“This is so cool and it hasn’t even started yet.” That’s how one spectator near me summed up the excitement in the air as we all waited, perched along the sidelines, for the Red Hook Criterium to begin. The race, in which competitors ride on fixed-gear bicycles with no brakes, took place last night at …
READ AT NYTIMES.COM » Kate Blumm moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in June 2011, seven weeks before her daughter, Zelda, was born. After “falling in love with the merchant community,” Ms. Blumm, and her husband, Michael De Zayas, opened a cafe last March on Franklin Avenue called Little Zelda. The couple began to notice …
READ AT NYTIMES.COM » This mouth, appearing on the cover of this weekend’s issue, belongs to Laura Williams, a model whose lips, teeth and hands are frequently sought for advertisements. When we conceived of an image to accompany Michael Moss’s article on the addictive science of junk food, we wanted to emulate the way a …
READ AT NYTIMES.COM » When Taryn Simon, a photographer and artist, collaborated with the computer programmer Aaron Swartz last April, she noticed that the way he logged into his online accounts seemed exceptionally complex. “The length of time it took to enter his password conveyed a certain pressure that was upon him,” Simon told me. …
READ AT NYTIMES.COM » “I don’t actually go to newsstands anymore,” said Tina Brown, the editor in chief of Newsweek/The Daily Beast, a few days after she announced last week that Newsweek would become an all-digital publication and terminate its 79-year run in print by the end of 2012. But while Brown insists that she …
READ AT NYTIMES.COM » In this weekend’s Voyages Issue, Nathaniel Rich writes about taking a long-distance train — Amtrak’s Sunset Limited — and the characters you meet when you spend 47 hours on the rails going from New Orleans to Los Angeles. Rich isn’t the only writer for the magazine to have ridden the Sunset … Continue reading »
READ AT NYTIMES.COM » The North Dakota in this Sunday’s magazine is one marked by rapid transformation, a place where oil derricks are springing up everywhere, and as the author of the cover story, Chip Brown, puts it, you might find “single-family homes with Tyvek paper flapping in the wind of what just yesterday was … Continue reading »
READ AT NYTIMES.COM » “During Hurricane Sandy, I was on assignment in Arizona. At the hotel where I was staying, they had really bad cable. The best way I could follow what was going on with the storm was by seeing the photos being posted to Instagram. It was amazing.” That’s how Mark Peterson, who … Continue reading »
READ AT NYTIMES.COM » In February 1986, The Times Magazine ran an article by Karen Stabiner about a tennis prodigy named Debbie Spence. Hers was a “grueling, solitary life” dominated by practice, travel, matches and missed Christmases. Spence dropped out of high school and turned pro at 17, even though, in Stabiner’s view, she was … Continue reading »
READ AT NYTIMES.COM » Among snowboarders and skateboarders and others, to “huck” is to throw oneself into a jump without inhibition (the term was inspired by the wild spirit of Huckleberry Finn). But in the British magazine of the same name, the boarding subcultures are but entry points for articles about music, politics and … Continue reading »
READ AT NYTIMES.COM » On his patio last Saturday afternoon, Matthew Baldassano stacked up crates holding the 2,500 pounds of fresh, deep-purple California grapes (petite syrah, cabernet and zinfandel) that had been dropped off for him on the sidewalk that morning. Two wooden barrels of wine took up part of his living room — he … Continue reading »
