Innholdsfortegnelse for June 3-16, 2024 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Elizabeth Weil profiled Israeli American billionaire Miriam Adelson, assessing whether she would help fund Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign and what she might expect in return (“Miriam Adelson’s Unfinished Business,” May 20-June 2). Eli Clifton of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft praised Weil’s “fantastic reporting” on “how a far-right vision for Israel’s (and Palestine’s) future is a driving motivation for the GOP’s biggest donor.” Eric Alterman, the author of We Are Not One, a history of Israel-America ties, observed that Adelson’s contradictory motivations provide “a lesson in how to help to destroy democracy in two countries simultaneously with the money from your husband’s sleazy gambling-and-prostitution empire.” Johnwkellet, meanwhile, wrote, “It’s abundantly clear that a lifetime of striving to improve her personal circumstances and…

AS I PULL UP to Bally’s Casino in Lake Tahoe, right on the border of Nevada and California, I’m greeted by a 30-foot version of the comedian Nikki Glaser. The big-screen marquee is advertising her “Alive and Unwell” tour, and somewhere inside, past a maze of slot machines and solitary gamblers, she’s getting ready for her sold-out Memorial Day weekend show. “Are you going?” my cabdriver asks. “She’s going to be a big deal after the roast.” By “the roast,” he means The Roast of Tom Brady, which recently aired on Netflix to nearly 14 million viewers in its first week. Glaser was quickly, if unofficially, deemed the night’s winner. Kevin Hart, the event’s host, was visibly moved by her set, nearly choking up when he came onstage after she…

SANE IS NOT a word one might normally use to describe BravoCon, an event where, last year, 27,000 fans—otherwise known as Bravoholics—in hot-pink BRAVO-LOVIN’ BITCHES T-shirts descended on Las Vegas to drink frosé at panels like “The Summer House Always Wins: Presented by State Farm” and attend “Pat the Puss” dance classes. Bravo fans had been watching the Reckoning unfold, and they had a different take on the lawsuits from the ones they had seen in the media. “I think the problem is that there’s so many coming at the same time that people, especially people that are new to these, are taking it as a whole attack against Bravo,” says Angela Angotti, an Austin-based lawyer and a co-host of The Bravo Docket, a podcast that breaks down Bravo-related legal…

➸ STRATEGIST WRITER Rachael Griffiths has been self-tanning since she was a teen and is familiar with everything that can go wrong with the process, from inhaling smelly orange foam, to applying an unpleasantly gooey formula, to getting stuck with a tan that looks overtly fake. Eventually, trial and error led her to Bondi Sands Self Tanning Foam (from $24), and in five years of use, she has never had the desire to try any other product. The foam dries quickly, has a subtle coconut scent, and fades gradually and uniformly rather than haphazardly in unsightly patches. Most at-home tanners come in just one color, but Bondi is available in three: light/medium, dark, and ultradark. Spraytan stylist Cait Cassagne of Studio C8, who is also a fan, says, “The color…

It’s inevitable that jeans will lighten with age, but washing them inside out helps them hold on to their color. Newer jeans are more likely to bleed, so try washing them in a load by themselves. Both water and heat can cause shrinkage, but using cold water will mitigate some of the damage. No need for special detergent; whatever you use on the rest of your clothes will do. The occasional tumble won’t ruin them. Just make sure the heat setting isn’t too high—the lower the better. Still, the best way to prevent shrinking and stretching is air-drying. If you want to be extra careful, lay your jeans flat to dry. You can get away with fewer regular washings this way, plus it’s more sustainable since there’s less water involved.…

Ultimate Direction Clutch Water Bottle, $40 Writer and marathoner Jeremy Rellosa uses this handheld water bottle to bring electrolyte drinks on runs, which helps him run longer distances. Unlike other handheld bottles, this one doesn’t chafe and has room for his phone, keys, and energy gels. Superfeet All-Purpose Support Medium Arch Insole, $55 After her best track-and-field season in college, writer Brenley Goertzen developed plantar fasciitis so painful she had to take five months off from competing. A foot specialist pointed her to these inserts, which enabled her to stay on her Division I team for two more years. Hyperice Normatec Go, $399 Newsletter editor Ashley Wolfgang says these compression boots squeeze out her sore calves after long runs and prevent pain the next day. She also likes that they…

CHEF DANIEL GARWOOD has been working on the tomatoes he’ll serve at his first restaurant, Acru (79 Macdougal St., nr. Bleecker St.; acru.nyc), for a while. They will be, as he puts it, “quite a layered dish.” The ground level is some Montauk tuna, which, granted, is not tomato. The next layer is grilled-tomato jelly. Up from there, after the seaweed and kimchee granita seasoned with anise hyssop, goes the star of the dish: more tomatoes. “They’ll be slowly grilled over shagbark hickory and then coated in a reduction made from the shagbark,” Garwood says. “It’s almost like a tomato raisin.” They’re served warm from the pan, over the ice, “so you get the different textures: really warm, juicy, succulent tomatoes with something really cooling on the palate.” On track to…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. MUSIC 1. Listen to Brat “It” girls, assemble. Atlantic Records, June 7. Charli XCX is a pop star’s pop star, a restless innovator and early hyperpop adopter whose influence on mainstream radio can’t be understated. Brat, her sixth album, seems more interested in blessing raucous club nights than 2022’s slick, tasteful Crash, if early tastes like the bustling “Von Dutch” are to be trusted. CRAIG JENKINS TV 2. Watch House of the Dragon Season Two Your favorite uncle-and-niece couple is back. HBO, June 16. I know you think you’re going to spend summer enjoying the warm weather and hitting up barbecues, but be honest: You’re really going to be inside, basking in the air-conditioning and arguing with people online about whatever…

WHAT DOES IT take to win Survivor? You may find it bizarre that, almost a quarter-century after the CBS show premiered—essentially inventing the reality-competition genre in the process—the question still matters. But it does to its fans, and surprisingly, there are more than there have been in a long while. The show will never again reach the mass-audience heights of its first season, when nearly 52 million Americans glued themselves to their sofas to watch a corporate consultant named Richard Hatch become reality TV’s first-ever triumphant gay villain. But today, hits are measured differently, and Survivor, by any metric, remains a big one. This past summer, it received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Reality Competition Program, its first recognition in that category in 17 years. And boosted by a viewership…

WHEN WE GO to eat something, people will now look to me like, ‘What should we get?’” Lionel Boyce tells me over cheeseburgers and fries at the packed S&P luncheonette in Flatiron this spring. S&P has his favorite burger in the city, originally recommended by a friend during one of the actor’s trips to New York. Because he has starred for the past two years as pastry chef Marcus Brooks on one of television’s most popular dramas, FX’s The Bear, about the inner workings of a Chicago restaurant, his dining choices now carry an air of authority. “And then I pick something and everyone’s like, ‘I don’t like this,’” he says, laughing. “I’m like, ‘Well, I don’t know.’ It’s still me. It’s not like I’m a seasoned chef.” At around…

CELEBRITY SHOPPING Avène Cicalfate+ Restorative Protective Cream, $42 “I found out about this from a makeup artist about five years ago. It’s a skin-barrier repair cream, so it’s great if you’re dealing with acne, healing scars, and sun damage. I use it nightly because I feel like it restores my skin best then. When I wake up, I literally feel like my skin is saying, ‘Hello! Good morning!’ ” The Original Stretchlace Flat Elastic Shoelaces, from $11 “I saw this on Shark Tank. It turns any pair of shoes into slip-ons. I buy it for all my shoes. Everyone who lives with me thinks I’m an idiot, but I think it’s great. You don’t have to tie your shoes anymore—you just tie them once and then you never have to…

➸ Cookbook authors Andrea Nguyen, Monique Volz, and Dan Pelosi all swear by this acacia-grain salad bowl, which Nguyen calls “handsome and organic-looking.” Pelosi appreciates its large size—great for dinner parties—“and the way its rounded sides appear to be literally hugging the contents of the bowl.” ➸ Trinity Mouzon Wofford, co-founder of wellness brand Golde, received this bowl as a wedding present. Produced by Vermont-based company Andrew Pearce, which cuts and hand-turns bowls and chopping boards from a single piece of wood, the oblong cherry bowl has a live edge, which gives it a rustic look. ➸ Different from the acacia and cherry bowls on this list, this one is made from a wood that gets its name—and distinct coloring—from fungus left by an ambrosia-beetle infestation. New York Magazine’s chief…

OPENINGS 1 Quarters 383 Broadway; shopquarters.com From the street, Quarters looks like an unassuming walk-up apartment. Climb the stairs, though, and you’ll find an 8,000-square-foot mock home that’s entirely shoppable down to the $12 Solano-Arriola anchovies that will be served in the soon-to-open wine bar. Nick Ozemba and Felicia Hung of design studio In Common With have filled the rooms with a mix of their own lighting designs, including mushroomlike table lamps ($4,750) and bouquet-shaped chandeliers ($12,500), and décor made in collaboration with artisan friends such as glassmaker Sophie Lou Jacobsen. There are also dozens of antique tapestries and rare vintage pieces including a rust-colored velvet Mario Bellini sofa (price upon request), which won’t be there for long. Ozemba and Hung plan to redecorate three times a year. 2 Vowels…

FOOD RESTAURANT REVIEW TOP PICK 7 Greene Ave., at Fulton St., Fort Greenetheodoranyc.com ACCORDING TO A NEIGHBOR, wafts of fenugreek hang over a stretch of Fort Greene’s Dekalb Avenue, courtesy of the local favorite Miss Ada. “You can smell it a mile away,” he said. Fenugreek’s seeds and seed paste, licorice-y and lightly bitter, crop up in Armenian, Moroccan, Iraqi, Ethiopian, and Turkish cuisine and sometimes as part of a za’atar blend. That neighbor, nose piqued, recognized it in an instant at Theodora, Miss Ada’s new sister restaurant on Greene Avenue, lost somewhere in a tuna crudo on brick-colored lavash, by flavor if not by name. It took some sleuthing, and a friendly server, to finally identify it. Was it the faint sourdough tang of the lavash itself, the wasabi…

GRIFFIN DUNNE IS at ease with himself in the way that people who have always been good-looking usually are. Even at 68, his salt-and-pepper hair is thick enough to be pushed back, and he comes across as whatever the opposite of tightly wound is. When we meet for lunch at Cafe Mogador, around the corner from his apartment in the East Village, I can still see a trace of the hapless Paul Hackett he played in After Hours, the 1985 Martin Scorsese movie about a night out in Soho that goes spectacularly sideways. It’s clear from reading Dunne’s new memoir, The Friday Afternoon Club, that he is quite familiar with life going sideways. Dunne has had an interestingly windy career. He’s been an actor in movies—he co-starred with Madonna in…

ANDY COHEN THINKS ABOUT HIS CANCELLATION A LOT. What will it look like? When will it come?“It’s fascinating to me, the idea that you could say something and everything would be pulled away from you,” he says. It was a bright afternoon in May, and we had been talking about an event he had coming up, “An Evening With Andy Cohen,” at the 92nd Street Y. Cohen had been thinking he might read an excerpt from his 2012 memoir, Most Talkative, but now he was having second thoughts. “It’s called ‘Cry Indian,’ and it’s about a prank I played on my parents where I convinced them that I thought I was a Native American,” he says. It was a sweet, relatable story—about a joke gone too far and how being…

A FEW YEARS AGO, I was gifted a pencil. It was a considerate present from someone who knew me well; I write all the first drafts of my manuscripts in pencil. But this was no regular pencil. The Graf von Faber-Castell Perfect Pencil has a long, narrow shaft of black ribbed Californian cedarwood that enrobes the lead. There’s a tiny white eraser concealed in a rose-gold cap on one end and a hidden sharpener that can refine the lead to a lethal point on the other. As soon as I started using it, I noticed the lead was smooth and made a beautiful sharp mark that didn’t smudge. I admit this pencil isn’t exactly a budget option, but it will be with me for life. It’s become part of my…

I DIDN’T SET OUT to sleep on a cardboard bed. I ordered a wood-and-rattan platform from CB2 and had to wait two months for the delivery. In the meantime, my Casper mattress was on the floor, which got old fast. My back hurt, too. Soon enough, I was furiously Googling “temporary bed frames.” And there was the Yona, a recyclable cardboard bed. When it arrived, it looked comically simple. The setup was just three steps: Open the box, pull out the frame like an accordion, then place your mattress on the accordion. The Yona lifted my mattress 10.4 inches off the floor, and its honeycomb design allowed for good airflow. Every few days, it drifts a little, but I just kick it back into place. In fact, the Yona is…

ISABELLE CLARK Sales associate, Bushwick Buy anything today? I couldn’t shop because it made me overwhelmed. Like, Oh my God, there’s too many clothes. I need things to be organized, categorized by color and size. I’m not someone who likes to sift through to find stuff. If it’s not happening right away, then I’m out. Then what brought you here in the first place? I’m new to the city. I wanted to meet cool people, and I feel like this is where you’re going to see the people with the most style. It’s fun seeing people and being like, “I know you want someone to say your outfit is fire, which it is.” Also, it’s a good networking event. I asked a few people where they got their stuff or…

SIXTEEN YEARS AGO, Julie Reiner’s arrival in Brooklyn officially marked Carroll Gardens as cocktail country. Reiner’s bar, Clover Club, grew from a craft-cocktail, vested-bartender hotbed into a neighborhood institution, and she, along with partners Christine Williams, Tom Macy, and Susan Fedroff (also Reiner’s wife), expanded carefully: With Ivy Mix, Reiner runs Leyenda across the street, the partners reopened Milady’s in Soho, and in 2022 Reiner became a judge on Drink Masters, Netflix’s mixological spin on Top Chef. “Stuff kind of drops in my lap,” Reiner says. That’s how they ended up renting the vacant space next to Clover Club, which they’ll open this month as the Saloon at Clover Club (208 Smith St., nr. Baltic St., Carroll Gardens; cloverclubny.com). The actual bar—ornamental woodwork rescued in Ohio—will be the place to order…