relbbaddoof Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Yes, my wife said "I bet you loved this one." Except, I read the New Yorker for the articles, so never glance at the pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollywood Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 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.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted April 3 Author Share Posted April 3 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
small h Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 (edited) 1 hour ago, Wilfrid said: Reading the remarkable story about the Knot Please post a gift link, if you can. I have A LOT OF THOUGHTS about The Knot. Edited April 3 by small h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relbbaddoof Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Googling Knot New Yorker seems to take you to a link that can be opened by anyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted April 4 Author Share Posted April 4 Yes, here it is: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/07/does-the-knot-have-a-fake-brides-problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
small h Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 (edited) 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. Edited April 4 by small h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
small h Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Maybe I should just subscribe already. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchW Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 (edited) 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. Edited April 4 by MitchW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieL Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 (edited) 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. Edited April 4 by StephanieL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
small h Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 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.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted April 26 Author Share Posted April 26 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relbbaddoof Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 (edited) 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. Edited May 20 by relbbaddoof Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve R. Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 (edited) I would love to see a current production of The Light in the Piazza. Â The one we went to, years ago, got many accolades but we weren't impressed. Â I think that, for us, the problem was the staging, which we found distracting with lots of movement without purpose (except to denote "movement"). Â How was that aspect of the Boston production? Edited May 22 by Steve R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted May 22 Author Share Posted May 22 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relbbaddoof Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted June 6 Author Share Posted June 6 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchW Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 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? Quote  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   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloviatrix Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 (edited) 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. Edited June 6 by bloviatrix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchW Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 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.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted June 7 Author Share Posted June 7 Amy Sherald's masterpiece was on the cover end of March, just before her Whitney show opened, so unlikely to be a coincidence. Great covers though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted June 16 Author Share Posted June 16 It can't be easy to write a profile of Irving Thalberg without mentioning "Gone With the Wind," even in passing, but Adam Gopnik meets the challenge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronS Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 I thought the piece on yarvin was about as good as you could hope for, although I would think yarvin was probably pretty happy with it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted June 20 Author Share Posted June 20 There was a tension, I thought, between explaining how far out his ideas are and giving him that much attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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