Up in the Air
Philippe Petit Thinks You Should Look Up
by Bob Morris
The high-wire artist, famous for his Twin Towers walk, joins the tourists at Edge before an upcoming tightrope walk inside the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
At Bat
At the Ballpark: I See London, I See France!
by Zach Helfand
Fashion experts weigh in on Major League Baseball’s new inadvertently see-through uniforms, which leave nothing to the imagination.
The Boards
Gwyneth v. Skier: You Be the Judge!
by Anna Russell
Two London playwrights prep for “Gwyneth Goes Skiing,” a comic play about Gwyneth Paltrow’s legal battle with an optometrist over a crash on the slopes in Deer Valley.
The Pictures
Lee Grant Laughs Last
by Alexandra Schwartz
Hollywood wrote her off as an actress at age fifty, so she learned to direct. Just before turning ninety-eight, she celebrates after presenting a retrospective.
The Pictures
A Prep-School Movie Star
by Michael Schulman
Dominic Sessa had only acted in school plays at Deerfield Academy when Alexander Payne plucked him from twelfth grade to star alongside Paul Giamatti in his “Christmas-blues” film, “The Holdovers.”
On and Off the Menu
The Lasting Pleasures of New Haven Pizza
by Hannah Goldfield
The city’s restaurants inspire pilgrimages and intense loyalties. Can their magic be replicated elsewhere?
The Bench
In Georgia Judge, Has Trump Finally Met His Audience-Thrilling Match?
by Charles Bethea
Scott McAfee, the cello-playing, What-A-Man-pageant-winning judge presiding over the only televised Trump trial, wants to avoid becoming “the next Judge Ito.”
In the Water
Tits Out Under the Verrazzano
by Daniel Shailer
Leslie Hamilton, an accountant, battled sea lice and rusting garbage barges as she became the first person on record to swim a lap around Staten Island since 1979.
Sendoff Dept.
A Parting Glass for the Ritz-Carlton’s Norman Bukofzer
by Zach Helfand
One of the late, great barman’s best customers, Liam Neeson, presided from a “fecking” sickbed upstairs as drinkers toasted the guy who’d served Jodie Foster, Ralph Fiennes, Bono, Joe Torre, and Bette Davis.
Endangered Species Dept.
Reports of the Pay Phone’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
by Zach Helfand
Days after the city bid farewell to its “last pay phone” with much hoopla, one sleuth reported on several remaining phone booths—by making calls from said phone booths.