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Pitch-Perfect In an interview, the breakout tenor Jonathan Tetelman chronicles his road from D.J.-ing to starring in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Met

By Matthew Gurewitsch

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Landing Gear

Outdoors, Indoors A barbecue grill for city folk! A pen that will have you feeling like a secret agent! The microphone to make your voice heard! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

Landing Gear

The Big Screen An outrageously large, crystal-clear television! The telescope that won’t get relegated to a closet! An app to help you find out what that song is! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

Inspector Gadget

Landing Gear Everything you need to keep your home from blacking out, achieve audio Nirvana, take care of man’s best friend, and more

By Jonathan Margolis

The Way Things Were Morris Engel’s 1980s telephone-booth photos—published for the first time in AIR MAIL—harken back to a bygone New York City

By Elena Clavarino

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Elon Musk Is the New Henry Ford (and Not in a Good Way) Before liberals turned on Tesla, Ford was boycotted for its owner’s toxic political views

By George Pendle

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Gwynnie to Go Even Gwyneth Paltrow haters can’t get enough of Goop Kitchen, her healthy-takeout restaurant chain that’s taking over Los Angeles

By Jensen Davis

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The Attention-Whore Index—Grand-Master Edition! Sometimes you have to bow to the experts. For all Harry’s wails and Trump’s moans, the real masters of neediness can be found on Instagram

By George Kalogerakis

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Denée Benton The Broadway star goes back to her TV roots with Julian Fellowes’s The Gilded Age

By Bridget Arsenault

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In the Red

By Max Carter

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Mobile, Agile, and Worthwhile The best-designed wireless earbuds! Speakers that cost more than most houses! A phone that will make you long for the old days! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

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High Times

Sunny Days and Wild Nights Épi Plage, a small beach club near St. Tropez, has been drawing the style set since the late 50s. Now under new ownership, the party rages on

By Lanie Goodman

Goldman Standard

The Judgment of David Solomon The Goldman Sachs C.E.O.’s friendship with the controversial property developer Mike Meldman raises questions about his commitment to separating business from pleasure

By William D. Cohan

London’s Culinary Queen

Cooking, Eating, Talking, Grieving Ruthie Rogers has fed the great and the good for more than 25 years. Now, in her podcast, she uses food to delve into the pasts of Elton John, Paul McCartney, and Tony Blair

By Claire Allfree

Cat’s Out of the Bag In the late 90s, Jocelyn Wildenstein became a tabloid sensation after her $2.5 billion divorce and as “the poster child for plastic surgery gone wrong.” Now she’s broke and the subject of a new HBO documentary series

By Jane Mulkerrins

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Where the Wild Things Are At Chem Chem, in Tanzania, conservation has become the driving force of tourism—and the safari experience has never been better

By Mary Holland

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A Woman for All Seasons Angela Lansbury was a loyal friend, a generous castmate, and a surprisingly good baker

By Corby Kummer

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Their Back Pages The Byrds invented folk rock and went on to become founding fathers of psychedelic rock, jazz rock, and country rock. A new book revisits the band’s mid-60s prime

By Mark Rozzo

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Mixed Media

By Richard M. Cohen

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Landing Gear Virtual reality undergoes a transformative upgrade; a laser measurer that’s truly spot-on; old 35-mm. projector slides get a second chance; and more

By Jonathan Margolis

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For the Love of Feet! Our toe-curious reporter immerses himself in the bizarre, lucrative, obsessive, almost fanatical community of foot fetishists

By Brennan Kilbane

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MIND GAMES

Unlocking Desire Intimacy expert Esther Perel’s radical ideas about love, infidelity, and marriage have made her America’s favorite psychotherapist

By Sarah Ditum

Highlight

Searching the Webb A new book about the jeweler David Webb reveals the inspirations behind the master’s modern designs

By Ruth Peltason

Great Lives

Reinaldo Herrera An international arbiter of style whose manners were matched by his joie de vivre and loyalty

By Amy Fine Collins

The View from Here Bootlegging, drug dealing, Airbnb-ing. Diplomats abandoned by their countries turn to unusual trades to keep the consular lights burning

By John Beck

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