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Q.  What happened to my New Yorker subscription?

A.  "Your The New Yorker Magazine subscription suspension due to wildfires has been lifted, and you should receive the April 07, 2025 issue; for any further assistance, please follow up via previous e-mail correspondence."

Eh, but mail delivery was never halted in my area.

 

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Reading the remarkable story about the Knot led me to look up the spelling "vendors" vs "venders." Apparently the latter is permissible but almost unique to the New Yorker. What a distracting affectation.

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2 hours ago, relbbaddoof said:

Googling Knot New Yorker seems to take you to a link that can be opened by anyone.

Anyone who hasn't already hit their free article limit. So, not me.

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20 hours ago, small h said:

Maybe I should just subscribe already.

A few more dinners from your laundry room, and you'll have covered the cost!

Back in my catering days, it was the very early days of The Knot...at that point, most of the people (i.e.: brides to be and their mothers (oy)) had not even heard of it.  Didn't realize it turned into such a shit show.

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OTOH, the couple whose Austrian wedding we're going to have made a very complete wedding site on The Knot, complete with links to the RSVP page, hotel, venue, and travel information, and sightseeing tips.

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7 hours ago, MitchW said:

Back in my catering days, it was the very early days of The Knot...

Which probably coincided with my video days. While you were in the kitchen, I was out on the floor, assisting the camera folk (you don't want me shooting, since someone my height will make the bride look 50 feet tall). I had to go to a lot of bridal expos, and I remember when The Knot crew first started. All the vendors were friendly with one another, even the direct competitors. But not them. They were uniformly rude, snotty and generally unpleasant. The party planners all hated them, and if you know any party planners, you know they're pretty dreadful people themselves, so that said something. I worked with Marcy Blum - mentioned in the article - a bunch of times; she was probably the easiest to deal with. (I finally was able to read it with textise.)

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No, Hannah, protein is not "venerated" by people on the keto diet. In fact, it's possible to eat too much protein in quest of fat.

As for protein bars, every one I look at is way too high in carbs for anyone on keto. There are very good keto bars out there (high, of course, in fat).

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/28/the-quest-to-build-a-perfect-protein-bar

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We saw an excellent production of The Light in the Piazza in Boston last week, then rushed to watch the de Havilland movie, and to read the original Spencer story in the New Yorker from 1960

Those were the days. That issue was 144 pages. The Spencer story took up sixty seven. Twenty seven of those pages were full-page advertisements. Twenty eight were two thirds advertisements. That leaves a little over twenty pages of text, but then there were the cartoons.

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I would love to see a current production of The Light in the Piazza.  The one we went to, years ago, got many accolades but we weren't impressed.  I think that, for us, the problem was the staging, which we found distracting with lots of movement without purpose (except to denote "movement").  How was that aspect of the Boston production?

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Oh, you saw the same as me. Lincoln Center with Kelli O'Hara and a cast that stormed purposefully about the stage, to no purpose. O'Hara is a fine singer, but I just didn't believe her in that role.

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On 5/22/2025 at 11:22 AM, Steve R. said:

the problem was the staging, which we found distracting with lots of movement without purpose (except to denote "movement").

There was movement, too, but to me it signified the chaotic liveliness of Italian piazzas. I wasn't distracted. The de Havilland movie tried to get at this with (a) actual people milling about, and (b) pigeons fluttering off en masse at crucial moments.

The original story focuses more on what people were thinking than what they were seeing.

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Sometimes the magazine excels itself. Current issue: a David Hockney painting on the cover, a short story (okay, excerpt from forthcoming novel) by Jon Fosse; a short piece by the great Elif Batuman; a story about a competitor for Nutella that turns into a meditation on French-Algerian relations; a gripping piece about Amelia Earhart for no apparent reason; Hilton Als totally disagreeing with me about "Superfine"; and I haven't even read the big feature yet.

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6 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

Current issue: a David Hockney painting on the cover,

I wonder if the cover has anything to do with this?

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David Hockney

The Fondation Louis Vuitton is set to host an exhibition dedicated to Hockney, running from April 10 to August 31, 2025. David Hockney 25 will showcase over 400 works spanning his remarkable seven-decade career. Visitors

 

 

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There's been lots of coverage about the Hockney show in other magazines. The April issue of Vogue devoted about 6 pages to it. Friends who are going to Paris later this month are planning on going.

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14 minutes ago, bloviatrix said:

There's been lots of coverage about the Hockney show in other magazines. The April issue of Vogue devoted about 6 pages to it. Friends who are going to Paris later this month are planning on going.

It's a nice exhibition space and pretty cool Frank Gehry building.  Saw a Mark Rothko show there earlier this year.

 

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