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New York magazine
THE BEST THEATER OF THE YEAR
IT'S BEEN a year of successful straight plays, even measured by a metric at which they usually do poorly: ticket sales. Partially that's owed to Hollywood stars: Jeremy Strong, Jim Parsons, Rachel Zegler, Rachel McAdams (to my mind, the most compelling).
4 min |
December 16-29, 2024
New York magazine
THE BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
2024 WAS one big stress test that presented artists with a choice: Face uncomfortable realities or serve distractions to the audience. Pop music turned inward while hip-hop weathered court cases and incalculable losses. Country struggled to reconcile conservative interests with a much wider base of artists. But the year's best music offered a reprieve.
3 min |
December 16-29, 2024
New York magazine
THE BEST TELEVISION OF THE YEAR
IT WAS SURPRISING how much 2024 felt like an uneventful wake for the Peak TV era. There was still great television, but there was much more mid or meh television and far fewer moments when a critical mass of viewers seemed equally excited about the same series.
5 min |
December 16-29, 2024
New York magazine
THE BEST COMEDY SPECIALS OF THE YEAR
THE YEAR IN CULTURE - COMEDY SPECIALS
3 min |
December 16-29, 2024
New York magazine
THE BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR
PEOPLE LOVED Megalopolis, hated it, puzzled over it, clipped it into memes, and tried to astroturf it into a camp classic, but, most important, they cared about it even though it featured none of the qualities you'd expect of a breakthrough work in these noisy times.
7 min |
December 16-29, 2024
New York magazine
A Truly Great Time
This was the year our city's new restaurants loosened up.
10+ min |
December 16-29, 2024
New York magazine
The Art of the Well-Stuffed Stocking
THE CHRISTMAS ENTHUSIASTS on the Strategist team gathered to discuss the oversize socks they drape on their couches and what they put inside them.
3 min |
December 16-29, 2024
New York magazine
FRIENDS Like THESE
When Brian Jordan Alvarez finally made it big with his FX series, English Teacher, he brought his friends along with him, just like they'd always dreamed. Except one.
10+ min |
December 16-29, 2024
New York magazine
THE LATE EIGHT
AFTER THEY MISSED THEIR CRUISE'S ALL-ABOARD TIME, A GROUP OF PASSENGERS WAS STRANDED ON A REMOTE ISLAND IN AFRICA. THAT WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
10+ min |
December 16-29, 2024
New York magazine
WHAT IS MAHA?
HOW WELLNESS CULTURE, WITH LEGITIMATE CONCERNS (and Some Conspiratorial Beliefs), TURNED INTO A POLITICAL MOVEMENT THAT'S POISED TO TAKE OVER WASHINGTON.
10+ min |
December 16-29, 2024
New York magazine
The Story Is Offline
Alleged murderer Luigi Mangione left a digital trail but no answers.
5 min |
December 16-29, 2024
New York magazine
120 MINUTES WITH...Alex Cooper
The podcaster launched an \"electrolyte beverage\" with a ski-themed party for her thirstiest fangirlies.
5 min |
December 16-29, 2024
New York magazine
The Battle of the Trump Transition
Nationalists, misfits, Reaganites, and dorks jockey for position.
10 min |
December 16-29, 2024
New York magazine
Enchanting and Exhausting
Wicked makes a charming but bloated film.
5 min |
Dec 2-15, 2024
New York magazine
Nicole Kidman Lets Loose
She's having a grand old time playing wealthy matriarchs on the verge of blowing their lives up.
6 min |
Dec 2-15, 2024
New York magazine
How Mike Myers Makes His Own Reality
Directing him in Austin Powers taught me what it means to be really, truly funny.
4 min |
Dec 2-15, 2024
New York magazine
The Art of Surrender
Four decades into his career, Willem Dafoe is more curious about his craft than ever.
10 min |
Dec 2-15, 2024
New York magazine
The Big Macher Restaurant Is Back
ON A WARM NIGHT in October, a red carpet ran down a length of East 26th Street.
2 min |
Dec 2-15, 2024
New York magazine
Showing Its Age
Borgo displays a confidence that can he only from experience.
3 min |
Dec 2-15, 2024
New York magazine
Keeping It Simple on Lower Fifth
Jack Ceglic and Manuel Fernandez-Casteleiro's apartment is full of stories but not distractions.
3 min |
Dec 2-15, 2024
New York magazine
REASON TO LOVE NEW YORK
THERE'S NOT MUCH in New York that has staying power. Every other day, a new scandal outscandals whatever we were just scandalized by; every few years, a hotter, scarier downtown set emerges; the yoga studio up the block from your apartment that used to be a coffee shop has now become a hybrid drug front and yarn store.
4 min |
Dec 2-15, 2024
New York magazine
Disunion: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
A Rift in the Family My in-laws gave me a book by a eugenicist. Our relationship is over.
5 min |
Dec 2-15, 2024
New York magazine
Gwen Whiting
Two years after a mass recall and a bacterial outbreak, the founder of the Laundress is on cleanup duty.
6 min |
Dec 2-15, 2024
New York magazine
Neighborhood News: The Blockbuster Banana
Maurizio Cattelan's 2019 art-prank piece sells for $6.24 million at Sotheby's, becomes snack.
1 min |
Dec 2-15, 2024
New York magazine
Power: Kerry Howley
Revenge Does Take Time' What it's like to be on Trump's enemies list.
6 min |
Dec 2-15, 2024
New York magazine
Trapped in Time
A woman relives the same day in a stunning Danish novel.
6 min |
Nov 18-Dec 1, 2024
New York magazine
Polyphonic City
A SOFT, SHIMMERING beauty permeates the images of Mumbai that open Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light. For all the nighttime bustle on display-the heave of people, the constant activity and chaos-Kapadia shoots with a flair for the illusory.
3 min |
Nov 18-Dec 1, 2024
New York magazine
Lear at the Fountain of Youth
Kenneth Branagh's production is nipped, tucked, and facile.
5 min |
Nov 18-Dec 1, 2024
New York magazine
A Belfast Lad Goes Home
After playing some iconic Americans, Anthony Boyle is a beloved IRA commander in a riveting new series about the Troubles.
5 min |
Nov 18-Dec 1, 2024
New York magazine
The Pluck of the Irish
Artists from the Indiana-size island continue to dominate popular culture. Online, they've gained a rep as the \"good Europeans.\"
8 min |