Innholdsfortegnelse for August 14-27, 2023 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Danielle Carr wrote about how Bessel van der Kolk’s theory of trauma went from fringe obsession to mainstream phenomenon (“Tell Me Why It Hurts,” July 31–August 13). Nick Clairmont called it an “incredible, pageturning thriller … An origin story of the rise of the entire bullshit memeplex of terms like trauma, trigger, abuser, toxic, attachment, etc., and the definitive story of this neuroLysenkoism.” Boston Review’s Simon Torracinta said the story “has it all—reportage! wit! careful scientific genealogies of trauma and neuro-psychiatry! close encounters in a Berkshire ashram! and a characteristically lucid attention to our anguished conjuncture.” Some readers took note of how the trauma discourse has affected other threads of culture and psychological research. The author Malcolm Harris tweeted, “This made me think…

IN MARCH, Ty Haney was scrolling through Instagram when she was served an ad for Outdoor Voices, the beloved-by-millennials athleisure company she founded in 2013. She had unfollowed the brand in 2020 shortly after her protracted exit as CEO, which began when she was on maternity leave and concluded with a smattering of stories that accused her of being terrible at the job. In the years since, Haney had attempted to scrub all traces of OV from her life—an effort that included purging “a hoarder’s amount” of her own pastel workout gear. The ad alarmed her: It was for a polo dress she had debuted with Vogue in 2018, but now she beheld “a bastardized version with seams everywhere,” she says. “Yikes!” she typed into the comments. “Y’all have lost…

IN LATE FEBRUARY, a team from Leftfield Pictures, the production company that makes the History Channel’s Alone, convened over Zoom to view an early version of an episode from the show’s tenth season. The series, which premiered in 2015, is a competition reality show. Each season, ten contestants are dumped in the wilderness with limited supplies and must fend for themselves as long as they can. The last person standing wins $500,000. Almost all of the footage is taped by participants. Since the survivalists for the new season left the field, around 15 assistant producers had spent months logging the mountains of raw recordings. This was the first time the producers were seeing the edit. In the episode, James “Wyatt” Black, a Canadian contractor who is a familiar archetype on…

NOW, I’LL ADMIT When I first saw the porch broom at Salter House—an elegantly mawkish shop of quilts, nighties, and the like in Brooklyn Heights—I thought it was kind of funny. How is this broom different from other brooms besides that it is $80? Standing less than two feet tall with a cylindrical brush and a straight handle, it looks as if it were made for a tiny witch. As a sweeping enthusiast, and the owner of brooms of tall and short height, I wanted to see how this strange tool could perform against its cousins. So I bought it. DAY ONE I DON’T HAVE a porch, but I figure that porch broom might be just a term of art. To use it requires you to bend over like Kate…

FOOD THE HOTTEST RESTAURANT OF 1986 Closed restaurants rarely come back, but they can remind us how wild this city’s dining scene has always been. And many of the people who built these establishments are still here with plenty of stories to tell. From time to time, we’re going to check in with them for a bit of hazy reminiscence. To start: the Quilted Giraffe, where—after the restaurant moved from a Victorian house in New Paltz to a former coffee shop in Manhattan in 1979—celebrities slurped caviar and washed down wasabi pizza with glasses of vintage white Burgundy. IF ANYONE WISHES to assert that the Quilted Giraffe’s famous beggar’s purses—blini-wrapped bundles of Beluga caviar—were viral sensations before the internet as we know it existed, the restaurant’s chef and co-owner Barry…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch The Changeling Victor LaValle’s novel comes to the small screen. Apple TV+, September 8. This multigenre saga, centered on the developing relationship between a book dealer (LaKeith Stanfield) and a librarian (Clark Backo), is a love story, and a horror tale, and an examination of the reverberations of childhood trauma. It’s probably at least five other things, too. JEN CHANEY MOVIES 2. See Rotting in the Sun Dark and audacious. In select theaters, September 8. Sebastián Silva’s bizarre, sex-filled cringe comedy features the director playing a version of himself as a depressed filmmaker who reluctantly befriends the impossibly outgoing and vaguely annoying YouTube comedian Jordan Firstman (also playing a version of himself ). To say more would be…

KIRK PAIGE Restaurant server, Bedford-Stuyvesant Did you go to the show with anyone? No. I was trying to find a group of cats to go with. I wanted to go mobb deep. I wanted to have my crew, have somebody wear the Houdini outfit, bring it back. But my cats didn’t want to participate. Everybody didn’t want to take off work, or they had something prior to do. So I went solo. Any standout performances? Queen Latifah stole the show. When she did “I Wanna Be Down,” I lost my mind. I mean, I love LL, that’s my man, but Latifah doing that set really blew my top off. What was the crowd like? I’ve never seen so many white people sing every record word for word. I myself was…

WHEN ATTEMPTING TO re-create another region’s sandwiches, it is critical to nail every detail down to the crumb. The East Coast outposts of All’Antico Vinaio—which got its start in Florence—bake their own Tuscan focaccia to ensure it’s as faithful to the original recipe as possible. Bobbi’s Italian Beef, in Carroll Gardens, has worked tirelessly with the nearby Mazzola Bakery to replicate the juice-absorbing rolls of Chicago’s Turano Baking Co. And now a trio of spots are taking on San Francisco’s renowned Dutch crunch, a specialty that has historically made only fleeting appearances within the five boroughs. “Dutch crunch isn’t necessarily crunchy crunchy,” says Brian Tsao, who runs Brooklyn’s Mission Sandwich Social (326 Bedford Ave., at S. 2nd St., Williamsburg; missionsandwich.com). “It’s actually a soft, sweet bread with a mild crunch…

TELEMARKETERS is available on HBO and Max. ALL OF HIS COLLEAGUES at the Civic Development Group agreed that Patrick J. Pespas was a telemarketing legend. Before he went into recovery, he would do heroin in the office bathroom, nod off for a second, then jump right into a call—and land the sale. He’d once been busted for growing a few marijuana plants—okay, it was 48 pounds’ worth—in a ditch off the side of the highway. There had been consequences: He told a story about OD’ing at the office only to be roused by a boss, who put him back to work. Pespas got into telemarketing in the mid-’90s after seeing a storefront whose windows were completely covered with signs proclaiming JOBS JOBS JOBS. When he walked in, the manager asked…

THERE WERE STILL bloodstains outside the Midwood Mobil gas station the evening of August 4. A fresh sign taped to a lamppost read A HATE CRIME HAPPENED HERE. Less than a week before, 28-year-old O’Shae Sibley, a gay Black dancer and choreographer, made a pit stop here with friends after a Jersey beach day. They were filling their gas tank and voguing to Beyoncé’s Renaissance when a group approached yelling homophobic and anti-Black slurs; a 17-year-old, who has since pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder as a hate crime, stabbed Sibley to death. Now, hundreds of friends from the ballroom scene and beyond gathered to mourn Sibley—and dance in his honor. “It’s Friday, and we are here for O’Shae,” the activist and costume designer Qween Jean told the crowd. “So…

One Friday morning earlier this summer, 16-year-old Gloria Vega was selling candy to commuters on one of midtown Manhattan’s busiest subway platforms when a woman approached her and demanded she hand over all of her packets of M&M’s. “She looked completely crazy,” Gloria said in Spanish, her voice trembling and tired, “and she told me she would hit my baby.” She pointed to her infant daughter, Yuleidys, who was wrapped tightly in a shawl on her back, her jet-black hair sticking up in three short pigtails with red, yellow, and blue scrunchies. “Of course I gave her the M&M’s.” The woman grabbed the candy and wandered off, and Gloria boarded the next train. Not an hour later, she was on a different platform, recounting what had happened and nursing Yuleidys,…

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DESIGN HUNTING I DON’T LIKE BORING; she doesn’t like boring,” says designer Ghislaine Viñas of her longtime client and friend Paige West, owner of this “modern, graphic, and wacky” Tribeca house. West was Viñas’s first client when she started her practice, and she designed West’s office space in the Starrett-Lehigh Building in 1999, followed by her Federal townhouse in Greenwich Village. Then West moved down to this house, which Viñas has now decorated twice. West originally bought the 15,000-square-foot, six-story former warehouse 14 years ago with her then-husband, John Keeler. Viñas had teamed up with architecture firm DDG Partners on remaking it. Originally, there were two units, which later came in handy when the couple split up. Keeler and his second wife lived on the first three floors, and West…

RIVERDALE PREMIERED in 2017 with a simple premise: What if Archie Comics, those hokey all-American checkout-aisle stalwarts, were dark? The CW show began as a moody small-town teen mystery centered on a “Who killed Laura Palmer?”–style murder. In this world, adapted by showrunner and executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Archie Andrews (KJ Apa) fucked—and he wasn’t just in a love triangle with Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart) and Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes); he was being groomed by Miss Grundy. Betty had a sadistic alter ego. Veronica’s “Daddykins” was in prison for financial crimes and possible drug-trade connections. And then came the Gargoyle King. And the Serpent Queen. And musical numbers, so many musical numbers. The show was weird from the start, but around season three, the writers upped the ante with an…