Innholdsfortegnelse for July 3-16, 2023 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, published in collaboration with The Verge, Josh Dzieza investigated the low-wage human labor that powers artificial intelligence (“AI Is a Lot of Work,” June 19-July 2). David Neustadt called it an “essential, stunning exposé of the human reality behind the AI hype. What all the other AI stories have missed.” Former New York mayor Bill de Blasio said it was “a powerful article, meticulously researched + very compelling. I challenge you to read this + not get worried about what AI is doing to working people. This is dehumanizing work taken to the next level.” Fortune’s David Meyer wrote, “It’s not exactly news that the tech industry can be exploitative and prone to cutting corners, but even if one brushes past the moral…

HE DOESN’T WANT to talk about Asteroid City. It’s a weekday afternoon, and we’re in the New York office of Wes Anderson’s production company, American Empirical Pictures, in the East Village. He has been wearing a seersucker suit since morning. He wore a tux to the Cannes premiere and a black suit to the New York premiere at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. There will be more events and interviews over the next several days, and he’s talked about the film with a lot of people, including me. He worries that he’s covered everything. “Maybe we can talk about something else?” he asks. ¶ That’s okay by me. I’ve known Anderson for 30 years. We met when he was a recent graduate of UT Austin who had made one…

For Cheap Big Plants DAHING PLANTS, 289 Grand St.; dahingplants.com ► ON A BUSY CORNER in Chinatown, Dahing’s vast inventory, which includes monsteras, philodendrons, and strings-of-pearls, pours onto the street. Everything is unusually well priced—a medium-size neon pothos, which goes for $48 on the Sill, is $21, and the anthuriums are $30 ($80 on the Sill). Author Alessia Resta recently bought some gigantic snake plants there for $40 each. “They were a steal. They were humongous and so inexpensive,” she says. And they’re hardy, even when cared for by someone with little to no plant-tending experience. New to plant ownership, rug designer Anna B. Albury picked up a pilea and a few fiddle-leaf figs from Dahing when she moved to town, and now, six years later, “they’re still thriving,”…

SERIES-SPANNING RECAPS Home to overarching theories, formal experimentation, and feature-length run times. KENNIE J.D. SUBSCRIBERS: 680,000 MOST-POPULAR RECAP: “The dating show where no one should be together | Netflix’s The Ultimatum” VIEWS: 1 million LENGTH: 1:03:23 ➽ The Beauty YouTuber found a brilliant niche doing makeup tutorials while giving clever movie commentary, but never is she more activated than in her hourlong Love Is Blind recaps and her coverage of The Ultimatum (recently galvanized by the show’s new Queer Love edition). Kennie J.D. is charming, funny, and unafraid of bold takes, and her videos feel like sitting down with a cooler-than-you friend. AMANDA THE JEDI SUBSCRIBERS: 580,000 MOST-POPULAR RECAP: “Everyone Hates Emily in Paris | Explained” VIEWS: 735,000 LENGTH: 23:52 ➽ A friend of Kennie J.D.’s, Amanda the Jedi is…

DOMENIC BROCCOLI, the IHOP kingpin of the Bronx, lives a good life. He drives a nice car, spends time with his six grandkids, and golfs often enough to have a tan for most of the year. He owns a four-bedroom home in Pelham Manor, a house upstate, and IHOPs throughout the borough where he grew up, each of which runs smoothly enough to give Broccoli the time and resources to devote himself, at the age of 66, to the animating force in his life: destroying his enemies. This mission came as a surprise to Broccoli, who had little reason to expect that trying to expand his pancake empire into upstate New York—and to build his grandest IHOP yet—would lead to such conflict. But sometimes that’s what happens when you find…

SHAYLA COLEMAN Seventh-grader, Fordham How’d you hear of the show? Well, a few weeks ago, I was walking home from school and saw the sign. I listen to all Britney Spears’s music. My mom got me into it and then later she decided to order tickets for us to see it for my 13th birthday. My first reaction was I was so excited that I was shocked. Did you guys dance? Yes, especially my mom. Also, she likes Justin Guarini and didn’t know he was in the show, so when he came out, she was like, “Oh my God,” and was screaming. I was looking at her like, Come on, Mom, don’t do this. Not in front of people. THE LOOK BOOK: SHOWGOERS Are you a big play person? No,…

MIKE’S MIC / YOUTUBE RECAP CANON / LOLA BROOKE / ONE-WOMAN SHOW / CRITICS / TO DO ASHLEY PARK WONDERED if she was a bad person. If maybe she was getting things she didn’t deserve. She’d always been a hard worker, a schedule filler, what with theater and dance and choir and a cappella and piano and, why not, sousaphone—all of which had stopped when she was diagnosed with leukemia at age 15 and ended up in the hospital for most of her sophomore year. Before cancer, she’d tried out for her high school’s production of High School Musical and did not get Sharpay. After cancer, she tried out for Thoroughly Modern Millie and got Millie. She was thrilled, but she was conscious of how she’d changed. She was used…

LOLA BROOKE IS tryna dust my ass on a go-kart track. We’ve pulled up to Jersey City’s RPM Raceway on a gray afternoon in May. The rapper rolls in, wearing a Cuban-link bussdown and thick Louis Vuitton shades, with the same energy she has arriving to the recording studio: two hands in the air (and a hearty “Hey, what’s goood?”), geeked to go at it. There’s a kind of knowing written on her face. Brooke’s other name for herself is Big Gator, and it’s easy to see why she feels kinship with the reptile—how it lurks in absolute stillness, anticipating its prey’s entry to its airspace. As we take off, drifting and swerving through tight turns, I pass Brooke (“Lolita” on the track) and give her the Luigi stare down.…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. ART 1. See Natalie Frank Cacophonous paintings. Miles McEnery Gallery, 520 West 21st Street; through July 22. Natalie Frank is known for her wildly fecund tangles of images, people, creatures, and more. Here, she presents us with her haunted and enchanted pictures for an Edgar Allan Poe story. The results are chimerical thickets, nocturnally illuminated slender lines, and unexpected pictorial gardens that all grow into a grand vision of Heaven, Earth, and modern life. JERRY SALTZ PODCASTS 2. Listen to Search Engine Just asking questions. Audacy and Jigsaw Productions, July 7. Former Reply All co-host PJ Vogt makes a full return to podcasting with a show that tackles a variety of peculiar questions and topics not easily answerable by Google. Subjects…

. . THE LOOK BOOK GOES TO ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUMMER EATING ADVENTURES . . . ➸ THE STRATEGIST’S LIST OF THE best sunscreens has long been topped by EltaMD’s UV Clear Broad-Spectrum SPF 46 ($41), but the category has a lot of new players with all sorts of advanced technologies, like brush-on powders and liquid formulas applied via dropper. So recently, beauty writer Tembe Denton-Hurst endeavored to make sure we still had the story right, reaching out to her robust roster of skin-care experts. Turns…

ONE WOMAN SHOW is at Greenwich House Theater through August 11. “I FIND IT ALL SO embarrassing,” Liz Kingsman says about the triumph of her one-woman show, One Woman Show, which is fitting because the piece itself is built around the tensions of self-aggrandizement and self-deprecation. The Australian-born Londoner plays a fame-chasing character who has decided to deploy the formula of Fleabag and stages a monologue called Wildfowl about a sex-crazed, over-the-top “relatable” woman who works a quirky job at a wetlands trust and hits rock bottom. One Woman Show has, in fact, made Kingsman successful: It got noticed at a London festival, was acclaimed in the West End, toured in Australia, and has now arrived in New York (with a few edits). Your character in the show really wants…

YOU KNEW THE CITY was going to hell if the Upper East Side was starting to look like crap, too. Things were in decline here and there at the edges of Carney’s vision: half-finished graffiti on the metal grate of a closed-down drugstore; a crop of overflowing garbage cans past due for pickup; the aftermath of a smashed windshield, glass squares on the asphalt like knocked-out teeth. It was carved into the faces of the Upper East Siders, where something more downcast had replaced the smirks, and behind the eyes one discovered a vague and unformed hopelessness instead of the standard entitled cheer. Things were definitely in decline all over, across zip codes. Strike threats and work stoppages, the yellow stain of pollution above and dangerous fractures in the infrastructure…