Rated D for Desperate

Jennifer Lawrence plays the seducer.

Famous for Being Not Famous

Liz Kingsman's One Woman Show is a monologue about writing a monologue to chase celebrity. It's working.

Hand Her the Keys

Ashley Park took Broadway, then Paris. Now, the actress heads to Beijing for Joy Ride, this summer's raunchiest R-rated buddy comedy.

33 EATING ADVENTURES

A TURKISH FEAST among the JET-SKIERS in Sheepshead Bay, DOSAS worth a DRIVE to Jersey, and CARNITAS in someone's Woodside BACKYARD.

The Loft 'Bad Paintings' Bought

When artist Neil Jenney paid just $36,000 for this 11,000-square-foot Soho loft in 1973, it was \"completely unlivable.\"

Spies, Bones & Pancakes: The Battle of Fishkill

When Domenic Broccoli set out to expand his IHOP empire to upstate New York, he didn't expect to find a grave site-or start a war.

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT A BODE BOY

The GRANDMA'S-TABLECLOTH-INSPIRED, small-batch, unapologetically expensive menswear brand founded by EMILY BODE AUJLA became the post-pandemic DOWNTOWN UNIFORM. Then it got bigger.

The surprisingly popular presidential campaign of RFK Jr. is based on all sorts of myths-about vaccines, censorship, and how power really works in America.

THE KENNEDY CONSPIRACY

Omnivore: Adam Platt

Jarheads Making jam with the high-profile women who love its roiling, burbling, lucrative charms.

The First Official Jump

Marking the start of pool season in Washington Heights.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait - The Last Republican Politician

Can John Roberts stave off a Democratic assault on the Supreme Court?

132 Minutes With Jon Pichaya Ferry

The proprietor of Brooklyn's bones emporium promises it's not creepy to collect human remains

AI Is a Lot of Work

As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging and not going anywhere.

The Simpsons is Good Again

After 34 seasons, 750 episodes, and a decades-long funk, the beloved show innovated its way back to popularity and relevance

Super Freak

It was a grave miscalculation to expect an avowed futurist to treasure mid-20th-century social mores.

Debaser

In her self-portraits, liu Susiraja is a different kind of domestic goddess.

A Flash With No Spark

The Snyderverse persists in every timeline.

Parker Posey Doesn't Know If She Can Live Here

The actress contemplates aging and feeling out of place in the city.

Sara Ramírez Is No Joke

They're back as the brilliantly annoying, much-memed-about Che Diaz on And Just Like That...

THE YEAR I ATE NEW YORK: Drag Me to Brunch

Getting drunk on a Sunday with a bunch of queens (and moms from New Jersey) is actually fun.

Out With the Velvet Seats, in With the Dance Floor

How one show got a theater to transform itself into a disco.

Memoirs of a Perfectly Imperfect Fourth-Floor Walk-up

Alex Tieghi-Walker, founder of the gallery Tiwa Select, had just gotten his Noho apartment the way he wanted it when his lease ended.

Ginni and Clarence: A Love Story

How a fiercely loyal couple saved one another, raged against their enemies, and brought the American experiment to the brink.

The TRANSGENDER FAMILY HANDBOOK

HERE ARE 144 SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS, FROM TRANS YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR LOVED ONES, THAT PARENTS MAY FIND HELPFUL.

The City Politic: Errol Louis

Mayor Micromanager: It's clearer than ever that Eric Adams is running New York on his own.

Neighborhood News: Listening In at the Brooklyn Museum

The scene at the critically panned show \"It's Pablo-matic.\"

The Power Trip: Olivia Nuzzi - A TERMINAL CASE

Trump and the country are both in a bind, but the spectacle just gets bigger.

The Binge Purple

Hollywood's streaming model is broken. It's also not going away. For the people who make TV, figuring that out will be a horror show

In Conversation: Curtis 50 Cent Jackson

Every record label once wanted what he had (and was afraid of it). Now all of Hollywood wants it too.

Drew Barrymore Is Figuring It Out Live

Her radically intimate, extremely strange daytime show has become a sensation—and as much therapy for her as it is for her guests