SMOKE BREAK
“I’m a Jersey Girl”: A Ten-Minute Cig With Playwright Vogue Giambri
February 4, 2025
“I’m just a chaotic, spontaneous person,” says the downtown playwright of “I Can’t Make Sense,” her latest blackbox production. “This play doesn’t give you a second to be one thing.”
SCENE AND HEARD
“I’m Not Buying Anything”: On the Grounds at the Armory’s Young Collectors Night
February 3, 2025
At the Park Avenue Armory’s Young Collectors Night, we asked guests to come clean about whether or not they’re really buying art—and what’s up with all the horse paintings.
PORTFOLIO
The Stars of Sundance… Exposed!
January 31, 2025
From stairwells to hotel lobbies to Thai spots, photographer Myles Pettengill spent the week in Park City capturing the stars of Sundance in their in-between moments.
SOUND ADVICE
“Chapstick, Phone, Gummy Worms”: Soccer Mommy Made the Indie Playlist of Our Dreams
January 31, 2025
In this week’s installment of Sound Advice, the Nashville-based singer-songwriter tells us her dream musical coven and all-time favorite guitar riff.
ICONS
“I Want to Live to 110”: Marina Abramović, in Conversation With Juergen Teller
January 31, 2025
“This is exactly why we are in this conversation together, because I don’t compromise,” the 78-year-old conceptual artist tells photographer Juergen Teller. “I can’t compromise to the market and I never did.”
SUNDANCE
A Screwball Comedy About Cabbage? Director Evan Twohy Can Make It Work.
January 30, 2025
“To me, it’s a love story,” says the director of his film “Bubble & Squeak,” which held its world premiere at Sundance. “But it’s just not a love story that ends where most love stories end.”
IN CONVERSATION
“More Is More”: Photographer Elizaveta Porodina Reimagines the New York City Ballet
January 30, 2025
To mark the New York City Ballet’s latest commission, the photographer got together with costume designer Mati Hays to discuss the art of not taking yourself too seriously.
COUTURE WEEK
“Camp, Clown, Frou-Frou Organza”: Tish Weinstock on Valentino Haute Couture
January 30, 2025
“I loved the Harlequin moments and the Pierrot and Pulcinella moments,” says professional goth Tish Weinstock of Alessandro Michele’s latest for Valentino. “The clowns have taken over.”
MAGIC CITY
“It Was Like a Caligula Orgy”: When James St. James Took Over South Beach
January 29, 2025
In 1991, the legendary club kid and author went to Miami to dry out. But his time in South Beach, as he told us in an exclusive interview, would prove to be more than just a reprieve.
SUNDANCE
Director Katarina Zhu on Besties, Bunnies, and Bad Breakups
January 29, 2025
“Making this film became an exercise in giving myself permission to bear parts of myself that I thought were gross or vain or selfish or evil,” says the first-time director of her debut feature, “Bunnylovr.”
ANNIVERSARY
“Every Week Is a High Wire Act”: Questlove and Maya Rudolph on 50 Years of Saturday Night Live
January 29, 2025
To celebrate his new documentary, which chronicles a half-century of music on “Saturday Night Live,” Questlove joined SNL veteran Maya Rudolph for a walk down memory lane.
DEBUT
A Woman and a Blob Walk Into a Bar. Author Maggie Su Can Tell You the Rest.
January 28, 2025
The author, whose debut novel “Blob” depicts a surreal and unlikely love story, joined us to talk about first loves, overbearing parents, and Asian-American stereotypes.
EDITOR
“You Can Eat My Pussy”: Luis Venegas on 15 Years of Candy Magazine Realness
January 28, 2025
“As long as someone is doing progressive stuff, looks good, and has the right energy and talent, I’m interested,” says the editor of Candy Magazine, which celebrates its 15-year anniversary this month.
TYCOON
Bryan Johnson Wants You to Have Better Boners
January 28, 2025
The multi-millionaire tech tycoon is chasing eternal youth. Earlier this month, we stopped by his minimalist Los Angeles mansion to find out what, exactly, that means.
COSTUMER
Bob Mackie Looks Back on a Lifetime of Dressing Divas
January 27, 2025
Ahead of the release of his new documentary, “Bob Mackie, Naked Illusion,” the 84-year-old tells our senior editor about his love for the stage and the silver screen.
MEMOIR
Lola Kirke Takes Us Inside the Wild West Village of Her Youth
January 27, 2025
“For a long time, I wanted to be so many other people that weren’t me,” says the actor, author, and sister of Jemima. “And in writing this book, I really did get to find myself.”
LOS ANGELES
“We Persist, and We Rebuild”: How One L.A. Synagogue Is Finding Strength in Community
January 24, 2025
“We lost our building, but we didn’t lose our congregation and we didn’t lose our community,” says Cantor Ruth Berman Harris. “Our synagogue is very much alive.”
PARIS FASHION WEEK
“I’m Sitting Next to Catherine Deneuve!”: Whoopi Goldberg Reviews AMI FW25
January 23, 2025
At the AMI FW25 show in Paris, our editor-in-chief chatted up his seatmate, the venerable Whoopi Goldberg, to find out about her secret love for playing dress-up.
SOUND ADVICE
The Boys of Wallows Made Us a Playlist to Ease Your Winter Blues
January 23, 2025
In this week’s Sound Advice, Dylan, Braeden, and Cole of the alt-rock trio Wallows tell us their dream fourth member of the band and who they trust most with the aux.
IN CONVERSATION
Jamie xx Tells Olafur Eliasson How He Found His Way Back to Music
January 22, 2025
“I was just one of the weird kids at school, and that was my way out,” the musician told Olafur Eliasson when the two got together earlier this month to talk about getting vulnerable in their art.
