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On a Wednesday afternoon, Hannah May received her toddler daughter’s diagnosis. The room began to spin as the geneticist told May and her wife Erin that some of Juniper’s genetic variations indicated a disease called metachromatic leukodystrophy, also known as MLD. He rattled off all the ways that MLD would impact Juniper: loss of vision, loss of all gross- and fine-motor function, sharp cognitive decline. A vastly shortened life expectancy. Without treatment, she’d likely die in early childhood. “We so often treat children as investments designed to pay dividends at a later time. A child’s feelings, a child’s experiences, a child’s whole life matters only as much as it will produce a productive adult,” writes May. “It’s hard for us to remember that children’s lives are happening now, in the present, and not in some distant future where they can finally earn their keep.” When May and her wife found out that Juniper was unlikely to live past the age of 5, that not only would she not

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Wasians were more visible than ever this year: Alysa Liu and Eileen Gu were the reigning queens of the Milan Olympics; Hudson Williams parlayed the fervor of ‘Heated Rivalry’ into brand ambassadorships for Peloton and Balenciaga; Charles Melton got an Emmy nomination for ‘Beef’; Megan Lawless and Lukita Maxwell starred in Gen Z horror blockbusters ‘Obsession’ and ‘Backrooms’; Olivia Rodrigo led the ‘Billboard’ Hot 100. In the U.S., there are more multiracial Asians, specifically Wasians, than ever before. Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in the country, hitting a new high of 26.4 million in 2024. About one in five are multiracial, and of those, 82% are part white. What was once an isolating experience is now a mass coming of age. The generational arrival was on display in May when an open invite to a Wasian meetup in Central Park landed on Partiful and was instantly faced with backlash. People felt that Wasians, by carving out a separate space within mixed-race id

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There is a limiting factor to being so square-jawed and blue-eyed and symmetrical, which is that smirking hot villain is about the extent of what mainstream Hollywood knows what to do with you. In recent years, though, @imsebastianstan has realized that he knows what he wants to do with himself. After two decades in Hollywood, Stan has become a leading man by physically transforming himself — and by searching for lower-budget, independent, and international films in which to do it. Last year, Stan won a Golden Globe for his lead role in Aaron Schimberg’s ‘A Different Man,’ as a man who undergoes a drastic procedure to change his face and ruins his own life in the process. He was nominated for an Oscar for his preening, self-serving Donald Trump in ‘The Apprentice.’ This fall, he stars in ‘Fjord,’ directed by Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu, in which he speaks his first language, Romanian, in a film for the first time. In our new cover story, Stan sits down with features writer

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When you’re a young actor, people with more power than you will label you as a type. The gag is that they might do this before you know who you are in real life. As soon as Sebastian Stan started auditioning seriously in his early 20s, it was obvious there was basically one thing everybody wanted from him. “Until quite recently, I had to battle this conception of me as being like the asshole character from ‘Karate Kid,’” says the actor, now 44. “A waspy asshole. A dick.” A big break was ‘Gossip Girl,’ where he was cast as a slightly older degenerate gambler. A way bigger break was getting cast in Marvel movies, as James “Bucky” Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier. There is a limiting factor to being so square-jawed and blue-eyed and symmetrical, which is that smirking hot villain is about the extent of what mainstream Hollywood knows what to do with you. In recent years, though, Stan has realized that he knows what he wants to do with himself. After two decades in Hollywood, Stan has bec

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As the Bowery Presents co-founder John Moore prepared to open Music Hall of Williamsburg, he wondered if the neighborhood had already peaked. It was 2007, more than a decade after artists and musicians began fleeing Manhattan rents for a “new bohemia” in North Brooklyn. The postindustrial warehouses were no longer empty or inexpensive. “The concern was that the neighborhood was already becoming a bit too ‘high rent’ for a music club,” Moore says. “We felt like we weren’t pioneers any longer.” Still, this was before the Starbucks and Whole Foods, before the Apple and Google stores. In 2007, condo towers were only starting to rise over the recently rezoned waterfront. A group of DIY and small venues were still scattered around Williamsburg. To some, Music Hall’s arrival represented the beginning of the end: one of the first Brooklyn rock clubs made out of the Manhattan mold. The opening of Music Hall was part of an old story repeating in Williamsburg. Artists and musicians had flocked

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Three years ago, Deby and Vivek Mathew moved into a three-story 1910 townhouse in Gramercy Park with their three children. It was more space than the family had ever had. Until then, they’d been living in a classic open-format loft on 24th Street. “Just the idea of having a floor for our bedroom and then a floor for the kids’ bedrooms was really desirable,” says Deby Mathew. The brownstone’s original features, including crown molding, working fireplaces with marble mantels, and a stained-glass skylight, were a big draw. But it needed a refresh. “We wanted someone to give us an idea of how to make the space modern,” she adds. “I wanted someone to push me with color. My aesthetic tends to be a little bit more Swedish.” A friend introduced them to @ninabarniehblair, a Ghanaian designer by way of London who has been building her practice in New York for over a decade. At the link in our bio, read how she and the Mathews transformed their townhouse. Photos: @alexandrarowley

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There are many numbers inextricably linked with the morning of September 11th. There are the 2,977 people who died at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. There are the 343 FDNY members, 23 NYPD members, and 37 Port Authority police officers who died trying to save lives. There are the 100 days that the stubborn fires burned beneath the rubble at Ground Zero. The enormity of these numbers is still hard to grasp, writes Lukas Alpert, but they remain fixed. One measure continues to grow: the number of people getting sick. In the 25 years that have passed since that day, 154,700 people have entered the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides care and health monitoring to people who were exposed to toxic air after 9/11, many of whom have come down with illnesses linked to the attack. Of those, 9,224 have died. Every year, the number of sick people rises. “After the attack, government officials were eager to get the city back to work,” writes A

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The author and playwright @jordan.tannahill — his 2025 production, ‘Prince Faggot,’ posited “what would happen if, just a few steps down the line of inheritance, there were a guy who loved being a little bitch in bed?” — has spent the past four years working on his new novel, ‘The Living Realm,’ even though it runs just 160 pages. “It took me a long time to write very few words,” he says, but that pace was deliberate. “I ended up with exactly the book I intended to write.” Part of the process was the last year spent editing. “Even though the bulk of the writing happened a year ago,” Tannahill says, “you’re deep in the world of the novel, and I realize I haven’t left it since I started.” This being summer, though, he did leave it and leave New York (where he lives in the East Village), which is where we start this edition of the “Grub Street Diet.” Read about his week (including a stint at his first American hospital) at the link in our bio. Illustration: @ryan_inzana

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With his ballroom construction project, Donald Trump’s architectural ambitions are clear. The ballroom is set to be a gold-adorned Roman temple of a building with 40-foot ceilings and 22,000 square feet of space. In an exclusive interview, Trump tells Washington correspondent Ben Terris (@bterris) the ballroom shares design aspects with the Palace of Versailles but is in many ways going to be “more beautiful.” Trump says during his first term, he learned just how badly the White House needed a ballroom. It was embarrassing, he says, to bring foreign dignitaries over, but the timing never felt quite right to undertake a construction project. “In the first term, I was under siege,” he tells Terris. “I didn’t feel it was the atmosphere.” Now, he says, “is a much more powerful time.” One of the stranger features of Trump’s second term is that no matter the subject or the audience, he’s probably going to bring up the ballroom. He talked about the ballroom when announcing the federal tak

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There is nothing Donald Trump enjoys more than talking construction. In less than two years, he has nearly finished a new White House helipad, turned the Rose Garden into a sculpture-laden patio, and made a disastrous attempt to refurbish the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. Since Trump’s return to the White House, his administration has made changes to more than 100 structures in Washington, D.C. The total cost: somewhere north of a billion dollars. The biggest project, in terms of both cost (estimated to be $800 million when done) and presidential mindshare, is the ballroom and the military bunker that will be tucked underneath. A senior White House official says Trump views all this building as part of his legacy. “When the ballroom is built, everyone will always know in perpetuity that it was built by Donald Trump. Are Democrats going to come in and rip it down? I have a hard time believing that,” he says. “I don’t think they could, physically,” Trump tells Washington co

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New York is a tongue town, writes chief restaurant critic @matthewschneier. Katz’s has been slicing it by the pound for decades. It’s a Jewish classic. “But I’ve never encountered any tongue as tonguelike as the ox tongue at @somssi_nyc in the Village, where it is scored, grilled, and glazed and presented undisguised, as recognizable as the nose on your face. It is the rare entrée that offers itself up to be French-kissed,” writes Schneier. It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to serve a dish like this, not least when it is one of only four entrée offerings, and a certain amount of finesse to pull it off. Somssi, the newest restaurant from the Na:Eun Hospitality group, which includes J.P. and Ellia Park’s Atomix, has both. And just a few blocks away, another little-sibling restaurant is pulling its weight, too. @noury.newyork is the second restaurant from the team behind Kiko, “a Japanese-y bistro I admired in Hudson Square,” writes Schneier. Husband-and-wife team Alex Chang and Lin

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Every once in a while, a small, independent designer comes along who lights the world of menswear enthusiasts on fire. Right now, it’s @emilydawnlong, a 36-year-old designer without a boutique who sells retro plaid button-up shirts, embroidered ball caps, and $200 vintage T-shirts screenprinted with cheeky slogans across the front (“Spoiled Boys,” “Take Off Your Clothes,” and “Bug Me!”) out of her showroom on Chrystie Street. Dawn Long sells women’s clothing, too, but she credits men with fueling her business, starting with her appearance on the ‘Throwing Fits’ podcast in early 2025. Highsnobiety editor Noah Johnson and Nordstrom men’s fashion director Jian DeLeon both regularly wear EDL ball caps, and French fashion editors swarmed her pop-up shop during Paris Men’s Fashion Week in June. Celebrities have followed, including Justin Bieber, who was recently seen wearing one of her tees in Los Angeles. Pedro Pascal and Jeremy Allen White are also members of her growing famous-guy fan cl

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