Innholdsfortegnelse for June 17-30, 2024 i New York Magazine

1 For the cover of New York’s annual “TV Issue,” Jessica Pressler profiled the Real Housewives host and executive producer Andy Cohen as lawsuits and accusations of harassment threaten to dethrone the King of Bravo (“The Last Inappropriate Man on Television,” June 3–16). “Andy is more of a Housewives staple than the housewives are,” wrote writer and producer Kim Dahlgren in a since-deleted tweet. “Although I’ve heard people say the ‘golden age’ of Housewives is over, you wouldn’t know it by the frequency with which we still talk about it.” Many commenters debated Cohen, Bravo, and the state of reality television. “Andy wants it both ways,” wrote cg1327cg. “He wants to exploit the lives of his housewives, voyeuristic cameras everywhere, loving the hot mike scandals and the gotcha moments. When…

ON A RECENT Wednesday morning, in a brightly lit photo studio in Chelsea, Nadège Vanhée is standing in front of a rack of clothing eating a croissant and catching the crumbs with an Hermès saucer perched under her chin. “My jet-lag moment,” she says in a thick French accent. Behind us, the model Jill Kortleve, wearing a black duffle coat over leather leggings, stands at the end of a short runway. Stylist Jodie Barnes looks on from a nearby cluster of sofas. Vanhée strolls over to them. “Can you walk?” she asks, and Kortleve starts to strut. Less than 48 hours to showtime. After ten years as Hermès’s artistic director of women’s ready-to-wear, Vanhée is “watching the mayonnaise coming up,” as she puts it, as years of work emulsify into…

MICHAEL COHEN WAS at home on the afternoon of Thursday, May 30, in his tenth-floor apartment at Trump Park Avenue, a building still managed by the family company belonging to the man he once called “the Boss.” He was sitting on the floor in the living room, his back against the couch, watching MSNBC with his wife and daughter. He held his breath as he waited to hear the verdict. His face was frozen. Eyes wide. Mouth open. Host Ari Melber delivered the news: “Count one … Guilty.” Cohen let out a wild sound, as if half-man and half–rescue animal, a hoot and a growl and a howl all at once. “WwwwwOOOfugh!” His expression turned awestruck. Melber continued, “Count two … Guilty.” Again: “WwwwwOOOfugh!” His heart was beating hard now,…

CELEBRITY SHOPPING MyHalos Migraine Headache Relief Cap, $20 “I wear eye masks to sleep every single night. Once you use a mask long enough, you train your body to know that when the mask comes down, it’s time to go to sleep. I’ve been committed to this one for a year now. I buy it for all of my friends who have trouble sleeping.” Rick Owens Short Level T-shirt, $225 “I’ll go to great lengths for the perfect T-shirt, and this, to me, is it. I hate when my shirts are longer than my jacket and also when they are too cropped. This goes with everything, has a boxy fit, and the body’s not too short.” Emilio Braga Composition Notebook, $24 “I like a blank notebook—not lined or gridded. And…

Stüssy Black Brushed-Cotton Beach Pant “The brushed cotton can be dressed up or down, and the fit is loose but not baggy. They have an elastic waist, so you might not be able to tuck your shirt in, but you aren’t going to beat these for the price.” Wythe Camp Khaki Flat-Front Cotton-Linen-Twill Chino “It’s a great summer pant made of a cotton-linen slub-twill fabric that is breathable but not too casual. This perfect shade of khaki is based on the original 1940s U.S. chino.” Supreme Brown Work Pant “Supreme makes mostly logo-free pants at a very good price. These are made from a cotton-twill blend that is tough and will wear in nicely. They also come in six colors, but I am partial to brown or green. For this…

➽Look beyond the closest playground. It’s worth going farther afield to find parks with better amenities. At a minimum, you’ll want a grassy open area, some shade, a table, and a bathroom nearby. “There’s a hill between the Parkside entrance to Prospect Park and the skating rink that is so perfect for kid parties because of the bathrooms near the rink,” says Jennifer McClelland-Smith, a Brooklyn mother. Rebecca McMackin, the former director of horticulture for Brooklyn Bridge Park, suggests Pier 3 because of the labyrinth and its reliably empty lawn. (Just note you’ll have to walk to Pier 2 for a bathroom.) Nellie Laskow, a Queens mom, likes the North Lawn in Astoria Park, where there is shade under Hell Gate Bridge on hot days. She also likes Randalls Island…

➽ WITH APOLOGIES TO the many thousands of talented cooks and chefs toiling away in this city’s kitchens, we must note the most memorable food we’ve eaten this year hasn’t been inside a dining room. It’s been shared with friends standing on a corner, snatched from a takeout bag at a park, or unwrapped and messily dribbled onto a bench. This is no knock against proper restaurants, but when the most exciting development to come along recently at an establishment like Eleven Madison Park is the arrival of an alfresco croissant pop-up (Bake It Nice), it’s a testament to the joy of great food without any pomp and circumstance. Maybe the act of sitting down to a meal has begun to feel stultifying—“Have you dined with us before?” comes across…

The “Just Asking Questions” Guys The Joe Rogan Experience Widely considered the biggest podcast in the world, The Joe Rogan Experience set the template for the lengthy and discursive chat-cast. Rogan has generated numerous viral moments in its 15-year tenure, but few episodes left an impression as lasting as Elon Musk toking up behind a mic in 2018. Lex Fridman Podcast There’s a clear right-wing bent to the MIT researcher Fridman’s guest bookings: Jared Kushner, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Tucker Carlson alongside academics and occasional celebrities. Its biggest moment is perhaps the 2022 episode with Ye (né Kanye West), whose statements about the Holocaust would sink him deeper into cancellation. This Past Weekend With Theo Von In many ways a direct descendant of Joe Rogan, it’s hosted by a stand-up comic.…

I CALL MY SISTER all the time to ask her about myself. Like, “Lily, do you remember if and when I completed my HPV vaccination series?” “Yes, in ninth grade. You complained that your arm was sore afterward.” She describes my past with an unnerving ease. I am 32, I am neurologically healthy, and I have a terrible memory. Not in the sense that I constantly lose my keys or forget the names of colleagues. More in the sense that after I experience something, it doesn’t tend to stick for very long. I believe I have 50 recollections in total, all high-drama events that I’ve repeated to myself so often they’ve become canon. My sister describes her memory as something I more closely associate with the word memory: an accessible…

THIS PAST FEBRUARY, Aaron Bushnell was renting an apartment in a two-story complex in a suburb near Kent State University. He said Ohio reminded him of his hometown on Cape Cod: the red brick, the storm doors, the Protestant steeples. But his building, with its beige siding and modest fitness area, its jungle gym and scattered picnic tables, could have been anywhere. He had lived there for three months, working as an intern in the IT department of a home-improvement company. The job was part of the Department of Defense’s SkillBridge program, which transitions servicemembers into civilian life. Bushnell was aiming for a career as a software engineer, perhaps designing video games. He would be out in May, at the age of 25, after his military contract expired. Knowing nobody…

THE LATEST fermented food to sweep into grocery aisles is oil. Made by fermenting abundant resources, it’s healthier and more sustainable than vegetable or canola oil. As a pro chef, I’ve been targeted by ads for two brands—Zero Acre (made from sugarcane) and Algae Cooking Club (made from algae)—and decided to test them out. They didn’t smell like much and were almost flavorless, and both have extremely high smoke points, making them ideal for frying falafel and arancini with remarkably crunchy exteriors. They also emulsified beautifully for homemade mayo and can be used in baking or for making infused oils. If you’re looking for a finishing oil, these are too neutral. But I know I’ll be using them if I want my croquettes shatteringly crisp.…

D4VD Musician, Cypress, Texas How did you get into music? My goal since I was a kid was to be a professional video-game player. But my YouTube videos would get taken down because the music was copyrighted. My mom was like, “How about you just make your own songs for the videos?” And I was like, “You know what? I could probably do that.” I saw you do a few backflips onstage. How’d you learn to do those? My dad has been teaching me martial arts since I was 12. I was also in gymnastics and did parkour. Flipping has always been a part of my life, in a way. Have you ever not landed one? On tour last year, I was trying to look at a sign in the…

TOM GLYNN-CARNEY is looking to grow his record collection. His parents gave him a record player five years ago, and there’s something about vinyl—its tactile nature, its innate romanticism, how it shows its age—that appeals to the actor and musician, whose preferences tend toward the vintage. He’s partial to secondhand clothes, and on this sunny late-May day in New York, his outfit is a mélange of earth tones, including a forest-green cable-knit sweater vest that shows off a left arm decorated with tattoos. Petite gold hoops glint in his ears. On our walk to Rough Trade in midtown, he excitedly tells me about the specific record he’s looking for: 2008’s The Seldom Seen Kid, by Elbow, a British band led by singer and songwriter Guy Garvey, whom Glynn-Carney calls “the…

BEFORE STARTING filming on Janet Planet, Annie Baker and her sound designer, Paul Hsu, recorded two weeks of the ambient noises of the Western Massachusetts countryside. For the coming-of-age story about an 11-year-old girl, Lacy, and her mother, Janet, Baker had found the home where she wanted to set much of the movie: an angular but cozy wood cabin with large windows huddled in the forest, a droplet of civilization in the midst of the woods. ¶ “The sound of nature around this house was so incredible,” Baker tells me over coffee and a sandwich at a café just south of Prospect Park, where she had arrived in a ’70s-ish brown jacket, toting a well-used orange backpack. “There were, like, bears wandering around.” Baker has a mop of Pre-Raphaelite bangs…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch The Bear Season Three Every second (still) counts. Hulu, June 27. Now that Carmy and Sydney have opened their sophisticated restaurant, surely things in season three will be totally calm and devoid of conflict. Like, there’s no way that two or more characters will get into a shouting match in the middle of the kitchen during an incredibly busy dinner service; stuff like that never happens on this show. JEN CHANEY MUSIC 2. Listen to Crash Melismatic yearnings. Atlantic, June 21. Singer-songwriter Kehlani, 29, returns to futuristic beats with Crash, their fourth album on a major label. Early singles—like the bubbly “After Hours,” which samples the classic “Coolie Dance Riddim,” and the resolute “Next 2 U,” whose tie-in…

Tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn lobbed this query at Ketanji Brown Jackson during her 2022 Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Blackburn was doing her bit for her party’s effort to enforce transphobic gender conformity, positioning herself as a defender of womanhood as something fixed and narrow. When Jackson declined to provide Blackburn with a definition, noting that she was not a biologist, the senator took the opportunity to dial it up a notch. “The fact that you can’t give me a straight answer about something as fundamental as what a woman is underscores the dangers of the kind of progressive education that we are hearing about,” Blackburn said with lip-smacking satisfaction. Two years later, Republicans remain cruelly closed to the realities of gender fluidity and trans existence. But how the party understands—and…

➸ THERE HAD TO BE an excellent cooler out there for under $200. Strategist writer Katherine Gillespie was set on finding a cheaper option to replace the Yeti on our list of best coolers. But after testing several and talking to a dozen experts, she conceded the Yeti is still deserving of its top spot. Rebecca Webb, who studies energy systems, told Gillespie the brand has pulled off the trick of designing something lightweight and roomy by using more expensive insulation and thinner walls. (Coolers become heavier and less spacious as insulation gets thicker.) This means even compact models like the Yeti Hopper Flip 12 Soft Cooler ($250) are large enough to keep “a couple bottles of wine, lunch for two, two water bottles, and a few other drinks” ice…

WHEN I FIRST STARTED to search for a replacement for the two messy wooden Ikea carts in my small galley kitchen, I wasn’t exactly sure what to type into Google. I needed a counter-height surface that would be comfortable for chopping and storage that is shallow, babyproof (with doors to hide dangerous items and all of our clutter), and easy to keep clean—and all for under $300. I first tried “kitchen cabinets,” but I mostly found the sort of things geared to contractors. Then I started searching for “kitchen islands.” They were freestanding and had convenient features, but all of them ended up being too big or too expensive. After that, I played around with “kitchen sideboard” and “counter-height storage unit,” which ultimately led me to slim metal storage cabinets…

L’Occitane Shower Oil, $29 First, I shower with this mix of sweet-almond and grape-seed oils, which are known to soften skin. It comes out as a thick liquid and quickly turns creamy and soapy once emulsified with water. My arms are silky smooth, and my legs look freshly lotioned, even before I step out of the shower. Naturium Bio-Lipid Restoring Body Lotion, $15 Next, I apply this lotion. I’ve been using it for years to hydrate my ultradry skin year-round. It is rich without feeling heavy and contains omega fatty acids and shea butter, which help to strengthen the skin’s barrier. Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Body Oil Mist, $14 Finally, I spritz myself with this. I found this product on TikTok while watching one of those shower-routine videos and picked it…

DESIGN HUNTING PINK WAS ALWAYS GOING to be the color of Anne Hanavan’s new apartment, the “freedom pad” she bought because she was getting a divorce. Pink is everywhere—Benjamin Moore’s 052 Conch Shell, to be precise, chosen after looking at lots of hues and finding that shade subtle and soothing. “When I got this place, I knew I wanted a different vibe,” she says. “Relaxing, calming, and everyone is going to look great in the apartment.” A part of the downtown art and fashion scene since moving here from her hometown of Buffalo in 1985, Hanavan has worked as a bartender, a shop owner, and an operations manager for a fashion company. She lived on East 9th Street for 15 years, until 2022, when she found this 350-square-foot place on…