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Is Savannah, Georgia, the Next Chernobyl? On this week’s podcast, John von Sothen reveals the bizarre story of Savannah and a missing nuclear bomb
Vanity Fair
The Things They Carried From lipstick holders to compacts, the elegant necessities once tucked inside a woman’s handbag are returning—not as tools but as treasures
After Hours
A Night Celebrating Sloane Crosley Salman Rushdie, Griffin Dunne, Naomi Fry, Gary Shteyngart, and others gathered at the Waverly Inn in celebration of the writer’s new memoir
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Tintoretto’s Magnum Opus An exhibition in Cincinnati unveils three newly restored works by the Italian Renaissance painter and rival of Titian
Flights of Fancy
The Boom Before the Bust From caviar and Dom Pérignon at Mach 2 to the fatal Air France crash of 2000, former members of the Concorde crew revisit the era of supersonic flight
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Frank Shattuck
City Guides
Harold Koda’s Guide to Honolulu The former curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute shares his go-to spots in his hometown
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Where’d You Go, Bernadette? The Bernadette Corporation, a radical 90s artist collective, made films and a fashion line for the downtown set, then largely disappeared. Now Metrograph is bringing them back
The Last Picture Show
One Hundred Years of Avedon Ahead of Richard Avedon’s centennial exhibition, Derek Blasberg reflects on the man who revolutionized fashion photography, and the mark he left on the genre as a whole
