Innholdsfortegnelse for April 7-20, 2025 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, features writer Rachel Handler previewed Michelle Williams’s turn in the FX tragicomedy Dying for Sex, about a terminal cancer patient’s quest to finally learn what turns her on (“A Death-Defying Sexcapade,” March 24–April 6). On Reddit, BrigidLikeRigid praised the accompanying photo portfolio, by Ellen von Unwerth: “Not only does she look very sexy here, but she also looks like she’s having a lot of fun.” Reynolds222 commented, “Beautiful piece. What lovely, strong women. An inspiration,” while bigopensky said, “Damn … this article had me in tears by halfway through.” On Bluesky, novelist Marissa Levien called parts of the story “a balm to my soul.” Commenter samanthastevens had a different view: “Gosh, what a tragic story. I can’t imagine anything sadder than being diagnosed…

ON THE MORNING of January 7, I was finishing up a yoga class on the second floor of a studio a mile from my home in the hills of Pacific Palisades. At 10:31 a.m.—moments after mouthing “namaste” alongside regulars including Police Academy actor Steve Guttenberg—I took a photo and texted it to a friend. In it, you can see a ridge of the Santa Monica Mountains, green moments earlier, now ominously slashed with orange flames. What I did next always tumbles out like a confession: I put on my shoes and walked down the stairs and directly to a nearby coffee shop, where I ordered a latte. While I was waiting for my coffee, my friend got back to me. “OMG,” she wrote. “I can smell it and see it…

THE OTTER BURROWS into habitats called holts, tunneling imperceptibly into the landscape to make its home. So, it seems, does the Otter, which opened this past September in the Manner hotel. It is as holtish a restaurant as you’re likely to find. Tucked off the lobby, this Otter is all but invisible from the outside and protected from things like sunlight. Nevertheless, danger lurks: Obscurity is the natural predator of the restaurant, which survives by dispersing its charms to lure in curious passersby. The Otter, like the otter, prefers fish. Though no hotel restaurant can go without a steak and a burger, this one opened at the end of a long year of ascendant seafood and designer raw bars. Whether the pescatarian brief came from hotel management or Alex Stupak…

A STAGESTRUCK ADOLESCENT growing up in Washington, D.C., I had the same romantic view of Broadway from afar that every kid like me did back then—and maybe still does. A fantasy patched together from books (in my case, Moss Hart’s Act One), movies (All About Eve), and, with luck, family holiday trips to the big city to see a Big Broadway Smash. The Theater District I encountered when I moved to New York in the 1970s did not match that fairy tale. The neighborhood was blighted by prostitution, porn, and drugs; the city was facing bankruptcy; and suburbanites and tourists were shunning the sordid hellscape depicted in movies like Midnight Cowboy and Taxi Driver. Forty-second Street was now the Deuce. A Times Square marquee was more likely to herald Deep…

. . . . . . THE LOOK BOOK GETS A HAIRCUT AT AN ART GALLERY . . . . . . . A PROP MASTER’S JAM-PACKED EAST VILLAGE DUPLEX . . . . . . . ➸ AT FIRST GLANCE, the Bugaboo Donkey 5 Duo Bassinet and Seat Stroller (from $1,759) appears to be the average twin-style double stroller. But unclip a few latches, push a button, slide the frame, and presto—it’s a far narrower single stroller (a rare feat for any side-by-side carriage), says Strategist senior writer Liza Corsillo, who interviewed a diverse assortment of parents and caregivers to land on our top pick. Expand it again and the two-seat configurations are seemingly endless: The Donkey 5 fits a car seat next to a bassinet, a bassinet next…

What brings you here? My friend Vivi is reading her short story, and my friend Maria is haircutting and has been here a full 24 hours. This event was her idea. How did you all meet? You have to be very kind and not laugh: I totally met all of my friends on Twitter. It’s crazy to me because I don’t think of myself as a particularly introverted person. I literally go up to people and I’m like, “Hey, you look cool and you are my age and I like whatever thing you’re doing.” So I’m kind of shocked that I’ve made more friends on Twitter than I have at any party I’ve ever been to in New York City. Are you an artist as well? I would say “yes”…

JENNA ORTEGA HAS just come from the dog park. Outside, at a diner in Burbank, her black whippet terrier, Stinky, chews on a paper water bowl at her feet. The pup was adopted in Dublin last year when Ortega filmed the second season of Wednesday, but thanks to her globetrotting mother, Stinky already has three passports. “In Paris, she went by Écureuil, which is the French word for squirrel,” says Ortega, who was there this past winter. “She was like, ‘The dogs here speak French.’” ¶ Ortega, 22, is savoring a rare stint in L.A. Dressed in jeans, a white long-sleeved shirt, and a vintage olive workman’s jacket that reads DON, she seems relaxed on this March morning—probably because her fellow diners are close to retirement and unlikely to be…

ONE TUESDAY evening, right before Christmas, as I left Pauline’s Beauty Shop, I saw Mr. Brown let Betty out of his car in front of her house. She had a J.L. Hudson’s shopping bag with a big box wrapped in gold paper and green ribbon. She didn’t see me. But he did as he slowly turned his new black Mercury around. Quite naturally, I waved. As he drove up to the curb in front of me, he reached over and opened the door. I got in and stepped on Betty’s angora cardigan sweater, which was on the floor of the car. The seat was warm. He didn’t say anything except “Hi.” He just started driving slowly down Mt. Elliot, in the opposite direction from my house. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux,…

IN THE LATE 1980S and early 1990s, the giant Tower Records on 66th Street and Broadway was as close to a formal meeting place for gay men as a chain store could get. Located on the north border of Lincoln Center and just across the avenue from a Barnes & Noble, Tower was part of a literal cultural intersection. The store, which was usually open until midnight, was at times a vibrant cruising ground for men who liked men who liked opera, dance, music, movies, or theater. That was particularly true on Tuesdays, when new releases came in and guys could spend a late-evening hour happily perusing the CDs and perusing the perusers. Tower was also, in those years, a place where the terrifying and ever-accelerating speed with which AIDS…

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 double stroller—in one place, scan the QR code. CELEBRITY SHOPPING Frye Campus 14L Boot, $498 “I’ve had a form of these Campus boots since maybe early 2000. The silver is so fabulous because it adds sort of that ’70s glam-rock thing. They just flatter any outfit, and they’re really versatile but also super-flashy. And they’re supercomfortable.” Snooz White-Noise Machine, $100 “I discovered this at a hotel years ago, and now I cannot live without it. I gift it to everybody in my life. Nobody’s asking me; I’m just giving it to them. It has Bluetooth, and there’s an app, so you can turn it on and off from…

NOAH WYLE is having a nightmare of a day on The Pitt. His character, Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, has been plagued with knee-buckling COVID flashbacks, was forced to fire a trusted colleague, has watched numerous people die, and continues to butt heads with a hospital administrator obsessed with patient-satisfaction scores. In the episode “6:00 P.M.,” everything gets worse in a typically American way: There’s an active shooter at a nearby music festival, and the ER Robby oversees is bombarded. Robby, who previously strode from patient to trainee with unassailable empathy and decisiveness, looks lost. He was supposed to attend the festival with his ex’s son, and he hasn’t heard from the 17-year-old. His face, so often calm and ready, crumples in despair. Things aren’t going to be okay. It’s a…

APRIL 9–23 For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch Black Mirror Kicking and screening. Netflix, April 10. Charlie Brooker’s paranoiac anthology series returns with six new episodes. Among them: one where Rashida Jones recovers from a health scare with help from a high-tech company that controls part of her mind, a nightmare workplace drama involving a flavor developer at a chocolate company, and a sequel to season four’s Jesse Plemonsstarring “USS Callister.” JEN CHANEY MUSIC 2. Listen to Thee Black Boltz A TV on the Radio polymath goes solo. Sub Pop Records, April 18. After a push into film yielded work in everything from Marriage Story to Spider-Man: Homecoming, the musician, visual artist, and actor Tunde Adebimpe builds on the momentum of his aughts indie-rock…