Innholdsfortegnelse for December 30, 2024-January 12, 2025 i New York Magazine

1 New York’s latest cover story mapped the Make America Healthy Again movement (“What Is MAHA?” December 16–29). Ethan Freedman said, “This spread demonstrates one of the real challenges in reporting and covering these issues and people now—the ideas floating around are a mixture of bonkers conspiracies and real (and concerning!) science. Separating those is crucial.” California_polish commented, “Are we dismissing these MAHA voices because some of them are scientifically illiterate conspiracy nuts? … we should be better than dismissing public discourse because it doesn’t sound like ‘our camp.’” Wrote eldin, “No good will ever come of ‘MAHA’ because no Republican administration, especially not Trump’s, will ever do the one thing we need to make America healthier: impose firm regulations on multiple industries.” Commenter 10_27_2011 said, “What I wish you…

IN MID-DECEMBER, Andy Kim walked out of a lunch meeting with his fellow Democrats in the Capitol and straight up to a bank of cameras. The little-known representative from South Jersey had been sworn in to the U.S. Senate the night before and was now standing next to Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff, who each took their turn at the mics to talk about the difficult work ahead. The questions came fast and thick: How would Schumer work with a resurgent GOP? Should Joe Biden preemptively pardon officials like Schiff, who had investigated January 6? If the topic of the day was what kind of opposition party the Democrats were going to be in round two of the Donald Trump era, Kim seemed beside the point. No one asked him…

In early 2023, Alex took a job at Cloud 9, a strip-mall smoke shop off Atlanta’s I-85. He had recently graduated from college and wanted something laid-back; the shop, with its graffitied ceilings and cheesy blue-light displays, seemed like the ideal register job for a stoner with a music degree. It didn’t take long for him to realize that many of his customers weren’t there for rolling papers or vapes. They were coming instead for Galaxy Gas, the shop’s toddler-size, candy-flavored, Day-Glo–colored tanks of nitrous oxide. He didn’t know anything about nitrous when he started, but his manager walked him through the basics. “They had to teach me all the legal loopholes you had to jump through, that you had to tell customers that it was for infusing drinks or…

A COLLECTION OF expert-vetted, spotted-around-town, or otherwise just especially excellent products that recently appeared on thestrategist.com. To shop all these items—plus the robot vacuum—in one place, scan the QR code. STRATEGIST HUNT I Found a Pan to Replace My Nonstick Cookware WELL-SEASONED carbon-steel pans are known to be durable, much like cast iron but with a slick surface that works like nonstick models. I recently bought this one in two sizes during a sale and have since used both nearly every day—to fry an egg, pan-roast Brussels sprouts, cook up fried rice, make pancakes, and more. To clean them, I use a soapy sponge, rinse with water, dry with a dish towel, then heat them on the stove with a bit of Misen’s seasoning wax ($15). WINNIE YANG CELEBRITY SHOPPING…

THEIR FAMILIES HAD known one another for generations in Corpus Christi, Texas, and even attended the same church, but Sarah Martin-Nuss and David Nuss did not get to know each other until 2017, after they both moved back as adults. Part of this is because of a 20-year age difference. But the connections went across generations. “Her dad was my dad’s doctor,” says David. “Your mom had my mom’s baby shower for me!” says Sarah. David, a musician, had been living in New York and Sarah in Dallas. Then one night she happened to be in a jazz club where David was playing the drums. They had their first date the following evening at the beach, swimming naked under a full moon surrounded by bioluminescent algae. Their clothes washed away…

IN THE SUMMER OF 1979, the New York Times reported that a 16-year-old student at Michigan State University named James Dallas Egbert III had gone missing while playing a “bizarre intellectual game.” In his dorm room, campus police had discovered a suicide note as well as a corkboard covered in thumbtacks that seemed to map out the school’s underground steam tunnels. From the boy’s mother, police learned that Dallas had recently developed an interest in a game in which players assumed the roles of fantastical heroes who slew monsters and uncovered lost treasures through a combination of dice rolls and make-believe. The cops initially mistook the game for a local cult; in fact, it was published by a tiny company called Tactical Studies Rules, or TSR, operating out of a…

Body Count, hosted by Tessa Belle and Jo Sunday, Union Hall, January 3. The emerging charmers of the Brooklyn alt-scene host an interactive show exploring what does and doesn’t count as a body. 18th Annual 50 First Jokes, The Bell House, January 4. Fifty comics take the stage and share their most rapid-fire, off-the-dome jokes. Lineup TBA. Taste: A New Solo Show, by Sophie Zucker, Littlefield, January 11. Sophie Zucker, a Vulture 2023 Comedian You Should and Will Know, debuts a solo show about her attraction to a skater-boy podcaster. Maybe he’s the Joe Rogan of the left? SNL alum Chloe Troast opens. Natasha Vaynblat: Childless Freak, Upright Citizens Brigade, January 11. Plenty of city dwellers will find themselves soothed by former Tonight Show writer Natasha Vaynblat’s new hour about choosing not to have…

INSIDE: The world’s largest Stegosaurus / Mixing it up with Andy Kim / The latest on bird flu THE RACE TO BE THE next mayor of New York City kicked off on a Saturday morning in the South Bronx. It was late October, ten days before a presidential election that was by universal claim one with apocalyptic stakes, but that didn’t stop five of the major declared contenders seeking to succeed Eric Adams from going to the Bronx Christian Charismatic Prayer Fellowship, a ramshackle house of worship on Morris Avenue, to make their pitch. There was hardly anyone in the pews save for a couple of reporters and a handful of early-hire campaign hands. A teen brother-sister hip-hop duo performed. Kirsten John Foy, a rabble-rousing activist and the host of…

→ TO FIND THE SPOTS on this list, we polled more than a dozen savvy New Yorkers—restaurateurs, cookbook authors, and sushi chefs among them. For more obsessively sourced recommendations, including the best florists, cobblers, and wineshops, visit curbed.com. For Real-Deal Gefilte Fish MERMAID’S GARDEN, 644 Vanderbilt Ave., Prospect Heights; 718-638-1910; mermaidsgardennyc.com → THIS INVITING Brooklyn market is known for small-boat, traceable seafood that you don’t often see on restaurant menus. Think Maine smelt, available around Christmastime, and Rhode Island tautog, in stock in summer or autumn. Co-founder Mark Usewicz is a French-trained chef, and he’s responsible for the store’s ever-changing menu of prepared foods, including plump steelhead cakes and insalata di rinforzo (a tangy Italian salad), as well as pantry goods that suit any budget. On the higher end are…

STARVING-ARTIST CLICHÉS aside, most of the artists I know love to eat. Hard to swing an art handler at Lucien or the Odeon without knocking over at least one or two others. Many of them even love to cook, and since the dawn of the gallery scene, a number of them have used the restaurant as their canvas, from FOOD, where the avant-garde architect Gordon Matta-Clark used to dish out frogs’ legs in the ’70s, through Rirkrit Tiravanija’s ’90s restaurants-as-happenings, curry cooked out of 303 Gallery for all and sundry. (Tiravanija and his erstwhile gallerist Gavin Brown followed them up with the small restaurant Unclebrother upstate, and Lucien Smith—not the same Lucien as the restaurant—is planning to revive FOOD in Chinatown sometime soon.) Manuela, which opened in October, is stuffed…

TELEVISION Reality-TV royalty and actual royals. ➽ The Traitors, Season Three (Peacock, January 9) This Mafia-esque competition series leveled up the camp and the casting in its second season with an ensemble of reality-TV all-stars alongside some creative wild-card picks. Round three is arguably even more stacked, from Bravolebrities Dorinda Medley and Tom Sandoval to competitive legends including Survivor’s Boston Rob Mariano and Big Brother’s Danielle Reyes. Zac Efron’s brother will also be there. ➽ Severance, Season Two (Apple TV+, January 17) How will the innies save themselves after glimpsing a world outside the offices of Lumon, and how can Helly (Britt Lower) hope to reconcile two dramatically different versions of herself? Most important, is there any hope for Irving (John Turturro) and Burt (Christopher Walken)? ➽ The White Lotus,…

ADRIEN BRODY HAS stopped to contemplate a pile of cardboard. We’re walking through London’s West End, where he’s doing a play, when he spots a few dozen broken-down boxes splayed out on the sidewalk. “That’s a great breakdancing platform. That’s a gold mine,” he says. “It’s also a village.” I wait for him to explain. In the couple of hours we’ve spent together, I’ve come to learn this is how Brody’s mind works, leaping between seemingly unrelated things. Just an hour before, the metallic thunk of a mailbox lid triggered a line from his play, The Fear of 13, spoken when his character, a death-row inmate, receives a letter. And the cardboard sent him down a rabbit hole of the time he went scuba diving without a license when he…

AN ART-SCENE RESTAURANT IN SOHO . . . . . TEXANS MOVE TO WILLIAMSBURG . . . . . . THE LOOK BOOK GOES TO A BROADWAY OPENING ➸ WHEN OUR TECH WRITER, Jordan McMahon, set out to test robot vacuums, he was determined to find one that would match the strength of his upright model. The iRobot Roomba j7+ Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum ($800) sucked more (in a good way) than the competition; after several weeks of use, McMahon trusted it to remove all the dust and dirt on his floors with barely any follow-up required. The robot has two tough rubber brushes that rotate in opposite directions and additional ones on its side to reach into corners. It also mapped McMahon’s home without any hitches using sensors and a…

REBECCA HENDERSON Actor, Brooklyn Tell me about the character you play, Evie. She is the queer daughter in a Christian family. I’m a lesbian, and though my family was not super-religious, it’s not hard for me to tap into and understand what her life is like. I love Evie. And how did opening night go? You know, every night the audience is different. Some nights, there is raucous laughter from the first moment. Other nights, it’s quieter and the laughter builds. Tonight, it started really loud, and I was like, How are we going to get through this? And then this kind of intense listening took over and I felt like they were giving the play the respect it deserves. People leaped to their feet at the end. Could you…

AUDRA MC DONALD WAS STANDING TO MY left in a long coat and leggings, a narcoleptic lapdog in her arms, but I didn’t notice. There’s nothing diva-y about her; nobody even glanced in her direction. It was 50 days before the opening of Gypsy, starring McDonald as the devouring stage mother Rose, and there was a lot to do. George C. Wolfe, the director, restless and elfin in a beanie and slipper shoes, sat on a chair in the 42nd Street rehearsal room, watching the busload of children in Gypsy, giggling and poking one another, come in from the hallway. Every inch of the space was alive with activity: the actor playing Tulsa stretching alongside other dancers in the room next door; the three strippers from “You Gotta Get a…

JANUARY 1–15 For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch American Primeval Dramatic “Manifest Destiny.” Netflix, January 9. Peter Berg directs this period piece set in the early days of western expansion starring Taylor Kitsch. The duo (who last teamed up for 2023’s Painkiller) is joined by writer Mark L. Smith, who wrote the screenplay for The Revenant. American Primeval’s vibe is described as “raw,” “violent,” and “lawless and untamed.” ROXANA HADADI MUSIC 2. Listen to Perverts Textured and moody. Daughters of Cain Records, January 8. A gifted writer of breathtaking folk and rock tunes, Ethel Cain is just as prone to release a video steeped in deep knowledge of cryptids and Legend of Zelda lore as a crushing torch song. The Tallahassee star’s sophomore studio…