New York Magazine

The Cut’s solo “Spring Fashion” print issue features Bad Bunny, Doechii, Rosé, conversation-provoking features, unique fashion and beauty coverage, and more.

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The System: Zak Cheney-Rice • This Is Fascism The U.S. is starting to resemble El Salvador’s brutal regime.

Neighborhood News: Rogue Rite of Spring • Two anonymous climbers take to the sky on the Upper West Side.

156 MINUTES WITH … Sean Manning • The new publisher of Simon & Schuster’s main imprint is looking to Chicken Shop Date for inspiration.

Brooding: Kathryn Jezer-Morton • COVID’s Legacy of Judginess We spent so much time calling people out—and never stopped.

A Death-Defying SEXCAPADE • MICHELLE WILLIAMS stars in a new FX show as a horny stage-four cancer patient on a quest to finally FIGURE OUT WHAT TURNS HER ON.

FAKE CENTENARIANS, FAULTY DATA, JUNK SCIENCE, AND CONTESTED ‘‘BLUE ZONES.’’ • DEMOGRAPHERS AT WAR

My Vanity Fair Hazing • The staff hated me. The advertisers were in revolt. And the tabloids were saying my days were numbered before I had even begun. How on earth would I survive?

SOME THINGS NEW YORKERS SHOULD KNOW

MOST BODEGAS SELL STAMPS

ALWAYS USE THE 81ST STREET ENTRANCE TO THE MET (AND WHEN IT’S PARTICULARLY MOBBED, WALK IN—VERY CAREFULLY—THROUGH THE PARKING GARAGE ON 80TH STREET.)

JUST GO TO THE KNICKERBOCKER FOR DINNER  CALL 212-228-8490 AND ASK FOR A BOOTH.

A NOGUCHI MUSEUM MEMBERSHIP IS WORTH IT FOR THE LAMP DISCOUNT.

EVENS = EAST (THAT IS, TRAFFIC ON EVEN-NUMBERED STREETS GOES EAST.)

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Model U.N. • Students traveled from around the world to the New York Hilton Midtown for the National High School Model United Nations conference.

My Own Private Avignon • Claude-Noëlle Toly's 275-square-foot studio feels worlds away from Bleecker Street.

What’s French for ‘Steakhouse’? • Daniel Boulud takes on America’s burliest restaurant genre at La Tête d’Or.

Wegmans Is Opening a Restaurant • It won’t have rotisserie chicken, but there will be Wagyu.

Completely New Pho • The pho Nam Dinh is hot and homemade at chef Nhu Ton’s shop near Union Square.

Severance’s Biggest Wild Card • Britt Lower had to deepen the war within her character(s) in the show’s second season.

John Mulaney’s Playhouse • On his new live talk show, the comedian can do whatever he wants. What exactly is that?

Brick Is Back • Even prolific builders of glass towers have rediscovered clay’s texture, shadow, and drama.

CRITICS • Sara Holdren on A Streetcar Named Desire … Angelica Jade Bastién on Black Bag …Craig Jenkins on Lady Gaga’s Mayhem.

To Do • Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.

The Buzz Around Town

THE APPROVAL MATRIX • Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.