Indholdsfortegnelse for January 29- February 11, 2024 i New York Magazine

1 New York’s latest cover story featured a practical guide to the increasingly mainstream world of polyamory (“Let’s Open This Up,” January 15–28). Nancy Rommelmann tweeted, “I feel like it all ends in grubbiness and tears somewhere in Park Slope,” while sex columnist and non-monogamy advocate Dan Savage joked, “Okay, I take it all back.” Some hosts of The View were also skeptical. Sunny Hostin asked, “Some of these people are married, have children, and have jobs: How do you have the time to do that with, let alone with one man, several men or women?” Whoopi Goldberg, though, noted, “If you can chew gum and walk, you can do more than one person.” Writer Magdalene J. Taylor observed that “the more polyamory gets discussed by the mainstream the more…

SIX MONTHS AGO, on a family vacation in Maine, Cecile Richards, the long-serving president of Planned Parenthood, discovered that her hand had seemingly forgotten how to write. Alarmed, she and her husband, Kirk Adams, drove back to New York and, eventually, went to the ER at NYU. As Richards was getting wheeled into surgery for a brain tumor two days later, her eldest daughter, Lily, an assistant secretary for public affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, was in labor at another hospital. By the time mother and daughter were each discharged, Richards, 66, had her first grandchild and a diagnosis of glioblastoma: incurable brain cancer for which the median survival rate is 15 months. “Teddy is getting hair,” she says cheerfully of her grandson when we meet at the Financial…

CELEBRITY SHOPPING T-fal Deep Fryer With Basket, $130 “I’ve had a T-fal fryer since 2007. It’s the exact right size and very easy to clean. I like it better than frying in a big pot because the temperature regulation is much more straightforward. I love to fry chicken, but we’ve also made homemade French fries, egg rolls—a range of things.” Nood Game Changer Lift & Shape Bra, $49 “When you have kids, gravity takes over and everything falls to the ground. I had perfect C’s, and they are a mess right now. But this adhesive bra pulls you up and gives you almost like a breast lift. It’s seamless, it’s backless, and no one can tell if you’re wearing one.” Charlotte Stone Martino Low-Heel Clog, $214 “It’s hard to find…

THE STUDENTS ARE EVERYONE from a kindergarten teacher to Alan Cumming. You never know who is going to walk through the door,” Alex Schatzberg tells me when I meet him on the top floor of 9 St. Marks Place in the East Village, which is both where he lives and home to his New Vibe Yoga studio. It’s a cold day, but the room gets plenty of light—nothing around here is much taller than his building—and he has the wood-burning stove going to keep it toasty. Schatzberg, 36, grew up in Marin County, California, came to New York to attend the Gallatin School at NYU in 2006, and graduated in 2010. He has been practicing yoga since he was 18 and started New Vibe in a townhouse owned by Doris…

WHILE I’VE RECENTLY had the pleasure of eating vegan mapo tofu from a pumpkin in Williamsburg and perfectly crunchy tanghulu at a stand in Flushing, when it comes to classic Chinese takeout, the familiar selection of sturdy favorites can feel underwhelming. Late last year, Nigel Huang, who immigrated to the U.S. from the province of Sichuan to study architecture, opened Fer (41-10 29th St., Long Island City; fer-nyc.com) after being similarly disappointed by the area’s options. He takes his takeout seriously. Containers, made of substantial, leakproof plastic—more Tupperware than standard to-go—shut tight with a satisfying snap. The menu is ready to travel too: mustard-greens fried rice, pork wontons, rice noodles with tripe. Even though Fer is available through Uber Eats, Grubhub, and Door-Dash and the delivery zone extends to Astoria, it’s…

HOUSE OF FLAME AND SHADOW is out January 30. OVER 500 PAGES into A Court of Mist and Fury, the second book in Sarah J. Maas’s wildly successful “A Court of Thorns and Roses” series, the protagonist, Feyre, finally hooks up with Rhysand, an ancient Fae lord with batlike wings and a deep well of emotional trauma. Rhysand ravages Feyre on a table covered in her art supplies—then scoops her up and carries her to a bathtub, where they wash off the paint they’re now covered in. Maas narrates from Feyre’s point of view: “Rhys picked up a bar of that pine-tar smelling soap and handed it to me, then passed a washrag. ‘Someone, it seems, got my wings dirty.’ My face heated, but my gut tightened. Illyrian males and…

ON JANUARY 23, Anna Wintour was in Paris, taking in the Armani Privé couture show from the front row at the Palais de Tokyo. Meanwhile, back at the ranch in lower Manhattan, her staff at Condé Nast had broken into open revolt, picketing on the West Side Highway outside the company’s headquarters at One World Trade. A series of union members riled up the crowd. “Be brave, be courageous, do some wild shit, because right now, those suits upstairs are at their meeting table, snickering about how all of you are weak,” said one. “Is that true? Are you weak?” “Nooooo!” the crowd bellowed back. It is an especially miserable time to be employed there—and nearly everywhere else in media. Lately it has felt like much of the media industry…

ON SEPTEMBER 22, federal prosecutors filed an indictment against New Jersey senator Robert Menendez and his wife, Nadine, that read like a caricature of graft. The two were accused of accepting bribes from a stupefying cast of characters, including a halal-meat exporter and a Bergen County condo magnate, in exchange for political favors. According to the government, the scheme involved envelopes stuffed with cash, a no-show job for Nadine, and a sitting U.S. senator Googling “How much is one kilo of gold worth.” The day after the indictment, Andy Kim, a Democratic congressman from the state, announced he was running for Menendez’s seat. Aaron Sorkin and the writers of The West Wing could not have crafted a character as menschy and public-service oriented. Kim is a Rhodes scholar who ran…

WE’RE OLD PALS—and sustainable-food veterans—who had our first kids within a month of each other in 2022. We couldn’t wait to welcome our children into the flavor-crazy world of solid food when they hit the 5-to-6-month mark, but when the time came, we were surprised and disappointed by how few of the best-practice recipes and off-the-shelf baby foods were actually tasty. We started to obsessively share everything we were doing to make easy, delicious fare for our kids as well as all the accessories that make the eating possible: dinnerware that is affordable, is made with high-quality and safe materials, and won’t accidentally affect the taste of the food we’re serving. (It’s nice when it’s not an eyesore, too.) 1 Avanchy Nondivided Bamboo Baby Plate With Suction and Silicone Spoon,…

THE CHARM OF Cornelia Street is its size—a side-pocket lane tucked away from stovepipe Sixth Avenue. The restaurants, narrow and deep, are hideaways, from the departed (Pó, Pearl Oyster Bar), to the enduring (Le Gigot), to relative newcomers, like Silver Apricot, the ambitious Chinese restaurant from chef Simone Tong. This winter, Figure Eight—named for the lucky number in Chinese numerology and a barrier island off the coast of North Carolina—joined Silver Apricot next door. The restaurants share a managing partner, Emmeline Zhao, and, broadly speaking, a foundation in Chinese cooking. But where Silver Apricot is elegant, Figure Eight is brawny. It speaks with a southern accent (Zhao grew up between Shanghai and Chapel Hill) and raids the southern pantry for benne seeds, cornmeal, and red peas. You wouldn’t mistake Calvin…

IN A PHOTOGRAPHY studio in Paris’s 11th Arrondissement, Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel are arguing—about everything from how they raised their child to whether or not they’ve competed with each other for camera time. They have a lot of ground to cover. Binoche, 59, and Magimel, 49, first met in 1999, co-starring as famous writers and on-again, off-again lovers George Sand and Alfred de Musset in Diane Kurys’s romantic period epic The Children of the Century (Les Enfants du Siècle). They fell in love on set and had a daughter, Hana, only to break up five years later. The two didn’t have much meaningful contact over the next 20 years until they were cast as a couple again in The Taste of Things, France’s 2024 Oscar submission from Vietnamese French…

1. ANNE McCAFFREY KNOWN FOR: “Dragonriders of Pern” (1967–2012), about a planet where people have a unique mental bond with dragons, whose fire protects human settlements from a destructive, locustlike swarm. The dragons’ elaborate mating rituals spark similar lusty feelings between their riders. CREATURES: Dragons. SMUT FACTOR:Generally, the narration cuts off right as the dragons get down to it. 2. DIANA GABALDON KNOWN FOR: “Outlander” (1991-present), which begins with a WWII nurse who time-travels to 18th-century Scotland and must marry a brawny Highlander for her own protection. CREATURES: None here—just some rocks scattered around the world that transport humans into the past. SMUT FACTOR:Our romantic leads get a real kick out of pleasuring each other with regularity. A healthy, vanilla sex life! 3. JACQUELINE CAREY KNOWN FOR: “Kushiel’s Universe” (2001–present),…

RECENTLY, STRATEGIST writer Lauren Ro asked more than 25 architects and interior designers about their preferred desk lamp. Somewhat unsurprisingly, most of them suggested Anglepoise’s Type 75 Desk Lamp ($320), which has been in production for nearly a century; it beat out both Artemide’s Tolomeo and the Noguchi Akari. Rarely is a lamp so utilitarian (it has an articulated arm and adjustable shade) and equally handsome. “It has an elegant and classic silhouette” that’ll endure through trend cycles, says Brian Wilson, co-founder of Pair, an office-furniture company. Ming Thompson, co-founder of architecture and design firm Atelier Cho Thompson, agrees, saying it effectively strikes “a balance between simple, modern forms and exposed mechanical elements.” It comes in an array of pleasing colors, including a striking Saxon blue, a pretty ocher, and…

JAVIER “THE ICON JAVIER NINJA” MADRID Dancer and choreographer, Staten Island Any signature moves? My ax split. It’s when I kick my leg up and catch it and then I just fall into a split. I didn’t know I could do that until a bunch of years back, when I did it one day and I was like, Oh my God, I got a new move. How did you get into voguing? I was out in the Village at Stonewall on a Wednesday night. I was underage, but I had a fake ID. That’s where I met Willi Ninja. He became my mentor, my teacher, my friend, and my family. He’s the godfather of vogue. I saw him dance, and that was it. I was like, This is what I…

ONE PROBLEM WITH blowing up on Instagram and TikTok, as Don Angie co-chefs Scott Tacinelli and Angie Rito have discovered, is diners arrive expecting to eat everything they’ve seen on their feeds. “We’ve had an issue trying to change the menu,” Tacinelli says. “People come up and show me pictures on their phone and say, ‘Why aren’t you serving this?’ We realized we had to open another restaurant to cook more food.” When they learned the Benny’s Burritos next door would close after 34 years, they jumped on the space, and in the coming weeks they will turn it into San Sabino(113 Greenwich Ave.; sansabinonyc.com), a “coastal Italian” restaurant that is, Rito points out, more Jersey shore than Amalfi Coast. “If anything, we pull from the coasts of America. We…

IF YOUR IDEAL DETECTIVE IS … Likely to investigate crimes that prompt a serious reflection on society’s failings. Should spend a lot of time doing paperwork and be British. … THEN WATCH: Criminal Record (APPLE TV+) Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo star as detectives at odds with each other. One is protecting the dark secrets within London’s law-enforcement institutions; the other is investigating them. You can tell things are going to get rocky early in the first episode when Capaldi’s character offers Jumbo’s a cup of tea—and she declines. IF YOUR IDEAL DETECTIVE IS … World-weary, older, and prone to telling her subordinate he’s not asking the right questions. Also, wears enormous fur-trimmed parkas. When possible, time should be a flat circle. And everything is spoooooky. … THEN WATCH: True Detective: Night…