Innholdsfortegnelse for January 1-14, 2024 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Gabriel Debenedetti reported on the unnerving calm at President Biden’s 2024 headquarters (“The Campaign Is Going Great,” December 18–31). Pollster Adam Carlson called it “probably the best and most comprehensive summary of where things are at.” Former Bloomberg Businessweek editor Megan Murphy praised it as a “strong piece from a strong reporter. One of the things I wish I had done differently in 2016—and that list is long—is to push back harder on the Clinton campaign where their messaging was clearly failing. We let them get away with blowing it off.” Discussing the story on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough noted that despite abysmal polling, Biden is “keeping all the people that ran his campaign in 2020 inside the White House. What does the Biden…

LET’S BEGIN with an action scene: I was in midair, tumbling sideways, heading for the floor of the Columbus Circle subway station. Not a place I wanted to be. Where I wanted to be was on the downtown 1, five or ten yards away, doors standing open. I’d made this connection more than a thousand times, though usually getting off the 1, not on it. ¶ This time, I was out of practice and I got it wrong. After stepping off the downtown B or C, I took the wrong stairway and had to double back to get over to the right side of the 1. When I climbed up the correct stairs, the stairs I used to fly down every morning, straight from the optimal train door on my…

How many days a week do you come? Five or six. I work in mergers and acquisitions for a big-four firm. A lot of people at the gym are investment bankers and consultants. Why so early? We need to work out like that because of the intensity of our jobs. We’re a little bit crazy and a little bit more driven than maybe the average person. In addition to our jobs, we’re constantly looking for that intensity. THE LOOK BOOK: EXTREME GYMGOERS How long have you been a nurse?For over ten years—so during the pandemic. There are a few nurses in our boxing classes, actually, and honestly, we deal with a lot of stuff from the hospital here; it’s a way for us to get our stress and aggression out.…

PASTRY Little Egg’s Cruller Williamsburg’s much-missed Egg moved south this year with a new name—Little Egg (657 Washington Ave., Prospect Heights; eggrestaurant.com)—and a new pastry menu from Tanya Bush. Her cruller is as crunchy as can be with soft pound cake inside its spiraled exterior and not a drop of excess oil. The flavor changes frequently (cardamom-orange this past summer, apple-cider-cinnamon in the fall), while the technique remains flawless. CHRIS CROWLEY DRINK Watermelonand-Hibiscus Sour With the cost of cocktails scraping the $30 threshold—and reservations necessary for entry at far too many bars—it’s natural to expect excellence. At Martiny’s (121 E. 17th St.; martinys.com),which, when it opened in 2022, helped usher in the food-as-a-drink trend, I found a watermelon-and-hibiscus sour this past summer: gin, juice, and vermouth, shaken with egg white…

TELEVISION There’s nothing better than watching all these people betray one another. ➽ True Detective: Night Country (HBO, January 14) This installment will be the first without creator Nic Pizzolatto at the helm—now Barry Jenkins is executive-producing and Issa López is showrunning and directing, while Jodie Foster and Kali Reis play the leads. The premise: Arctic researchers go missing. ➽ Feud: Capote vs. the Swans (FX, January 31) Tom Hollander returns to his true calling, playing a nefarious gay man in a miniseries—this time Truman Capote. The “swans,” as the author called socialites, include Babe Paley (Naomi Watts) and Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart). ➽ Sh gun (FX, February 27) Adapted from the James Clavell novel, this limited series—set in 1600 at the beginning of a civil war—has a mostly Japanese…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch The Brothers Sun Michelle Yeoh kicks ass once again. Netflix, January 4. In this action-comedy series, a Taiwanese organized-crime family must fend off a gang of assassins. Michelle Yeoh leads as a matriarch with secrets; Justin Chien and Sam Song Li star as the brothers who must put their contrasting personalities aside to protect her. ROXANA HADADI THEATER 2. See William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, a Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal Strange capers. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, January 12 and 13. The Public Theater’s beloved experimental-theater fest Under the Radar returns with 17 exciting shows. This one is a wily, funny, sui generis take on Shakespeare’s forest comedy—focused on relationships between Indigenous communities and colonial…

Sweating through the sheets, Lanz Aguinaldo rolled over in bed to reach for Isabella Lynch. It was just after 9 a.m. on August 8, and the pair normally loved sleeping in, cuddling as the sun streamed through the windows and warmed their bed. Today, the room felt like it was roasting. Isabella, too hot and uncomfortable to sleep, had been awake for 30 minutes already. A plug-in window air conditioner, which usually kept them cool during the tropical Maui summers, could not power on. Electricity in Lahaina had been out for over two hours. Outside, the wind screamed. A mile northeast, that wind had already toppled power lines, igniting a brush fire in a field swarming with overgrown grass and weeds across from Lahaina Intermediate School, along Lahainaluna Road. Local…

Ariari 119 First Ave.; ariarinyc.com This restaurant—part of Hand Hospitality’s ever-growing empire—calls Busan, the southeastern port city in Korea, its inspiration, but its inventiveness is distinctly its own. Nothing on the menu costs more than $30, meaning dishes tend to collect on the table like treasures from the sea: Sookhwe, chilled octopus, arrives with an umami-dense seaweed-andperilla-seed sauce and tangy crunches of white kimchee underneath; strips of salmon in chojang are served on top of soba noodles with a teeth-chattering flurry of makgeolli ice; a light batter on fried soft-shell crab is bubbly like an igneous-rock formation. For the carnivores: rich Hapcheon-style pork soup and duck bulgogi. There is always a wait to get in; it’s always worth it. E.A.J. Bangkok Supper Club 641 Hudson St.; bangkoksupperclubnyc.com Young chefs, industry…

THE QUINTESSENTIAL Emma Stone acting choice comes near the end of Battle of the Sexes, a solid but unremarkable 2017 tennis bio-drama in which she plays Billie Jean King to Steve Carell’s Bobby Riggs. King is all nerves before their famous match; as attendants carry her down a hallway on a garish throne, preparing for a grand entrance, she is visibly fretful over the reputational damage of agreeing to this in the first place. She ducks her head as she enters the stadium—and looks up as she emerges into the light, smiling like a superstar. ¶ It’s a split-second reveal of the machinery behind preternatural charisma. Stone has always known how to let you in on a metamorphosis. Her best roles are those in which her character transforms and ascends:…

FOR A BRIEF PERIOD IN HIS LIFE, starting when he was 12, Jordan Neely had a home. It was on the first floor of a small yellow two-family house in Bayonne, New Jersey, where he lived with his mother, Christie Neely, and her boyfriend, Shawn Southerland. Jordan was Christie’s only child, and the two were “like peas in a pod,” his great-aunt Mildred Mahazu said, “wild about each other, like children playing.” Christie would wake him each morning by calling his name, and she’d fuss over him and insist on washing him before hustling him out the door to meet the bus at 7 a.m. Christie had a light, teasing manner with the people she loved, but with Jordan, she could be strict. Her rules included that Jordan couldn’t skip…

BEST OF NEW YORK For Late-Night Emergencies VIGILANTE PLUMBING, 195 Douglass St., Gowanus; 718-530-0404; bestbrooklynplumber.com → BROOKLYN-BASED Vigilante does everything from plumbing repair to drain and sewer cleaning to hot-water-heater replacement—at literally any time of day. It has an emergency-response service available 24/7 in all five boroughs, which retired retail professional Victor Ney has called numerous times over the past 30 years. “If I call at midnight, 4 a.m. on a weekend night, I can get service,” Ney says. After Hurricane Ida left two feet of water in his basement in 2021, plumbers from Vigilante showed up the next day to drain it and clear it out. They then drew up and implemented plans for improvements, like French drains, sump pumps, and backflow pre-venters, so Ney’s basement would remain dry…

THE OTHER EVENING, I broached the seemingly impregnable defenses of what appeared to be a Bond villain’s fortress. Nearly inaccessible from the street—its windows veiled, its entrance unmarked—it was, on the inside, a vast warehouse, one side a “lounge” and the other a restaurant, nearly unbookable for weeks. Two bar seats were the concession to my arriving, no reservation, with the intention to wait as long as it took. “I have to be honest with you,” a kind hostess told me in an antechamber as long curtains swished behind her. “I don’t think it’s going to happen.” We sat anyway and selected drinks from a cocktail list divided florologically (“Daisy and Shochu,” “Cucurbits, Nightshades, and Agave”). “Psycho Killer” buzzed on the speakers. An enormous acrylic painting of a chicken loomed…

FOR MORE THAN a decade, Kali Uchis has leaped across the Latin soul-music world in search of that elusive element of generational pop called “timeliness.” She grew up bopping between her hometown of Alexandria, Virginia, and her ancestral barrio in Pereira, Colombia, absorbing diasporic sounds: the bolero pining of trovadores like La Lupe, the supple harmonies of Cuban doo-woppers like Los Zafiros, and brash rap lightning bugs like Missy Elliott and N.E.R.D. At 17, Uchis was producing beats out of a hooptie instead of attending class. That, along with her Por Vida EP three years later, put her on the radar of Snoop Dogg and Tyler, the Creator (the latter collaborated with her on her first hit, “After the Storm,” from her debut album, 2018’s Isolation). The 29-year-old’s first Spanish-language…