Innholdsfortegnelse for November 6-19, 2023 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s “Power Issue” (October 23–November 5), the magazine ignored the standard set of billionaires and CEOs and profiled 49 under-the-radar machers who decide everything from the restaurants that get good cabbage to the comics who wind up on Netflix. Writer and editor Maximillian Potter praised the project as an “intuitively brilliant way to resuscitate & freshen the concept of a city mag ‘Power List’ that informs and is of use to readers.” Culture Type wrote, “For decades, the magazine has been assessing who wields power in the city and post-pandemic decided to approach the project from a different perspective.” Politico’s Jeff Coltin said that there were “names I knew, and a few I didn’t,” making the issue “a must read.” “I love this,” wrote commenter febbles_plin-stone. “Especially…

IN AN ENORMOUS Skims warehouse stuffed with a landfill’s worth of clothes, cardboard containers, and influencer gift boxes, a cadre of 20-somethings—Skims employees, personal assistants, and representatives of three different publicity firms—is fussing over the woman in charge. When she sweeps into her office, everyone stands. She has just eaten lunch (a salad from Goop’s cloud kitchen) and worries there is something in her teeth. An assistant offers her floss, which she declines; a mirror, which she accepts; and the new iPhone, which dropped today. “Simon, you’re the best,” she declares after dismissing him. This is not Kim Kardashian, who the security guard says doesn’t make it out here much, but Emma Grede (pronounced greed-ee), who runs this Skims serfdom along with her husband, Jens. “I’m Emma,” she announces with…

BEST OF NEW YORK For Stylish Homeware and Botanical Pre-Rolls GOTHAM, 3 E. 3rd St.; 646-217-4544; gotham.nyc THE BRIGHTLY LIT two-level atrium at Gotham looks more like the MoMA Design Store than a head shop. Located across the street from the Bowery Hotel, the store is filled with actually nice paraphernalia, like Seth Rogen’s blobby ashtrays, sleek glass pipes from Tetra, and Tsubota Pearl Japanese lighters. “It really feels like you’re in a very chic home,” says food and cannabis writer Chala June. According to Gossamer co-founder Verena von Pfetten, the weed itself is excellent too. “They’ve done a really good job curating brands,” she says, and she especially recommends her “absolute favorite flower”: Angel Therapy’s Pizza Date strain, which can be found at just two shops in the city.…

FOODRESTAURANT REVIEW IF YOU KNOW an American who has been to Rome, you know an American who has been to Roscioli. Nearly every Yank I spoke to about the Italian import immediately glazed over with rapture, remembering a trip to the Eternal City and a meal at the little salumeria on the Via dei Giubbonari that transforms, with the addition of a few tables, into a restaurant. It is a “deli with kitchen,” according to the Roscioli family who runs it, and for those who long for la dolce vita among the culatelli, it is a must-visit. So too for those who long for la dolce vita in our less eternal city. Roscioli arrived on American shores this past summer, the first satellite beyond Rome, and like its Italian cousin,…

TRACEY EMIN / TAYLOR SWIFT’S FAVORITE RESTAURANTS / CRITICS / TO DO IS A SLAP WORSE than a grope? Does a push (on the forehead) hit harder than a pull (of the hair)? These were the questions that occupied Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott, and their director, Jeff Ward, during a recent rehearsal for the Off Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.The play follows Danny and Roberta, two Bronx down-and-outs who open their hearts to each other and frequently draw blood. In Shanleyville, emotions are operatic, accents are outer-borough, and a kiss, as Dean Martin once sang, is a kick in the head. ¶ On a rainy Monday at a dance studio across from City Hall, the actors were rehearsing a sequence near the end…

Linda and John Meyers Stalk Each Other’s eBays Founders, Wary Meyers LINDA: One year, I was thinking about what to give you, and to get an idea, I went to your eBay watchlist. I saw that you bid on that Burt Reynolds belt buckle. I thought it would be such a nice thing to outbid you on the very thing you wanted. That’s love. Because we work and live together, it can be difficult to create a surprise. eBay is the way to do that—to see what the other person is looking at or bidding on. I’m actually wearing my favorite thing that John ever bought me. There’s an auction house called Hampton Estate Auction. They had this David Webb ring, and I thought it was completely out of our…

EVERY YEAR, I try to get my gallerist, Ellie Rines, a birthday gift that she will remember. She’s incredibly frugal and pragmatic but also very fun, loves a good prank, and values relationships and experiences over material things (art aside). But she has already got a great collection, and another work by me would be too business. One year, a group of us organized a Law & Order SVU–themed party (it’s her favorite show). Another time, we rented a Times Square billboard that flashed her headshot for 15 seconds every hour for 24 hours. But by far the best gift I’ve ever gotten Ellie is an aristocratic title. Turns out they’re available for purchase via the Principality of Sealand, the self-described “smallest country in the world,” located east of Essex,…

IT’S A SCORCHING FRIDAYin late August at Marshall’s Music and Book Store in Jackson, Mississippi, and Cornel West is causing such a logjam that no one can get in or out. “Coach!” he cries as he gives Andrew Campbell, the man coordinating the visit, a full-bodied hug. “My brother, my brother!”—that’s for Kareem Muhammad, an activist who mirrors West’s enthusiasm with a toothy smile. “Brother Zak, you all right?” he asks me, holding the door open so that I can squeeze inside. “Lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, what a blessing to see you all,” he exclaims, posing for photos with several clamoring women and bowing as Maati Jone Primm, the shop’s regal proprietor, emerges from a back room. Was this part of his campaign launch? I was confused. West…

THE LOOK BOOK GOES TO CHELSEA MANNING Security consultant, Bushwick Where’s the suit from? I did a book tour last year, and in preparation for it, I decided to have a navy pin-striped suit commissioned from the Deck, which my friend Daisy Knatchbull in the U.K. started. Unfortunately, it was not ready for the book tour, but it is now. It’s my Chelsea Public Event Suit. I wear it for speaking engagements and formal business occasions. I spent a lot of time and money trying to get it made, and now I’m going to get my mileage out of it. Did you get compliments on it? Hari Nef came up to me and said “You look wicked sharp” in an exaggerated Boston accent, which I dunno where that came from.…

PÚSÙ 318 Bedford Ave., Williamsburg pusuvegetarian.com The draw here is a vegetarian menu of Chinese favorites; the swanky bar is simply a plus. Pair a long mangosteen cocktail with eggplant dip and crackers called baocui or mushroom-rich mapo tofu served inside a pumpkin. TAMMIE TECLEMARIAM BANGKOK SUPPER CLUB 641 Hudson St. bangkoksupperclubnyc.com The Fish Cheeks team expands with chef Max Wittawat’s take on Thai street food. Many dishes are grilled over charcoal—such as beef tongue dressed with punchy tamarind jaew—and the flavors are both precise and potent. Reservations can be hard to secure, so show up early if you’re walking in. C.C. JAZBA 207 Second Ave.; jazbanyc.com This scrappier sibling of the elegant Indian favorite Junoon is less expensive, louder, and brighter.Korma with tender goat and dotted with pearls of…

TAYLOR SWIFT DOES NOT need to “go out to dinner.” Civilians with expendable cash go out to dinner to break up the monotony of being alive. Celebrities go out to dinner to be photographed so these cash-flush civilians remember they exist. Swift is neither a civilian nor a run-of-the-mill celebrity. She has rarely known middle-class tedium and never risked exiting the collective imagination. And yet Swift has gone out to dinner basically every other night during her recent stays in New York—and to some of its sceniest spots. Last month, over the course of roughly two weeks, she visited Via Carota, Emilio’s Ballato, Hôtel Barrière Fouquet’s New York, Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria, Zero Bond, Casino, and Temple Bar. So for about a week last month, I visited one variably…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch The Crown Season Six The beginning of the end. Netflix, November 16. The final season of The Crown is being split into two parts with four episodes debuting prior to Thanksgiving and the remaining six landing December 14. And, yes, those initial episodes will address the death of Princess Diana, played by Elizabeth Debicki. JEN CHANEY MOVIES 2. See May December Deeply discomfiting. In theaters November 17. Julianne Moore is the woman who once seduced a seventh-grader and wound up marrying him; Natalie Portman is the famous actress who now wants to play her in a movie and whose arrival in town upends everyone’s lives. Todd Haynes’s wildly entertaining melodrama thrives on dissonance—it makes you reexamine your responses…

Dear Amy, What do I buy my stepmother, who is always bitchy to me and I kind of hate her? I want to give her something that means “Fuck you” but seems “respectful.” In the past, I have given her cosmetic gift sets with the most anti-aging packaging I can find at Sephora. —Evil Stepson Dear Evil Stepson, So far, you’re on the right path with the anti-aging cream. Maybe you can find something specifically for liver spots? Or a porch broom so she can fly around at night? But if you want something that’s going to make her life hell, you can’t go wrong with a shiitake log. It’s a mushroom-growing kit. Tell her to stick it in her sunniest window, and soon her whole house will reek of…

A Reset at a Benedictine Monastery AMONG A SET of hard-core Silicon Valley execs, the “dopamine fast” is a popular way to increase focus and productivity. By abstaining from stimulants such as social media, TV, podcasts, certain foods, and sex, proponents of the dopamine fast attempt to “reset” the brain’s pleasure circuits. The ideal place to do that? A monastery. Mike Del Ponte, a CEO coach and a former CEO himself, often recommends giving tech execs the gift of the experience of a retreat at the New Camaldoli Hermitage, a working Benedictine monastery situated in the Santa Lucia Mountains above the Big Sur coast. “It’s the complete opposite of the tech executive’s life,” says Del Ponte, who has stayed there on two different occasions. “I love chanting with the monks.…

IN THE SUMMER OF 2021, my boyfriend, Alex, and I watched The Green Knight, A24’s adaptation of an Arthurian legend. The online screening came with a bonus: Ralph Ineson, the actor who plays the Green Knight, reads aloud from J.R.R. Tolkien’s translation of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” while smoking a pipe. Delightfully, the bowl of the pipe appeared to be carved in the shape of the Green Knight’s head. Alex said to me, “That pipe would be an amazing gift.” Alex doesn’t smoke. He does love movies, excess, and whimsy. I added “Green Knight pipe” to the note on my phone labeled “Alex presents.” Around October, I began searching for “Green Knight pipe” on Google and Twitter—nothing useful. I scrolled through dozens of Etsy listings for handmade Green…

IT’S 9:30 A.M. ON A Wednesday in Pasadena, and it ought to be a sleepy morning on South Lake, there beside the Macy’s and T.J.Maxx and Ross Dress for Less and various other retail establishments one might reasonably have thought had gone bankrupt, but more than 300 people have swarmed the sidewalk and many have been milling for hours. They were drawn here by the promise of what passes, at Erewhon, for a deal: the secular privilege of spending $200 on groceries to receive, in turn, a tote bag full of on-brand Erewhon goods (dragon-fruit-rose pick-me-up beauty water, two kinds of avocado oil, beekeeper’s immune spray), alongside the immeasurable spiritual privilege of being among the first inside the tenth location of America’s buzziest grocery store. There’s a ribbon to be…

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WHEN DIEGO MOYA was 14 and working at a deli on Long Island, he was tasked with making the Waldorf salad: apples, grapes, walnuts, mayo—classic. He has since gone on to a cooking career that included stops at L’Arpège in Paris and Casa Mono before he became the chef and culinary director for the Oberon Group, filling the menus at the company’s small brownstone-Brooklyn wine bars (June, Rucola, etc.) with graceful, naturalistic dishes like heirloom melons in chilled lemon-balm gelée. Lately, however, he has been thinking about Waldorfs again. That’s because Oberon has taken over the restaurant inside the New-York Historical Society and turned it into Clara (170 Central Park W., at 77th St.; claranyc.com), where books and model birds line the shelves. “We wanted to bring out the iconic…

THE FIRST TIME I laid eyes on Tracey Emin was in 1994 in a wee suite of rooms in the former Gramercy Park Hotel. She was part of what was known as the YBAs (Young British Artists), who had invaded the New York art scene in the mid-’90s, and made her U.S. debut at the Gramercy International Art Fair, the indie edition of what ultimately morphed into the gargantuan Armory Show. Emin, a vision of power, passion, nonchalance, and abandon, was smoking a cigarette in bed, lounging under a quilt that had the names of family members, diaristic recollections, and places she’d lived sewn onto it. She had the presence of an artist casual but half mad with determination. ¶ Emin would go on to become a legend in her…

FOR THE GROUPIES Stereophonic, at Playwrights HorizonsDavid Adjmi’s 1970s rock drama has obvious inspirations (Fleetwood Mac), but his hypernaturalistic writing and a killer cast directed by Daniel Aukin will make you believe in a whole new set of rock gods—and Will Butler (of Arcade Fire) has written them music good enough to make you want to buy their album. FOR SWEET HEARTBREAK Merrily We Roll Along,at Hudson TheatreSondheim’s famous flop transmogrified into a genuine hit on Broadway thanks to its trio of emotionally locked-in leads: Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez, and Daniel Radcliffe. Ticket prices keep rising, but if you can snag one or win a daily lottery, it’s worth it. FOR A SEND-UP Purlie Victorious, at the Music Box TheatreOssie Davis’s 1961 farce, set among sharecroppers in the Jim Crow…

FROM THEIR PARENTS VICTOR, 15: I’m a big soccer player, and my soccer ballpopped a few weeks ago, so I need that. Ideally Nike or Adidas, but as long as it’s quality, I don’t care. ELI, 15: I want a laptop so I can get more organized with my schoolwork. MARLEY, 15: Some earrings, books, concert tickets maybe. And a little phone printer. AVA, 15: Over-the-ear wireless headphones—the Sony XM4 or XM5 ones in beige are really popular. Olivia Rodrigo tickets because her album just dropped. And then for earrings, I like the brand Caitlyn Minimalist. LOLA, 15: I’ve heard of this book called The Song of Achilles. Lots of people are saying it’s good. AVA: Oh yeah, I love that book. MARLEY: I was actually wanting Song of Achilles, too,…

My spontaneous but practical 60-year-old mom who hates dressing up but loves going out. She’s into rom-coms, travel, live theater, and good gossip. MY BUDGET: Any OUR SUGGESTION: Suzie Kondi the Vari V-neck in Terry, $195 at suziekondi.com My boyfriend’s European mother who is into clothes, jewelry, natural wine, and not eating. MY BUDGET: $100 OUR SUGGESTION: Mercado Little Spain Porrón Spanish Glass Wine Pitcher, $29 at shop.littlespain.com A high-powered music lawyer who owns 50,000 albums, thousands of CDs, and rock-and-roll photo books. MY BUDGET: $500 OUR SUGGESTION: Contact Sheet Print: The Beatles, by David Hurn, $280 at magnumphotos.com My new partner who’s into poetry, design, and the Midwest. MY BUDGET: $100 OUR SUGGESTION: Midwestern Modern, $45 at abdow.org My grumpy 75-year-old father-in-law who has everything but is obsessed with…

IN THE AUTUMN OF 2020, unable to visit indoors owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, my father, uncle, and grandmother started spending time in her empty garage, wearing masks with the door open. My grandmother created a sign designating it GALLERY 10, after her apartment number, and put out a guest book. The gallery grew to include kid art, photographs, watercolors, and framed posters of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch. Gradually, “the gallery” replaced “the garage” as the space’s primary descriptor, a kind of synecdoche for the collective fictions we needed to get through the pandemic. It occurred to me that gallery business cards would make a good birthday gift. But as with any semi-joking custom present, it was important that they not look jokey—I wanted to create something that my grandmother…