New York Magazine - USA (2019-11-11)

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TheOscarforBestForeign

LanguageFilmwas

renamedBestInternational

Feature Film,butNigeria’s

officialsubmission,

Lionheart,wasdeniedfor

beinginEnglish.

Thedeliberate

destruction

ofDeadspin.

PrinceCharles’s

foundationboughtan

allegedlyfake Monet,

Picasso, andDalí...

StellaMcCartneyandJonathan

SafranFoercreateda We Are

theWeathercapsulecollection

sothatthepeoplecouldbuy

a sustainable$1,600jumpsuit

withJSF’s handwritingonit.

Good-bye,

Barneys NewYork.

Hello,Barneys

NewYorkatSaks.

AlexandraJacobs’s

biographyofElaine

Strich,StillHere,reminds

youofhowmuchmore

self-destructive behavior

you’d getawaywithif

youwere more talented.

Girl,Woman, Other,

thefirstBooker Prize–

winningnovel by

a blackwoman, arrives

earlyintheStates.

AccordingtotheTimes,

EmilyDickinson

scholarslove Apple’s

hornyDickinson.

MartinScorseseon

Marvelmovies.

... Nottoworry, now

the hearingswillbeon

livetelevision.

Alright,alright,

alright!Matthew

McConaugheyfinally

joinsInstagram.

JeanSmart’sbigblue

Dr. Manhattan

dildoonWatchmen.

HarryStyleship-thrusts

incustomGucci

onthecoverofhisnext

album,FineLine.

Play-by-playatthe

Cowboys-vs.-Giants

game:“THECATISINTHE

CDWREDZONE!”

BillyCrudup’s manic, musical-

theater-obsessednetwork

exec, thebestpartofApple’s

sleepyTheMorningShow.

KeanuReeves

hasa newgirlfriend

afternearly

a decadeofbeing

theinternet’s

boyfriend.

... Meanwhile,the

prince’s stafffrettedthat

thenewseasonof

The Crownwillmake him

look like a scrub.

Juulknowinglylet

a millioncontaminated

vapepods goonthe

market,accordingto

a formerexec’s lawsuit.

Two Toms, a Gowanus

staple since 1948,

is going out of business.

SeanSpicer,stillsafe

onD eing

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that

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ThenewAirPodsPro

cost$249;maybeyou

canexpensethem

whenyoumovetothat

“openplan”office.

Thewaterwasfoundtobe

safetodrinkononlythreeof

thetenmajorairlines,

pera HunterCollegeNYC

FoodPolicyCenterstudy.

Thewhiskey’s stillsafe.

Thedeclineof

DuaneReade(down

to 94 in thecity

from 235 in 2010).

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Octoberwasthe

warmestonrecord

worldwide.

Lindsey Graham won’t

read the impeachment

transcripts ...

Billionaire Leon

Cooperman is close to

tears over Elizabeth

Warren: “The vilification

of billionaires

makes no sense to me.”

AdrienneWarren’s“River

Deep–MountainHigh”in

Tina:TheTinaTurner

Musicalcontainsenough

energytolightupthe

wholeEasternSeaboard.

Ranked-choice

votinginNYC.

The Brooklyn

Watchtower sign

is tobe replaced

with“Welcome.”

... Excepttheparts

with RuthWilson’s

fabulousvillain.

HBO’s paint-by-

numbers His Dark

Materials ...

Elizabeth Holmes is

accused of yet another

crime: a black-turtleneck

shortage on Halloween.

Mississippi prosecutor

Doug Evans, villain of the

In the Dark podcast,

is reelected unopposed.

Many Airbnb hosts are

scammers, grifters,

and fakes,

reveals a Vice exposé.

Rachel Harrison at

the Whitney.

Microsoft Japan’s

experiment with

a four-day workweek

boosts productivity

by 40 percent.

Kristen Sieh, casually

mesmerizing in Dr. Ride’s

American Beach House

from Ars Nova

at Greenwich House.

Theelegant and repulsive

newRadiohole show,

Now Serving,

atCollapsable Hole.

Zac Posen

shuts down.

The incandescent

revival of For

Colored Girls ... at

the Public.

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Trump now officially

a Florida Man.