Author: Editor-in-Chief
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Daniel Humm Would Like to Roast You a Chicken
The Eleven Madison Park chef has gone downtown, and gone à la carte, at Humm on Hudson Street: wood fire, a Clemente ceiling, a Prince poster in the cellar, and the ghost of En Japanese Brasserie at the bar.
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At the Waldorf, Jessica Tisch Asks If Anyone’s Hiring
With the mayor’s left flank demanding her head after the Marble Hill ICE shooting, the police commissioner played the Al Smith Dinner for laughs, a few seats down the dais from the boss who says she isn’t going anywhere.
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At Lincoln Center, Ava DuVernay Closed the Festival and Opened an Argument
The 64th New York Film Festival ended with “14th,” DuVernay’s sequel to “13th.” The constitutional case drew raves; her use of generative AI to animate Reconstruction-era photographs drew blood.
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Two Houses in the West: Broadway’s Fall Opens With Palm Springs Secrets and a Palisades Ruin
Sunday, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and company open “Other Desert Cities” at the Hudson; Wednesday, Billy Crystal opens “860,” named for the house the fires took. A week of Broadway homecomings, with real estate as the subtext.
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Blood, Rubble and a Burning Stake: The Met’s ‘Macbeth’ Goes to the Movies
Today’s Live in HD transmission sent Louisa Proske’s divisive new Macbeth to nearly 650 cinemas days before the run closes. Quinn Kelsey is the reason to go; the rest is an argument worth having.
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The Pied-à-Terre Tax Came for Park Avenue. Park Avenue Signed Contracts Anyway.
With second-home surcharge bills due out next month and the courts still circling, Manhattan’s $4 million-and-up market just beat its ten-year October average, led by a furnished Carnegie Hill triplex nobody has ever lived in.
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Paddles Up, Speeches Down: The Fall Benefit Season Finds Its Rhythm
From Casita Maria’s record-breaking salsa night at the Plaza to Paul Simon’s unannounced turn at Guastavino’s, the autumn circuit has opened loud. Next: the Lotos Club, the Waldorf and a sold-out Metropolitan Club.
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Mrs. Pollock Has Left the Kitchen
The Met’s “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous” gives Lee Krasner 74 works to her husband’s 48, and, at last, the barn. A marriage, a market and a reckoning on Fifth Avenue.
