The Cut’s solo “Spring Fashion” print issue features Bad Bunny, Doechii, Rosé, conversation-provoking features, unique fashion and beauty coverage, and more.
1 New York’s annual “Reasons to Love New York” issue (December 15–28) catalogued 39 things to cherish about the city right now. On Instagram, Daisy_ste_ and_me lamented, “I left nyc for a long weekend and regret it.” For the four covers, we photographed pairs of celebrity New Yorkers sharing wired headphones on the subway. Saying there was “something very sweet” about this choice, editor-at-large Erik Maza explained on The Brian Lehrer Show, “Obviously, it was a challenging year for everyone, and we wanted to capture a sense of community, a sense of New Yorkers embracing each other.” Lizgalante007 said of the covers on Instagram, “I’ve sat next to people on those trains who I later realized were considered ‘famous.’ In that moment, none of that mattered. Same seats. Same ride.…
TORSTEN SLOK MAY BE the only economist whose work is routinely described as a banger—as in “another banger of a chart from Torsten Slok!”—and on the frigid December afternoon we meet, he’s done it again. It’s the day after the Fed meeting, when stocks rose after Jerome Powell pushed through the third interest-rate cut of the year. At 6:58 a.m., Slok, the chief economist at Apollo Global Management, sent out his daily newsletter containing a single chart plotting stock valuations; the caption read, in part, “Investors should expect to get zero in return in the S&P 500 over the coming decade.” Sitting in his office, Slok gleefully confirms his purposely provocative prediction. “Zero,” he says, holding up the “okay” symbol with his hand to form a big fat O between…
LEO VILLAREAL’S LATEST ARTWORK is so big that, in order to step back from the metaphorical easel and take it all in, he needs to be ten blocks away and 42 stories up. Atop a tower near Bryant Park, reachable by two service-elevator rides and down a concrete hallway, his temporary workspace is, apart from his own presence, pretty artless. It’s just a computer and monitor on a plastic folding table and a couple of office chairs. A steel door, propped open, leads to the building’s gravel-surfaced roof. From this chilly vantage point, Villareal can see his monitor and also the top half of 270 Park Avenue, the new JPMorgan Chase tower. At dusk, he takes the controls. Villareal works principally in the form of light installations, and for its…
SUSPENDED SIX FEET off the ground and surrounded by giant silks hanging from the ceiling, Connor Storrie is grappling gamely with the loss of gravity. As Lola Young plays over the speakers at the Aerial House, a brick-walled studio in Los Angeles’s Eastside, an instructor coaches Storrie through a flying banana roll and other poses until he’s heels over head. It’s an apt metaphor for the actor’s life since the Canadian TV series Heated Rivalry premiered at the end of November and shot the 25-year-old to international celebrity. Storrie plays stoic Russian hockey star Ilya Rozanov, who engages in an intense affair with a Canadian opponent, played by Hudson Williams, as the two scrabble for primacy within the sport. Based on the hit Game Changers books by Rachel Reid, creator…
IT WAS A COOL AND MISTY Mother’s Day in 1974, and in a shady corner of Prospect Park, a group of women handed out flyers and chanted slogans: “They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work.” “They call it frigidity. We call it absenteeism.” “Every miscarriage is a work accident.” They were targeting mothers walking from the laundromat or to the grocery store, and they had a message to deliver: “All women are unwaged workers. We work from morning to night, but at the end of the week, we have no money to show for it.” It was the early days of the International Wages for Housework Campaign, a small but mighty movement with a simple demand: Pay women for domestic work, including caring for children. Led…
IT WAS A LITTLE MORE than 24 hours after Zohran Mamdani had declared victory in a thunderous speech at the Brooklyn Paramount—one in which he mocked Andrew Cuomo and lit into Donald Trump and all the forces of reaction that had kept New Yorkers paying too much for too little and in which he declared himself a proud Muslim, a proud immigrant, and a proud democratic socialist; quoted Eugene V. Debs and Jawaharlal Nehru; and spoke untranslated Arabic—that the newly minted mayor-elect was found wedged into an economy-class window seat on the 10:30 a.m. JetBlue flight from JFK to San Juan. Around him were Elle Bisgaard-Church, his closest aide, and two beefy members of his security detail. ¶ The plane was filled with lobbyists, operatives, members of the City Council,…
