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Danny Meyer Misses Bumping Into People
New York magazine

Danny Meyer Misses Bumping Into People

Life during lockdown, and still in the spotlight.

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7 mins  |
April 27 - May 10, 2020
Middleditch & Schwartz – Yes Really?
New York magazine

Middleditch & Schwartz – Yes Really?

Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz want to make you love improv, the world’s least-respected comic genre. With a little help from Netflix, they just might succeed.

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10+ mins  |
April 27 - May 10, 2020
Can the Park Slope Food Coop Survive?
New York magazine

Can the Park Slope Food Coop Survive?

Long lines, slashed revenues, and hard-to-enforce social distancing have members and management worried.

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4 mins  |
April 27 - May 10, 2020
The Isolation Handbook: Matthew Schneier
New York magazine

The Isolation Handbook: Matthew Schneier

Now Is the Perfect Time to Memorize a Poem Give yourself over to a rhythm that is not your own.

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6 mins  |
April 27 - May 10, 2020
Are You Rich Enough to Survive This Pandemic? A Tale of Two Covids.
New York magazine

Are You Rich Enough to Survive This Pandemic? A Tale of Two Covids.

Even Naked, America Cannot See Itself – In a time of plague, willful blindness is a coping mechanism.

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10+ mins  |
April 27 - May 10, 2020
Surrounded by Friends
New York magazine

Surrounded by Friends

Katie Stout and her husband, Jeff Kinkle, are in quarantine in their Fort Greene apartment, which feels a bit enchanted.

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2 mins  |
April 13 - 26, 2020
THE UNDERGROUND GOURMET - Shopping Like a Chef, Eating Like a Civilian
New York magazine

THE UNDERGROUND GOURMET - Shopping Like a Chef, Eating Like a Civilian

Bulk quantities, incomplete orders, and pristine produce: What happens when restaurant suppliers brave home delivery.

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7 mins  |
April 13 - 26, 2020
Libber's Last Stand
New York magazine

Libber's Last Stand

Mrs. America’s stylish history of the rise of the counter-counterculture.

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6 mins  |
April 27 - May 10, 2020
Sheltering With Your Boss
New York magazine

Sheltering With Your Boss

Five Nannies Tell All.

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10+ mins  |
April 27 - May 10, 2020
Intelligencer
New York magazine

Intelligencer

Fatal Calculations The enduring influence of men who have been wrong about everything for decades.

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6 mins  |
April 27 - May 10, 2020
American Winner
New York magazine

American Winner

TREASURY SECRETARY STEVEN MNUCHIN EMBODIES THE PLUTOCRATIC PRINCIPLE THAT A CRISIS IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE

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9 mins  |
April 27 - May 10, 2020
At Home (Where Else?) With Jimmy Fallon
New York magazine

At Home (Where Else?) With Jimmy Fallon

The late-night host makes a quarantine comeback, with an assist from his wife and kids.

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9 mins  |
April 13 - 26, 2020
When the Restaurants Closed, They Cooked for Each Other
New York magazine

When the Restaurants Closed, They Cooked for Each Other

Chef Ignacio Mattos had just earned a Michelin star. Now he’s struggling to feed his staff.

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10+ mins  |
April 13 - 26, 2020
New York Four Weeks In – Two Hours Daily to Sanitize, Two Hours to Cry
New York magazine

New York Four Weeks In – Two Hours Daily to Sanitize, Two Hours to Cry

At the hospital at the epicenter of the city at the epicenter of the global pandemic, an emergency-room doctor struggles to keep it together—and find supplies.

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10+ mins  |
April 13 - 26, 2020
She Let Them Pick Paper Topics— Half Chose COVID-19
New York magazine

She Let Them Pick Paper Topics— Half Chose COVID-19

Samantha Elkaim knows she can’t replicate her classroom, but maybe she can still reach her students.

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9 mins  |
April 13 - 26, 2020
New York Four Weeks In – The Return of Fear
New York magazine

New York Four Weeks In – The Return of Fear

New York, a child of disaster, remembers its past.

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10+ mins  |
April 13 - 26, 2020
Pushing Against the Darkness
New York magazine

Pushing Against the Darkness

Thundercat is serious about never losing his sense of play, and his new album is both virtuosic and fun.

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5 mins  |
April 13 - 26, 2020
Movements: Eric Levitz
New York magazine

Movements: Eric Levitz

The Essential Work The politics of COVID-19 pick up where Bernie Sanders left off.

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5 mins  |
April 13 - 26, 2020
90 minutes with … La'Darius Marshall
New York magazine

90 minutes with … La'Darius Marshall

Cheer’s brooding breakout star’s last days on the mat.

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5 mins  |
April 13 - 26, 2020
How to Survive This Plague – 10 How Lower the Parenting Bar
New York magazine

How to Survive This Plague – 10 How Lower the Parenting Bar

I’VE WORKED FROM HOME since 2009 when the economy collapsed and my kids were only 3 and 5.

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6 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
How to Survive This Plague – 4 Walk the Dog
New York magazine

How to Survive This Plague – 4 Walk the Dog

THIS MORNING, I walked the dog. I hadn’t slept much (who’s sleeping?) and at 2 a.m. was on the couch texting with a friend about earthquakes and World War II and our sudden alienation from our regular lives, which seem, in retrospect, almost silly in their prettiness, but then 8 a.m. rolled around and the dog needed to go out.

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3 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
Reinstall Tinder, or, If That Doesn't Work, Join a Virtual Sext Bunker
New York magazine

Reinstall Tinder, or, If That Doesn't Work, Join a Virtual Sext Bunker

COVID-19 is like the trip-to-Ikea litmus test for relationships.

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8 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
How to Survive This Plague – 24 Sign Up for Couples Therapy
New York magazine

How to Survive This Plague – 24 Sign Up for Couples Therapy

THANKS TO TIGHT QUARTERS (and looming existential dread), couples are arguing about everything and nothing at all.

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6 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
How to Survive This Plague – 3 Learn a TikTok Dance
New York magazine

How to Survive This Plague – 3 Learn a TikTok Dance

TikTok is full of 15-to-60-second-long user-choreographed dances, some of which go viral. Here, nine to try to teach yourself at home, ranked by difficulty. Can you get good enough to upload your own?

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4 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
As Long As You're Stuck in Your Apartment, Give Yourself a Story to Live
New York magazine

As Long As You're Stuck in Your Apartment, Give Yourself a Story to Live

Artist Peter McGough has always insisted on living as if he’s in another era. He shares his West Village railroad apartment with mementos and Queenie.

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2 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
How to survive this plague – Browse Masterpieces of Mass Death
New York magazine

How to survive this plague – Browse Masterpieces of Mass Death

Getting close to a Bruegel is like running your eyes through combed hay— rough, textured into infinity, every microdetail filled with energy.

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3 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
How to survive this plague – 1 Slow Down
New York magazine

How to survive this plague – 1 Slow Down

Like wars, plagues can make us see where we are.

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6 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
Or Don't Teach Them Anything
New York magazine

Or Don't Teach Them Anything

In our house, the adults did not instruct us or judge our progress. I spent months obsessed with making balloon animals.

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6 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
Hedge Your Bets
New York magazine

Hedge Your Bets

BECAUSE I DON’T WANT TO END UP like Larry Kudlow, I don’t make claims about whether the stock market is going to go up or down.

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4 mins  |
March 30 - April 12, 2020
63 minutes with… Luann de Lesseps
New York magazine

63 minutes with… Luann de Lesseps

Decamping upstate with the Real Housewife of the Hudson Valley.

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6 mins  |
March 16-29, 2020