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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

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Travel

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

Travel

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


Highlight

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

T.G.I.S.

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

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The Perfect Ending

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

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Stranding Out!

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

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Profiles in Rock

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

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Food With a Side of Culture

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

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New & Noteworthy

Hot Stuff Things I love right now

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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.)

The Scenic Route

Road-Tripping Across the Engadin Valley with Kenny Schachter The art critic travels through Switzerland in an Integra Type R—with stops at singular galleries, enchanting museums, and a gas station designed by an Aston Martin heir along the way


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After Hours

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

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Photography

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

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Social Studies

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

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Modern Times

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 …

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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

The divine comedy

Only Messiahs in the Building A new documentary revisits the fabled 1972 Toronto Godspell production that launched the careers of Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, and Victor Garber


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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