Comedy's Scrappiest All-Stars

RDC World turned its funny videos into a content empire. Now Hollywood is calling for the group's 29-year-old mastermind.

His Rose Is Timeless

America’s new favorite hunk is a’72-year-old widower. He may be the best thing ever to happen to The Bachelor franchise.

Hello, Sailor

The Brooklyn bistro exhibits the understated confidence of its famous co-captains.

They Still Make Art in Soho

Reformed wild man” artist John Alexander and ceramicist Fiona Waterstreet’s loft life together.

KEEP BROADWAY'S LIGHTS ON

Theater landlord Ef inkel can prop up a struggling musical— and maybe an entire industry.

PROPEL COMEDIANS ONTO NETFLIX

Mike Lavoie and Carlee Briglia have charted a path from small theater to Broadway to beyond.

BUILD THE LARGEST AMERICAN LUXURY CONGLOMERATE

Fashion groups in New York have always been dwarfed by their Parisian rivals. A merger led by Joanne Crevoiserat might change that.

GET YOU PAST THE CO-OP BOARD

doesn’t just sell you a 50 million apartment.

FIX THE KIDNEY LIST

The transplant process relied on a racist algorithm. Michelle Morse changed that.

BROKER PEACE BETWEEN TECH AND CITY HALL

The reason they don’t hate each other—like they do in San Francisco—is Julie Samuels.

MAKE (OR BURY) A CAREER AT THE 'TIMES'

Carolyn Ryan decides who gets a good beat, and who gets beaten down.

Mike Crumplar

The self-mythologizing Substacker of the Dimes Square literary scene gives up.

Statement Fever

AS THE HORRORS MOUNTED in Israel and Palestine, in America we did what we do best: We issued statements. Then we found fault with those statements and issued new statements.

The War From Over Here

The conflict in Israel and Gaza has reverberated in New York and beyond, colliding with America’s own conflicts and history.

TURN A CELEBRITY INTO A MOGUL

Could a regular publicist get you an LVMH deal? Amanda Silverman will.

MAKE CHEFS BEG FOR CABBAGE

They all want S sweet, juicy leaves.”

INHERIT A MEGAGALLERY (MAYBE)

Of the Zwirner children working in their father’s empire, Lucas is front and center. Then there’s Marlene Zwirner.

LEAD YOUR FORMER BOSS'S REVENGE CAMPAIGN

When Andrew Cuomo was governor, was his right hand. With an eviscerating new book, she’s settling scores and prepping a comeback

SEAT YOU DOWNSTAIRS AT THE POLO BAR

Nelly Moudime decides if you make the cut

Sphere Is an Unnatural Wonder

It's a giant orb in Sin City. Is it also the future of live entertainment?

Rirkrit Tiravanija Would Prefer Not To

His new retrospective at MoMA PS1 celebrates avoiding making art

Dan Barber's New Onion

Garleek is just what it sounds like

Buckwheat Every Which Way

Soba's in the spotlight at Uzuki

His Gilded Age

The architectural preservationist Michael Henry Adams has filled his apartment with the history of Harlem. Some of it he found on the street

MICHAEL MANN

The director of moody, evocative films like Miami Vice and Heat on his inspiration rooms, clubbing with cocaine importers, and the decades of obsessive research that went into his new movie. Ferrari

SCOOP DREAMS

SHAMS CHARANIA HAS SPENT A DECADE TEXTING AND TWEETING HIS WAY TO THE TOP OF THE NBA REPORTING WORLD. HIS NEW COLLEAGUES AT THE NEW YORK TIMES WONDER IF HE'S A THREAT TO THEIR JOURNALISM

DO ANY OF THESE PEOPLE STAND A CHANCE... AGAINST TRUMP?

On the trail with the candidates (supposedly) vying for the Republican nomination

Grub Street Diet: Dwight Garner A Muffuletta in the Freezer

The book critic's week of organ meat, fried cheese, and PB&Ps

Molly Baz

Dinner at a SoCal steakhouse with Molly Baz, who built a recipe empire on Morty-D and Cae Sal

The Ghost in the Shell

Light-filled offices rise from the Domino Sugar refinery's dirty past