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Performance Review: Ben Affleck Plays Himself
New York magazine

Performance Review: Ben Affleck Plays Himself

Becoming a tabloid star gave the actor his best role ever.

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10+ mins  |
October 11 - 24, 2021
The Murders Down the Hall
New York magazine

The Murders Down the Hall

393 POWELL STREET WAS A PEACEFUL HOME UNTIL RESIDENTS STARTED DYING IN BRUTAL, MYSTERIOUS WAYS.

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10+ mins  |
October 11 - 24, 2021
The POST-COVID, POST-MANHATTAN PLANS PLANS of the MOST MANHATTAN of RESTAURATEURS
New York magazine

The POST-COVID, POST-MANHATTAN PLANS PLANS of the MOST MANHATTAN of RESTAURATEURS

KEITH McNALLY, TO GO

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10+ mins  |
October 11 - 24, 2021
Under Her Skin
New York magazine

Under Her Skin

Julia Ducournau funneled years of fury, angst, and comedy into her Palme d’Or– winning, genre-smashing film Titane.

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8 mins  |
October 11 - 24, 2021
Big Apples
New York magazine

Big Apples

The tree expert who turned the five boroughs into his personal orchard.

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5 mins  |
September 27 - October 10, 2021
After Tony
New York magazine

After Tony

David Chase returns to The Sopranos, the masterpiece he’s been unable to escape since it went off the air 14 years ago

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10+ mins  |
September 27 - October 10, 2021
Every Woman for Herself
New York magazine

Every Woman for Herself

In this horror story, the oppression is coming from inside the house.

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6 mins  |
September 27 - October 10, 2021
Simone Biles – ‘I Should Have Quit Way Before Tokyo'
New York magazine

Simone Biles – ‘I Should Have Quit Way Before Tokyo'

For Simone Biles, walking away was an act of self-reclamation.

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10+ mins  |
September 27 - October 10, 2021
120 minutes with …Hasan Piker
New York magazine

120 minutes with …Hasan Piker

Streaming with the AOC of Twitch.

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7 mins  |
September 27 - October 10, 2021
Are Vegetables Winning?
New York magazine

Are Vegetables Winning?

From celery-root muffulettas to eggplant unagi, plant-based food is sweeping the city.

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2 mins  |
September 27 - October 10, 2021
Tomorrow: David Wallace-Wells
New York magazine

Tomorrow: David Wallace-Wells

Recalculating Risk In the breakthrough era, age matters as much as vaccination status.A

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9 mins  |
September 27 - October 10, 2021
The Group Portrait: P.S. 705's Welcome Committee
New York magazine

The Group Portrait: P.S. 705's Welcome Committee

The teachers who turned the school-drop-off line into a shindig.

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2 mins  |
September 27 - October 10, 2021
Not a Safe Space
New York magazine

Not a Safe Space

Sanctuary City is an undocumented immigration story that takes a sharp turn.

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6 mins  |
September 27 - October 10, 2021
Interior Life
New York magazine

Interior Life

The Amant arts center faces the city with severity but aims to cosset visitors within.

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6 mins  |
September 27 - October 10, 2021
Enter Stage Right
New York magazine

Enter Stage Right

In Impeachment: American Crime Story, Billy Eichner and Cobie Smulders play side characters who’d love to control the narrative.

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10 mins  |
September 27 - October 10, 2021
The U.N.'s Own Humanitarian Crisis
New York magazine

The U.N.'s Own Humanitarian Crisis

Four years after promising to address its internal “scourge” of sexual assault and abuse, the massive, multinational, extralegal institution remains in conflict with itself.

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10+ mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
You've Heard This One Before
New York magazine

You've Heard This One Before

Maggie Nelson believes we react too quickly and think ungenerously. In her new book, she’s guilty of doing both.

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10+ mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
Jessica Chastain and Liv Ullmann – Same Role, 48 Years Apart
New York magazine

Jessica Chastain and Liv Ullmann – Same Role, 48 Years Apart

Jessica Chastain reprises Liv Ullmann’s part in the Ingmar Bergman classic Scenes From a Marriage. Their approaches couldn’t be more different.

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10+ mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
Getting to Know H.E.R.
New York magazine

Getting to Know H.E.R.

The artist is halfway to an EGOT, but she’s still a mystery to young audiences. You have to see her live to understand her.

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7 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
Ruth Ozeki, Amplifier
New York magazine

Ruth Ozeki, Amplifier

Her latest novel teems with voices—most of them belonging to what she might call “nonhuman persons.” The book of form and emptiness is out September 21.

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4 mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
The ‘Bingo' Heiress's Fantastical Duplex
New York magazine

The ‘Bingo' Heiress's Fantastical Duplex

With its Fragonard staircase, koi-pond bathroom, and rodeo-themed kitchen, Gail Ann Lowe Maidman’s apartment is like nothing else on the Upper East Side. Or anywhere else, really.

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10+ mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
THE POPE OF GLOOP
New York magazine

THE POPE OF GLOOP

For 60 years, Gaetano Pesce has been preaching the gospel of uncertainty in design. Finally, the world has caught up.

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10+ mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
The Group Portrait: Emerson String Quartet
New York magazine

The Group Portrait: Emerson String Quartet

They’re moving into the coda of a peerless 47-year run.

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2 mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
The Money Game: Jen Wieczner
New York magazine

The Money Game: Jen Wieczner

The Antiquarian’s Approach to Crypto Wall Street’s top cop wants to police new finance with old rules.

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10+ mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
New York magazine

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

Democrats for Rent The wealth lobby is buying them up to defeat Biden’s tax reform.

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6 mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
Ride Like Hell
New York magazine

Ride Like Hell

Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. The city’s 65,000 bikers have only themselves to count on.

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10+ mins  |
September 13 - 26, 2021
Mistakes Were Made: 9/11 At 20
New York magazine

Mistakes Were Made: 9/11 At 20

We should also acknowledge that a pervasive question after 9/11—“Why do they hate us?”—was the wrong question.

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10+ mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
Planning For The Worst
New York magazine

Planning For The Worst

After 9/11, we had a chance to build the downtown that New York deserves. Two decades later, timidity and fear have us hemmed in at every turn.

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10+ mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
Adrienne Warren Stands Up
New York magazine

Adrienne Warren Stands Up

She opened in Tina so badly hurt she could barely walk. Then came another mountain to climb.

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7 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
A Baritone Digs Deep
New York magazine

A Baritone Digs Deep

Will Liverman steps into the opera world’s most visible spot— the Met’s opening-night lead—in Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

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5 mins  |
August 30 - September 12, 2021