Indholdsfortegnelse for April 25 - May 22, 2022 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s annual “Yesteryear” issue, the magazine revisited more than a century of life in Little Ukraine (“When Kyiv Arrived on 7th Street,” April 11–24). Eddy Portnoy called Christopher Bonanos’s history of the neighborhood a “fantastic and, really, long overdue article on Little Ukraine, one of NYC’s largely unknown ethnic neighborhoods.” @Matt-VTyler said, “Always love reading on how immigration patterns have impacted the neighborhoods/cultural fabric of American cities. This is good stuff.” David Swatling praised Jason Diamond’s recollection of eating his way through the neighborhood in his 20s (“A Journey Down the Borscht River”), saying, “My tastebuds are tingling with all the memories. The borscht I make today is a blending of all those delicious 2nd Avenue bowls.” @Tschades called it a “tender and charming memoir of Eastern…

ON THE NIGHT before Easter, dressed in the closest approximation I could throw together of Gloria Steinem when she went undercover to write about being a Playboy Bunny in 1963, I showed up at NSFW (that would be the New Society for Wellness) sexquarters for an upscale holiday orgy, costumes encouraged. The invite had read, “Long before Easter became synonymous with the return of Christ, it was the festival of Eostre, a Germanic goddess of the dawn. A celebration for the return of the sun, the festival is noted for signs of birth. Bunnies, eggs, and chickies are a common sign of this equinox celebration”— in other words, a bunch of things I’d never really associated with the idea of a sex party, which for me calls to mind dank…

SHEETS FALL INTO the “especially strong preference” category of shopping—it would be challenging to convince a longtime linen person to switch to, say, cotton sateen or jersey. But for each material, certain brands and styles tend to rise to the top. To find those exceptionally durable, super-supersoft, just-plain-better options, we asked no fewer than 19 experts what they prefer to sleep on, unearthing a jet-black sateen sheet from Swedish brand Magniberg and the very best cotton-percale option, from home-essentials company Snowe (seen here, $245), which was recommended several times over for its almost baffling ability to, per Herman Miller editorial director Kelsey Keith, “sleep cool in warm weather and warm in winter months.”…

How long have you been coming? My first one was in 2010 at a school in the Bronx. I’m thinking, It’s a small venue, not gonna be a lot of people. I walk out of the locker room, and there’s, like, 1,500 people in the crowd and a DJ and guys rooting for their guy loud. I had butterflies in my stomach. How did tonight go? I actually got the win. I was against someone from JFK Customs. I knocked the guy down in the first round in less than 15 seconds. Caught him with the overhand right. He dropped, got the eight counts, the first round ended. Second and third rounds, I just didn’t want to hurt him. What’s your role here? I’m a ring announcer. It’s challenging to…

1 Material There are two types of cotton most often used to make sheets: percale (light and crisp) and sateen (silky and warm). Alternative fibers include linen (durable and, because of its open weave, a lot cooler), Supima cotton (soft, exceptionally strong, and made in the U.S.), bamboo (sweat-wicking and sustainable), and silk (luxurious but the most finicky to maintain). 2 Thread count This applies primarily to cotton sheets and refers to the number of horizontal and vertical threads in a square inch of fabric. The thinking used to be that the higher the thread count, the nicer the sheets, but experts tell us that isn’t necessarily true. A good rule is to look for a thread count in the range of 200 to 600. 3 Style There are plenty…

DOROTHY AND STEPHEN GLOBUS have been married for 49 years and have lived 47 of them on the seventh floor of the onetime Gorham Manufacturing Company Building on Broadway, just north of Union Square. Before they moved in, the space had been home, as Dorothy remembers it, to a Chia Pet warehouse. But it had glorious floor-to-ceiling windows, a fireplace, and lots of room to raise their two kids. The couple would spend their weekends scouring antique fairs and novelty stores, and their house became filled with all manner of things. “We were doing it in lockstep,” Dorothy says of their accumulating. “But then he sort of turned away from it. I think it was in the ’90s, when he went to Japan, he began to change his mind about…

WHEN MILAN NATIVE Edoardo Mantelli was planning his new Fort Greene restaurant, Saraghina Caffè (195 Dekalb Ave.), aperitivo—that distinctly Italian form of socializing over low-proof cocktails and snacks, before or sometimes in place of dinner—was meant to be a big part of it. But now that he has officially opened, he finds himself facing a cultural conundrum: Will frenzied, time-pressed New Yorkers embrace the carefree ritual of his homeland? And will our different business model allow it? For one thing, he says, Italians tend to dine later than Americans, and a leisurely aperitivo session can stretch out for hours without jeopardizing dinner-table availability: “At 7 p.m. in a restaurant there, they’re still sweeping the floor.” Contrast that with the line that has already begun forming on weekend nights before his…

THE 23-YEAR-OLD synth-pop musicians Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton have been best friends since they first bonded over drawing at age 4. That kinship established their tight collaboration as a two-person band named for a grammar gag (note the missing comma). The duo from Norwich, England, arrived just as an emotional streak hit synth-pop (prompted by albums like Carly Rae Jepsen’s Emotion and Chairlift’s Moth). Their ability to infuse mischief into songs without undercutting poignancy stood out. Let’s Eat Grandma’s sound remained distinct even as they branched off to outside producers including the late SOPHIE. Their upcoming third album, Two Ribbons, is foreign territory: their first written separately. Hollingworth spent much of 2019 grieving her boyfriend, the musician Billy Clayton, who died from cancer that March; simultaneously, Walton was discovering…

Father’s Day, April 27 Kivu Ruhorahoza’s drama braids together three stories about parenting and patriarchy in modern-day Rwanda, from a masseuse grieving her teen son, to a woman wondering whether to donate an organ to her sick father, to a petty criminal whose kid gets pulled into his business. Fire of Love, April 27 and 28 Katia and Maurice Krafft, married French volcanologists, may look like whimsical fictional characters at first, but they were very real, and this doc—narrated by Miranda July—matches their passion and their eccentricity. Dos Estaciones, April 29 and 30 A mesmerizing Teresa Sánchez stars in Juan Pablo González’s immersive drama about a struggling family-owned tequila factory. The African Desperate, April 30 and May 1 Martine Syms’s feature directorial debut stars Diamond Stingily…

Anita Oberholster wouldn’t say what we were drinking. We were standing in the teaching-and-research winery at the University of California, Davis, the country’s preeminent incubator of future grape growers and vintners, and on the table in front of us were three identical wine bottles with red screw caps. Instead of a label, each bore a white strip that read SAMPLE FOR RESEARCH, along with a cryptic string of letters and numbers. The bottles, which came from vineyards in the Napa Valley, contained Cabernet Sauvignon from the 2020 vintage. They had all been made from grapes harvested after the Glass Fire, a blaze that tore through Napa, burning almost 68,000 acres and turning the skies orange. Nearly 30 wineries were ravaged by fire, but far more difficult to gauge was the…

THE NYPD HAS HELD boxing matches for at least a century, giving officers a way to settle intradepartmental grudges, quick and dirty—“Something that cops would do if cops had beef with other cops,” as one regular put it. At events known as smokers, commanders fought traffic patrollers, detectives got in the ring with their direct supervisors, and officers squared off with their sergeants. But since (now retired) Lieutenant Dave Siev took over NYPD Boxing in 2000, all of this has ballooned into a larger spectacle called Smoker Talk, which was sanctioned by USA Boxing in 2014 and now draws contestants from the Sanitation, Customs, and Fire departments. (Some civilians are allowed to fight on occasion.) It has amassed a devoted audience: Matches at Madison Square Garden and Resorts World Casino…

OVER THE DECADES, Jane Fonda’s and Lily Tomlin’s careers have hopscotched through various social spheres and weathered political crises and middle-aged invisibility to return with a late-career renaissance during the streaming wars. On Grace and Frankie, Netflix’s longest-running original series, the final episodes of which air April 29, they play rivals turned besties when their husbands fall in love with each other. Meeting over Zoom, Fonda, 84, in full incognito soccer-mom regalia—sunglasses, a beanie, and an eggplant tracksuit she will zip up to her chin—is forthright about what she would and wouldn’t like to talk about; Tomlin, 82, in a brown jacket and chunky necklace, is more improvisational and circumspect. Fonda has described her life as being determined in some part by men (her father, her husbands), but onscreen, she…

CONCERNS ABOUT “goodness” may very well haunt the latest revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo. And as intrusive thoughts arise mid-viewing—say, worries about whether the playwright’s recent public pronouncements dangerously framing all male educators as pedophiles have triggered a war on teachers—it can be useful to return to basics. A good knife, said Aristotle, is one that cuts. So are the performances good? They are! Sam Rockwell and Laurence Fishburne and, to a less spectacular extent, Darren Criss are clearly reveling in material worth their impressive stage mettle. Is the production good? Oh, certainly—it holds up Mamet’s 1975 text like a coin, making it wink in the light. But is the play good? There, now you have me. Because American Buffalo works as it used to work (or at least…

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