The Cut’s solo “Spring Fashion” print issue features Bad Bunny, Doechii, Rosé, conversation-provoking features, unique fashion and beauty coverage, and more.
Screen Time: John Herrman • Meta’s Reckoning Like its users, the company is stuck in an unhappy, endless doomscroll.
Neighborhood News: Harry’s Here! • The pop star is at MSG—and around lower Manhattan—until Halloween.
George Rouy • The British “It”-boy edging the art world makes his debut on the megagallery main stage.
Kids These Days: Alex Bronzini-Vender • The Race to Keep Cheating Colleges are testing new ways to catch AI use. It isn’t working.
HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY • Most people know SEBASTIAN STAN as a Marvel anti-hero or the guy who played Donald Trump. But he’s been quietly building a reputation as one of the best art-house actors working today.
Ballroom Blitz • Trump’s obsessive bid for architectural immortality is barreling toward completion.
THE WASIAN GENERATION • How the sudden pop-cultural dominance of part white, part Asian Americans triggered a collective identity crisis.
Gloria Steinem Loved Women • She was a journalist, a mass-market feminist, a sex symbol—and a self-described “hopeaholic” to the end.
Welcome (Back) to the Neighborhood • SAM’S REOPENS in Cobble Hill (238 Court St.) with a new owner and a fresh drinks menu but the same red-saucy charm. Elsewhere in “The New Haunts”: Carnegie Deli’s return, Dame’s spinoff, and Andy Baraghani’s big debut.
Back to Shopping • THIS FALL’S NEW STORES are a study in contrasts: There are the behemoths, like a 9,400-square-foot Hermès store coming to Williamsburg and a 20,000-square-foot baby emporium in Soho. Then there are the niche shops, which this season feel particularly niche, like a women’s boutique where tape-measure bows adorn blazers, a Chinatown spot selling see-through digital cameras, and a beauty outlet that only carries minis.
The Battle of Brooklyn • Dozens of costumed interpreters and historians gathered at Green-Wood Cemetery for a commemoration of the largest battle of the Revolutionary War, 250 years later.
Don’t Mind the Rug, Kids • A historic townhouse in Gramercy Park gets a makeover for a family of five.
The New Haunts • This season’s biggest openings feel like they’ve been here forever.
The Regulars Are Back at Sam’s Restaurant • The reborn red-sauce joint has a new owner but the same old soul.
Andy Baraghani Is Doing Breakfast (and Lunch and, Eventually, Dinner) • The food-world star is almost finished with his first restaurant.
A Chinatown Diner Is Getting a New Life • The Lok Kee pop-up has found a permanent home.
FALL PREVIEW • JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS’S BROADWAY DEBUT. DUNE ’S LAST ACT. AND MUCH MORE CULTURE TO LOOK FORWARD TO THIS SEASON.
RETURN TO EAST OF EDEN • ZOE KAZAN had long wanted to adapt Steinbeck’s intergenerational epic. It would require confronting her own family legacy too.
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IT’S ALWAYS PERSONAL FOR JAMES GRAY • In ‘PAPER TIGER,’ the director turns PRIVATE TRAGEDY into GRITTY MELODRAMA.
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NOT THAT KIND OF MEAN GIRL • In a thorny new play, DENÉE BENTON is a Regina George type you can root for.
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CARLY RAE JEPSEN’S STAYING POWER • At 40, the pop star is a new mother, writing for Broadway, and making some of the best music of her career.
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ART • The shows correcting historic oversights, shifting reputations, and shaking up galleries and museums.
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