Innholdsfortegnelse for August 25-September 7, 2025 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Ezra Marcus and Jen Wieczner chronicled the harrowing offenses of two crypto millionaires who allegedly kidnapped and tortured a third (“The Crypto Gangsters Have Arrived,” August 11–24). Calling it “a dizzying nightmare,” Peter Rubin on Longreads summarized the saga’s myriad details: “If that all sounds like too much to fit into a single feature, trust me: it’s barely the logline.” On Bluesky, Amanda Litman, president of Run for Something, said, “Nearly every third sentence in this story left me stunned,” while @faithbranch.bsky. social suggested, “Come to finally get more details on the crypto kidnapping near your friend’s apartment, stay for the crack cooked in an air fryer.” Journalist Felipe De La Hoz wrote, “The wildest thing about this piece is that it mentions…

IN HIS HBO SPECIAL Panicked, Marc Maron vents about his peers in the comedy industry who voted for Donald Trump out of a supposed desire to protect their free speech. “All they really wanted was to be able to say the R-word with impunity,” he says. Maron then lists a series of horrifying consequences of Trump’s reelection, including “the collapse of the federal government, the destabilization of the global economy, tens of thousands of people being deported to places they might not have even come from, the actual suppression of speech and rights of LGBTQ people and women, and the rise of authoritarianism.” Finally, he tags the joke: “Sometimes I feel like asking them, ‘Was it worth it, you fucking retard?’ ” Although Maron doesn’t name specific comedians in this…

IN 1978, when the fashion designer Willy Chavarria was 10 years old, he and his family attended a production of Zoot Suit, a play by Luis Valdez. The work drew from the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon Murder, when the death of a partygoer became the pretext for a wider criminalization of Chicano youth in Los Angeles. Hundreds were brought in for processing and 22 indicted. On trial was the pachuco, young Chicanos who spoke caló, a patois of Spanish and English, and whose style held the posture of dissent: zoot suits with high and tight waists, pleated legs, and long jackets; swinging chains; and hair slicked back into pompadours with a feathered Borsalino. The look was big and swaggy, and lawmakers considered the liberal use of fabric unpatriotic during wartime. In…

➽ Seek out a state-park campground with same-day reservations or walk-in availability. Generally, they’re the most reliable and well maintained. Many offer standard amenities like flushing toilets, showers, picnic tables, and sinks for dishwashing. While the majority of state campsites take reservations ($17 per night, plus a $7.25 reservation fee) months in advance and book up fully for the summer, there are a few gems where you can stay without planning ahead. Some favorites are Beaver Pond Campground at Harriman State Park (an hour’s drive from Manhattan), which is adjacent to hiking trails and Lake Welch, where you can canoe and kayak ($35 for a boat permit), and Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park (under a 90-minute drive from Manhattan, but note that it’s closing temporarily for construction September 2), which…

THAT OPENING a restaurant—even in a restaurant-mad town like this one—is a fool’s errand is so well established it barely needs saying. The costs are high, the rewards few. Want to make money with a restaurant? Sell it to the next sucker. That anyone does it anyway is a blessing to the rest of us, courtesy of those with a combination of talent, truculence, carnival barkerism, and need. I’m willing to bet that Chakriya Un, the chef of Bong in an unassuming Brooklyn storefront, is one of them. Un (who goes by “Cha”) has spent the better part of the past decade as an itinerant evangelist for the Cambodian food she grew up eating. Under the name Kreung—the spice-and-herb pastes that provide the base of much Cambodian cooking—she popped up…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. MUSIC 1. See There Goes the Neighborhood A one-stage hometown festival. Under the K Bridge Park, September 13. Reunited indie-rock elders TV on the Radio, the band behind the shimmering “Staring at the Sun” and smoldering “Wolf Like Me,” take over this outdoor Brooklyn venue alongside Sudan Archives, Cali-beat great Flying Lotus, poet and vocalist Moor Mother, and singer-songwriter SPELLLING. CRAIG JENKINS TV 2. Watch The Girlfriend Mama drama. Prime Video, September 10. Summer’s not over yet, so you still have time to fit in one more sleazy, sexy series. Robin Wright stars as the wealthy and cultured Laura, whose son brings home the girlfriend from hell. Olivia Cooke’s Cherry makes out with Laura’s son in public, lies about her knowledge…

PAULA REIDBORD Mediator, West Tisbury, Massachusetts How’s the wait going? My daughter and I got into the park at 5:30 a.m., and it’s been fun. The woman to my right gave me her newspaper to read when she was finished. And my daughter was talking to this guy whose daughter brought a dozen doughnuts and then, all of a sudden, we had doughnuts, too. In past years, some of the guys from the bodegas would come over with menus. I had bacon and eggs in a bagel delivered. Anything else different about this year’s line? Romeo the Raccoon is a really cute add-on. He’s the Shakespeare in the Park mascot. I was just talking to the woman who gave me the newspaper, and she asked me what he is. I…

WHEN CHARLIE MITCHELL worked at Clover Hill, the 20-seat Brooklyn Heights tasting room where he earned his first Michelin star and was named the best chef in New York by the James Beard Foundation, his days began and ended in the kitchen. When he arrived at Saga (70 Pine St.; saga-nyc.com), a skyscraper-topping gastronomy penthouse in Fidi, his calendar began to fill up: “Branding meetings, logo meetings, design meetings, plate meetings, new-vision meetings,” he says. “It’s a large company.” After taking over in 2024, Mitchell wanted to maintain and honor the previous order installed by Jamal James Kent, the chef who opened Saga and ran it until his unexpected death. Mitchell made small adjustments initially and waited eight months before adding his first dish to the $300, nine-course tasting menu: grilled…

ARUNDHATI ROY IDENTIFIES as a vagrant. There was a moment in 1997, right after the Delhi-based writer became the first Indian citizen to win the Booker Prize, for her best-selling debut, The God of Small Things, when the president and the prime minister claimed the whole country was proud of her. She was 36 and suddenly rich; she could have coasted on the money and praise. Instead, she changed direction. Furiously and at length, she started writing essays for Indian magazines about everything her country’s elites were doing wrong. As nationalists celebrated Indian nuclear tests, she wrote, “The air is thick with ugliness and there’s the unmistakable stench of fascism on the breeze.” In another essay: “On the whole, in India, the prognosis is—to put it mildly—Not Good.” She wrote…

EVERYWHERE IN Washington, D.C., you can find guys like Aaron Parnas—young white politics wonks with diplomas from George Washington University, drawers full of Lululemon athleisure, and C-SPAN addictions. But only one of them has amassed a following as a scrappy independent news anchor—more than 500,000 Substack subscribers, 4.2 million followers on TikTok—large enough to field guest invites from Katie Couric and public fangirling from resistance boomers. Parnas, 26, tells me he gets recognized at least twice a day in the nation’s capitol. “I was at Le Dip,” he says, referring to the Logan Circle politico haunt Le Diplomate, “and three older women start screaming at the top of their lungs, ‘Oh my God, it’s Aaron Parnas!’ They were telling everyone at the restaurant, and I was like, ‘Guys, calm down.’…

THE ORIGINAL NINE JOHN “JACK” FITZGERALD KENNEDY m. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier CAROLINE BOUVIER KENNEDY (b. 1957) m. Edwin “Ed” Schlossberg Rose Kennedy Schlossberg (b. 1988) Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg (b. 1990) John “Jack” Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg (b. 1993) JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY JR. (b. 1960–d. 1999) m. Carolyn Bessette EUNICE MARY KENNEDY m. Robert Sargent Shriver ROBERT “BOBBY” SARGENT SHRIVER III (b. 1954) m. Malissa Feruzzi Rosemary Scarlett Shriver (b. 2009) MARIA OWINGS SHRIVER (b. 1955) m. Arnold Schwarzenegger (div. 2021) Katherine Eunice Schwarzenegger (b. 1989) m. Chris Pratt Christina Maria Aurelia Schwarzenegger (b. 1991) Patrick Arnold Shriver Schwarzenegger (b. 1993) Christopher Sargent Shriver Schwarzenegger (b. 1997) TIMOTHY PERRY SHRIVER (b. 1959) m. Linda Potter Sophia Rose Shriver (b. 1987) Timothy Shriver Jr. (b. 1988) Samuel Kennedy Shriver (b. 1992) Kathleen Francis Shriver (b. 1994) Caroline…

➸ IN A WORLD where so many appliances have myriad, seemingly inscrutable settings, there’s something extra special about the Cuisinart Custom 14-Cup Food Processor ($320), a powerful device with just two buttons: ON and OFF/PULSE. Strategist senior writer Emma Wartzman talked to ten food experts, including recipe developers, cookbook authors, and a professional chef, before naming it the one you should buy. The processor is great for making dough and can evenly and efficiently dice up a mirepoix of carrots, onion, and celery. But its longevity is the real selling point. Jocelyn Delk Adams, creator of the website Grandbaby Cakes, has had hers for more than a decade. “The blades are as sharp as they ever were. It’s so consistent,” she says. And cookbook author Maya Kaimal, who founded a…