Vanities / Culture
THE HIVE REPORTSKY HIGH The stellar team behind NYC’s buzzy Crown Shy
restaurant has even higher hopes— 60 more oors above ground. Next
month, James Kent and Je Katz open SAGA, way up in the cityscape
Fields of Gold
In the Netherlands, a vibrant glow illuminates
the long winter evenings: not the northern
lights, but LED-lit farmlands. In The Human Planet:
Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene,
photographer George Steinmetz documents the
increasingly visible human footprint on natural
environments. The theme, he says, was prompted
by decades of global science photography.
“I spent 15 years exploring the world’s deserts
because I thought they were just fantastically
beautiful, but I started to see that even the most
remote places were changing.” —Arimeta DiopHerewith, a dream cast of
dramatic attendees at the
White House Correspondents’
Dinner this AprilSAGA
The main dining room,
whose name is an acronym
of the rst initials of the
chef’s and restaurateur’s
children, features an
eight-course tasting menu.OVERSTORY
The bar, with a wraparound
terrace, ris on classic
cocktails, like a tequila
old-fashioned with a
hint of Mounds Bar avor.CROWN SHY
On the ground oor of
70 Pine Street, the menu
includes a standout chicken
and sticky toee pudding.62ND FLOOR
Party in private, taking in
panoramic views from
one of downtown Manhattan’s
Art Deco crown jewels.66TH FLOOR
Dine in the former
“closing room” of AIG
headquarters,
accessible by a VIP elevator.
Donald Trump
Trump has boycotted every WHCD
in his tenure, becoming in
2017 the first president to ditch it in
36 years (since Reagan, post–
assassination attempt). At this point,
a 180 would be equally historic.Maggie Haberman
Per New York Times policy,
employees don’t attend the dinner.
But imagine the “third-rate”
reporting the impeccably
sourced Haberman would produce
as a fly on the wall.Jeff Zucker & April Ryan
Enter the president of Trump’s
archnemesis network, CNN, and its
most meme-able correspondent,
who famously asked:
“Mr. President, are you a racist?”Seth Meyers
“I think that is the night that he
resolved to run for president,”
Roger Stone has said of Meyers’s
Trump-joke-heavy monologue
at the 2011 dinner. Which
can only mean it’s rematch time.An aerial view of
glass greenhouses
in the Netherlands.42 VANITY FAIR APRIL 2020
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