Indholdsfortegnelse for June 20-July 3, 2022 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Rebecca Traister chronicled America’s oldest sitting senator’s five decades in public office (“Dianne Feinstein Is American Politics,” June 6–19). Stephen A. Rhodes called it “an outstanding piece of journalism. It both details Feinstein’s unpredictable rise to power—and helps to explain the current dysfunction of the Senate.” David Roberts of Volts newsletter wrote, “There’s so much compassion in @rtraister’s elegiac piece on Feinstein that it dulled my rage at the senescent senator & the broken system that props her up. At least for a few minutes.” @CollinsWatch wrote, “Lotta great stuff in this Feinstein profile but one thing sticks out to me: It feels honest in a way that’s rare in U.S. politics coverage … not tiptoeing round key sources, calibrating to appease powerful…

IN THE HALLS of film producer Jane Rosenthal’s Greenwich Street office hang massive, rare framed movie posters. There’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Night and the City with Gene Tierney, and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up. She even has one of my all-time-favorite film noirs, The Big Clock, which never seems to be in stock at Posteritati. Where does she find them? “Marty’s got a guy,” she said with a nod, referring to Martin Scorsese. It was June 2, a week before the opening of the Tribeca Festival (née the Tribeca Film Festival), and Rosenthal had meetings with her ticketing team as well as with the director Kathryn Bigelow, who would arrive just as our interview wrapped up. Rosenthal launched the festival 21 years ago with Robert De Niro and her financier now-ex-husband, Craig Hatkoff.…

What We Looked For 1 Material: Most reusable bottles are made from plastic (the lightest option but less insulating) or metal (which is superior at keeping water cold but, of course, heavier). Both are more durable than glass containers, though some people believe glass is the least likely to affect the water’s taste. 2 The Cap: Screw-top caps are the most leakproof but require two hands to open, which can be an annoyance when drinking on the go, while flip-lock lids and straw caps can be opened with one hand but are slightly less secure. Then there are pop-up “sport” caps, which are the quickest to drink from (they can be unlocked with teeth) but the most susceptible to leaking. 3 Ease of Cleaning: It’s best to wash a reusable…

ANNASTASIA TOBIN First-grader, Newark, New Jersey I assume you’re a big Liberty fan. We’ve watched Liberty games on TV since I was 4 years old. Mommy K, my mom’s girlfriend, got us the tickets. What was the best part of the night? When we got to take pictures with the players. We met Kahleah Copper, and I took a picture with her. And the shouts. My favorite word to shout is “Defense!” What else do you like to do? I love to dance, even in my room at night. “Purple Rain” is my favorite song. I want Prince to come to my birthday party, but Mommy tells me he’s dead.…

The Hardest Reservation of All Time Momofuku Ko “The original location, when it was a tiny counter, had a famously horrible online-reservation system. I don’t even remember how I got in, but it hadn’t been open very long, and I went only once before I wrote the review. That seemed to upset people who, back in the day, had certain notions about how critics should time their write-ups.” The Best Thing Platt Ever Ate … “Foie gras soup dumplings at Annisa, Anita Lo’s now-closed restaurant in the West Village. It was my first review, and the minute I tasted those popping, luxuriant dumplings, I said to myself, Platty, you’re in a different world now.” … And the Worst “Squid risotto from a mercifully defunct Japanese restaurant on University Place. ‘Squid…

ALTHOUGH IT’S NOT as fusty as a co-op—there’s no interview—the building doesn’t exactly make things easy for prospective buyers. According to Suna Vidinli, who decided to buy after years of renting, the application packet was “like filling out Harvard’s application. So thick. And they don’t just care about money. They want a legacy or a respectable, prominent background. The thing that I’m positive helped me was my recommendations—I got them from my Harvard people and my former colleagues at the New York Times and sent in information about my family. Then they accepted me very quickly. Somebody—I think it was a hedge-funder—also gave a bid for my apartment, and he didn’t get it.” LLCs are welcome, per broker Ryan Zeiger, “as long as you have the money. No one would…

IF YOU HAVE EVER worked with one, you’ll know that assholes don’t respond well to input. “Coaxing something up there, into the light, can take all day,” reports the narrator of Ottessa Moshfegh’s “Brom,” a 2017 short story about a shut-in feudal lord who spends his days easing foreign objects into his rectum. His name for this practice is illumination: “A few things I’ve managed to illuminate are worth noting: a small bottle of sherry, my sister’s confirmation crown which I snatched from its velveteen case and hammered down straight and flat, a rabbit’s foot, a brass corkscrew, an ivory penknife.” Brom, you see, believes his colon houses the light of God, safely concealed from his serfs, whom he torments. But no man who lighteth a candle hideth it under…

POST MALONE’S FIRST three albums were a careful juggling act. Stoney (2016), Beerbongs & Bentleys (2018), and Hollywood’s Bleeding (2019) brought catchy melodies and a country-rock wail to production that gave them legs on hip-hop radio while appealing to enough pop and rock fans to coast on Top 40 stations. This worked better than anyone could have imagined. Our patron saint of pilsners blessed us with paeans to partying through our sadness (and happiness), serving the kind of drinking anthems that get Bud Light to sponsor a dive-bar tour on which you could catch Posty cracking a bottle in the middle of an emotive guitar solo and crooning through the chorus with a beer in the air, a mirror image of his audience. Yet we have no illusions that he’s…

FOR A MICRODOSE OF SCI-FI NOIR The Next Time I Die, by Jason Starr (Hard Case Crime, 6/28) A scheming lawyer is stabbed, but lives on in an alternate timeline—a better world: no 9/11; no Trump; no ’rona; his wife loves him! Then cracks appear, and, well, a fall guy is a fall guy throughout the multiverse. FOR A MODERN GOTHIC MYSTERY Beneath Cruel Waters, by Jon Bassoff (Blackstone Publishing) The prodigal son returns to bury his mother, who died from suicide at the site of an unsolved ’80s murder, which, he soon learns, she committed. The “why” unravels in poignant, haunting dual narratives of sins past and present, apparent and submerged. FOR A NUCLEAR-VS.-CRIME-FAMILY DRAMA The Island, by Adrian McKinty (Little, Brown and Company) The Baxters are done with…

If you met me, you’d probably ask what pronouns I use. You’d ask me because my gender identity is not that clear—to you, at least. I wear light makeup and paint my nails and, depending on the occasion, might be in a slip dress with a kitten heel. And yet, if you heard me speak, you’d probably assume (correctly) that I was assigned male at birth (AMAB, in the current jargon; I was also, of course, assigned the name Brock). You might assume, based in part on my voice and disposition, that I date and sleep with men, like a gay man (also correct). And so you’d ask what pronouns I use because it’s considered the polite thing to do now—an accepted part of our perilous new social-justice social contract—and…

For an Impeccable Rush Job DASHNOR TAILORING, 320 E. 81st St.; dashnorbegaj.com LAST YEAR, Willa Bennett, the head of social at GQ, happened upon a $250 vintage Gucci suit at a thrift store that “needed quite a bit of work” to fit her frame. Knowing it was a steal, she bought it anyway and asked colleague Miles Pope, the associate fashion director at GQ, where to take it for a rush job—she needed it back in three days for an event. Dashnor Tailoring on the Upper East Side, he said—a small, old-school tailoring shop on the garden floor of a townhouse. Dashnor “Dino” Begaj, master tailor and owner of the shop, was able to do the job in just six hours and charged her $300. Now, it’s her favorite suit…

What brought you here? Oh, I’m a big Liberty fan. The WNBA is a crazy-competitive league. I’ve been watching it for most of my life, since it formed in ’97. The level of actual basketball is so high. I always preach to my friends that the WNBA is just as good as the NBA. Real basketball heads know that. Did Brittney Griner’s case come up tonight? When it was time to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” both teams walked off the court. My daughter asked why, and we told her it was because we have had a Black WNBA player stuck overseas and no one’s doing anything about it. Eat anything good at the game? I’m a Nets season-ticket holder, and I’ve noticed that there aren’t as many food stands open…

Le Bernardin “It’s midtown’s great neighborhood restaurant, but it’s also a great Manhattan destination. And it’s the kind of restaurant that represents both the city and the world at large in a way that almost feels nostalgic today. When a restaurant like Le Bernardin leaves the scene, there won’t be another like it in the city.” Sammy’s Noodles “There was a carryout restaurant that occupied a double-wide space on Sixth Avenue. The minute COVID came, it was gone. It was a master of the carryout art, which involves perfect timing so the crust on the General Tso’s chicken remains hard as a rock and the fresh broccoli is cooked by the time you arrive back home.”…

YOLA KNOWS WHAT some music heads will wonder after they watch her in Elvis, the latest cinematic spectacular from Baz Luhrmann: why Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the woman who invented rock and roll and became one of Elvis Presley’s primary Black influences, doesn’t get much more than a minutes-long performance of the spiritual “Strange Things Happening Every Day.” “Let’s just take one thread we can ostensibly trace,” Yola begins. It is late on a Sunday at Urban Cowboy, a hotel and bar in the heart of gentrifying East Nashville, and she will give anyone who will listen a lesson on who came before the King: “She clocked Little Richard out of a backwater in Georgia and gave him his rise to fame. If we don’t have that drag-wearing Black man being…

TWENTY MONTHS after he developed a crush, 18 months after he’d fallen in love, Diego, who is enormously appealing but also very canceled, boarded the bus with Jenni and Dave. They were going to the beach, and it wasn’t a big deal—except for the fact that pretty much all of Diego’s friends had dropped him, so, yeah, it was. The three, all 17, sat in a row of orange seats that ran the length of the bus, Diego’s eyes dark, goofy, and sad; his body freshly stretched to almost six feet; his oversize Carhartts ripped on skateboard ramps. This could have been in any American city this past January, on any bus. (First names in this article are pseudonyms.) Jenni kept her face tilted down toward her lap, hidden by…

➸ CHOOSING THE WRONG water bottle can be disastrous—one with a loose lid might leak all over a commuter’s laptop and chargers, while a stainless-steel flask (though well insulated) will weigh on a long-distance hiker. Fortunately, there is no shortage of options for every type of water drinker: vacuum-sealed mugs for summertime road-trippers, squeezable bottles for runners training for a marathon, and gallon-size vessels for those who hate to refill. We spoke to 17 experts about the bottles they feel most passionate about, from the dentproof Yeti that’s ideal for children to the plastic cycling bottle that tastes “like you’re drinking right out of a glass.” No vessel garnered more praise than the ultracustomizable Hydro Flask (pictured; $35 for the 24-ounce model), which comes in ten sizes, has 13 cap…

AWOKE VINTAGE founder Liz Power has been going to Sammy since it opened right next to her shop in Greenpoint in 2019. What sets the place apart, she says, is owner Albert Kim’s willingness to do essentially anything to fix a garment. Recently, she brought in a ’70s jumpsuit with a broken extra-long zipper in the front. “He said it was rare but managed to find one for me, which is pretty amazing,” says Power. (According to Kim, “about a hundred” zippers are kept on hand for cases exactly like Power’s.) Creative consultant Jess Tran—who happened upon Sammy during the pandemic and since has dropped off between 50 and 100 pieces for fixes and alterations—also mentioned Kim’s obsessive attention to detail. She recently brought in a Cult Gaia dress that…

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN a study on the average shelf life of a professional book, television, or movie critic, but those of us who eat for a living tend to stay on the job longer than most. Before I became the restaurant critic for this magazine in 2000, Gael Greene—who had been given the job in 1968, the year New York Magazine was founded—held on to it fiercely for decades. Some of the greatest critics of my generation, including Jonathan Gold of the Los Angeles Times and A.A. Gill of The Sunday Times in London, expired on the job way before their retirement years, and even my friends and colleagues who have survived the obvious perils of the occupation (budget cuts, creeping drunkenness, heart failure, choking on a stray chicken…

MANY RESIDENTS have long treated this meeting as something of a spectator sport. Held for years in various event spaces—including several times at the InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel and at least once at the Women’s National Republican Club—the gathering is typically catered with cheese plates and an open bar. Which means “it always ends up with somebody fighting,” says Sciascia Gambaccini. Franklin Getchell and Murray Moss attended two meetings during their decade-plus in the building, both of which, Getchell says, “were very contentious with lots of shouting and finger-pointing. That was so weird since there was no interaction among the residents in the building.” Among the more memorable scraps was one between 46th- and 47th-floor neighbors over alleged privacy violations. “There was a big fight,” says Getchell. “One of…

1 No Unapproved Service Workers  ➸ JOHN THOMPSON says the staff essentially forced him to let his dog walker go because she had the gall to sit on a sofa in the lobby with dog hair on her: “The concierge called and said, ‘Unless you are in love with this dog walker, we never want to see her again. But in all situations, she’s not allowed to sit. And we will track it.’ ” Another time, he says, “I had an interior decorator come, and he was dressed casually. The concierge marched him out the front door and took him to the service entrance. He was furious.” 2 No Dogs ➸ THEY’RE NOT TECHNICALLY allowed but are permitted—with highly specific caveats. “I got a pretty strict letter from…

WHEN LAURA LINNEY starred in a 2002 Broadway revival of The Crucible, her favorite part was Act Three, in which her character, Elizabeth Proctor, doesn’t appear onstage. “I would be underneath the floorboards of the theater, just listening,” she says. “You could hear the orchestration of the voices. Liam Neeson tromping around. Then you realize just what a fucking genius Arthur Miller was. When you’re in the work like that, it just envelops you and moves through your body.” Linney is an actor’s actor, Juilliard trained and now on the school’s board of trustees. For more than 30 years, she has made a career in television, film, and the theater. She recently wrapped the fourth and final season of Netflix’s Ozark and has begun shooting an Irish drama, The Miracle…