Shauna Lyon

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Shauna Lyon |Inkoo Kang |Jillian Steinhauer |Sheldon Pearce

You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Whether you are one with the sun or in love with your A.C. unit, summer has plenty in store for you that doesn’t involve a small screen.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Shauna Lyon |Richard Brody |Jennifer Wilson |Hua Hsu

“Only in New York” may be a cliché, but only because it’s so true. For Goings On, in our New York-themed centenary issue, we asked staff writers to share some of their favorite spots that can be found . . . only in New York. These are places that are indelibly charming in their specificity—places that you never knew you needed but once you discover you’d be sad if they were gone—often thanks, especially, to the fascinating characters who created them and to the dedicated people who keep them running.

Feb 28, 2025 | newyorker.com | Shauna Lyon |Sheldon Pearce |Helen Shaw |Jackson Arn

Another traditionally feminine medium, porcelain, is the star and possible villain of “Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition (March 25) takes a wary view of its own contents, which span half a millennium, arguing that the West acted out its daydreams of a docile Orient one cup-and-saucer at a time.

Aug 1, 2024 | newyorker.com | Shauna Lyon

After a pandemic blip, which spurred the addition of hand-packed pints to the roster, Caffè Panna’s popularity continued to grow—social media loves a towering sundae, and a buzzy collab (Levain Bakery, “Somebody Feed Phil,” the list goes on). Energized by the food scene in Greenpoint, Meyer has opened a new outpost there, big enough, at nearly five thousand square feet, to house an actual ice-cream factory and a seating area.

Mar 21, 2024 | newyorker.com | Shauna Lyon

Is it spring break yet? If you’re in the mood for beach—and by the last week of March who isn’t—you might head to Quique Crudo, a tiny walk-in-only restaurant in the West Village, where the chef Cosme Aguilar is serving exquisite Mexican seafood dishes, potent cocktails, and upscale chill vibes: a vacation in one sitting.