The chef Flynn McGarry was only thirteen years old when he débuted a tasting-menu pop-up in his home town of Los Angeles, in 2012. He was nineteen when the doors opened at Gem, his real-deal restaurant on the Lower East Side, and he was only a couple of years past legal drinking age when he … Read more
The show, a sexy romance between two closeted hockey players, began on a small Canadian streaming platform, but has become a huge, unexpected hit.
The British Nigerian photographer Ollie Babajide Tikare took note of those aspects, capturing daily Lagos in his recent book, “Èkó,” a collage of scenes and portraits from the city, taken from 2023 to 2025. Several of the photos are taken in media res: people walking in a market, venders moving through traffic with their wares, … Read more
Sophia wasn’t particularly talkative that evening. Earlier that day, she’d been onstage at the conference I was attending and had been teased for a gesture that looked as though she were flipping off the audience. Now she was in the hotel lobby, in a black gown, holding court. She stepped in front of a bright-orange … Read more
The film draws a link between these journalistic versions and the unfolding action through the character of Linda Page (Myha’la), a TV reporter on the scene outside the office building. When her station prepares to dispatch another reporter to Tony’s apartment complex, she’s annoyed. She knows the place well and feels it’s her story, so, … Read more
“I’m a huge dog person, which means that I experience death somewhat regularly, with the most beloved creature in my life,” she went on. “Every time that happens, you tell yourself, ‘I can’t do this. I can’t open myself up to this kind of pain. Why would I bring home this animal, just knowing that … Read more
Many will remember Daniil Simkin for his technically brilliant dancing at American Ballet Theatre. He is now a freelancer and a producer; his latest project, “Sons of Echo,” is an evening of dances made by female choreographers for a quintet of distinguished male dancers: Simkin, the Cuban dazzler Osiel Gouneo, the South African-born Siphesihle November … Read more
What does make a meal or a trip “successful”? It’s hard to say; this is one of the reasons that you can see value capture happening and be almost powerless to stop it. For many years, until I started writing this column, I was an editor at The New Yorker; I’ve now given up my … Read more
Where does such a charge leave Magellan, despoiler of every Eden he encounters? The film, to its credit, does not skimp on paradisiacal visions. Every shot of the tropics is a painterly study in lush foliage and golden-pink sunlight; the beauty of the natural world seems, if anything, magnified by Magellan’s encroaching, annihilating threat. Such … Read more
“The Pitt” easily could have felt like one long sequence of overstuffed, heavy-handed scenes. It’s a testament to the show’s artfulness that, most of the time, it doesn’t. Instead, we learn to care about issues that might otherwise feel abstract because we see them affecting characters’ lives. An anti-vax mother fights the doctors treating her … Read more