Brock Colyar

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Features Writer at New York Magazine

features writer @nymag / [email protected]

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Articles

Dorinda Medley, Noah Beck, and More on Their Guilty Pleasures

1 month ago | thecut.com | Brock Colyar

Industry’s Myha’la. Photo: Rowan Wade Fun clothes belong on fun people. So in New York and Los Angeles, we brought together 11 of our favorite follows, including the TikTok celebrities, artists, and musicians who are always in our feeds and on our minds, to talk about their secret (and some not-so-secret) passions and guilty pleasures. Who are they when nobody’s watching?
For Hollywood’s Leading Men, Chins Are In

2 months ago | vulture.com | Brock Colyar

A little over a year ago, Jack realized he didn’t like his face anymore. The 23-year-old from Chicago had just started working as a broadcast journalist at a local station, and being on television meant watching himself on television. “I didn’t find myself totally attractive, and, man, I wished there was something I could do to make myself attractive,” Jack, who preferred to speak pseudonymously, tells me. The more he scrutinized his face, the more he came to believe the problem was with his chin.
The Cultural Ascendancy of the New Young Right

2 months ago | nymag.com | Brock Colyar

It's Monday, January 20, the first night of Donald Trump 's second presidency, and just a couple blocks from the Capitol Building that his now-pardoned MAGA army swarmed four years and 14 days ago, there is, as there has been for the past several nights in restaurants, hotel ballrooms, and lobbying offices, a party for people who have never been happier about the direction in which this country is heading.
I Saw What New, Young Post-MAGA Trump Supporters Look Like

2 months ago | archive.is | Brock Colyar |Matt Stieb |Nia Prater |Margaret Hartmann

At the Power 30 Awards at Sax on January 19. Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux for New York Magazine This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Audio: Listen to this article.
Anybody Thirsty for Alex Cooper’s Girlie Gatorade?

Dec 15, 2024 | vulture.com | Brock Colyar

I’m the worst person to interview because I’ve detailed what the inside of my vagina looks like. I’ve said everything,” podcast princess Alex Cooper tells me as we sit side by side on a red velvet banquette at the clubstaurant Jean’s on Lafayette Street. There’s a DJ nearby, but she’s refusing to let the music drown her out. “I talk loud. I fucking scream. I promise I won’t spit on you. Okay?
The Louis Vuitton Store Opens So We Can All Forget Our Worries

Nov 15, 2024 | thecut.com | Brock Colyar

The exterior of the new Louis Vuitton store on 57th Street in NYC Photo: Louis Vuitton “Can you believe this is … temporary?” squealed the gorgeously vampiric socialite Jill Kargman — a person with fashionista bona fides: Her father ran Chanel for years — the first person I ran into at the grand-opening party for the new Louis Vuitton store on 57th Street just off Fifth Avenue last night.
27 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall

Nov 1, 2024 | vulture.com | Jackson McHenry |Brock Colyar |Bilge Ebiri |Shaad D'Souza

There are many words associated with autumn, but few speak to the season quite like “crisp” — the crunchy leaves, the apple treat, the cool breeze, and the pages of a fresh book. Even for those who are long past their days of compulsory education, the call to end summer with a trip to the bookstore or library to grab a full backpack’s worth of hardbacks might just feel mandatory. Luckily, there’s nothing stale about our recommended-reading list.
Jools Lebron on the ‘Very Demure’ TikTok Trend

Sep 11, 2024 | thecut.com | Brock Colyar

Jools Lebron outside Paris Hilton’s New York Fashion Week party. Photo: Brock Colyar/New York Magazine It’s 10 p.m. on Thursday, the night before the official first day of New York Fashion Week, and Jools Lebron, the 30-year-old internet catchphrase sensation, is making a TikTok at a Hilton Garden Inn in the Financial District. “Divas, how does big mama look?” she asks in one of four videos posted from inside her hotel room.
Brock Colyar Author Archive

Sep 10, 2024 | nymag.com | Brock Colyar

fall preview 2024 Yesterday at 9:30 a.m. Charli XCX Is Too Brat to FailShe owned the summer with an album that is also a vibe. Should she be sweating the fall? are u coming? Sept. 11, 2024 Jools Lebron Always Knew She’d Be a SuperstarThe “very demure” TikToker parties during New York Fashion Week. are u coming? Aug.
Nicole Scherzinger Never Stopped Dreaming

Aug 28, 2024 | vulture.com | Brock Colyar |Bilge Ebiri |Shaad D’Souza |Alessa Dominguez |Jackson McHenry

Sunset Blvd. begins previews at the St. James Theatre September 28. They wanted up-tempo,” Nicole Scherzinger purrs in the insulated register of a pop star preserving her voice, “so I’ll do a fun little set of the hits.” You may know the hits yourself: Scherzinger is best known as the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls, the aughts girl group whose songs touch a certain age bracket in the amygdala and get them on the dance floor.