The ONE That GOT AWAY

In Celine Song’s debut feature, Past Lives, there are two love interests and no easy choices.

SUMMER PREVIEW: MOVIES - Is It TOM CRUISE SEASON Again?

BY MUCH HOLLYWOOD reckoning, Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One will triumph over a crowded field to become this summer’s most financially successful domestic blockbuster. Even with multiple tentpole titles in competition, box-office analysts cite the Tom Cruise Effect™; last year, Top Gun: Maverick drew record numbers of moviegoers back into cinemas at a moment when industry observers wondered if that experience was headed for extinction. But Hollywood can get it wrong. Predicting which titles will break through at the box office, in the discourse, and in critics’ hearts is a fickle business—and we’re trying anyway. Here are our predictions for which films will pop at the ticket counter and stir up the conversation.

SUMMER PREVIEW: TELEVISION - The LINE, WITCHER, and the WARDROBE

With new episodes of some of the best shows dropping soon, summer is the perfect time to catch up with old friends.

Cheesier, Saucier, and Drowning in Caviar

How TikTok took over the menu.

A Glorious 1885 Park Slope 'McMansion'

In filmmakers Kate Novack and Andrew Rossi’s brownstone, “there are all these stories within the walls.”

Spiraling in San Francisco's Doom Loop

Where no one’s left to catch you if you fall.

Neighborhood News: A Behemoth Rises on Park Avenue

JPMorgan Chase bets big on the revival of midtown.

Congress Isn't Ready for the AI Revolution

What happens when millions of people lose their jobs to computers?

Jorie Graham – Late Work

How poet Jorie Graham -living with cancer, reeling from her mother's death, and isolated on an islandwrote one of the finest books of her long career.

A Bunch of New Bananas

In pudding, pastry, and cookie form.

A Shonda Story

Rhimes made Bridgerton a TV phenomenon but hadn't written its world. Queen Charlotte is all hers.

Alec & Hilaria Against the World

A year and a half after the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, Alec Baldwin is back on set to finish Rust. Throughout the şaga, his marriage has taken on a starring role.

A Modern Stone Age Fantasy

The American Museum of Natural History gets a swoopy-gritty addition.

The Evidence Is In

Jodie Comer proves she can stalk a stage with the best of them.

Son of a Gunn

The Marvel-ous endgame for the new DC boss.

Roy Wood Jr. Doesn't Know Either

The Daily Show veteran’s career has brought him to this moment. If only there were the perfect job opening.

The Superfan Who's Eaten Every Cronut

The original viral pastry is ten. Dominique Ansel's doughnut-croissant hybrid debuted on May 10, 2013, and the chef has released a new flavor, never repeated, each month since. Joey Lim, a 39-year-old IT specialist, has been there to try them all.

West of Flushing

A different kind of Chinatown has emerged in Long Island City.

INDOCTRINATION NATION

CONVINCED THAT TEACHERS ARE BRAINWASHING CHILDREN TO BE LEFT-WING IDEALOGIES, CONSERVATIVES ARE QUICKLY GRABBING CONTROL OF THE AMERICAN CLASSROOM.

The Body Politic: Rebecca Traister

What If E. Jean Carroll Doesn’t Win? The rise and fall and rise of the Me Too movement.

The Group Portrait: 'SNL' Goes on Strike

The issue is serious. The mood is festive.

The City: Errol Louis

Jordan Neely Was Already Dead - New York reckons with a homeless epidemic and a killing.

When She Was "It" – The 90s

You could find the "It" girls... dancing at the Roxy and the Tunnel, sliding down the slide at Club USA, trying to get into Bungalow 8 and Spy Bar and Moomba to see Lea and Puffy, complaining about the cabaret laws, brunching al Coffee Shop, hanging out in the Hamptons at Conscience Paint Inn, getting their frozen yogurt from Tasti D-Lite, working out at David Barton, reading the New York Observer and paging through Manhattan File, hanging out with the skaters in Washington Square Park and at Max Fish, buying their baby tees at Liquid Sky, using their parents' credit cards at Scoop and Calypso St. Barth.

91 Minutes With ...The Justins

Two Tennessee lawmakers are demonstrating a new way to do opposition politics in red-state America.

When She Was "It" – The 80s

You could find the "It" girls .... Dancing with Madonna at Dancelaria before she got big, then sitting at the next table over from her at the Odeon a couple of years later, going to AREA and the Palladium and, before it went all bridge-and-tunnel, Limelight (but not the briefly rebarn Studio 54); working out at the Vertical Club, hanging out at Elaine's and Indochine; shopping at Charivari and the Antique Boutique; staying up with cocaine and coming down with Quaaludes, (barely) eating macrobiotically; ordering Absolut on the rocks; reading about themselves in Michael Musto's column and Stephen Saban's and Liz Smith's after they turn up at the same East Village parties as Basquiat, Keith Haring, and (still) Andy Warhol.

When She Was "It" – The 70s

You could find the "It" girls... visiting Halston at his salon in Olympic Tower and his house on East 63rd Street, shopping at the Biba counter at Bloomingdale's and the Courrèges store on 57th, after hours at Maxwell's Plum and Max's Kansas City or coupled up on Fire Island or at a New York Dolls show at the Marcer Arts Center, dancing at Studio 54 (ar Xanan, if it was just too hard to get in that night), getting one of the dozen burgers served every night at Raoul's, having lunch with their mothers at La Côte Basque or La Grenouille, where they discussed Fear of Flying.

When She Was "It" – The 60s

You could find the "It" girls... at the Peppermint Lounge as teenagers before they moved on to the Scene a couple of years later, shopping for minidresses at Paraphernalia and Betsey Bunky Nini, getting up with Obetral and down with Valium, rooming at the Barbizon Hotel, popping in to see Andy Warhol at the Factory on 47th Street, pearing at the vintage racks of Limbo, buying their makeup at Cambridge Chemists, attending Be-Ins in Central Park, slopping for a 2 a.m. omelet or shrimp-and-lobster salad at the Brasserie on Park Avenue.

The 00s to now

You could find the \"It\" girls... smoking illicitly inside the Beatrice Inn with the Olsens (and now doing ketamine at Paul's Cocktail Lounge); dancing to the Smiths at Sway; watching a basketball game with Jay-Z at 40/40 Club; brunching al Prune; nibbling on fries at Pastis; renting out Lucien for their birthdays; posing against the white brick wall at Misshapes; checking style.com, purple.fr, and lastnightsparty.com first thing the next morning; making out with a Stroke at Black and White; walking in a Heathereffe show; ending up in a Ryan McGinley photo; on theme at Allison Sarofim's Halloween party; at the Odeon (again) for Chanel dinner; rushing in their Manolos lo a Cinema Society screening.

When She Was "It"

In April, this magazine celebrates its anniversary (it’s our 55th) with a “Yesteryear” issue. This year’s looks back at a particular New York phenomenon, the “It” girl: who anointed them, what it was like to be them, and where they are now.

The Inside Game: Gabriel Debenedetti

Gavin newsom isn’t supposed to be doing this the Feinstein dilemma looms over the wannabe face of Democrats.