Innholdsfortegnelse for June 5-18, 2023 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, the magazine asked young New Yorkers to describe what they wanted their future lives to look like. Then our reporters figured out, down to the dollar, how much it would all cost (“The Dream-Life Calculator,” May 22–June 4). The novelist Min Jin Lee tweeted, “I found this dollars and cents breakdown fascinating, absurd, and instructive.” The New York Post’s Nolan Hicks said, “Brilliantly done, positively enraging and a pretty good explanation of why folks are forced to look to NJ or beyond.” The Christian-democratic American Solidarity Party wrote on Twitter, “The idea that it’s normal for huge swaths of our major cities to be largely out of reach for families (even relatively privileged ones) is a recent innovation … Housing matters to us…

If YOU CALL A slew of Hollywood’s most powerful show-runners, studio chiefs, agents, and operators and ask them to describe the state of the television business, they will say things like: “This is the single worst time to be making anything in the history of the medium. It’s just as dark as it’s ever been.” “It’s such a fucking disaster, isn’t it?” “It’s like the entire system has snapped.” “These companies took what was an extraordinarily successful economic model and they destroyed it in favor of a model that may or may not work—but almost certainly won’t work as well as the old model.” “Everything became big tech—the Amazon model of ‘We don’t actually have to make money; we just have to show shareholder growth.’ Everyone said, ‘Great. That seems…

IN MAY, I VISITED the offices of The Simpsons deep inside the Fox Studio Lot in Century City. I was the first reporter in many years to document how the show comes together. More precisely, I was the first reporter in many years to care. After eight seasons, from 1989 to 1997—what connoisseurs agree is the classic period, the years of “Marge vs. the Monorail” and “Cape Feare” and “Mr. Plow,” from which an endless fount of memes is drawn even today—The Simpsons entered what you might call its Dark Ages. Whereas the classic period was a joke-a-minute spectacle that veered between absurdist physical gags and heartfelt family squabbles, the Dark Ages tried to maintain the joke density but lost the show’s emotional core. The result was an overwhelming blahness…

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MARGOT 69 Lafayette Ave., at S. Elliott Pl., Fort Greene; margotbrooklyn.com Get the halibut with a butter-rich vin jaune sauce at this corner spot—and then finish the night with vanilla ice cream covered in miso caramel. The place has forgone service on Mondays and Tuesdays, which makes it more difficult to nab a table, but that’s offset by “Bargot,” a stretch of sidewalk seating where you can grab a spritz or a glass of rosé. GREYWIND 451 Tenth Ave., at W. 36th St.; greywindnyc.com Dan Kluger offers refined farm-to-table cooking (carrot hummus, a top-tier burger) in a glassy space that includes an underground cocktail bar and an attached bakery; definitely order some bread, like the seedy sourdough that arrives still warm from the kitchen. CAFÉ MARS 272 Third Ave., at…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. MUSIC 1. Listen to The Age of Pleasure Freer than ever. Wondaland Productions/Bad Boy Records, June 9. After spending the past five years working in films, Janelle Monáe follows 2018’s acclaimed studio album Dirty Computer with The Age of Pleasure, a new collection featuring vibrant tunes like the reggae romp “Lipstick Lover” and the effervescent “Float” with Afrobeat titans Seun Kuti and Egypt 80. CRAIG JENKINS ART 2. See Alexis Rockman Paintings of catastrophe and majesty. Sperone Westwater, 257 Bowery; through July 28. The longtime master of all things natural and unnatural, strange and endangered, is back with a series of more abstract paintings on the theme of glaciers—blue and white melting swipes of paint. Witnessing the end of something has…

For Sausage Parties and Backyard Barbecues THE MEAT HOOK, 397 Graham Ave., Williamsburg; 718-609-9300; themeathook.com WHEN THE MEAT HOOK opened in 2009, it joined a just-starting-to-open bunch of “New Williamsburg” specialty shops that would lure in people from other neighborhoods (Marlow & Sons was a few years old; Saltie was brand new). The once-small counter space is now a 900-square-foot emporium with a classroom for instruction on how to cook offal or butcher a pig. Chef and author Natasha Pickowicz shops there for backyard gatherings. “Their large-format things are great for that,” she says, citing the in-house brined and smoked ham, which feeds 15 to 20. Other meant-for-a-crowd dishes include an entire rib roast and a pork loin with belly attached. For Ted Allen, host of Chopped, “what really…

ISAMU NOGUCHI’S washi-paper light sculptures have been consistently popular since he started making them in the 1950s. In recent years, there has scarcely been a brownstone ceiling or Herman Miller desk without one—they’ve become shorthand for taste but not flashiness. Still, it remains difficult to figure out how to actually buy and style one because of Noguchi’s spare website. Purchasing a 1A (conical lamp) for a desk isn’t a problem, but determining if the nearly 40-inch-diameter 100D pendant is too big for a dining room is another matter. So we’ve asked dozens of people to take photographs of themselves with theirs, most available at shop.noguchi.org, exactly as they’ve styled them. For the complete catalogue, visit nymag.com/strategist. Valérie Maltaverne FOUNDER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF YMER&MALTA “After my studio partnered with the…

PROSPECT–LEFFERTS GARDENS is not known for its rich delicatessen history, which presented both an opportunity and some headaches for Fuad Hassan, who goes by Moe and opened Moe’s Pastrami & Burger (569 Flatbush Ave., nr. Midwood St.; moespastrami.com) toward the end of last year. Upon seeing the name, some younger neighbors, Hassan discovered, “thought it was Boar’s Head or regular bodega pastrami.” But Hassan uses recipes and techniques handed down from a decades-old Brooklyn deli, slicing everything to order and serving his sandwiches warm. To disabuse any passersby of a potential misconception, he began handing out samples. “Once people taste it, they love it,” he says. Hassan emigrated to Brooklyn from Yemen at the age of 10 and has been seriously studying the pastrami arts since 2015, when he signed…

Drew BARRYMORE IS barreling barefoot down the hallway to make it to the studio on time. It’s a Wednesday morning in April, and this is the first of today’s two episode tapings for The Drew Barrymore Show. The screams from audience members at Studio 41 get louder as the emcee whips them into a frenzy—Drew is right there! She can hear you!—before leading them in an increasingly rapid call-and-response: “Are you ready?” “Yeah!” Her costume designer, Lee Harris, is waiting at the threshold with chunky beige platform heels. This is a variation of her daytime uniform: a pantsuit with legs so wide you could strap a child to each calf, a silk blouse with a pussy bow, and thick pumps. “Feel that,” she tells Harris, lifting the leg of her…

IN THE FIRST PLACE, Yellowstone is not a good show. But that’s no pebble in its hoof. Since premiering on the little-known Paramount Network in 2018, the neo-western drama has grown into the most-watched scripted series on cable or broadcast television. The show, which co-creator Taylor Sheridan writes, produces, and often directs, stars Kevin Costner as a fifth-generation Montana cattleman fighting to defend his ranch from threats on every side: land developers, Native activists, biker gangs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, paid assassins, people from California. The fourth season drew an average of 11.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen data, clocking in below Thursday Night Football but above Monday Night Football—rawhide sandwiched between pigskins—and a staggering 17 million tuned in for the fifth-season premiere in November. But critics have largely ignored…

Inform someone that 50 Cent is currently the executive producer of dozens of shows across close to ten networks, then watch their brains fall into slight disrepair as they try to match the larger-than-life image of the muscle-bound, tight-jawed, bulletproof-vest-wearing party MC of their past with the image of one of the most prolific people working in Hollywood. But for Curtis Jackson, there is nothing to match up. The gripping storyteller and strategic villain figures out where money is made and he makes it. Born in Queens in 1975 to a 15-year-old mother, he came into a very specific set of skills necessary to thrive under cutthroat capitalism. His mother, Sabrina, whom he once described as “man-tough,” was a street-level dealer who plied him with jewelry before she died under…

VALENTINE KIM First-grader, Lincoln Square How did you pick out your outfit? I really wanted to match Yayoi Kusama. I love her so, so much. I’ve been making outfits since I was 2 years old. I keep making outfits when I grow out of one for every exhibit. One time, I was wearing my outfit and some people thought I was actually Kusama. That happened during her exhibit at the Botanical Garden a couple of years ago. We went to that probably ten times, and I wore one of my outfits and a couple of people thought I was actually Yayoi Kusama, even though I was a minuscule girl and maybe 5 years old. THE LOOK BOOK: KUSAMA EXHIBITGOERS How was this Infinity Mirror Room? It’s gorgeous. There was a…

TV / KATHRYN VANARENDONK Succession Made You Decide Was it tragedy, sitcom, something else? Yes. THREE SEASONS AFTER Kendall drove a car into a pond and killed a waiter at his sister’s wedding, the hanging sword of Damocles finally falls. Shiv, desperate for a reason to explain why she’s tanking Kendall’s ascension beyond her own selfishness, blurts out the secret. Kendall can’t be the CEO of Waystar Royco because he killed someone. Then two astonishing things follow. First, Kendall says “Which?,” sending his siblings into a tailspin of speculation about what else he might have done. And then, incredibly, Kendall simply says “No.” It did not happen. It was a story he made up. He was briefly experiencing a break from reality. It was imagined. It was never real. The…