New York Magazine

The Cut’s solo “Spring Fashion” print issue features Bad Bunny, Doechii, Rosé, conversation-provoking features, unique fashion and beauty coverage, and more.

The City Politic: David Freedlander • Mamdani’s Surprisingly Moderate Start The mayor is governing like a big-city liberal. His base seems undeterred.

Neighborhood News: Big Bath • Williamsburg’s Culture of Bathe-ing festival reveals an emerging corporate bathing culture.

Jeremy Boal • He helped get the Medical Aid in Dying Act passed. Now he may be one of the first to use it.

Power: E.J. Dickson • ‘Do You Remember the Gynecologist You Used to Send Your Victims To?’ The doctors who helped Jeffrey Epstein keep his “girls” sexually fit.

How an embittered Brit decimated the Washington Post. The Man Who Wasn’t There • WHEN WILL LEWIS ARRIVED at the Washington Post in January 2024, he was received as a potential redeemer. The Post had lost $77 million the previous year under Lewis’s predecessor as publisher and CEO, Fred Ryan, an affable man about town who was once Ronald Reagan’s post-presidential chief of staff. “The state of the paper when Fred left was really bad,” says a senior staffer on the business side. “It was basically like two generational news cycles of Trump and COVID made the execs feel like they had a strategys and then the music stopped and subscribers fell away.” From its high of 3 million subscribers at them end of the first Trump administration, the Post was now down to 2.5 million, and half of its onlinem audience had withered away from a peak in 2020.a Owner Jeff Bezos, who bought the Post in 2013, was looking for a leader to jolt the paper to life.

Girls Who Love Boys Who Love Boys • WHEN DID EVERYONE START FUJOING OUT?

A Brief History of Slash Fiction • ‘Heated Rivalry’ stands on the shoulders of horny-girl giants.

SOMEBODY CALL SEAN PENN! • When a Brooklyn Hasidic man found himself trapped in a Bolivian prison, he knew only one guy could save him.

The Dish Rack on Alice Waters’s Counter

Going to a Knicks Game

The New York City Ballet • On a recent Saturday evening, a younger than usual audience watched Justin Peck’s latest ballet, The Wind-Up, as part of NYCB’s Art Series at Lincoln Center.

Clinton Hill, Sunny-Side Up • A couple went into business as decorators. Their first project was their home, a loft awash in natural light.

A River of Fish Sauce • Ha’s Snack Bar earned raves for its forceful Vietnamese cooking. Its follow-up, Bistrot Ha, pushes even harder.

The MetLife Building Gets a Coastal Canteen • Giulietta is Italian for commuters.

Eight Whole Fish for the Lunar New Year

The Most Loaded Baked Potatoes • Kumpir, a Turkish specialty, comes to Noho.

FIVE WORKS IN PROGRESS • In the rehearsal room where it’s down to the wire.

LAURIE METCALF and NATHAN LANE in DEATH OF A SALESMAN • In previews March 6 at the Winter Garden Theatre.

THE CAST of CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL • In previews March 18 at Broadhurst Theatre.

DANIEL RADCLIFFE in EVERY BRILLIANT THING • In previews February 21 at the Hudson Theatre.

JON BERNTHAL in DOG DAY AFTERNOON • In previews March 10 at the August Wilson Theatre.

Old Friends • Wallace Shawn and André Gregory, still talking, still making their own kind of theater after more than 50 years.

CRITICS • Alison Willmore on Wuthering Heights … Jackson McHenry on The Unknown …Tembe Denton-Hurst on Tayari Jones’s Kin.

To Do • Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read. FEBRUARY 25–MARCH 11

There Were Signs

THE APPROVAL MATRIX • Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.