Innholdsfortegnelse for June 19-July 2, 2023 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s annual “Television Issue,” E. Alex Jung profiled the new face of morning TV (“Drew Barrymore Is Figuring It Out Live,” June 5–18). Author Art Tavana observed that the cover “not only tells a story, but it somehow looks like a retro ‘TV issue’ that knows exactly what Drew Barrymore is about.” And podcaster Gibson Johns said the image “looks like it’s from 1997 and I mean that in the best way possible.” Of the host’s enduring appeal, Jezebel’s Caitlin Cruz wrote, “The adult Barrymore will forever be characterized by her relatability. And frankly, not knowing how to navigate a complicated relationship with your mother, or being dropped by a therapist, will only add to her accessible and sympathetic nature.” @rasadanirama called the story “truthful, sensitive, poignant,…

THE CULTURE WARRIOR and long-shot presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy, 37, was once a nationally ranked junior tennis player. He now carves out time from his campaign to play with promising highschoolers and other worthy challengers. (“Any top junior or college tennis players down for a hitting session in Key Biscayne tomorrow?” he recently tweeted.) This is how I found myself across the net from Ramaswamy on a sweltering June day in New Hampshire, where I asked about his strategy in the Granite State. “We’re gonna win it,” he told me despite polling in the one to 7 percent range there. (His campaign later amended that prediction to assert that he’ll finish in the top two.) Ramaswamy plays like a club pro with fluid ground strokes and an impressively speedy serve.…

YOU’RE WALKING TO THE BUS STOP, and your child tells you they want to wear a dress to school. Or they want a buzz cut. Or to paint their nails. Or maybe they tell you they’re transgender, or genderqueer, or trying to figure out if they’re a girl, a boy, or somewhere in between. There is plenty of rhetoric out there that might encourage a parent to question their child in this moment that’s designed to scare them into inaction or, worse, outright rejection. There is less guidance for those who choose to believe their children. This is a handbook for the trans-affirming family; it presumes you love your child and want what’s best for them. And while it’s their journey alone, you have the opportunity, and obligation, to help…

For Tweezing Only SANIA’S BROW BAR, 48 W. 20th St., third fl.; 212-247-1129; saniasbrowbar.com → IN 2005, Sania Vucetaj opened what was then the city’s first tweezing-only brow bar. In the two decades since, nothing much has changed except the location. Vucetaj moved from her midtown spot to a large loft in Flatiron, where she and her daughters still offer just one service (to clients such as Sarah Jessica Parker, Olivia Culpo, and Rihanna). Vucetaj is the only person Allure beauty writer Jennifer Hussein trusts to touch her naturally full brows—she leaves them looking clean and never overdone, Hussein says. The same goes for actress Lucy Bandoh, who has been going to Sania’s for two years and says she gets her brows exactly as she likes them—neat. “I never have…

ONE SUNDAY IN JANUARY, some friends and I went to drag brunch at the Standard Grill below the High Line. Anthropological curiosity drove us—we’re all of homosexual, but not drag brunch, experience. The Body Beautiful, hosted by Essa Noche, was the toniest setting we could have imagined for a few hours of eggs with a side of tucking panties. The crowd matched—so many YSL bags. There was a table of wine moms from Essex County with perfect roots, a woman wearing a cupcake hat celebrating her birthday, and a five-top passing around a drowsy baby over margarita punch bowls. Earlier, I’d asked the maître d’ what kinds of people usually come to this, and she said, “Everyone. Moms, babies, husbands, grandmas.” The drag I knew happened in gay bars where…

BEAU IS AFRAID is now available on demand. PARKER POSEY has been deeply associated with New York since the ’90s for cool indie roles from Party Girl to The Doom Generation to a long string of excellent films by Christopher Guest and Hal Hartley. But her career is more textured and strange than that. It entails popping into superhero franchises and rom-coms such as You’ve Got Mail and, most recently, the horror-drama Beau Is Afraid, in which she drops in like a torpedo in the third act. The thing is Posey hasn’t spent much time in New York lately. First, there was shooting Lost in Space for Netflix in Vancouver for ages, then post-pandemic, she started staying more frequently at her place in the boonies a few hours north of…

TIME COLLAPSES INTO itself in a place like this. ¶ If you’ve been to one, you’ve been to them all, give or take an insurrection. The crowd is not representative of humanity and not representative of the voting public. It is a carnival for those with several hours to kill in the middle of a workday. The unemployed, the retired, the superfans, the super-freaks, and the super-curious. A tour bus pulled up to the corner to release dozens of star-spangled elderly people from Orlando, hunched over walkers and carrying banners and flags and assorted paraphernalia that read TRUMP and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN and 45 and SAVE AMERICA AGAIN and I STAND FOR THE FLAG, I KNEEL FOR THE CROSS. I heard my name. Not something I especially wanted to…

“CLARENCE THOMAS,” SAYS GINNI THOMAS in a 2018 installment of her long-running Daily Caller interview series on the subject of leadership, “you’re the best man walking the face of the earth.” He chuckles. They sit a few feet apart in a small room near a clock, a bookshelf full of file folders, a plant in a wicker basket. “It’s an honor to interview you.” “Well, I’m really stressed out about this interview,” he says, not smiling, then smiling, then laughing. Halfway through their time together, Clarence Thomas is talking about coming from a place where many of the adults around him were illiterate. He’s talking about the deep pleasure he finds in old books, “like Christmas every day,” the sense of gratitude for this knowledge denied his aunt, mother, grandfather.…

DARYL STEWART Producer and performer, Newark, New Jersey How was the ceremony? I really enjoyed Spike Lee and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s speech. It was personable and cheeky. Spike was interrupting Kareem so much that eventually Kareem just put his hand on Spike’s head and told him to simmer down. Who’d you go with? My friend Keyaira. We met in high school. It makes it a lot less tense and stressful and uncomfortable to go to these things when you get to sit with your lunch-table bestie. At one point, I found myself surrounded by so many fabulous Black folks—Maurice DuBois from CBS was to my right, and Deborah Cox was to my left—I just looked at Keyaira and thanked her, and that was the whole conversation. I was just so grateful…

This article is a collaboration between New York Magazine and The Verge. A FEW MONTHS after graduating from college in Nairobi, a 30-year-old I’ll call Joe got a job as an annotator—the tedious work of processing the raw information used to train artificial intelligence. AI learns by finding patterns in enormous quantities of data, but first that data has to be sorted and tagged by people, a vast workforce mostly hidden behind the machines. In Joe’s case, he was labeling footage for self-driving cars—identifying every vehicle, pedestrian, cyclist, anything a driver needs to be aware of—frame by frame and from every possible camera angle. It’s difficult and repetitive work. A several-second blip of footage took eight hours to annotate, for which Joe was paid about $10. Then, in 2019, an…

➸ STRATEGIST KITCHEN and dining writer Emma Wartzman once considered water pitchers a low-priority tableware purchase. Then she talked to a bevy of hosts, cooks, prop stylists, and food photographers about their favorites and became convinced of their utility. Especially compelling: the Anchor Hocking Bistro Glass Pitcher ($19), which photographer Mackenzie Smith Kelley has had for more than 15 years. She says the rectangular shape allows it to slide into and out of the fridge easily; it’s large enough to capably hold water, juice, or batch cocktails; and it’s particularly nice to make sun tea in thanks to the plastic stopper that keeps dirt and debris out while the whole thing steeps outside. Practicality aside, Smith Kelley says, “when the light shines through it, it makes a pretty refraction, and…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch The Bear Season Two Order up. Hulu, June 22. The series that made “Yes, chef” last summer’s catchphrase returns for a second season in which Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and his colleagues try to launch a more upscale restaurant after closing his family’s beef joint. Expect to feel more stress owing to tense moments in the kitchen, hunger brought on by all those close-ups of delicious food, and intense thirst caused by White’s entire vibe. JEN CHANEY MUSIC 2. Go to Sono Fest Coda! Songs of the Earth Delights for your ears. Soapbox Gallery, June 23. Tenor Mark Padmore and writer Sarah Deming and her husband, composer and pianist Ethan Iverson, perform a program roaming over Schubert, Ives,…