Features

A Dumb Job

The Great American News Anchor is no different from the Great and Powerful Oz. By Frank Rich

‘Man, They Just Don’t Know Who I Am’

Ray Rice is very, very sorry. By Steve Fishman

The Camera Behind the Cameras

Ernst Haas really knew his way around a Hollywood set. By Christopher Bonanos

Intelligencer

The Money

Maybe outsourcing errands to an app will prove as liberating as a washing machine.

Tribes: The Branches of the Bushes

Five generations. Two presidents (and counting). And just about every elite profession you can name.

162 Minutes With Jens Risom

The still-working almost-99-year-old who introduced Danish Modern design to America.

Yoga at P.S. 205

Where every pose is child’s pose.

Games

Can a new commissioner actually change baseball?

The Cut

Girls of the World

What women look like now: signature grooming trends in Tel Aviv, London, and Seoul.

Strategist

Best Bets

Acrylic tables, how to puff a pocket square, and more new stuff in New York stores.

The Look Book

The Upper West Sider who grew up in a traveling gospel band.

Targeted Tour Guides

Spring travel advice from a Reykjavík booze-maker, a Roman burlesque dancer, and a Santiago chef.

The Restaurant Review

The food is simple at the Polo Bar. Getting in’s the hard part.

The Dish

Von Kava’s Smorgasburg tasting menu.

The Underground Gourmet

Manousheh heaven.

Restaurant Opening

First look at Chevalier, a lavish new French spot.

Restaurant Opening

What to eat at Dimes, relocating this month to a larger space.

Restaurant Opening

Tex-Mex reaches its apotheosis at El Original.

Culture

The Honorable Judge Connick

Harry Connick Jr. is bringing the music back to American Idol.

Play Therapy

Alison Bechdel draws her path to Broadway.

Books

Heidi Julavits contemplates mortality, unseriously.

What Would Peggy Olson Say?

A wordless twist on vintage ads of women.

The Music Review

When everybody pulls a Beyoncé: surprise-album fatigue.

The Movie Review

The earthly pleasures of Clouds of Sils Maria.

The Classical Review

Meredith Monk’s compelling weirdness.

To Do: April 8–April 22, 2015

Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.

Departments

Comments: Week of April 6, 2015

Readers sound off on New York “After Midnight,” Matt Harvey, and more.

The Approval Matrix: Week of April 6, 2015

Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.