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1 month ago | 
grubstreet.com | Paula Aceves |Adam Mazur
For the past few years, Jenny Hagel and her colleagues at Late Night With Seth Meyers have been “happily but also sadly” working remotely — “sadly because I miss my colleagues, and happily because now my laundry’s always done,” says Hagel.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
grubstreet.com | Rima Parikh |Adam Mazur
Justin Peck, resident choreographer at the New York City Ballet, is probably on a Citibike right now. For months, he’s been splitting his days between rehearsals for Mystic Familiar, his new ballet production, and the Broadway musical Buena Vista Social Club, which he’s co-choreographing with his wife, Patricia Delgado.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Emma Alpern |Adam Mazur
Book people, says Youngmi Mayer — who published her first memoir, I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying, last month — are a little gentler than the crowds she usually runs with. In her 20s, Mayer opened Mission Chinese Food with her ex-husband; later, she found a new kind of success doing stand-up and posting comedy online.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Paula Aceves |Adam Mazur
Tim Heidecker has young kids, which means his “usual” diet consists of pasta, roast chicken, taco night, and leftovers. This week, though, following the release of Slipping Away, his new classic-rock album that includes some of his “most fun and freewheeling work, and some of his most pensive and apocalyptic,” the multi-hyphenate comedian-author-musician flew to Spain, where he’s directing a commercial.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Paula Aceves |Adam Mazur
Tim Heidecker has young kids, which means his “usual” diet consists of pasta, roast chicken, taco night, and leftovers. This week, though, following the release of Slipping Away, his new classic-rock album that includes some of his “most fun and freewheeling work, and some of his most pensive and apocalyptic,” the multi-hyphenate comedian-author-musician flew to Spain, where he’s directing a commercial.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Emma Alpern |Adam Mazur
Chef Jeremy Salamon is having a busy month. In addition to running his lively Crown Heights restaurant, Agi’s Counter, a seasonal-food spot with Hungarian and Jewish influences, he’s readying a new restaurant, Pitt’s, which will take over the Red Hook space that once housed Fort Defiance. Plus, his first cookbook, Second Generation — a project seven years in the making — hits shelves on Tuesday. Also, there’s all the dill he has to contend with.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman |Adam Mazur
Will Butler, who admits to overthinking his morning oatmeal. Will Butler says the start of summer has been like emerging from “a portal to a different dimension,” which is to say the run-up to the Tonys for Stereophonic, Butler’s first foray into Broadway. “We won, and then it was an instant heat wave, and the whole city shut down, and it was completely summer,” he says.
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May 31, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Alan Sytsma |Adam Mazur
Berry, who appreciates the finality of cooking a meal, “whereas writing and motherhood are both infinite.” For her new novel, Trust Her, the author Flynn Berry undertook an exercise she’s performed for all of her previous books: She figured out what her characters like to eat.
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May 10, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Zach Schiffman |Adam Mazur
Brunstetter, who was in town to celebrate her Tony nomination for The Notebook. The last time Bekah Brunstetter was in New York, she was in rehearsals for The Notebook — and she still remembers smacking a drinks-carrying waiter (accidentally) with her backpack during dinner at Via Carota. “I felt like a Cathy cartoon,” she says. Last week, she was back, having booked a last-minute flight to New York from L.A. after finding out she was a Best Book Tony nominee for that same musical.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
grubstreet.com | Gaby Grossman |Adam Mazur
Goddard. Joanna Goddard has been running her lifestyle website, Cup of Jo, for 16 years. Our friends at the Cut call it “the website equivalent of a Nancy Meyers movie kitchen: roomy, well lit, viscerally appealing.” Goddard is also at the helm of a newsletter called Big Salad, where she interviews people such as Ashley C. Ford and writes about her life, including venturing back into dating after a divorce.
