-banana, a combination he’d dreamed up during his time as a pastry chef. It became the first item to sell out. “To this day, that’s a very important flavor,” he says. “We’ve never run out since.” Now, he’s turned his original Lower East Side parlor into a new shop called Morgenstern’s Bananas (2 Rivington St., nr. Bowery; morgensternsbananas.com), and yes, he’s painted the outside very yellow for the occasion. Bananas, nuts, and coconuts are the base ingredients for the shop’s line of dairy-free soft serves, which are dispensed from four top-of-the-line Carpigiani machines. For those who would like to go full banana, Morgenstern offers a signature flavor that took…

THERE ARE A couple of unassailable facts around this situation, right? Jordan Neely, the 30-year-old man who was killed by a 24-year-old Marine Corps veteran whose name, Daniel Penny, was for days protected by the powers that be, was a poor, houseless subway performer who suffered from mental illness. Neely rode the F train and begged commuters to help him out. He grew angry with the constant, quiet violence that had become his regular existence and declared that he didn’t mind going to jail (probably because in jail, at least he’d have a decent meal) and that he was ready to die. He threw his jacket on the ground, and Penny grabbed him from behind, then placed him in a choke hold and held him down until he was unconscious.…

BEST BETS A Perfect Plucker IT WAS NOT entirely surprising that when Strategist writer Arielle Avila started her search for a flawless pair of tweezers, the aestheticians, spa owners, and eyebrow artist she spoke to overwhelmingly recommended Tweezerman. She heard about four models, each suited for a specific hair-removal need—the Point Tip tweezers, for instance, are best for ingrown hairs, the Ultra Precision for brows—but found the Tweezerman Classic Slant Tweezer ($24) ideal for most plucking problems. According to experts, it’s because of the slant and sharpness of the tool. The etched and angled edge lets one reach the base of the hair, get a good grip on it and then pull it right out without any breakage to speak of. “I used to struggle to grab short, wispy hairs,…

WHEN SPENCER CHANG set out to try all the bubble teas in Long Island City in March 2021, documenting his journey on the Instagram account @bubbleteainlic, he found 13 shops in the neighborhood serving it. Now there are more than 20. Chang’s current favorite comes from Boba & Bean, a stall inside the ABC Eats Food Hall (22-22 Jackson Ave.; no website) that makes its pearls in-house, but his top choice could change at any time given the variety and the speed at which the stores are multiplying. That’s not to say the market is saturated: “I don’t feel like there are too many,” Chang clarifies. “There are enough people here to support them.” Between 2010 and 2020, Long Island City’s population increased by 40 percent, five times the city’s…

East Williamsburg HUGH HAYDEN’s Former Fruit Warehouse I HAD OUTGROWN my previous studio in the Bronx,” Hugh Hayden says, sitting beside an aluminum and wood zebra skeleton sprouting massive branches from its bones. He needed more space to make large pieces for a show at ICA Miami in 2021 and had looked at plenty of listings through the website LoopNet, which focuses on commercial real estate. Prices were too steep for what he needed, until he happened upon a former fruit distributor’s warehouse. “I actually didn’t like it,” he says of his first visit to the fluorescent-lit, cinderblock-walled structure, “but it ended up being a good deal.” The two-level space totals about 5,500 square feet with 18-foot ceilings and a garage door on the ground floor, where Hayden has his…

ROY WOOD JR. is loading up a cart at the Home Depot on West 23rd Street. The 44-year-old comedian just bought an apartment in Manhattan—the first place he’s owned—so he wanted to spend the morning running errands. Wandering the aisles, he picks up a box of trash bags, pauses over the detergent, selects paint samples. This is Wood’s preferred Home Depot thanks to a paint department he feels is on the ball. “What’s up, man? I’m back,” he says to an employee as he strolls up to the counter with his color choices—several grays and a few sharp blues. “I’m gonna do these in matte.” The paint clerk (who does seem on top of it) says it will be 15 minutes, so Wood angles the cart into a new aisle…

MAY 10–24 For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. MOVIES 1. See BlackBerry Maple-leaf rag. In select theaters, May 12. There’s been a rash of executive-centric films, but none more enjoyably regional than this dramatic tale of the rise and fall of Waterloo, Ontario’s Research in Motion, which, for a brief window in the aughts, dominated the smartphone market. Jay Baruchel and director Matt Johnson play its feuding co-founders, but the bald-capped Glenn Howerton steals the show as hockey-obsessed co-CEO Jim Balsillie. ALISON WILLMORE TV 2. Watch High Desert Flirting with success. Apple TV+, May 17. Patricia Arquette stars in this comedy as recovering drug addict Peggy Newman, who tries to reinvent herself as a private investigator. Whether she can overcome her own messiness and her siblings’ doubts…