New York Magazine

The Cut’s solo “Spring Fashion” print issue features Bad Bunny, Doechii, Rosé, conversation-provoking features, unique fashion and beauty coverage, and more.

The Money Game: Nate Weisberg • Crypto’s Favorite Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand is in an ethical morass with a grift-y industry.

Neighborhood News: This Bird Is Not for Sale. Or Is It? • How Kelly Clarkson’s attempt to buy a Brooklyn shop’s mascot sparked a class war.

Louise Trotter • Bottega Veneta’s new creative director had a lot to prove with her third show for the house.

Power: Jasper Craven • The War on Woke at West Point Pete Hegseth’s attack on the academy is upending military education.

The Chocolate Conspiracy • When the grandson of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups empire came after Hershey’s for ruining his family’s classic recipe, I followed him into the vortex.

I Learn What CHOCOLATE Is

I Poll the CONSUMER

I Bring in the PROFESSIONALS

Brad Is Haunted by the Ghost of HIS FATHER

I Finally Speak to HERSHEY

The Abandoned Florida Project • Angie Nixon is showing national Democrats how to compete in a state they gave up on.

NO IPAD TILL AFTER DINNER, MOM • Seniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled, scam- riddled feeds. It has become their adult children’s job to save them.

A Tiny, Mighty Frother

Trick-or-Treating in the City • It’s easy to see why New York is a Halloween town. We love dressing up and celebrating under the cover of night, and we’ve got more candy stores per capita than any other major city. If you play it right, your rambles will be sweet and your revelry copious. Writer Fiorella Valdesolo spoke to local parents and Halloween diehards about their strategies for October 31.

A Lenape Powwow in Prospect Park • Indigenous dancers, artists, and musicians gathered at the LeFrak Center to drum, sing, and compete in dance contests.

The Hotel Chelsea, Two Ways • In facing studios, a pack rat and fountain-show choreographer lives amid memories of his divas.

THE Schneier List Returns • Last year, our critic offered his first survey of the 43 best restaurants in New York. Ever since, he’s been deliberating and debating and eating all over town to assemble this equally fussed-over update.

Lance Oppenheim Is Going Places • How the 30-year-old director cold-emailed his way into making two of the best films of the year.

Joy Behar Has Trump Derangement Syndrome • At 84, she has hosted more seasons of an American talk show than any other woman in television. Now, she’s feuding with her old friend the president.

The Director Caught in the AI-Slop Crosshairs • Romain Gavras’s “Storm” was the kind of music video AI couldn’t fake. Then came a new editing tool seemingly custom-made to replicate it into infinity.

Why Follow Up a Masterpiece? • Aaron Sorkin’s Social Network sequel is far more subdued than the original.

Taryn Simon’s American Fiction • The photographer’s monumental Guggenheim exhibition overwhelms.

An Online Off Broadway Tour de Force • Degenerates is brave and ambitious.

To Do • Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.

Countertenor

PART SIX: I Confront the (Worse) Future

Here’s the Frightening Part

THE APPROVAL MATRIX • Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.