Innholdsfortegnelse for November 3-16, 2025 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, photographer Stephanie Keith documented the violent arrests of migrants attending routine hearings at 26 Federal Plaza. (“The 12th-Floor Dragnet,” October 20–November 2). Appearing on MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime, Keith described seeing a mother being thrown to the floor as masked agents took away her husband: “As a photographer, you have to really stay in the moment and stay focused. You can’t let the emotions of what’s happening take you away from your focus … You have to get the story, you know, in the can. It’s only really afterwards that you like break down and you start to burst into tears and start crying.” Readers overwhelmingly expressed their horror. On Bluesky, blogger Pam Spaulding said the photos depicted “human anguish, and the shame…

SINCE LAST NOVEMBER’S election defeat, the Democratic Party has been subject to an endless battery of postmortems, and a shadow primary is already being fought over who’s got the formula to bring it back to life. Michigan senator Elissa Slotkin characterized the party’s image as “weak and woke” and in need of “alpha energy.” Pete Buttigieg grew a beard and blasted DEI-style training as “something out of Portlandia.” Not to be outdone on the regular-Joe front, Arizona senator Ruben Gallego explained that “every Latino man wants a big-ass truck.” Massachusetts congressman Jake Auchincloss countered that such gestures are derivative “Diet Coke populism” and won’t beat Trump at his own game, while California governor Gavin Newsom has overtly been trying to beat Trump at his own game with a new keyboard-warrior…

THE FIRST SCANDAL of the 2028 presidential campaign arrived in the form of an October surprise—just three Octobers earlier than usual. Here’s what happened: Sometime last year (his office won’t say precisely when) in a Las Vegas casino (his office won’t say exactly which one), Illinois governor and billionaire heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune J.B. Pritzker spent the night playing cards. He had asked his staff if gambling on his vacation might be a bad look for a sitting governor. His concerns were allayed. Who would know let alone care? Then the governor went on a blackjack heater and won $1.4 million. The windfall, reported in Pritzker’s financial-disclosure filings, raised a lot of questions. Does Pritzker have a gambling problem? How would his hobby affect his position on the…

SAHEL Musician, Harlem Did you perform at the festival? No, but my mentor from Peshawar, Pakistan, played at 3 a.m., and I helped them set up and tune the instruments. It was a great performance. Do you play an instrument yourself? I play the rubab. It’s a string instrument, and it’s different from a lot of other string instruments. You gotta really whack it. It originates from the mountains of Afghanistan; over there, there weren’t any amplifiers, so to make it resonate, you need to hit it hard. Why did you choose the rubab? My grandfather used to play it, and it’s almost a dying instrument. So it’s crucial for us to preserve it. It’s a very oral tradition, and if even one generation doesn’t use it, it’s gonna get…

➽ THE CONCEPT OF THE “New York City jazz bar” has been replicated time and again, but in the past year, three downtown spots have opened that offer real showcases for the abundance of talent in this city. “There’s something about jazz: To play the music, you have to be good—you can’t really fake it,” says Jack Smith, the general manager of Birds (64 Downing St.; birds-nyc.com), where on any given night, a Grammy winner might play a rendition of Dizzy Gillespie’s staccato, sprightly “Groovin’ High.” The club is blocks away from Little Branch, where saxophonist Vito Dieterle has booked the nightly set for 20 years. He’s also the music director at Midnight Blue (106 E. 19th St.; midnightblue.nyc), which was opened by Jae Yang and Takuma Watanabe of Martiny’s, the high-caliber…

DANCE HAS BEEN Misty Copeland’s life for 30 years, including the past 25 she spent with American Ballet Theatre. She was the kind of teenage ballerina whom adults described as a “prodigy.” When, in 2015, she became the first Black woman to be promoted to principal dancer at ABT, the media applied a new label: “trailblazer.” She knew her success was never going to be about just her. She rose to the occasion, speaking about the need for more diversity in ballet. To an outside observer, her leaps and fouettés seemed untroubled by the responsibility foisted upon her. By the end of 2019, though, she had doubts: Was performing really the best way for her to change anything? In the time the pandemic afforded her, she decided to step away…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch Pluribus New Mexico is calling your name. Apple TV, November 7. Vince Gilligan’s first big project after Better Call Saul reunites him with Rhea Seehorn in a mega-high-concept genre show that’s quite different from his recent work. But it plays with many of the same themes: satisfaction, what people mean to each other, ambition, and, of course, Albuquerque. KATHRYN VANARENDONK THEATER 2. See Good Sex Part of the Powerhouse: International festival. Powerhouse Arts, November 5 through 8. In the Irish theater company Dead Centre’s performance piece, pairs of stars meet up onstage to feel their way through sex scenes without advance prep but with the help of an intimacy coordinator. Participants include John Cameron Mitchell and Elliot Page,…

➸ IF YOU ARE the parent of a child younger than 10, you’ve likely encountered the Nugget—that is, if you bought one before it sold out. The couch, comprising four giant foam cushions shaped like rectangles and triangles, was a pandemic phenomenon, beloved for the multitude of forms it could assume. Play forts, obstacle courses, and lounge spaces could spring forth from the Nugget’s microsuede-upholstered parts. Since then, the company has released a curvier cousin: the Chunk play ottoman (from $199). It resembles a minimalist West Elm piece but features the customization of the Nugget with stacking concentric cushions (a 33-inch-wide footstool, two inner nesting “pucks,” and a soft pad that acts as a lid). David Baron, a Nugget co-founder, says it was inspired by another parent-child crowd-pleaser: “The beanbag…

➽ TIFFANY HADDISH stands backstage at the El Capitan Entertainment Centre in Los Angeles wearing a pair of camera glasses. “I did a campaign with Ray-Ban once, and they were supposed to give me a pair of these, but they never did,” the 45-year-old actress and comedian says, checking her reflection in a full-length mirror. “If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s when people don’t keep their promises.” Her voice cracks a little as she turns to me and whispers, “Foster-kid shit.” ¶ It’s a sunny August afternoon and Jimmy Kimmel is on vacation, so Haddish is guest-hosting his late-night program. Her glasses are recording behind-the-scenes footage for Kimmel’s website mere weeks before ABC will abruptly suspend production under pressure from the Trump administration. For now, it’s the calm…

Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse This portrait of the Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist begins with his early days in underground comix and continues through his landmark graphic memoir, Maus. (11/10) Orwell: 2+2=5 I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck will deliver the keynote after a screening of his painfully relevant feature pulling heavily from Orwell’s writing about authoritarianism. (11/11) Mario Vargas Llosa: The Story of the Novelist Who Would Be President Built around frank interviews with the late Peruvian novelist, it delves into his writing, his political transformation, and his unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1990. (11/14) Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words The screenwriter won three Oscars, but his work depicting ordinary Americans on TV may be even more influential. Featuring interviews with Mel Brooks, Merrill Markoe, Aaron…

EACH FALL, THIS magazine devotes an issue to the subject of power, which is admittedly not the first word that comes to mind when you think about the Democrats. They are in the minorityD in Congress and lost the war for the Supreme Court years ago, so they can only stare agog and make empty noises as Donald Trump muscles through every audacious and destructive pet project that strikes his fancy. No wonder Democrats are dwelling at historic lows in polling and losing favor across demographic and ideological persuasions, even leftward ones; as usual, no one hates liberalsl l as much as they hate themselves. But it’s precisely because the Democrats are so diminished that power becomesd an interesting question. For the first time in decades, control of the party…

WHAT’S THAT they say—history repeats, first as tragedy, then as forks? Truer words never misquoted. New York neighborhoods aren’t born so much as they’re reborn on the ashes of their predecessors, and grimy areas of avoidance become the site of the new hot boîte. Your Meatpacking Districts, your Tribecas—they all tell the story. Now it’s far-western Soho’s turn. These streets were once standins for the worst New York had to offer. In Martin Scorsese’s After Hours, the leather bar Griffin Dunne stumbles into on his long night’s journey into day is the old Emerald Pub at 308 Spring Street, and a pretty bartender played by Teri Garr lives across the street at 307. I, too, stumbled into 307 Spring recently. The apartments have sailed out of barmaid territory, and the…

CUNA 25 Cooper Sq.; cuna.nyc Coastal Mexican—a yellowfin-tuna tostada is a standout— arrives inside the Standard, East Village, from chef Maycoll Calderón. BAR TIZIO 107 Horatio St.; bartizio.com Jonathan Waxman’s West Village wine bar cribs what’s great about Barbuto (unfussiness, tagliatelle) and skips the crowds, for now. SALVO’S 66-01 Forest Ave., Ridgewood; instagram.com/salvos.nyc Salvatore La Rosa has turned his subs-on-a-scooter pop-up into a brick-and-mortar with mortadella sandwiches and sausages topped with Gorgonzola cream. SHIFKA 324 Bowery; shifkanyc.com Weekday lunch that won’t crush your soul: Get a warm pita stuffed with crisp-creamy eggplant, a soft-boiled egg, and a big spoonful of pickled-mango aïoli. LITTLE GRAND 771 Grand St., Williamsburg; instagram.com/littlegrandbk A $2 oyster happy-hour special makes this bar a solid option for early dates. Stay for more food, like “fritti misti”…

➽ STAVROS HALKIAS doesn’t know why he, of all people, was cast as a cop in Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film, Bugonia, but he’s aware that he offers some semiotic weight to its exploration of lost men who fall into dark online subcultures and conspiracy theories. Jesse Plemons plays Teddy, a young man whose life was ruined by capitalism and the pharmaceutical industry and who turns to YouTube with his questions; in real life, Halkias makes his living trying to offer such guys answers on his podcast, Stavvy’s World. The comedian and former co-host of Cum Town—the popular but niche podcast on which fans could expect ironic racism, vulgarity, and the possibility of a host shitting himself—remembers being an angry “young male loser,” so he now embraces his role as an…