Rachel Syme

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Rachel Syme

I couldn’t help but wonder . . . can you even have summer in New York City without Carrie Bradshaw? A reflection on the queen of the season, and the return of “And Just Like That . . .” Plus:• Susan B. Glasser on the vicious obits for Elon Musk• Are the best flour tortillas made in Kansas City? Rachel SymeSyme, a staff writer, has been covering culture for The New Yorker since 2012.

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Rachel Syme |Hilton Als |Helen Shaw |Sheldon Pearce |Taran Dugal |Jia Tolentino

Summer is a season ripe for scandal; people tend to be overheated and understimulated, looking to mist their crisping minds with idle gossip. Minor controversies can boil over, given the right temperature, into full-on imbroglios; such was the case in Paris in 1884, when the twenty-eight-year-old painter John Singer Sargent débuted a new large-scale portrait at the Salon, then the world’s most influential summer art show.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Rachel Syme

The New Yorker is not, by any definition, a fashion magazine, but it is—and nearly always has been—a magazine concerned with fashion. The publication’s mascot, Eustace Tilley, is, after all, defined by accessories: his gleaming top hat, crisp white gloves, and dandyish monocle are all totems of both persnickety good taste and the febrile effort behind chasing it.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Rachel Syme |Helen Shaw |Jane Bua |Jillian Steinhauer

New York City and roller-skating go way back. In 1863, a part-time inventor named James Leonard Plimpton, who ran a furniture store in the East Village, filed the first American patent for quad skates. Plimpton, who struggled with weak ankles, loved to skate but hated to wobble; his newfangled creation featured four squat, spread-out wheels, an innovation that allowed even novice skaters to conquer balance.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Rachel Syme

2 days ago“Beyond the Sea” - Jonathan Groff And The Broadway Company Of “Just In Time” (LIVE on The Late Show)Tony Award-winner Jonathan Groff and the Broadway company of “Just In Time” perform “Beyond the Sea” from the new musical based on the career of Bobby Darin. Tickets for the show are on sale now at https://justintimebroadway.com.