The Love Machine

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  36 minutes  |  7633 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Love Is Blind creator Chris Coelen drops a new group of singles into his experiment — and wrestles with the lawsuits against the show. Where couples see each other for the first time. Photo: Michael Friberg for New York Magazine Where couples see each other for the first time. Photo: Michael Friberg for New York Magazine Where couples see each other for the first time. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. [Read More]

The Marvelous Mrs. MaiselRecap: Bittersweet Revenge

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1439 words  |  Sherie Connelly

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel How to Chew Quietly and Influence People Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel How to Chew Quietly and Influence People Season 4 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » If the last two episodes of The Marvelous Mrs. [Read More]

The Marvelous Mrs. MaiselRecap: The Other Woman

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1551 words  |  Janel Helmers

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Ethan … Esther … Chaim Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Ethan … Esther … Chaim Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Well, now we know why The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel crew was so tight-lipped about Milo Ventimiglia’s much-touted appearance this season: because it amounted to little more than an elaborate tease. [Read More]

The Mets Tremendous Harlem Renaissance Show Redefines Modernism

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1125 words  |  Aldo Pusey

“The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” on view at the Met. The first thing you’re likely to read about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition dedicated to the Harlem Renaissance is that it’s a long-overdue atonement for past sins. Specifically, 1969’s “Harlem on My Mind,” the museum’s first survey of African American culture, which included photographs of Black people and no other art at all — as if the people themselves were curiosities on display. [Read More]

The Midlife Vices of Greg Giraldo

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  13 minutes  |  2698 words  |  Elina Uphoff

About six years ago, comedian Jesse Joyce — a man who, I can tell you from personal experience, could talk intelligently about politics, polish off six pints of ale at a fairly rapid clip, and continue making his articulate points as if he had simply downed a glass of cherry cola — decided that maybe this sort of drinking wasn’t healthy, and gave it up. Around the same time, another comedian with a tendency for overindulgence, veteran comic and former attorney Greg Giraldo, made a similar decision for himself. [Read More]

The Mindy Project Recap: Hurry Down the Chimney Tonight

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1269 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The Mindy Project Christmas Party Sex Trap Season 2 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Mindy Project Christmas Party Sex Trap Season 2 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Gobs of romance with a dose of wacky antics — I love it when The Mindy Project gives me what I want for Christmas, even (especially! [Read More]

The Mod Squad, Kojak, Real-Life Cops, and Me

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  29 minutes  |  6077 words  |  Janel Helmers

Rewatching the police shows of my 1970s youth. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Tige Andrews, Michael Cole, and Clarence Williams III in The Mod Squad, 1969. Photo: ABC This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Tige Andrews, Michael Cole, and Clarence Williams III in The Mod Squad, 1969. [Read More]

The Most Heartfelt and Goofy of R.E.M., According to Mike Mills

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  16 minutes  |  3266 words  |  Janel Helmers

Superlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. Superlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. “I think people didn’t know how much fun we were truly having. And it was a lot of fun.” R.E.M. has the uncanny ability to exist in and out of time. It’s probably because Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry never treated their listeners like a bunch of dummies, even when the group managed to conquer the mainstream with their potent and beautiful songs. [Read More]

The Most Unintentionally Entertaining Kids Shows to Put on for Your Children

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1369 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Long story short: I spent a lot of time this fall babysitting for two small boys on the Upper East Side, ages one-and-a-half and three, both named after Lord of the Rings characters by a father who had a lot of Jimmy Buffett books on his shelf and may go see the Jimmy Buffett musical when it comes to New York. The weird thing about children these days, as opposed to when I was a kid, is that you can’t just “put on” the TV. [Read More]