"Exododus": They got so excited about this poll at the Post that they're trembling at the keyboard

Amazing AI work. (Not a word of this is accurate.)

Conservatives want to pitch the White House demolition as YIMBY. This is a bad-faith brain-dead take. You don't want expansive historic reviews for building new homes. You do want expansive historic reviews for *demolishing the White House.* www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I took a walk around Revolutionary-era New York with Ken Burns, and managed to slip in a Julia Child quote that I had banked. www.curbed.com/article/ken-...

Donald Trump, Socialist.

Well, it's finally a real thing! Our funny, helpful, NOT-just-about-freakin menopause book about getting to get what you want in your 40s and 50s, tentatively titled "Midseason Plot Twist!" (we've been through quite a few changes), will be out in Fall 2026!

I had an illuminating chat with one of the greatest photographers on earth. www.curbed.com/article/step...

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An observation: April Fool's Day fake-news stories, particularly the ones that went viral, do bad things to the AI database.

Call it the East Megawing, Trump's new ballroom is "the most on-the-nose embodiment of let-them-eat-cake Versailles extravagance — just as he throws old people off Medicare and kids off food stamp." via @heybonanos.bsky.social

If you hear explosions of cursing and rage from midtown in the next three or four hours, know that I’m setting up a new printer.

Magazine Freaky Friday?

Thank you to everyone who spoke to me for this www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Watched this during a somewhat stressful trip, and it really was a mood-elevator. To use a Gondelmanian word, I cherished it.

From Joseph Heller's (satire!) 'Catch-22': "Then there was the educated Texan…who looked like someone in Technicolor and felt, patriotically, that people of means—decent folk—should be given more votes than drifters, whores, criminals, degenerates, atheists and indecent folk—people without means."

Sightseeing in the cradle of democracy, looking at the ruins. Not at all a metaphor.

“Sophomoric mischief.” In college. When he was, give or take, an actual sophomore. Clearly he’ll never come back from this hit.

Happy 99th birthday to this great American artist.

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green." Happy Lottery day to you and yours.

@heybonanos.bsky.social spoke to engineers and public officials about how New York City can survive increasingly extreme heat.

Really love this banger column on fonts and signage and what they say about candidates and campaigns. Great/classic @heybonanos.bsky.social piece =>

A good writer lives for a run of sentences like this nymag.com/intelligence...

It's a stunt on ICE's part as much as anyone's. They certainly didn't have to show force in this situation, and they chose to act tough.

Some nice professional news: My profile of Robert Caro has won the New York Press Club’s Mychal Judge “Heart of New York” award, given for the year’s best writing about New York City. Shared with the photographer Jonas Fredwall Karlsson, whose excellent portrait of Caro ran with the story.

...and not a moment too soon.

Congratulations to our theater critic, Sarah Holdren, on her Pulitzer Prize nomination! Revisit some of her recent criticism here. www.vulture.com/author/sara-...

Sara "Not on Bluesky" Holdren, after less than two years back on the job at @nymag.com/@vulture.com, is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Hell yeah.

ℹ️ EVERY SINGLE LOCATION in Lorde's 'What Was That' music video, as she walks & bikes along the East Side of Manhattan 📍 – thank you for your service Curbed curbed.com/article/lord... #wwt #lorde

My heart is still beating so fast. Thank you @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social Thank you @bloomberg.com and especially the CityLab team @kristoncapps.bsky.social @nicflatow.bsky.social and David Dudley Stories here! www.bloomberg.com/features/des...

When I was working on my book about Polaroid, I periodically thought "this really should be an American Experience episode." And now it is. deadline.com/video/mr-pol...

"How did you spend your morning?" "Identifying every single location in Lorde's new video. You?" www.curbed.com/article/lord...

If you can get past the lament for the BQX, this is a fantastic rant for building more and building big in NYC apple.news/A8bmhibU1SwS...

The ultimate 1980 experience: Buy a Polaroid camera, be a Pepper.

A thing that I just learned exists: the decorative metal tie-knot cover.

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Such a great picture, revisiting such a great performance in such a great show.

This whole New York magazine feature about Broadway legends reuniting with their famous roles is impeccably produced. But this portrait of William Daniels, who just turned 98, revisiting John Adams from 1776, absolutely floored me. www.vulture.com/article/bigg...

Mark Seliger's portfolio, from our Yesteryear issue, is just staggering. 29 theater legends, re-enacting their biggest roles. If you are even remotely interested in Broadway theater, this will blow you away. www.vulture.com/article/bigg...

Happy birthday to excellent William Daniels! [photo by Martha Swope]

R U OK LinkNYC?

Can’t wait to see the Didion/Dunne archives for myself, based on these choice morsels.

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

Let’s see how “has a server for emails” stacks up against “messaged attack plans via Signal, and accidentally tagged in a journalist.” (Actually no need. You know how this will go.)

The artist Adolph Weinman designed the Walking Liberty half dollar (coined by the U.S. Mint from 1916 to 1947) and sculpted the granite eagles on Penn Station (opened 1910, demolished 1963). The Mercury dime, too. What a feel for muscles and wings he had. These birds look fantastic.

The startling moment when you are watching a movie and a familiar GIF comes on

A good piece on the controversy by @heybonanos.bsky.social: www.curbed.com/article/rock...