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Kitchen Confidential

Fuss Pot He cooks. He cleans. He even handles the child care. Now the actor and food-show host Stanley Tucci proves he’s the ultimate Renaissance man, launching a cookware line with GreenPan

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Milton Avery, Re-Discovered


Open Book

Photography’s Années Folles George Hoyningen-Huene’s portraits of everyone from Josephine Baker to Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, and Frank Capra—collected in a new book—evoke the style and glamour of the 20th century

Film

A Lighter Shade of Darren Aronofsky His movies—Black Swan, The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream—are notoriously heavy. But the director’s latest, Caught Stealing, is a romp around the East Village of the 1990s

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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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What a Prick

Slow Pokes Young adults who came of age in the social-media era are dabbling with filler and Botox—but in different, and often contradictory, ways

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The Restaurant Next Door

En Everlasting As New York says good-bye to En Japanese Brasserie, its owner looks back on 20 years spent serving—and partying late into the night with—everyone from Yoko Ono to Q-Tip, Lou Reed, and Martha Stewart

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Close-up

India Ennenga and Sebastian Clark The duo sending pocket-size books—collaborations with artists and writers—to people around the world

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But First …

The View from Here As the Vietnam War raged, and the draft struck, young actors found themselves performing for their lives

Very Online

Trophy Wives Desperate, real, trad, or mad—housewives have been celebrated, pilloried, and fetishized for ages. And they’re still at it


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Inside the Danny Elfman Sexual-Harassment Story On this week’s podcast, Jacob Bernstein discusses his reporting on the #MeToo case that has baffled Hollywood

After Hours

La Dolce Vita! AIR MAIL and Bloomingdale’s kick off Fashion Week in high Italian style

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Modern Times

The Great (Culture) War In 2023, while some cities celebrated femininity with Taylor Swift and Barbie, others pivoted toward angry country music. Do universal pop-culture trends even exist anymore?

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Animal Instinct A new film by the Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski offers a prescient look at mankind today, through the eyes of a sympathetic, non-human protagonist

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Yellow and Blue

New York or Bust Ukrainian designer Svitlana Bevza scrambled to finish her new collection. As she prepares to show it at Fashion Week, the stakes are higher than ever

Travel

Rest Easy Until recently, New Orleans’s hotel scene was no match for its nightlife. Several stylish new hotels have changed that


The Asphalt Jungle

Mean Green Streets Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Patti Smith have joined forces to save a much-loved garden in downtown New York