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The Inside Game: Gabriel Debenedetti • Who Can Make Joe Go? Democrats stared into the debate abyss. Now they ask if he’s a lost cause.
Neighborhood News: The Citi Bike Juice Crews • The docks don’t charge e-bikes (yet). These folks do.
172 MINUTES WITH … Jon Lovett • The podcast host doesn’t seem particularly comfortable with being a public figure. So why did he go on Survivor ?
Games: Olivia Craighead • Are Olympians Going to Swim in Poop Water? The world’s best athletes, ancient sewers, and the Seine.
Hush-Hush Affair • Love and other negotiations in the time of the NDA.
MY “DIFFICULT CHARACTER” • By age 43, I’d come up with many explanations for my perpetual strangeness with other people. Then the autism diagnosis arrived.
The WEIGHT of a BOEING 787 • Mitch Barnett spent years fighting one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers. It cost him his life.
An Uncomplicated Baby Carrier
Best Bets • a collection of expert-vetted, spotted-around-town, or otherwise just especially excellent products that recently appeared on thestrategist.com. To shop all these items - plus the baby carrier - in one place, scan the QR code.
How to Store Toilet Paper and Paper Towels, According to an Organizer
The Best Sandals for Summer • AS THE STRATEGIST’S resident style writer, I’m rather obsessive and opinionated about what makes for a great sandal. Often, the ones that look best leave blisters while the most comfortable options are unattractive. I asked people with admirable taste for suggestions.
Julep Cups Make the Ideal Wedding Present
I Can’t Get Through the Summer Without This Mosquito-Bite Ointment
The Best FACIALISTS • TO FIND THE places on this list, we polled dozens of savvy New Yorkers - a makeup artist, a stylist, and a songwriter among them. For more obsessively sourced recommendations, including the best art hangers and plumbers, visit curbed.com.
Brooklyn Prep’s Prom • The high school’s senior class (and one precious junior) celebrated at Russo’s on the Bay in Queens with steak dinners and dancing.
The Shrimp Show • San Sabino makes maximalist seafood for the social-media age.
Eel Bar Is Already a Scene • The Cervo’s team expands a few blocks north.
The Next Shishito? • Jimmy Nardello peppers, long beloved by chefs, are set to break out.
The Hidden Dutch Colonial • When Nicholas Howey and his late husband, Gerard Widdershoven, bought this 1925 house tucked away behind the hedges in Bridgehampton, they did little more than paint it - and fill it with art.
The Empty Seat • At Paris Couture Week, one question was on everyone’s lips: Who will lead Chanel?
The Renegade • June Squibb has the perfect first lead role: a granny gone rogue.
Faust Goes to Fidi • The producers of Sleep No More are back with the whirlwind immersive-theater project Life and Trust.
No Man’s Land • Rachel Cusk’s gender fundamentalism fully surfaces in her latest novel, Parade.
What Did Brooklyn Bridge Park Get So Right? • Nearly 20 years after we broke ground, it’s more impressive than ever.
CRITICS • Sara Holdren on Cats: “The Jellicle Ball” … Craig Jenkins on Camila Cabello’s C,XOXO … Emma Alpern on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise.
To Do • Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read. JULY 3 - 17
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THE APPROVAL MATRIX • Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.