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Acting Up From Keith Haring posters to anti–Reagan advertisements, an exhibition collects the works of graphic design that shaped New York’s grassroots response to the AIDS epidemic

By Joel Lobenthal

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Ostermoor

By Ashley Baker

Inspector Gadget

Landing Gear An electrified spoon to supercharge, not fry, your taste buds; an e-reader update worth writing home about; a window of opportunity for the videoconferencing elite; and more

By Jonathan Margolis

Travel

Now That’s Wild At Kasiiya Papagayo, in Costa Rica, nature and nurturing collide in unexpected ways

By Catherine Fairweather

Flying High Is it possible to triumph over jet lag? AIR MAIL’s travel guru shares the products and practices that can (almost) make a red-eye feel like a trip to the spa

By Ashley Baker

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Packed House After a decade of delays, the brand-new Perelman Performing Arts Center will finally host actors, dancers, and artists in Manhattan’s financial district

By Lewis Jacobsen

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The Attention-Whore Index Melania Trump breaks her silence, Boris Johnson justifies his past, and Prince Harry disappoints his backers

By George Kalogerakis

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Debra Messing The Will & Grace actress answers 33 of life’s most pressing questions

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Heads Above the Rest In the market for thick, lush locks? A minoxidil prescription is no longer the only game in town

By Tatiana Boncompagni Hoover

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Yoko Before John To understand the most misunderstood woman of the last half-century, you have to go back to the beginning

By Legs McNeil

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Dinner Through the Gift Shop New York’s art institutions—from Sotheby’s to the Met—are getting into the restaurant business, and finally making it worth staying after dark

By Christine Muhlke

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New & Noteworthy

Hot Stuff Things I love right now

By Linda Wells

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Me&Em

By Ashley Baker

Food and Wine

Jean-Georges’s New Temple to Food With 12 restaurants, four bars, and three gourmet groceries, New York’s Tin Building is a world unto itself. (And maybe the chef is, too.)

By Jeff Gordinier

Digital Party

By Elena Clavarino

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Glass Century

By Jack Sullivan

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A Night Celebrating Ashe Leandro Seth Meyers, Amy Schumer, and others gathered at the AIR MAIL Newsstand last Thursday to toast the publication of the design duo’s new book, Ashe Leandro: Architecture + Interiors

By Carolina de Armas

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Man Ray’s Halo Effect A new book surveys the life and work of the prolific 20th-century artist who revolutionized photography and pioneered the Surrealist movement

By Elena Clavarino

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Aram the Cobbler

By Michael Hainey

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Holy Smoke Everyone knows the hazards of smoking, and still some members of the Erewhon set are taking up the habit

By Danielle Pergament

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Meltdown in Millbrook After leaving Eleven Madison Park, restaurateur Will Guidara set out to open a five-star hotel in New York’s Hudson Valley. The town has other plans …

By Jay Cheshes

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WQXR

By Nathan King

Film

The Hackman Connection Inside the wild, epic filming of William Friedkin’s The French Connection, which made a star of the late Gene Hackman

By Alexander Larman

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Inside the Crime That Scandalized New York’s Bluebloods On this week’s podcast, Michael Gross takes a new look at the conviction of Brooke Astor’s son for stealing millions from her

By Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey

A Town Without Time

By Jim Kelly

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