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1 month ago | 
link.newyorker.com | Inkoo Kang |Doreen St. Felix |D. T. Max
Our theatrical spring continues to be a bright one, with a bounty of audacious, boundary-breaking work emerging Off Broadway in the coming weeks. At the Atlantic Theatre Company, Mona Pirnot’s tribute to the downtown theatre scene, “I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan,” is at Atlantic Stage 2, through April 30, and Eliya Smith’s kid-bereavement drama, “Grief Camp,” will be on the mainstage, through May 11.
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1 month ago | 
newyorker.com | D. T. Max
Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s extinct ancestors. Is the woolly mammoth next? D. T. Max reports.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | D. T. Max
Luigi Ciotti was pacing by the open gates of a low concrete building in Turin. He had been waiting for an hour. In front of him was a wide street smelling of diesel and flanked by the bollards that keep Italians from parking where they shouldn’t. With his shrewd eyes, flowing white hair, untucked black shirt, and black pants, Ciotti could have been a theatre director waiting for his lead to show up. Rather, he was a priest.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | D. T. Max
There are about a thousand real-estate developers in New York City. Nathan Berman is one of them, and he’s become rich doing it. But, he told me recently, “I never built a building from scratch, and never wanted to.” Instead, Berman, who is sixty-four, specializes in taking existing structures and converting them into apartments, a useful trick in a city that’s always starved for housing—and newly wary of the five-day-a-week office routine.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | D. T. Max
Gisele Bündchen’s Former Manhattan Townhouse Has Listed for Nearly $17 MillionA townhouse in Manhattan’s West Village that once belonged to Gisele Bündchen has hit the market for $16.995 million. Bündchen, who is one of the …
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | D. T. Max
When Beatriz Flamini was growing up, in Madrid, she spent a lot of time alone in her bedroom. “I really liked being there,” she says. She’d read books to her dolls and write on a chalkboard while giving them lessons in math or history.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | D. T. Max
The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a CaveBeatriz Flamini liked to be alone so much that she decided to live underground—and pursue a world record. The experience was gruelling and surreal. When Beatriz Flamini was growing up, in Madrid, she spent a lot of time alone in her bedroom. “I really liked being there,” she says. She’d read books …
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | D. T. Max
The evaluating nine were, per a press release, “multidisciplinary” and flown in from all over the world, and thus—fortuitously—jet-lagged. The initial vibe was Willy Wonka-esque. A life-style-magazine editor from Germany wasn’t sure why she got the golden ticket: “I love coffee. Who doesn’t?” Another tester had gone for a quick brushup at one of Illy’s seventeen Università del Caffè branches. On the other hand, Sunalini Menon, of Coffeelab, in Bangalore, is world-renowned.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
newyorker.com | D. T. Max
It was late on a sultry afternoon. The temperature was past ninety, but Friedman, who had just finished nine hours of rehearsal with Daniel Radcliffe (Charley), Jonathan Groff (Franklin), and Lindsay Mendez (Mary) for the mid-September transfer from New York Theatre Workshop (sold out) to the Hudson Theatre (limited run), felt not the humidity but “the aspiration of man” in the New York air.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
ascelibrary.org | D. T. Max
Information & AuthorsInformationPublished In Journal of Hydraulic EngineeringVolume 149 • Issue 10 • October 2023Copyright© 2023 American Society of Civil Engineers. HistoryReceived: Jan 25, 2023Accepted: Jun 13, 2023Published online: Jul 27, 2023Published in print: Oct 1, 2023Discussion open until: Dec 27, 2023PermissionsRequest permissions for this article.
