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Tribes: House Of Xtravaganza
New York magazine

Tribes: House Of Xtravaganza

THIS IS A CURRENT family portrait—not a reunion— of the legendary House of Xtravaganza, founded in 1982 as part of the city’s ballroom scene.

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October 29, 2018
The Body Politic: Rebecca Traister
New York magazine

The Body Politic: Rebecca Traister

No Time for Self-Care Will freshly minted progressives get their mojo back by November 6?

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6 mins  |
October 29, 2018
Philip Johnson, Nazi Spy?
New York magazine

Philip Johnson, Nazi Spy?

A decade before he grew famous for his Glass House, he was enthusiastically at home in the Third Reich.

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8 mins  |
October 29, 2018
Critics - I'ts A Gas
New York magazine

Critics - I'ts A Gas

Orson Welles’s posthumously finished The Other Side of the Wind is a meta-masterpiece.

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6 mins  |
October 29, 2018
Toasting RiRi's Fenty
New York magazine

Toasting RiRi's Fenty

Rihanna threw a party for her fashion line.

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1 min  |
June 24 - July 7, 2019
The Accidental Tour Guide
New York magazine

The Accidental Tour Guide

Laura Lippman—novelist, reporter, and Baltimorean—on her city’s many lives and layered literary myths.

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7 mins  |
July 8-21, 2019
Rene Redzepi
New York magazine

Rene Redzepi

Entering the mold-eating cult of the world’s leading culinary demigod.

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5 mins  |
July 8-21, 2019
Country Flub
New York magazine

Country Flub

Lil Nas X follows “Old Town Road” with a new EP.

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5 mins  |
July 8-21, 2019
"A List Of The Most Revolting Scoundrels I Have Met"
New York magazine

"A List Of The Most Revolting Scoundrels I Have Met"

Donald Trump assaulted me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. But he’s not alone on the list of awful men in my life.

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June 24 - July 7, 2019
Dave Longstreth Gets His Groove Back
New York magazine

Dave Longstreth Gets His Groove Back

The indie auteur behind Dirty Projectors is over his breakup.

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4 mins  |
July 23, 2018
Impostor Syndrome
New York magazine

Impostor Syndrome

A German army deserter impersonates a Nazi officer to stay alive in The Captain.

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6 mins  |
July 23, 2018
Kevin Kwan Goes Hollywood
New York magazine

Kevin Kwan Goes Hollywood

The author of Crazy Rich Asians is happy to be the public face of his book’s upcoming movie adaptation. But he’d be happier if somebody else were doing it for him.

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6 mins  |
July 23, 2018
Michiko Kakutani
New York magazine

Michiko Kakutani

Instagramming New York by night on her first publication day.

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5 mins  |
July 23, 2018
Elizabeth Warren, Leader Of The Persistence
New York magazine

Elizabeth Warren, Leader Of The Persistence

Elizabeth Warren’s full-body fight to defeat Trump.

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10+ mins  |
July 23, 2018
Newark's Revival, Revived
New York magazine

Newark's Revival, Revived

New money, old pipes, and a mayor who’s trying to manage both.

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5 mins  |
November 12, 2018
Barbara Lee
New York magazine

Barbara Lee

Talking Iraq, poverty, and getting a seat at the table with the House’s lefty conscience.

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6 mins  |
November 12, 2018
To Reawaken A Mockingbird
New York magazine

To Reawaken A Mockingbird

To Reawaken a Mockingbird In his adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel, Aaron Sorkin homes in on Atticus Finch’s blind spots.

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7 mins  |
December 24, 2018
Critics
New York magazine

Critics

David Edelstein on Vice, Mary Poppins Returns, and On the Basis of Sex … Sara Holdren on To Kill a Mockingbird.

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10+ mins  |
December 24, 2018
Reasons To Love New York
New York magazine

Reasons To Love New York

For this, our 14th annual “Reasons to Love New York,” all the reasons are places—some timeless, some odd (the underbelly of a Washington Heights pool?), some secret, some soothing, some technically illegal to occupy, but each beloved by the people who chose them. If we all carry a customized map of the city in our minds, consider this a chance to add a few new pins to yours.

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December 10, 2018
Cityscape : Justin Davidson
New York magazine

Cityscape : Justin Davidson

Big Store in the Big City We gave away too much to Amazon. But its push into Queens won’t wreck New York.

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6 mins  |
November 26, 2018
The Boys In The Band
New York magazine

The Boys In The Band

Brockhampton is not your typical 13-member genre-defying rap collective–slash–multimedia empire.

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7 mins  |
November 26, 2018
The Facebook Empire Is At War- With Its Own Citizens
New York magazine

The Facebook Empire Is At War- With Its Own Citizens

The decline and fall of the Zuckerberg empire do we need Facebook?

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5 mins  |
November 26, 2018
How Tech World Is Shaping The Physical World To Suit A Human One
New York magazine

How Tech World Is Shaping The Physical World To Suit A Human One

Google’s ideas for the future of cities, starting with Toronto.

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7 mins  |
July 8-21, 2019
The Great Pod Rush Has Only Just Begun
New York magazine

The Great Pod Rush Has Only Just Begun

With 660,000 shows and 62 million listeners already, the century’s first new art form is about to enter its corporate stage.

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10+ mins  |
March 18, 2019
Redux Deluxe
New York magazine

Redux Deluxe

Thomas Keller’s TAK Room at Hudson Yards provides plenty of retro pleasure at a not insignificant price.

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4 mins  |
May 27 - June 9, 2019
The Eight-Bit Musical
New York magazine

The Eight-Bit Musical

Lives of the Extremely Online, onstage in Octet.

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5 mins  |
May 27 - June 9, 2019
The Problem With The Purse
New York magazine

The Problem With The Purse

Men know it’s better to carry nothing. Why don’t women?

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6 mins  |
July 22 - August 4, 2019
Not Your Garden-Variety Neighborhood Bistro
New York magazine

Not Your Garden-Variety Neighborhood Bistro

Oxalis has ambition and creativity to spare.

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4 mins  |
April 1, 2019
Putting America On The Spot
New York magazine

Putting America On The Spot

Suzan-Lori Parks’s play seems friendly at first and gradually reveals its radicalism.

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5 mins  |
April 1, 2019
Timeless As Infinity
New York magazine

Timeless As Infinity

Jordan Peele reboots The Twilight Zone.

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6 mins  |
April 1, 2019