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New York Magazine 06/11/17
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1 “Can a hectoring president bring jobs back to the industrial Midwest?” Lisa Miller asked in New York’s most recent issue (“Ford Country, Trump’s America,” May 15–28). Her answer wasn’t a simple yes or no, and neither was Didier Pietri’s, the direct
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Further Notes of a Recycled Housewife
A mostly happy ending Forty-five years ago, New York published a cover story by Jennifer Skolnik called “Notes of a Recycled Housewife.” The magazine’s cover described “The Suburban Housewife Who Bought the Promises of Women’s Lib and Came to the Cit
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The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
What’s Less Popular Than Donald Trump? Pretty much everything Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are doing.
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72 MINUTES WITH … Laurie Metcalf
Taking the star of A Doll’s House, Part 2 out to lunch at a doll-store restaurant. Doll included.
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The Culture Business: Mark Harris
Who’s Afraid of a Black Virginia Woolf ? Should playwrights get a posthumous say in who performs their work?
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Citizen Clinton
When I walk into the Chappaqua dining room in which Hillary Clinton is spending her days working on her new book, I am greeted by a vision from the past. Wearing no makeup and giant Coke-bottle glasses, dressed in a gray mock-turtleneck and black zip
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Uber, But for Meltdowns
Sexual harassment, corporate-espionage charges, taking advantage of drivers: The company that practically courts bad PR has an even greater, more existential dilemma.
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First She Marched, Then She Ran
Alexis Frank, a 26-year-old political novice, never considered vying for Congress—until she saw Hillary Clinton lose.
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What Happens Between Before and After
Text by Linda Wells “I’ve been interested in the way women’s outside relates to their inside,” says the photographer Lauren Greenfield. To that end, Greenfield has spent time over the past 20 years documenting plastic-surgery patients in operating r
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Who Decides?
Who picks the doctors? A New York City research and information company, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., publishes an annual database, Top Doctors: New York Metro Area, which lists those whom Castle Connolly has determined to be in the top 10 percent
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The Return of a Grunge Goddess
As she rifles through neat piles of iron-on patches, tarot-card decks, and baby-pink notebooks, Shirley Manson’s slowly graying undershave is visible beneath her fiery-red bun. “My [7-year-old] niece would love it here!” she declares, “here” being Ju
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Best Bets
CLUSTER In August, footwear veteran Santino LoConte’s luxury-streetwear boutique Reign (807 Washington St.) will join the menswear triangle in the northern West Village. Odin: Comme des Garçon’s gold two-zip wallet ($122); Editions M.R. short-sleev
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The Look Book
INTERVIEW BY ALEXIS SWERDLOFF So explain what it is you do. I work for the photographer Ryan McGinley, and my job is to make his models feel comfortable on shoots. So I’ll turn on music—usually Prince—and start dancing with them to try to guide them
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The Return Of The Squiggle
The ’80s design movement known as Memphis has reemerged, inspiring Greenpoint ceramicists, Supreme collaborations, and an exhibit at the Met Breuer.
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The Birth and Rebirth of Memphis
1977: Ettore Sottsass, the designer known up until this point for his red Olivetti Valentine typewriter, spots a geometric ceramic teapot in Wet magazine and tells his partners Aldo Cibic and Matteo Thun to ask the pot’s designer, Peter Shire, to col
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The 25-Year-Old Keeping Ettore Sottsass Alive on Instagram
IT WAS AT a flea market in Paris where Raquel Cayre, a 25-year-old who studied physical therapy at BU, saw one of Ettore Sottsass’s wavy pink Ultrafragola mirrors. “I was obsessed, and I needed it,” she says. “But I couldn’t afford it.” So instead, s
New York Magazine4 min readFood & Wine
An Empire Built on Tacos
VERY GOOD Empellón 510 Madison Ave. (entrance on 53rd St.) 212-858-9365 empellon.com MANY TALENTED CHEFS and restaurateurs have ridden lowly comfort foods to fame and relative fortune in this post-gourmet era, but with the possible exception of Da
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Kubeh
464 Sixth Ave., nr. 11th St. 646-448-6688 MELANIE SHURKA GREW up on Long Island eating Israeli and Persian food based on recipes handed down from her grandmother, but she had never heard of kubeh, the Levantine dumplings made of semolina and bulgur
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Bone Char Pearl Cheese
It’s made in Maine, aged in Brooklyn, and coated in animal-bone charcoal from Blue Hill at Stone Barns.
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“I Am Not Interchangeable”
ZOE KAZAN has the end of the world on her mind, but not for the reason you might think, or at least not primarily for the reason you might think. Four years ago, she was reading an article about weird things you can buy in New Jersey. She came across
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Swimming Upstream
The advent of streaming film and television has brought untold freedom and opportunity to creators—and an unprecedented chance to get lost in the Peak TV shuffle.
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Turning a Theater Inside Out
Problem No. 1: Move your musical from a cabaret into a Broadway theater. Problem No. 2: Make that theater feel like a cabaret.
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It’s Like Broadway, But for Your Ears
While it would cost you many evenings and many thousands of dollars (or maybe not quite that much; see discount-tickets tips below) to catch Broadway’s Tony-nominated shows, you’d pay nearly nothing to compile this playlist of the best songs currentl
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A Secret Way to Buy Discount Broadway Tickets
NOW THAT the Tony nominations have been announced, you have the perfect guide for what to see—you just need to get your hands on tickets. There is always the iconic TKTS booth in Times Square, along with its iconic hours-long line. Is there a better
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HOW TO: Play 11 Different Characters (And Counting) on One TV Show.
E. ALEX JUNG WHEN TATIANA MASLANY won an Emmy for lead actress in a drama in 2016, her triumph had a peculiar distinction: She received the award for playing “Sarah/Helena/Alison/Rachel/Cosima and M. K., Krystal.” But then, the premise of the series
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Voted Most Inappropriate
Samantha Irby took up her confessional writing to “impress a dude”—and wound up marrying a woman. She also picked up a lot of famous fans.
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Have Flute, Will Rock
THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS: THE RISE AND FALL OF PROG ROCK will be published on June 13 by W. W. Norton & Company. CHARACTERIZED BY VIRTUOSIC instrumental passages, high-blown lyrics, and fantastical imagery, prog rock achieved massive success in the
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Gradations of Badness
The Exception pays little fealty to the history of Kaiser Wilhelm, but, oh, that glorious acting.
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You Were Expecting Pie?
MATT ZOLLER SEITZ TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN SHOWTIME. SUNDAYS. 9 P.M. GIVEN HOW SERIES co-creator David Lynch has developed as a filmmaker since the original series aired, the premiere of Twin Peaks: The Return shouldn’t be surprising: two hours of
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The Conundrum of Percival Everett
CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN SO MUCH BLUE BY PERCIVAL EVERETT. GRAYWOLF PRESS. 242 PAGES. $16. AT AGE 61, Percival Everett may have the lowest profile of any major American novelist now in his or her prime. He’s published more than two dozen works of fic
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Party Lines
Reporting by Katie Van Syckle, Scott Huver, and Vulture staff VULTURE FESTIVAL MILK STUDIOS AND THE STANDARD, HIGH LINE MAY 19–21. “You know I’m drunk right now because I’m about to ask who here is bringing me a falafel.” —Rachel Bloom “It’s funn