Innholdsfortegnelse for February 10-23, 2025 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Brock Colyar wrote about affluent young Trump supporters gleefully welcoming the new administration (“Red Dawn,” January 27–February 9), generating an outsize response. Calling it a “fascinating almost anthropological study of a growing group of young Americans who really don’t get enough attention in the media,” journalist Don Lemon said on his YouTube channel that “they are people who don’t believe in good-faith arguments, they don’t believe in the truth, they are here to mock, to discredit, and to revel in the downfall of institutions they claim to despise but secretly need to maintain their own power and their own relevance.” Jezebel’s Kylie Cheung tweeted, “The GOP has devoted massive effort to infiltrating the media ecosystems young people consume to court them … you…

ON A BEACH in Santa Barbara, the former reality-TV star Spencer Pratt is sipping a skinny margarita and recounting how he and his wife, fellow reality veteran Heidi Montag, lost everything. His son Gunner’s art, Montag’s collection of Hermès espresso cups. His own collection of crystals. His hummingbird sanctuary. His chargers. His gym equipment. The giant Martin Schoeller portraits of Pratt and Montag that once hung in their living room. All a pile of toxic ash, destroyed in the Palisades firestorm. “It was so scary,” Pratt says over FaceTime, wearing a PALISADES STRONG hat and a TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT sweatshirt, of the day the fires broke out. On the morning of January 7, Montag evacuated with their children from their house in the hillside down to Pratt’s parents’ house on…

1. The Psychologist Crippled by Guilt Over Her Privilege AGE: 39,LOCATION: Brooklyn,THE MONEY: Just over a million dollars I THOUGHT I WAS middle class most of my life. My parents were frugal. My dad was a teacher and my mom was a mathematician, but she was very sick for most of my childhood and didn’t work for long. They told me I had to go to a public university for college because a private college was out of the question. After I graduated, I let them know I wanted to go to grad school and expected to hear the same response, but instead they said, “We can pay for that.” My parents wound up covering eight years of my Ph.D. program in New York City, including my rent, food, and…

A few years ago, dreading the slow but inevitable approach of my 40s, I began working out five times a week. I became one of those guys who know what a psoas is and settled on a preferred brand of moisture-wicking T-shirt. And a brand-new fear wormed its way into my subconscious: the worry I wasn’t getting enough protein. Put simply, despite my virtuous exercise habits, I still felt like shit most of the time. After rigorous research (listening to some health podcasts), I figured that eating more protein would give me more energy and steer the fragile container that is my body in the right direction. I decided to shoot for 120 grams daily: a nice round number that, according to online macro calculators, still felt ambitious for someone…

→ TO FIND THE INSTALLERS on this list, we polled more than a dozen stylish and savvy New Yorkers—interior architects and designers among them. For more obsessively sourced recommendations, including the best facialists, toy stores, and butcher shops, visit curbed.com. For Those Who Don’t Know Where to Start WINDOW WORKS, 973-535-5860; windowworks-nj.com → WORKING WITH THIS New Jersey–based company is as close as it gets to hiring an interior designer like herself, says Lauren Simone. If you don’t know a thing about shades, the team will happily detail the pros and cons of every possible permutation. “You can either have a very specific vision and want something highly customized and your own fabric or be like, ‘I have no idea where to start or what would look good,’” she says.…

Top Pick 72 Bedford St., at Commerce St.zimmisnyc.com THOUGH I AM skeptical about astrology, omens, “signs from the universe,” and ghosts, I maintain a carve-out for magic numbers. My recent visits to Zimmi’s, which opened late last year on an aggressively charming corner in the West Village, have only strengthened my belief that where restaurants are concerned, a number around 40 has a particular magic. With 40 seats, a restaurant is a jewel box—apropos, you might say, since Zimmi’s is named for the Arts and Crafts jeweler and metalsmith Marie Zimmermann. Forty people is a party. They can make a festive din that isn’t deafening. With 40 hungry customers, chefs are free from the exigencies of the assembly line. They can personally oversee dinner and still duck out from behind…

Across 1 Silent entertainers6 Go with the flow11 Before now14 Amazon bird19 News for the nose20 Filmmaker Coppola21 King or Knotts22 She voices Moana23 Slicing device invented by a rock star? (not Jim)26 Beautify27 Toiling away28 Point for Pirates and Padres29 Keep an ___ for (await)31 “Got it now”32 Golf-bag item33 Furniture made by an actor for napping on set? (not William)37 Fuel from a bog39 Resort-hotel chain40 ___ Ste. Marie, Michigan41 Food container invented by an actress for snacking on set? (not John)47 Highly inaccurate50 Sing like Sammy or Sinatra51 Yemeni port52 A fifth of 5554 “Tee-___!”55 Cinq + deux56 Che’s “SNL” foil57 Got better58 Pawn to king four, say59 Org. that fines polluters61 1976 title role for Sissy62 High points63 Snack made by a choreographer for quick energy?…

➸ AFTER ATTEMPTING TO rest on around 40 different mattresses, the Strategist team named the Saatva Classic ($2,099 for queen size) its ultimate favorite. Sleep writer Amelia Jerden was struck by its gentle “on top of the bed” feel, luxe organic-cotton cover, and quilted Euro top. She also appreciates that it’s not an all-foam bed-in-a-box and has two different kinds of innersprings, which give it a strong, responsive foundation and a supportive sleeping surface. Complimentary white-glove delivery comes with every purchase: A crew brought the mattress straight into her home and offered to haul her old one away for free.…

Do you have a favorite pre-match hype song? The song depends on the moment and on my mood. Most of the time, it’s some French rap. One French rapper I like is called Booba, and another is Gazo. But sometimes I’m in the mood for Latin music so I’ll listen to Bad Bunny. My girlfriend travels quite often with me, and she gets so pissed off because I’ll play the same song 20 times in a row. How did you two meet? We met in the U.S. Junior Open. She was a big fan. She asked me to sign her T-shirt. Nah, I’m kidding. She used to be a squash player, and we were playing the same event and we started to talk. She is from Mexico, and I didn’t…

FEBRUARY 12–26 For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch The White Lotus Season Three All right, who dies this time? HBO, February 16. The third iteration takes us to a White Lotus resort where the guests include Parker Posey as a wealthy, semi-snotty North Carolina woman who looks down her nose at some of the other guests—oh, that’s all I needed to say to convince you to watch? Okay, cool. JEN CHANEY THEATER 2. See Safe House Dancing with myself. St. Ann’s Warehouse, February 15 through March 2. Irish playwright and director Enda Walsh teams up with composer Anna Mullarkey for a new shape-shifting solo musical about Grace (Kate Gilmore), a young woman in search of safety who turns an outdoor handball court into a…

THE FIRST TIME it happens, you’re surprised. One day, your friend with the roommates and the wobbly employment and the busted phone—they buy an apartment. They tell you they’re moving, then they admit they’re buying, and suddenly you’re standing in the living room they own. It’s not that you’d never talked about money, if you count the years spent passing $17 back and forth on Venmo; it’s just that you thought you were on the same track. That when you said “broke,” you understood it to mean the same thing. It’s as if you were both paddling aimlessly in New York’s sea of downward mobility when your friend burst out of the water and stumbled onto the beach. ¶ The source of the apartment is not a mystery. It’s parent…

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 mattress—in one place, scan the QR code. CELEBRITY SHOPPING Kiehl’s Ultra Facial Moisturizer SPF 30, $39 “I am always in the Caribbean and often in the sun. When I don’t put SPF on my face, I tend to tan unevenly and get little patches on my cheeks. I love this lotion because it has SPF 30 in it. It feels really lightweight and moisturizes my skin.” Cuisinart Air Fryer Oven With Grill, $230 “I don’t cook—I warm up. This is my device of choice because it’s better than a microwave. It can air-fry and make toast, but I mostly use it to warm up food that I’ve ordered.…

FOR THE FIRST couple years after Scott Csoke moved into their railroad apartment, it had the same generic off-white walls of any rental. But when the artist was painting a gallery in Richmond, Virginia, for their first solo show, it made them think, Why not bring that idea home? “I kept talking myself out of it,” Csoke says. Not only would the work have to be painted over when they move out, but Csoke shares the apartment with a college friend, and while she trusts them as an artist, she was a little nervous about how it would turn out. But in late 2023, Csoke says, “I just walked to the hardware store, bought a can of pink paint, and began in my bedroom.” They started on a small area…

LEO WOODALL ENTERS a charming café in London’s most charming neighborhood, Primrose Hill, one recent January morning, flashing a smile so contagious it sets off a domino effect of grins among the wait staff. He spots me sitting in the back and beelines for the table, making the kind of direct, warm eye contact usually reserved for the final “lay it all on the line” moment in a romantic comedy. He sits down; peels off a big, cozy gray cable-knit turtleneck sweater he describes as “Colin Firth–esque”; neatens his tousled hair (only to tousle it in a different, equally appealing way); fills my water glass before filling his own; leans back in his chair; and admits that he isn’t sure he’s cut out for rom-com greatness. “I love rom-coms and…

Start with Lynch’s debut Eraserhead, a parenthood panic dream that shows off a fully formed surreal sensibility. Move on to Twin Peaks, the ABC show that piped horror, melodrama, and high strangeness into unsuspecting American households. Marvel at Mulholland Drive, which began as a failed pilot and became a singular masterpiece and showbiz nightmare starring Naomi Watts and Laura Harring. Ponder The Straight Story, an uncharacteristically direct road-trip movie that Lynch called his “most experimental” work. Finish with Inland Empire, a haunting venture into camcorder footage tracking Laura Dern through a phantasmagoric Hollywood odyssey.…