Christopher Bonanos
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I Made an Egg-Yolk Omelet James Corden Would Hate
James Corden was banned, then unbanned, from Keith McNally’s Balthazar after throwing a tantrum and returning an all-egg-yolk omelet to the kitchen. We tried making one. → Read More
A Near-Perfect Into the Woods, for a Moment
Leave the moment, just be glad / For the moment that we had. → Read More
Straight Line Crazy Gives Us Robert Moses Without the Fire
Theater review of David Hare’s ‘Straight Line Crazy,’ starring Ralph Fiennes as Robert Moses, at the Bridge Theatre in London. → Read More
Backstage at the Birth of Sesame Street
David Attie’s backstage photographs from the first season of Sesame Street are now collected in a new book, Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, that is a companion volume to the documentary. → Read More
The 101 Best New York City Movies, Ranked
The greatest New York City movies, including West Side Story, Wall Street, The Warriors, Funny Girl, Saturday Night Fever, Midnight Cowboy, If Beale Street Could Talk, The French Connection, Working Girl, When Harry Met Sally, Shaft, and many more. → Read More
What It’s Like to Get an Underground Booster Shot
A 78-year-old New Yorker with a chronic illness who takes medication that suppresses his immune system shares how he got a third dose of a COVID vaccine in an effort to boost his potential immunity against the coronavirus. → Read More
A First Night Back to Theater With Springsteen on Broadway
It’s all Bruce all the time, for two hours and 20 minutes. His stadium shows traditionally go a lot longer than that, but this was a different kind of intensity, provided by the close quarters and relatively small room. → Read More
An Epic New York City Reopening Concert Is Coming to Central Park
Mayor Bill de Blasio and record executive Clive Davis have announced a mega-concert to celebrate New York City’s reopening in August 2021. → Read More
Wiping the Dust Off Sweet Smell of Success
The 1957 movie, which revolves around a fictionalized version of the famous New York columnist Walter Winchell, is an incredibly contemporary story about media power and the brutally transactional form it can take. → Read More
How Does NYC’s Crisis Compare to Past Moments of Peril?
At the end of a calamitous year, New York City’s near-term future feels up in the air. What are the similarities and key differences between the current crisis and ones from the recent past? → Read More
David Dinkins Deserved Better
His mayoralty was not the overt failure it once seemed. → Read More
Exclusive: The Chelsea Flea Market, Closed Since December, Comes Back on September 12
New York City’s Chelsea Flea Market, Closed Since December 2019, Will Reopen on September 12, 2020, on West 25th Street → Read More
Gail Sheehy Never Stopped Reporting
Gail Sheehy Never Stopped Reporting: One of New York’s most daring writers died this week at 83. A tribute. → Read More
Pete Hamill Was One of Us, Only Better at It
The peerless observer of New York life died yesterday at 85. → Read More
Carl Reiner Taught the World What a Comedy Writer Does
Until Reiner came along, nobody outside the business knew about the writers’ room; today we all do. → Read More
Milton Glaser, Co-Founder of New York Magazine and Creator of ‘I❤NY,’ Dies at 91
A giant of graphic design and illustration for seven decades. → Read More
‘You’re Not Really Trained on How to De-escalate’: Eric Adams on the NYPD and the Protests
“When they do something wrong, the mayor has to have zero tolerance of it,” said Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. → Read More
New York, Four Weeks In
Not long after the citywide clampdown began, photographer Alexei Hay began capturing the emptying streets of New York. What’s on view here is neither a completely depopulated New York nor its usual bustling self but something eerily stuck in between. → Read More
In 2002, Our Singles-Issue Cover Model Was the Future First Lady of the United States
New York Magazine’s 2002 “Singles” Issue Cover Model Was Melania Knauss, the Future Wife of Donald Trump → Read More
John Mulaney Made a Kids’ Special. We Sent a 10-Year-Old to Interview Him About It.
The comedian answers all of a young superfan’s questions about John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch. → Read More