New York Magazine - USA (2019-12-09)

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the culture pages

99

Charlie Puth Could Use

a Little Heartbreak

A pop-savant looking

for love

By Hunter Harris

102

‘Little Women’ Was

Always Big

Meg, Jo, Beth, and

Amy, throughthe years

By Hillary Kelly

104

Ellen Burstyn

Has Some

Questions for You

Inside the actor’s brain

By Matt Zoller Seitz

108

Doing Diplo

The DJgrows up

and goes country

By Allison P. Davis

114

Critics

movies by

David Edelstein

Feel-good salvation

in A Beautiful Day

in the Neighborhood

pop by

Craig Jenkins

Coldplay’s newsecurity-

blanket album

for a world in chaos

theater by

Helen Shaw

A metaphysical journey

in The Underlying Chris

130

To Do

Twenty-five picks for

the next two weeks

intelligencer

23

Power
Bloomberg enters the race
By Gabriel Debenedetti

26
Ranking
Godfathers of the
World Wide Web—
with second thoughts
By Max Read

28
From the Cut
The world of designer
Rick Owens
By Matthew Schneier

32
It’s Complicated
The joy of enemies
By Josh Gondelman

strategist

77

Best Bets
Gift suggestions from our
very tasteful friends

80
The One-Page Guide
To passing your driver’s test

83
Look Book
Opening doors uptown

86
Design Hunting
Françoise Gilot’s
unchanging studio/
apartment
By Wendy Goodman

92
Food
Platt on Gotham Bar
and Grill’s new menu;
a buttery, lemony noodle

december 9–22, 2019

on the cover: Photograph
by Daniel Featherstone.
(For more “Reasons to Love
New York,” see p.59.)
this page: Charlie Puth
walks around the East Village.
Photograph by David Williams
for New York Magazine.

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