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New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024Comments1 For New York’s latest cover story, Elizabeth Weil profiled Israeli American billionaire Miriam Adelson, assessing whether she would help fund Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign and what she might expect in return (“Miriam Adelson’s Unfinished Business,” May 20-June 2). Eli Clifton of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft praised Weil’s “fantastic reporting” on “how a far-right vision for Israel’s (and Palestine’s) future is a driving motivation for the GOP’s biggest donor.” Eric Alterman, the author of We Are Not One, a history of Israel-America ties, observed that Adelson’s contradictory motivations provide “a lesson in how to help to destroy democracy in two countries simultaneously with the money from your husband’s sleazy gambling-and-prostitution empire.” Johnwkellet, meanwhile, wrote, “It’s abundantly clear that a lifetime of striving to improve her personal circ*mstances and…4 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 202474 MINUTES WITH … Nikki GlaserAS I PULL UP to Bally’s Casino in Lake Tahoe, right on the border of Nevada and California, I’m greeted by a 30-foot version of the comedian Nikki Glaser. The big-screen marquee is advertising her “Alive and Unwell” tour, and somewhere inside, past a maze of slot machines and solitary gamblers, she’s getting ready for her sold-out Memorial Day weekend show. “Are you going?” my cabdriver asks. “She’s going to be a big deal after the roast.”By “the roast,” he means The Roast of Tom Brady, which recently aired on Netflix to nearly 14 million viewers in its first week. Glaser was quickly, if unofficially, deemed the night’s winner. Kevin Hart, the event’s host, was visibly moved by her set, nearly choking up when he came onstage after she walked…7 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024ALMOST EVERY REALITY TV LAWSUITSANE IS NOT a word one might normally use to describe BravoCon, an event where, last year, 27,000 fans—otherwise known as Bravoholics—in hot-pink BRAVO-LOVIN’ BITCHES T-shirts descended on Las Vegas to drink frosé at panels like “The Summer House Always Wins: Presented by State Farm” and attend “Pat the Puss” dance classes.Bravo fans had been watching the Reckoning unfold, and they had a different take on the lawsuits from the ones they had seen in the media. “I think the problem is that there’s so many coming at the same time that people, especially people that are new to these, are taking it as a whole attack against Bravo,” says Angela Angotti, an Austin-based lawyer and a co-host of The Bravo Docket, a podcast that breaks down Bravo-related legal disputes.…10 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024The Hottest Streamer Right NowIT'S BEEN ANOTHER brutal year for most of the players in the streaming space. Budgets are still being slashed and strategies trashed as the legacy companies behind Disney+/Hulu, Max, Peaco*ck, and Paramount+ continue managing the aftershocks of last year’s talent strikes as well as the larger industry correction that began in 2022. Things that not so long ago were unthinkable—like HBO agreeing to license Sex and the City reruns to archenemy Netflix—are now reluctantly accepted as necessary to help the corporate bottom line. The focus on short-term gains, though, comes at a price. For the fourth year in a row, we set out to determine the hottest streaming platform right now, using metrics such as the state of content slates, audience size, and what industry insiders say about the platforms…3 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024A Convincing Sunless Tan➸ STRATEGIST WRITER Rachael Griffiths has been self-tanning since she was a teen and is familiar with everything that can go wrong with the process, from inhaling smelly orange foam, to applying an unpleasantly gooey formula, to getting stuck with a tan that looks overtly fake.Eventually, trial and error led her to Bondi Sands Self Tanning Foam (from $24), and in five years of use, she has never had the desire to try any other product. The foam dries quickly, has a subtle coconut scent, and fades gradually and uniformly rather than haphazardly in unsightly patches. Most at-home tanners come in just one color, but Bondi is available in three: light/medium, dark, and ultradark. Spraytan stylist Cait Cassagne of Studio C8, who is also a fan, says, “The color has…1 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024How to Wash and Dry JeansBY AMBAR PARDILLA1. Turn your jeans inside out before you throw them in the washer.It’s inevitable that jeans will lighten with age, but washing them inside out helps them hold on to their color. Newer jeans are more likely to bleed, so try washing them in a load by themselves.Both water and heat can cause shrinkage, but using cold water will mitigate some of the damage. No need for special detergent; whatever you use on the rest of your clothes will do.3. Yes, it’s okay to put your jeans in the dryer sometimes.The occasional tumble won’t ruin them. Just make sure the heat setting isn’t too high—the lower the better. Still, the best way to prevent shrinking and stretching is air-drying. If you want to be extra careful, lay your…1 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024Seven Days of Running GearUltimate Direction Clutch Water Bottle, $40Writer and marathoner Jeremy Rellosa uses this handheld water bottle to bring electrolyte drinks on runs, which helps him run longer distances. Unlike other handheld bottles, this one doesn’t chafe and has room for his phone, keys, and energy gels.Superfeet All-Purpose Support Medium Arch Insole, $55After her best track-and-field season in college, writer Brenley Goertzen developed plantar fasciitis so painful she had to take five months off from competing. A foot specialist pointed her to these inserts, which enabled her to stay on her Division I team for two more years.Hyperice Normatec Go, $399Newsletter editor Ashley Wolfgang says these compression boots squeeze out her sore calves after long runs and prevent pain the next day. She also likes that they fit easily in a carry-on;…1 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024Answered PrayersCRISTIANA PEÑA ALWAYS wanted to live in something other than a regular house. Maybe a school, or a firehouse, or a store, she says. “But a church has always been on top of that list.” In 2020, she and her partner, Nick Porter, were living together in her rental in a 1920s Tudorrevival building near Prospect Park. When the pandemic hit, they thought they wanted to get a place out of town. She has a master’s degree in historic preservation from Columbia and works for Circa Old Houses, a real-estate marketing platform that allows people to shop for antique homes around the country, which spawned an offshoot, Cheap Old Houses, that highlights less-expensive homes. It’s the basis for the show Who’s Afraid of a Cheap Old House? on HGTV, hosted…3 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024Quite the TomatoCHEF DANIEL GARWOOD has been working on the tomatoes he’ll serve at his first restaurant, Acru (79 Macdougal St., nr. Bleecker St.; acru.nyc), for a while. They will be, as he puts it, “quite a layered dish.” The ground level is some Montauk tuna, which, granted, is not tomato. The next layer is grilled-tomato jelly. Up from there, after the seaweed and kimchee granita seasoned with anise hyssop, goes the star of the dish: more tomatoes.“They’ll be slowly grilled over shagbark hickory and then coated in a reduction made from the shagbark,” Garwood says. “It’s almost like a tomato raisin.” They’re served warm from the pan, over the ice, “so you get the different textures: really warm, juicy, succulent tomatoes with something really cooling on the palate.”On track to debut…2 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024To DoFor more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com.MUSIC1. Listen to Brat“It” girls, assemble.Atlantic Records, June 7.Charli XCX is a pop star’s pop star, a restless innovator and early hyperpop adopter whose influence on mainstream radio can’t be understated. Brat, her sixth album, seems more interested in blessing raucous club nights than 2022’s slick, tasteful Crash, if early tastes like the bustling “Von Dutch” are to be trusted.CRAIG JENKINSTV2. Watch House of the Dragon Season TwoYour favorite uncle-and-niece couple is back.HBO, June 16.I know you think you’re going to spend summer enjoying the warm weather and hitting up barbecues, but be honest: You’re really going to be inside, basking in the air-conditioning and arguing with people online about whatever Machiavellian maneuvers Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) has tried to pull off in…9 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024Court Appearances: Andrew RiceWHEN PEOPLE ASK me what it was like inside the courthouse where Donald Trump stood trial, I say it reminded me of covering a political convention. It was a programmed event with tentpole speakers like the star witness, Michael Cohen. There was a nominee, chosen by indictment, who swept in each day with a swarm of loyal surrogates. There was the press pack, wearing credentials on their lanyards, all writing down the same words and breathing the same stale air. After final arguments, though, the atmosphere shifted. As the case went to the jury, it felt more like Election Day, when there’s nothing left to do but wait. The reporters hung around the 15th floor of the Manhattan criminal-court building, trading theories and gossip, trying out takes.The jury of 12…7 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024The National Interest: Jonathan ChaitONE OF THE few advantages Joe Biden’s campaign possessed at the outset of the year was money. The president had built a fundraising base as an incumbent, and many wealthy Republicans were estranged from Donald Trump over his coup attempt and their support for his ill-fated primary rivals. This spring, even though the battle lines of the presidential campaign have barely budged on the surface, that financial advantage has melted away as conservative billionaires have flocked to Trump’s side.When describing their reasoning, several of the donors have offered up the peculiar rationale that left-wing protesters have gone so far in their attacks against Biden’s support for Israel that they somehow feel compelled to also oppose the president. “Due to a dramatic change in circ*mstances,” said financier Eric Levine in March,…6 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024SURVIVOR'S 'Shrug' EraWHAT DOES IT take to win Survivor? You may find it bizarre that, almost a quarter-century after the CBS show premiered—essentially inventing the reality-competition genre in the process—the question still matters. But it does to its fans, and surprisingly, there are more than there have been in a long while. The show will never again reach the mass-audience heights of its first season, when nearly 52 million Americans glued themselves to their sofas to watch a corporate consultant named Richard Hatch become reality TV’s first-ever triumphant gay villain. But today, hits are measured differently, and Survivor, by any metric, remains a big one. This past summer, it received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Reality Competition Program, its first recognition in that category in 17 years. And boosted by a viewership…10 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024Best BetsCELEBRITY SHOPPINGAvène Cicalfate+ Restorative Protective Cream, $42“I found out about this from a makeup artist about five years ago. It’s a skin-barrier repair cream, so it’s great if you’re dealing with acne, healing scars, and sun damage. I use it nightly because I feel like it restores my skin best then. When I wake up, I literally feel like my skin is saying, ‘Hello! Good morning!’ ”The Original Stretchlace Flat Elastic Shoelaces, from $11“I saw this on Shark Tank. It turns any pair of shoes into slip-ons. I buy it for all my shoes. Everyone who lives with me thinks I’m an idiot, but I think it’s great. You don’t have to tie your shoes anymore—you just tie them once and then you never have to bother again. That’s 30…1 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024Which Wooden Salad Bowls Are the Best?➸ Cookbook authors Andrea Nguyen, Monique Volz, and Dan Pelosi all swear by this acacia-grain salad bowl, which Nguyen calls “handsome and organic-looking.” Pelosi appreciates its large size—great for dinner parties—“and the way its rounded sides appear to be literally hugging the contents of the bowl.”➸ Trinity Mouzon Wofford, co-founder of wellness brand Golde, received this bowl as a wedding present. Produced by Vermont-based company Andrew Pearce, which cuts and hand-turns bowls and chopping boards from a single piece of wood, the oblong cherry bowl has a live edge, which gives it a rustic look.➸ Different from the acacia and cherry bowls on this list, this one is made from a wood that gets its name—and distinct coloring—from fungus left by an ambrosia-beetle infestation. New York Magazine’s chief restaurant critic,…1 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024Seven Special New Stores1 Quarters383 Broadway; shopquarters.comFrom the street, Quarters looks like an unassuming walk-up apartment. Climb the stairs, though, and you’ll find an 8,000-square-foot mock home that’s entirely shoppable down to the $12 Solano-Arriola anchovies that will be served in the soon-to-open wine bar. Nick Ozemba and Felicia Hung of design studio In Common With have filled the rooms with a mix of their own lighting designs, including mushroomlike table lamps ($4,750) and bouquet-shaped chandeliers ($12,500), and décor made in collaboration with artisan friends such as glassmaker Sophie Lou Jacobsen. There are also dozens of antique tapestries and rare vintage pieces including a rust-colored velvet Mario Bellini sofa (price upon request), which won’t be there for long. Ozemba and Hung plan to redecorate three times a year.2 Vowels76 Bowery; vowels.net Appointment onlyWith…4 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024This Cooking Can’t Be Pinned DownTOP PICK7 Greene Ave., at Fulton St., Fort Greenetheodoranyc.comACCORDING TO A NEIGHBOR, wafts of fenugreek hang over a stretch of Fort Greene’s Dekalb Avenue, courtesy of the local favorite Miss Ada. “You can smell it a mile away,” he said. Fenugreek’s seeds and seed paste, licorice-y and lightly bitter, crop up in Armenian, Moroccan, Iraqi, Ethiopian, and Turkish cuisine and sometimes as part of a za’atar blend. That neighbor, nose piqued, recognized it in an instant at Theodora, Miss Ada’s new sister restaurant on Greene Avenue, lost somewhere in a tuna crudo on brick-colored lavash, by flavor if not by name. It took some sleuthing, and a friendly server, to finally identify it. Was it the faint sourdough tang of the lavash itself, the wasabi spiking the garnish of Japanese…4 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024A Hollywood Family’s GrudgesGRIFFIN DUNNE IS at ease with himself in the way that people who have always been good-looking usually are. Even at 68, his salt-and-pepper hair is thick enough to be pushed back, and he comes across as whatever the opposite of tightly wound is. When we meet for lunch at Cafe Mogador, around the corner from his apartment in the East Village, I can still see a trace of the hapless Paul Hackett he played in After Hours, the 1985 Martin Scorsese movie about a night out in Soho that goes spectacularly sideways. It’s clear from reading Dunne’s new memoir, The Friday Afternoon Club, that he is quite familiar with life going sideways.Dunne has had an interestingly windy career. He’s been an actor in movies—he co-starred with Madonna in Who’s…13 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024Neighborhood News: The Chair Says ‘Carrie’“IT’S ONLY HER TODAY,” a production assistant told a pedestrian on East 21st Street on the warm morning of May 21. The her in question needed no clarification because a few steps away, Sarah Jessica Parker had just made her way up the stoop at 3 Gramercy Park West, over and over, in take after take of a moment from season three of And Just Like That … (Presumably, the PA was referring to the core Carrie-Charlotte-Miranda lineup because Aidan, a.k.a. John Corbett, appeared on the set soon thereafter. His character’s good-bye at the end of season two seems not to have stuck.) In Carrie’s scene, she held an animated conversation with an actor in coveralls. A van parked at the house suggests that he’s an exterminator. Does Carrie Bradshaw…2 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024THE LAST INAPROPRIATE MAN ON TELEVISIONANDY COHEN THINKS ABOUT HIS CANCELLATION A LOT.What will it look like? When will it come?“It’s fascinating to me, the idea that you could say something and everything would be pulled away from you,” he says. It was a bright afternoon in May, and we had been talking about an event he had coming up, “An Evening With Andy Cohen,” at the 92nd Street Y.Cohen had been thinking he might read an excerpt from his 2012 memoir, Most Talkative, but now he was having second thoughts. “It’s called ‘Cry Indian,’ and it’s about a prank I played on my parents where I convinced them that I thought I was a Native American,” he says. It was a sweet, relatable story—about a joke gone too far and how being funny can…21 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024The Love MachineIN A DARKENED ROOM on a sound-stage in Santa Clarita, California, seven engaged couples who have never seen each other will stand behind sliding doors on opposite sides of a long red carpet. The doors will open. They will meet for the first time, and they will react however that experience makes them react: with shock, delight, or barely disguised dismay.This particular reveal is not going well. “Look at her face,” says Chris Coelen, the creator and executive producer of the series Love Is Blind, who watches from a large bank of screens. “She is not sold yet, in my opinion. Her face is so … She had a big sigh.” They’re filming the upcoming seventh season of Netflix’s signature dating reality show. They know they’ll have to make cuts,…34 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024INDUSTRY Goes for BrokeNESTLED IN THE rolling hills of South West England, among picturesque towns with country cottages that sell for millions of pounds, there’s a 16th-century private estate known as Longleat House. The country seat of the Marquess of Bath, it is also, for a few days in late summer 2023, the filming location for a sex-and-drug-addled TV show about misbehaving investment bankers. Bedecked with antique furniture and genealogical tapestries, the home is a significant change of place for a clique of self-destructive 20-something co-workers more often surrounded by the glass-and-fluorescent despair of their highly competitive London offices. Don’t worry: They still find a way to do co*ke there.At the end of Industry’s third season—a level up for the series in terms of scale, writing, and general shenanigans—a few of its characters…23 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024The Most Thoughtful Present I’ve Ever Received Is This $310 PencilA FEW YEARS AGO, I was gifted a pencil. It was a considerate present from someone who knew me well; I write all the first drafts of my manuscripts in pencil. But this was no regular pencil. The Graf von Faber-Castell Perfect Pencil has a long, narrow shaft of black ribbed Californian cedarwood that enrobes the lead. There’s a tiny white eraser concealed in a rose-gold cap on one end and a hidden sharpener that can refine the lead to a lethal point on the other. As soon as I started using it, I noticed the lead was smooth and made a beautiful sharp mark that didn’t smudge. I admit this pencil isn’t exactly a budget option, but it will be with me for life. It’s become part of my…1 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024A Bed Made of CardboardI DIDN’T SET OUT to sleep on a cardboard bed. I ordered a wood-and-rattan platform from CB2 and had to wait two months for the delivery. In the meantime, my Casper mattress was on the floor, which got old fast. My back hurt, too. Soon enough, I was furiously Googling “temporary bed frames.” And there was the Yona, a recyclable cardboard bed. When it arrived, it looked comically simple. The setup was just three steps: Open the box, pull out the frame like an accordion, then place your mattress on the accordion. The Yona lifted my mattress 10.4 inches off the floor, and its honeycomb design allowed for good airflow. Every few days, it drifts a little, but I just kick it back into place. In fact, the Yona is…1 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024Hypebeast FleaISABELLE CLARKSales associate, BushwickBuy anything today?I couldn’t shop because it made me overwhelmed. Like, Oh my God, there’s too many clothes. I need things to be organized, categorized by color and size. I’m not someone who likes to sift through to find stuff. If it’s not happening right away, then I’m out.Then what brought you here in the first place?I’m new to the city. I wanted to meet cool people, and I feel like this is where you’re going to see the people with the most style. It’s fun seeing people and being like, “I know you want someone to say your outfit is fire, which it is.” Also, it’s a good networking event. I asked a few people where they got their stuff or where they got their hair…3 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024Clover Club Is GrowingSIXTEEN YEARS AGO, Julie Reiner’s arrival in Brooklyn officially marked Carroll Gardens as co*cktail country. Reiner’s bar, Clover Club, grew from a craft-co*cktail, vested-bartender hotbed into a neighborhood institution, and she, along with partners Christine Williams, Tom Macy, and Susan Fedroff (also Reiner’s wife), expanded carefully: With Ivy Mix, Reiner runs Leyenda across the street, the partners reopened Milady’s in Soho, and in 2022 Reiner became a judge on Drink Masters, Netflix’s mixological spin on Top Chef. “Stuff kind of drops in my lap,” Reiner says. That’s how they ended up renting the vacant space next to Clover Club, which they’ll open this month as the Saloon at Clover Club (208 Smith St., nr. Baltic St., Carroll Gardens; cloverclubny.com). The actual bar—ornamental woodwork rescued in Ohio—will be the place to…1 min
New York Magazine|June 3-16, 2024CRITICSMUSIC / CRAIG JENKINSBillie Doesn’t Have to Do It AllThe singer’s gleefully disorienting third album doesn’t hit every note it reaches for.AM I ACTING my age now?/Am I already on the way out?” Billie Eilish croons, beguilingly sweetly, in “Skinny,” the opener from her new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft. In a tune that otherwise catches us up on romantic wrinkles since her last release, 2021’s Happier Than Ever, and wonders why we tend to conflate a petite frame with a satisfied mind, it’s a jarring turn. The track peels back the artist’s layers of stress—self-love, relationship turmoil, and ever-shifting public perceptions—and outlines the sky-high expectations for the 22-year-old nine-time Grammy winner to use her platform responsibly while releasing work worthy of having joined Elton John and Randy Newman…16 min
