Innholdsfortegnelse for May 20-June 2, 2024 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest issue, the magazine asked the student journalists at the Columbia Daily Spectator, the university’s independent undergraduate newspaper, to report on the pro-Palestinian protests that divided their campus and then spread to colleges across the country (“The Takeover,” May 6–19). “Just genius in assignment editing,” said Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo. The television host Alejandra Ramos added, “Such an incredible show of journalistic respect and solidarity.” The package was written and photographed by Spectator staffers, including the cover image, which was shot by freshman Stella Ragas. “See what’s possible when you treat student journalists as professionals rather than sources?” tweeted Joshua Hunt. “A magazine cover for the ages.” In his newsletter for CNN, Oliver Darcy wrote, “The protesting students who wanted to speak to the…

ON THE SECOND DAY of this year’s Grenke Chess Open, Europe’s largest tournament, the 20-year-old grandmaster Hans Niemann woke before dawn with a stabbing pain in both ears. The trouble had started on the flight to Germany, when Niemann, who is the 46th-best player in chess and its most reviled villain, got extreme vertigo and vomited. “Screaming in agony,” he later told me, he went to two hospitals but found the staff at both places rude and unwilling to treat him before a 9 a.m. match. Niemann went to the tournament chess hall and, ears throbbing, beat two weaker opponents before getting ahold of some antibiotics. By the end of the competition, Niemann had been diagnosed with a double middle-ear infection, lost zero games, won first place, and received a…

Every Chef I Talked to Loves This Tortilla Press THE MOST ESSENTIAL TOOL for making fresh tortillas that cook quickly and evenly is a good tortilla press. When I started looking into the best model to buy, one stood out: a sleek, jewel-toned metal number used by many of the Mexican chefs I follow on social media. I noticed it in the Instagram Stories of Bricia Lopez, co-owner of Guelaguetza in Los Angeles and co-author of Asada, and in the kitchen behind Mi Cocina author Rick Martínez. I reached out to Martínez to ask for the brand name, and he told me it was the Doña Rosa Tortilla Press, artisan-made from Oaxaca and distributed in the U.S. by the masa-harina brand Masienda. Made of powder-coated rolled steel, the press is…

Paravel Weekender, $295 I never travel without my Paravel Weekender bag, but it was especially clutch on this trip. It has smart straps that slip over the trolley of your carry-on suitcase for seamless lugging through unpaved roads and cobbled streets. It fits way more than it appears to. Ciao Lucia Zacchi Pant Shell, $295 I like to pack clothes that can work double duty. These pants are lightweight and easy to transition from the beach to dinner. Attersee the Oversized Shirt, $450 I love Attersee for elevated basics. This oversize shirt is a chic, lightweight piece for a coastal getaway. I wore it open to the beach and buttoned up at night. Biafine Act Emulsion Cream, $28 I don’t travel without a tube of Biafine, a French-pharmacy product that…

THE LOOK BOOK: AMERICAN GIRL DOLLS (AND THEIR HUMANS) I see you’re wearing a birthday sticker. Happy birthday! It’s two more days until my real birthday. I’m turning 7. I’m excited because there’s this pool, and if you’re not tall enough, your parents need to go in. But if you’re tall enough, you get to go by yourself and your parents can just relax. How’s your trip to New York going?We first went to Philadelphia to go to Taylor’s graduation—she’s my big cousin. She’s going to be a doctor. And then we went to New York. We walked 100 miles. Who are you here with? My sister, my mom, and my dad. My dad looked around and followed us wherever we went. My mom helped us pick out the stuff.…

GIOVANNI CERVANTES and Tania Apolinar, partners in business and in life, call suadero—a smooth-textured cut of beef stewed in a mix of fat and broth that is the specialty of their Greenpoint shop, Taqueria Ramirez—one-third of their “saint trilogy of tacos.” The others are barbacoa and carnitas, the latter of which is the focus of their new East Village restaurant, aptly named Carnitas Ramirez (210 E. 3rd St.; instagram.com/carnitasramireznyc). Until recently, real-deal carnitas—multiple cuts of pork bathed in lard, cooked in a cazo, and not the stuff sold at Chipotle—was rare here. Since the pandemic, though, there has been a boom of outer-borough specialists like Carnitas El Viejon and Chilango’s Taqueria. When it opens in late May, Carnitas Ramirez will join their ranks with a purist’s commitment. While other cooks may…

➽ FOR A WHILE, it was conventional wisdom: Hollywood had lost the ability to make new movie stars. The cultural machinery that once turned actors into icons was broken and seemingly unfixable. Studios had given up on the medium-budget character-driven films that produced the A-listers of previous generations. Instead, they bet the farm on sequels, superheroes, and other franchise IP, which were easier to market but stifling to the humans wearing the unitards. Marvel movies grossed billions at the box office but couldn’t make audiences care about Chris Hemsworth or Tom Holland when they weren’t playing Avengers. Performers like Saoirse Ronan and Lucas Hedges impressed in smaller films but kept the public at arm’s length. Meanwhile, the entire concept of stardom was being cheapened by nobodies from TikTok and reality…

ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE at the courthouse!” Jason Miller told me. A former aide to Rudy Giuliani, Miller was a Republican operative well known in New York and Washington, D.C., when he became a senior communications adviser on Trump’s first presidential campaign. Since then, he has floated in and out of official roles with a stint in the middle at Gettr, a rival to Trump’s own Truth Social. For the 2024 campaign, he holds the vague title of senior adviser; in practice, he is more like Trump’s shadow, his status in the campaign hierarchy confirmed by his fixed proximity to the candidate. On this occasion, he was speaking from a holding room adjacent to the 15th-floor courtroom where Trump now spends most of his weekdays captive to the whims of…

I KEEP SEEING THIS A FEW MONTHS AGO, my friend Danielle wore a pair of wide-leg jeans to a fundraiser. I immediately noticed her pants—I loved the wash and drape—but as I looked more closely, I realized that her jeans weren’t actually jeans at all. The pockets, belt loops, seams, and rivets were all meticulously printed onto a material that was smooth, almost like a pair of sweatpants. Danielle told me the pants were from Rag & Bone’s Miramar collection—a line made to look like denim but cut from a cotton terry that feels as soft as leggings. It turned out that Danielle owns six other Miramar styles, too. As we were talking about the pants, another friend overheard our conversation and told us that she’d just placed an order…

I SAW THESE at the gift shop in the Met Cloisters recently and liked them so much that I took a photo. They somehow remind me of the embellished sweater on Anna Wintour’s first cover for Vogue, but they’re actually inspired by the jewels in the Flemish painting Ellen Maurice (1578–1626), by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. I was still thinking about the earrings a few days later, so I decided to buy them online. They’re flashier than any other jewelry I own, and I can’t wait to wear them with a simple ensemble of T-shirt and jeans.…

DESPITE THE NAME, “milk punch” is a style of drink that’s usually clear and always good for warmer temperatures: Booze, sugar, and citrus are combined with dairy until it curdles. The solids are strained out, and the delicate, satiny liquid that’s left behind is the cocktail. At Superbueno, a version is infused with salted plum and tamarind; Jelas, in Union Square, serves a rotating selection, including a spicy-margarita riff with Sichuan peppercorn. At Bungalow (24 First Ave., nr. 2nd St.; bungalowny.com), the restaurant from chef Vikas Khanna and Jimmy Rizvi that’s fashioned after India’s colonial-era country clubs, the goal was to create a milk punch that evoked a familiar cup of masala chai; it took longer than expected to get it right. “It’s our most intense cocktail,” Rizvi says, “both…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch The Acolyte Use the force. Disney+, June 4. In the scheme of new installments of giant franchises, optimism for The Acolyte falls somewhere between Andor and The Mandalorian season two. It may just be more Star Wars TV, overly safe and utterly underwhelming. But it’s made by Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland; it’s set in a not–Luke Skywalker period of this universe; and it stars Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae, and Carrie-Anne Moss. Wouldn’t it be fun if it were great? KATHRYN VANARENDONK THEATER 2. See The Welkin These women’s work. Linda Gross Theater, through June 30. Sarah Benson directs a wildly exciting cast (Sandra Oh, Nadine Malouf, Susannah Perkins, the list goes on) in Lucy Kirkwood’s sharp, intense…

MIRIAM ADELSON often tells a story from her childhood: Around 1950, when she was 4 or 5 years old and the state of Israel itself was one or two, she wanted to dress up for Purim as Queen Esther. Esther, the Tanakh tells us, was a beautiful Jewish woman who married gentile King Ahasuerus. She used her bravery, smarts, and station to thwart a plot to slaughter the Jews. But Miriam didn’t get to be Esther. Her family, like most Israeli families at the time, had no money. Her mother dressed her up in her older brother’s clothes instead. ¶ Miriam Adelson is now 78 and worth $30 billion. She is effectively a queen—the fifth-richest woman in America and the richest Israeli. When she met her late husband, the casino…

IF YOU’VE RESISTED throwing out your trusty manual toothbrush and making the switch to an elec-m tric one due to cost (high-end models run upwards of $300), the Oral-B Pro 1000 Rechargeable Electric Toothbrush ($70) might convince you. It has all the features dentists recommend: a brush head with soft bristles that rotate, oscillate, and pulsate to dislodge debris efficiently; a built-in two-minute timer that ensures you brush long enough and hit every sections of your mouth; and a pressure sensor that stops vibrating if you brush too hard. There are Oral-B models with even more bells and whistles, but after testing this one, Strategist writer Arielle Avila saidA her teeth felt “as squeaky-clean as they do with my souped-up toothbrush.”…

Asket the T-shirt in Dusty Green Stockholm’s Asket is a sleeper hit. Everything is well made, and many styles come in three lengths (long, regular, and short), which makes finding the perfect fit a bit easier. The colors are nice and simple. If you want something other than white, black, or navy, I’d go with the dusty green. JJJJound J90 T-shirt Two-Pack The J90 from Montreal’s own Justin R. Saunders is inspired by ’80 and ’90s tour merchandise, which you can definitely see in the neckline and single-stitch details. And we love a two-pack. Uniqlo U Crew-Neck T-shirt People love these T-shirts. They are substantial—heavyweight 100 percent cotton jersey—and have a big-boy vintage military-inspired collar so you don’t get the dreaded “bacon neck.” The price is also right. J.Crew Broken-in…

IN HER PARENT GROUP CHAT, ceramicist and mother Helen Levi is known as the children’s-consignment whisperer. Parents will text her with requests for a toddler backpack or muslin swaddles, and she sends a link to the best deal on the internet. Searching for bargains has become a relaxing obsession, she says, so we asked Levi for her time-tested strategies and resources. ➽Know where to look for what. My specialty is knowing where to search. Poshmark and Kidizen are great for clothes—Poshmark more for basics and Kidizen for nicer brands. I found a Boden raincoat on Kidizen that was originally $68 marked down to $32. And eBay and Mercari are my go-tos for discontinued and sold-out toys, like a Buzz Lightyear figurine. Just remember to Google everything to make sure it…

THE OTHER WEEK, a woman I know—let’s call her Anna—managed to get a reservation at Libertine, the popular Manhattan bistro that opened last spring. She and her fiancé were planning a date night, and they were ready to spend. “I was really excited,” she told me. The feeling didn’t last. “We looked at the menu, and it was just so ridiculously expensive that we called it off.” The restaurant, where “poulet à la crème” goes for $48 and a single sausage runs $33, doesn’t post its prices online; Anna had done some sleuthing and found user-submitted photos of its chalkboard menu on Yelp. “It was kind of a jump scare,” she said. Something happened to the casually uncasual restaurant, slowly and then all at once. It has always been possible…

ON A RECENT FRIDAY NIGHT in Silver Lake, I arrive late to a pottery studio to meet Ella Purnell for a beginners’ class, where, eager to make her first ceramic creation, she has saved me a seat next to her. She’s wearing an oversize New York Rangers sweatshirt, white canvas pants, and sneakers, but just a couple of hours ago she was in full retro glam for a photo shoot in Culver City; her hair is clipped back around her face, maintaining a curl that could have been facilitated only by someone else. Before we get our hands dirty, the instructor asks the eight of us to go around and introduce ourselves, describe our passions, and say where we live. He encourages us to share not just our day job…