Innholdsfortegnelse for January 13-26, 2025 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, E. Alex Jung profiled Adrien Brody following his powerful performance in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist (“Adrien Brody Found the Part,” December 30, 2024–January 12, 2025). Commenter ladywriter lauded Jung as “clearly a listener who gave Brody the respect and space to be his articulate self.” Film critic Ankit Jhunjhunwala also praised the results of the sensitive reportage: “Adrien Brody is extraordinarily candid and self-aware. He wouldn’t dispute that give or take a few Wes Andersons, there’s a 22 year wasteland between The Pianist and The Brutalist … Hollywood never knew quite what to do with him.” Dozens of outlets picked up on Brody’s revelation that he had struggled with PTSD following his Method performance—which entailed near starvation—in The Pianist. Health writer Vivek Kumar…

NOHO IS RAINY and gray, but Eleonora Srugo’s tan is a deep ocher. We’re standing in the entrance to 40 Bleecker, a brick-and-glass luxury building, waiting to visit one of her clients in his multimillion-dollar condo. At 38, she is a top agent at Douglas Elliman and the star of Netflix’s most recent “occudrama” real-estate show, Selling the City, a soapy chronicle of her all-female team’s deal-making and infighting. Srugo, a tiny five-foot-three with giant brown eyes and perfectly arched brows, starts pitching me from the moment we enter the minimalist white lobby (the work, apparently, of Kanye West’s interior designer). “It’s very rare to find a ground-up condo with a doorman in Noho,” she says. “People really want to be in this building.” On the fifth floor, we’re greeted…

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 hot-rollers set—in one place, scan the QR code. CELEBRITY SHOPPING G-Shock Pink Digital Watch, $120 “I’ve been wearing a lot of G-Shock watches lately. I am in love with them. I used to want them so bad when I was in sixth grade, but I couldn’t get them because of the money and stuff. So now that I have money, I can go and get me a G-Shock watch. My favorite is the hot pink.” Ondo No Show Socks, $48 for four “They don’t show. They don’t slip. They don’t disappear into your shoe and then you have to take your shoe off and pull them back out…

SPIRITED OR UNSPIRITED?” IS the first question posed at Crane Club, the banquet-hall-size restaurant that arose from the ashes of Del Posto. The choice of complimentary opening mock- or cocktail—the nights I went, a Mott’s-y combination of apple brandy, juice, sochu, and hojicha—is up to you, but isn’t the whole point of going out to have a spirited evening? Crane Club wants to offer you a good time, by force if necessary. This is the newest restaurant from Tao Group Hospitality, which for 25 years has spawned megarestaurants around the globe. The namesake Tao (the uptown location opened in 2000 before the company expanded to Vegas, London, Singapore, and Dubai), with its gigantic Buddha statue and trendy Asian-fusion bites, helped set the tone for the dawn of the clubstaurant era.…

ERIC VETRO’S HOME is entirely ordinary for a nice neighborhood in the Valley, except for the fact that it looks exactly like a house from the opening credits of a sitcom; walking in the door, you half-expect to bonk your head on an executive-producer credit. Once inside, you’ll find the ground floor is an unofficial yearbook for Hollywood’s A-list. In the living room sits a piano covered in hundreds of signatures (THANK YOU FOR YOUR PURE IMAGINATION! —TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET). An entire wall of his office is plastered with selfies, over 70 in all, showing Vetro grinning alongside his celebrity students. The other three display gold and platinum records, many featuring personalized messages. PRESENTED TO ERIC VETRO IN RECOGNITION OF ACTUALLY TEACHING PALOMA FAITH HOW TO SING, reads one. CAUSE LET’S…

JANUARY 15–29 For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. MUSIC 1. Listen to Balloonerism Mac Miller’s second posthumous album. Warner Records, January 17. The late Mac Miller was a prodigious talent, often working on multiple albums at the same time. Now, his estate releases Balloonerism, a batch of songs that came after 2013’s Watching Movies With the Sound Off but took a back seat to 2015’s GO:OD AM, in advance of what would’ve been the Pittsburgh star’s 33rd birthday. CRAIG JENKINS THEATER 2. See Cymbeline Hardness ever of hardiness is mother. Lynn F. Angelson Theater, January 18 through February 15. In partnership with the Play On project of modern verse “translations” of Shakespeare’s plays, the National Asian American Theatre Company presents a new take on the rich and…

What is CBN exactly? Imagine you’re visiting your parents and find a joint you’d stashed in your childhood bedroom years ago—which you were holding for a friend, of course. When you smoke it, you don’t experience the same high, but you do feel pretty chill. That’s because it’s no longer THC, the cannabis compound that produces a euphoric effect; it’s CBN—a term you may recognize from the bottles of tinctures and jars of mints, gummies, and chocolates at your local dispensary. “CBN is formed, over time, when THC is exposed to oxygen; it’s a degradant of THC,” explains Marcel Bonn-Miller, a clinical psychologist and the chief scientific officer at Charlotte’s Web, a CBD brand. CBD, THC, and CBN are all phytocannabinoids—that is, cannabinoids derived from the cannabis sativa plant. But…

MAXI LAU-O’KEEFE’S WONTONS are huge in every way: They are several times bigger than the typical bite-size Hong Kong wonton. They are packed with more shrimp than pork, giving them a heavy luxury quotient. They arrive bobbing in a steaming pork-and-fish broth that anyone can, and should, order supplemented with duck-egg noodles. And they’ve got a large devoted following of fans like Chinese-cooking authority Grace Young, who has called these wontons her “all-time favorite.” Getting them, until now, has required a trip to one of Lau-O’Keefe’s two Flushing restaurants—the original debuted in 2019, the second in early 2024—but this month, she and her father will open Maxi’s Noodle 3 (68 Mott St.; maxisnoodle.com) in Manhattan. When Lau-O’Keefe was growing up on Long Island, Flushing was Chinatown for her family, but if…

Her Military Background Yarros grew up an Army brat. While studying history at the University of Colorado, she met and married an Army private named Jason. Yarros began writing novels to pass the time while he was away. Her romances often draw on her experience as a military spouse and don’t shy away from character deaths. Her Start She debuted with 2014’s Full Measures, a love story about a woman dealing with her father’s death in combat, and has continued to write contemporary romance. Her most recent, Variation, follows a ballerina and a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. Her Definitive Book Yarros and several of her children have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects connective tissue and is associated with symptoms including chronic fatigue and pain. Fourth Wing’s heroine also has…

NEVER MIND THAT it was more than a decade in the making, studied to death. Since January 5, every New Yorker has abruptly become a policy expert when it comes to congestion pricing. The new toll on cars entering the portion of Manhattan below 60th Street is the end of civil liberties, or a cash grab, or the death of the working class, or the salvation of the MTA, or a corrective to decades of car-centric policy, or—just maybe—a straightforward way to ease traffic and clear the air a little. Some drivers soon discovered that a parking garage that went through from West 61st Street to West 60th could be a secret back-of-the-wardrobe passageway into the fare zone, at least until it was gated off. Vickie Paladino, the most reliably…

SCARLETT PAVLOVICH WAS A 22-year-old drama student when she met the performer Amanda Palmer by chance on the streets of Auckland. It was a gray, drizzly afternoon in June 2020, and Palmer, then 44, was walking down the street with the actress Lucy Lawless, one of the most famous people in New Zealand owing to her six-season stint portraying Xena the warrior princess. But Pavlovich noticed only Palmer. She’d watched her TED Talk, “The Art of Asking,” and was fascinated by the cult-famous feminist writer and musician—by her unabashed self-assurance. On the surface, Pavlovich appeared to be self-assured as well. A local girl, she had dropped out of high school at 15 to travel to Europe, Morocco, and the Middle East on the cheap, pausing in Scotland—where Tilda Swinton gave…

➸ WHEN STRATEGIST WRITER Rachael Griffiths asked eight veteran hairstylists for the best way to get curls and volume that last for days, they all suggested trying hot rollers, and half of them pointed to one specific set: the T3 Volumizing Hot Rollers Luxe ($149). It comes with eight rollers in two barrel sizes, making it versatile enough for a variety of hair lengths and a range of styles (from smaller curls to voluminous body). The rollers heat up fast and are user-friendly, says stylist Lauren Kunijo, co-owner of Kenna Kunijo salon in North Carolina. Simply wind up the roller from the end of the hair toward the scalp. (You can also wrap hair around the roller, securing it with a clip or a pin.) “Let the rollers cool down…

ALINE BESSA Senior data scientist, Prospect–Lefferts Gardens How did you wind up here at midnight? I went to see The Clock on a Saturday afternoon, and I thought, It would be nice to see how the movie depicts nightlife. So I looked into it and saw that there was this onetime event to see it at night. The link opened, I got tickets, and one minute later they were gone. Who are you here with? My husband. We go to museums nearly every other weekend. We also like partying—raves usually. We throw parties and banquets in our apartment. I just invite people. I’m not on social media. People in New York want to be known; I don’t fuck with that at all. I come from a very different culture. I…