Indholdsfortegnelse for March 13-26, 2023 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Matthew Schneier reported on the sudden ubiquity of Ozempic (“Life After Food,” February 27–March 12). The Los Angeles Times’ Laura J. Nelson praised it as “definitive,” and illustrator Robert Bahn called it a “genuinely horrifying article about the mass adoption of what’s meant to be used by diabetics to reduce appetite but has been taken in droves by anybody who wants to be just a little bit thinner, mainly rich people and celebrities.” Novelist Jami Attenberg described the article as “one of the most depressing fucking things I’ve read in my life,” and @GibsonShelbyg tweeted, “As someone who works in a pharmacy, this Ozempic thing is getting out of control. The people yelling at me over not having it are the people using…

I LOVE BEING NAKED,” says Franklyn McClure, 20, Zooming from the porch of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, and wearing nothing but a pink pair of briefs and a whole lot of jewelry and lip gloss. “So that’s why I didn’t want to wear a shirt for this interview. Because that shit is who I am. One day when I’m on the red carpet, I’m going to be naked, girl.” McClure is in the midst of having gone viral, and he is trying to make the most of it. “God gave us one life, so make it iconic,” he says. If somehow you missed this: Randy McNally, the 79-year-old Republican lieutenant governor of Tennessee, was revealed to have been commenting, using his public, verified Instagram account, on McClure’s thirst-traps…

IN SEPTEMBER, my family and I move from our home in Dublin to a fancy East Coast college town, where I’ll be teaching for the semester. I grew up in Dublin, which means I have a wide circle of friends to draw on whenever I’m let out of the house. The street where I live is friendly: If I want to borrow a spatula or I need someone to look after my cat, I have only to ask. Life is different for us in the U.S. We have, for the first time, a basement. But we have no friends. It seems as if none of the permanent faculty can afford to live in the suburb where the university has placed us. We technically have neighbors, but we never see them;…

For When You Don’t Have a Permit HUDSON RIVER PARK COURTS between Piers 34 and 40; hudsonriverpark.org LOCATED JUST south of Pier 40, the three public tennis courts in Hudson Square (one of which is for singles play only) are run by the Hudson River Park Trust rather than the Parks Department. This means they’re carefully maintained (they were just resurfaced over the winter) and, crucially, they’re not subject to the moving target that is the Parks Department sign-up rules, which seem to differ from court to court. There is no attendant, each party gets an hour on the honor system, and players who overstay their hour or flout the rules are subject to gentle but public shaming by others waiting. “They’re an oasis of democratic tennis in a…

For a Cereal Party STOMACH-TIME STORYTELLING crazylegsconti.com COMPETITIVE eater Crazy Legs Conti and his business partner, Shawn Wickens, host what they describe as “stomach-time storytelling”—i.e., food-themed birthday parties involving everything from pasta to cereal to birthday cake. They ensure that each event is educational even as the kids are encouraged to play with their food (at a pasta-themed party, for instance, guests hurled noodles at the ceiling to see which shape would stick the longest, learning about cooking methods like al dente in the process. Fettuccine won.) The duo begins each party by telling a story (sometimes a play on a classic fairy tale that incorporates the food, other times a more educational anecdote about healthy eating choices) before descending into chaos, encouraging guests to throw cake against…

For Maintainable Results NEW YORK AT HOME newyorkathome.com DIANE LOWY studied art installation at Bard College and went on to oversee day-to-day office operations at Google and Chanel. Then, while working at Square, she helped employees get their desks in order; when they started asking her to organize their apartments, she realized she had found her calling. She started a proper home-organizing business, New York at Home, in 2016. Lowy begins with a two-hour on-site strategy session (from $975) that results in a highly detailed plan of systems that reflect the client’s lifestyle and priorities, what they do in and outside the home, and how much support they have. For art collector Carla Shen, in addition to organizing all of the miscellany in her basement and multiple closets,…

THE FIFTH-FLOOR walk-up apartment on West 11th Street, which has a 22-foot-tall skylight but in places is only eight feet wide, had been owned by an artist couple since the 1960s and was redolent with delightful crumbly bohemian detail: There were flowers painted on the bathroom door and kitchen ceiling and a trompe l’oeil zebra-skin rug painted on the floor. When it went on the market for $685,000 in the fall of 2021, after the couple had died and their possessions (including two six-foot-tall stuffed lions) were cleared out, visitors crowded the open house, many imagining they could hold on to the dilapidated romance of the place and still make it modern and livable. Jonathan Chong and Kay Lee ended up being the buyers, and they too had those fantasies.…

LAST WE SAW Wylie Dufresne, he was engineering Creamsicle doughnuts at his Williamsburg shop, Du’s. When it closed during the pandemic, he found himself with some free time and lots of restless energy. “I have a pathological curiosity,” he says. “I mean, it’s a bit of a running joke that on the last day of wd~50, I changed a recipe.” He turned his attention to a new pursuit—pizza—first cooking at home with his family before, in 2021, launching a six-month residency at Breads Bakery in Union Square, using the ovens during their off-hours for carryout pies and a small sit-down setup. Now, Dufresne (along with Breads owner Gadi Peleg) will turn the pop-up into a permanent restaurant, Stretch Pizza (331 Park Ave. S., nr. E. 24th St.; stretchpizzanyc.com), where his…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. TV 1. Watch Succession Season Four “F--- off,” one last time. HBO, March 26. The creator, showrunner, and writer Jesse Armstrong has confirmed that Succession will be going out on top—a power move that Logan Roy would approve of. But will the show’s patriarch actually bequeath his company to one of his children in this final season? That still feels as unlikely as anyone surviving a game of Boar on the Floor unscathed. ROXANA HADADI MUSIC 2. Listen to 10,000 Gecs Return of the hyperpop troublemakers. Dog Show Records/Atlantic Records, March 17. Missouri’s 100 Gecs’ playful, blisteringly loud amalgamations of rock, rap, pop, and children’s music have earned the duo an unlikely fleet of admirers, from Nine Inch Nails to Fall…

WHAT THE boys remember is not one particular meme or video, but how Andrew Tate conquered their TikTok “For You” pages seemingly overnight. Without warning last summer, the former kickboxing world champion obliterated the NyQuil-chicken recipes, the Minion mobs, the Amber Heard mockeries, and every other trending brainworm. It’s probably not an exaggeration to say that if you were an American male between 12 and 20 with a TikTok account, “Top G,” as he calls himself, was an unavoidable presence, uploaded by megafans, then reposted and shared, stitched and duetted by scrollers, critics, and stans. By the end of 2022, #AndrewTate had been searched on TikTok 22 billion times. The boys clicked on Tate because of his striking appearance—the glossy shaved head, the physique “yoked as fuck,” as the comedian…

For a Vintage Style LIZZY WEINBERG AT HAIRTHRONE, 60 Orchard St.; @lizzyweinberg IF YOUR IDEA of a formal hairdo is a finger wave or your haircut mood board skews more 1970 than 2023, bring those inspiration photos to Lizzy Weinberg at Hairthrone. “She has in the past decade taken me from Julie Christie in Don’t Look Now to Julie Christie in Shampoo to a Twin Peaks bob, respecting my wishes without letting me do anything rash,” says writer Sadie Stein of Weinberg’s knack for resurrecting and breathing new life into throwback looks. “She has also given me fabulous updos for events: ’40s curls, modified beehives, and ’70s-meets-Victorian topknots.” Weinberg, who has been styling hair in New York for almost 17 years, is intentional about creating a shape with a…

For Horsehair Mattresses JEEVES NEW YORK 212-570-9130; jeevesofbelgravia.com AN INTERNATIONAL business that arrived from London in 1979, Jeeves is known as one of the city’s best luxury dry cleaners, adept at handling expensive and one-of-a-kind items like Chanel sets and vintage sheepskin coats. It also does a masterful job on everything from curtains to bedding. Ellen Playford of Gramercy Park says she was impressed with how the father-son team of Jerry and Zach Pozniak meticulously hung, steamed, and dressed her floor-to-ceiling drapes. Steven Rosa, who works in real-estate finance, agrees that the Pozniaks’ level of care is evident in every aspect of their work and says Jeeves especially excels in “high stakes” situations involving valuable pieces: When Rosa had his horsehair-and-cashmere mattress cleaned by a different company, it was…

For Rare Cheeses FORMAGGIO ESSEX 88 Essex St.; formaggiokitchen.com OPERATING OUT of Essex Market for 17 years, Formaggio Essex has a counter piled so high with wheels of seldom-distributed cheeses that you can barely see general manager Andrew Clark over them. “Basically, you aren’t able to find these types of cheeses in other shops because of these direct relationships they’ve fostered over multiple decades,” Jessica Sennett, a cheesemonger, says of varieties like Manigodine Fermier ($25 per pound), which is strikingly similar to Reblochon, a French cheese that cannot be imported because it’s too young. “I feel like I’m getting a real education from the staff,” says chef, author, and TV host Padma Lakshmi, a customer since 2007, who stops by when she wants to be surprised. “Andrew has convinced…

MOST REGULARS at Pietro’s (232 E. 43rd St., nr. Second Ave.; pietros.com) have aged out of the power-player circuit, and the Italian steakhouse is rarely afforded the same reverence as other midtown stalwarts. But behind the drawn curtains that cover the front window, servers buzz around in blue suits, and owner Bill Bruckman, who started as a busboy during the Reagan administration, watches over everything with his sons, David and Billy Jr. Many customers don’t bother with a menu at all (they know what’s on it), yet a close read, which the Bruckmans gave us, reveals the big sellers, the hidden favorites, and the one entrée Bill Sr. can’t persuade his chef to drop. The restaurant was founded in 1932 by two Italian brothers, Natale and Pietro Donini. “During Prohibition,”…

sped-up music / kelly link / the stunt awards / critics / to do IN YAEJI’S HOME, everything has its place. We’ve arrived at her Brooklyn pad, a pretty-big-for–New York two-bedroom apartment, where she’s cutting up kimchee with pink scissors (labeled FOR FOOD USE ONLY) to go with the congee we bought for lunch. We spent the morning attempting to tire out her toy poodle, Jiji, a pandemic puppy she got in Korea, but succeeded only in making ourselves hungry. Jiji is her little princess, a spoiled international rich girl, and the main reason you might not see her at the Bushwick clubs where Kathy Yaeji Lee from Flushing became mononymously known as Yaeji, the musician beloved for her introspective dance music that sounds like the moment when the molly…

“When I started working in television, it was like, ‘Don’t wear this. Do wear that. Change your hair.’ I remember someone at 60 Minutes who shall remain nameless telling me that I should be more coy and flirtatious in my interview style. I was literally, ‘When I’m in Aleppo getting shot at, it’s sort of hard to be coy.’ ”CLARISSA WARD BARBARA WALTERS died on December 30 at the age of 93 during a low ebb in the news cycle. Her home of 50 years, ABC News, pressed PLAY on a two-hour prime-time special, Our Barbara, but it aired during the attentional wasteland of New Year’s Day. Walters, whose ambition had no off switch, would have been irritated about the timing. In Audition, her memoir, Walters lists every important person…

THE MAGAZINE’S “Best of New York” franchise has been going strong for over 35 years, and for the past two of them, we’ve been publishing our entries on Curbed year round. Recent additions include tailors, ceramics classes, and mold experts. But every spring we continue the tradition of publishing a whole slew of new ones, and on the following pages we present the haircutter Lily Allen recommended to Domino Kirke-Badgley, a cheese shop that deals in varieties seldom seen in the States, the magician to hire for your kid’s 5th-birthday party, an upholstery cleaner who can properly scour a horsehair-and-cashmere mattress, and the tucked-away Tribeca tennis court that few people know to look for. For all of the lists, visit curbed.com/best-of-new-york.…

For Nongeneric Gowns SPINA BRIDE 132 Tenth Ave.; spinabride.com MOST WEDDING-DRESS shops keep their gowns in a back stockroom, making even the savviest shoppers reliant on salespeople to interpret their likes and dislikes. Chelsea-based salon Spina does not. Its entire selection—which includes Santos Costura’s Grecian “Columbia” gown ($8,550) and Chana Marelus’s ethereal “Moor” dress ($9,500)—hangs on the floor in full view of the clientele. The options struck Kyra Burner, senior director of guest relations at Major Food Group, as an antidote to the gowns she had seen at other bridal retailers. She ended up with a pearl-encrusted dress from Budapest brand Daalarna Couture. Years later, she says she has never seen a bride in something similar. Kelli Bartlett was drawn to a J. Andreatta gown for her wedding; the…

For Dorinda Medley’s Gel Manicures OLIVIER NAIL SPA 1324 Lexington Ave.; 212-289-7175 THIS TIDY Lexington Avenue mainstay has a straightforward slate of offerings: manicures, pedicures, waxing, and foot reflexology massage. The clientele is, per regular Dorinda Medley of The Real Housewives of New York City, “All Upper East Side gals. The women that live on Park Avenue.” She stumbled upon the place about 20 years ago and has booked with it almost every week since for gel manicures ($46) and every two weeks for a separate pedicure (from $39) with callus removal (an additional $18) and a 20-minute chair-massage appointment ($32). Olivier’s technicians do a consistently solid job, says Medley, but the main draw is the privacy and quiet: It’s always calm, and patrons are tacitly encouraged to stay…

BIG WET Country singer, Williamsburg I heard you won. We won it all. It was a huge come-from-behind, dark-horse victory. Who did people think would win? Noah was definitely the favorite. Everybody on their team is capable of rolling a 200. I was worried about them off the bat and the Perfectly Imperfect team—we were on the same lane as them for the first heat, and I was like, I don’t even know what Perfectly Imperfect is, but they are all fucking sharks. Was there any beef? I noticed that the Gem team was rolling with ten-pound kids’ balls. Any league in any alley, it’s 12 or 13 pounds and up. So I pointed it out to them and to Mr. Dirtbag at the beginning. They were like, “It’s not…

FOODWHAT TO EAT THE THREE OWNERS of Zhego (38-04 61st St., Woodside) opened their narrow storefront earlier this year with one goal in mind: to give the city its first great Bhutanese restaurant. The tiny space has just a few tables, and two cooks have to squeeze into the kitchen, but Sonam Tshering Singye, chef Tobden Jamphel, and Tenzin Norbu are committed to offering the most authentic version of their home country’s cooking, employing, for example, a traditional air-drying technique for pork and beef that gives the meat a firm, almost jerkylike texture and serving sides of red rice (the nation’s preferred variety). Cheese and chile peppers—the latter of which Zhego imports from Bhutan—are in almost everything because the combination is the essence of Bhutanese food (ema datshi, chiles stewed…

IF YOU’VE OPENED TikTok lately, you’ve likely scrolled past a video with a fresh take on Miguel’s “Sure Thing,” the 2010 original’s defining moodiness replaced by a jaunty bounce, his once-sultry voice turned infantile. Simply put, the recording has been drastically sped up. For months, high-BPM versions have been dominating social media. A hit like Bruno Mars’s “24K Magic” may shine at its normal pace, but accelerated, it becomes glittery and Chipmunkian—more fit for Mario Kart than radio. Most feel the same: pitched up ever so slightly, like a podcast on 1.5x speed. And these remixes have been doing numbers. Instead of balking at their existence, though, it’s worth understanding where this “new” sound comes from and how there may be more to it than just shorter attention spans. 1958…

Y/N lies in bed and deletes every picture of Moon on her phone. She is sick of looking at these pictures on her way to work, cosseting herself with the prospect of seeing and touching the real thing when she’s back home at night. She recognizes that her frustration with the pictures is actually a pleasure to feel, fortifying as it does the notion of a real thing. But the real thing is not real enough. Moon himself is not real enough. She wants him too much. Her appetite is unnatural. He can’t possibly give more than he already does. Still, she wants everything he isn’t and everything he will never be. How he exists in the negative—she wants this, too. But the contradiction is insurmountable. She can never have…