ALEX WILLIAMS

May 23, 2020

The Drones Were Ready for This Moment

New Yorkers strolling along the East River early last month glanced up to see an unsettling sight: a mysterious drone claiming to represent something called the […]
May 18, 2020

The Joy of Getting Lost and Finding Your Way

ImageCredit…Illustration by Jason Fujikuni/The New York Times The Joy of Getting Lost and Finding Your Way By Sure, the journey is the destination and all that. […]
April 22, 2020

Why We Laugh During a Pandemic

“Unreasonably dark joke,” read a coronavirus meme circulating on social media in recent weeks. “Shouldn’t we wait until after the pandemic to fill out the census?” […]
April 2, 2020

Peter Gatien, the ’90s ‘Club King,’ Wants His Final Say

“Thoughts flash in your mind of incredible nights here, whether it was Jay-Z, or Junior Vasquez, or the thousands of people inside and outside, waiting in […]
March 6, 2020

J.B. Smoove of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Shops the Diamond District

On HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Larry David plays himself. Ted Danson plays himself. Richard Lewis plays himself. So it’s easy to assume that J.B. Smoove, who […]
February 2, 2020

The Electric Hummer and the Rise of the Eco-Beast

What would it take to unite this divided country? At this point, we seem to be down to one option: electric pickup trucks. What? You haven’t […]
January 31, 2020

Suzanne Somers Gets Flirty in a Pink Salt Room

“I’d love to say it was because I had too much sex,” Suzanne Somers said. But the truth behind her crutch would hardly make Chrissy Snow […]
November 26, 2019

Pete Hamill ‘Ain’t Done Yet’

After 9,000 or so bylines, Pete Hamill has probably earned the opportunity to write the lead of his own profile. “Oh, I thought about it,” Mr. […]
November 6, 2019

Why Justin Bieber, Chris Pratt and Offset Like to ‘Double-Wrist’

What fashion flourish is shared by Justin Bieber, Fidel Castro, Princess Diana and Drake? If you guessed “double-wristing,” the totally gratuitous but weirdly enduring practice of […]
October 17, 2019

Why Don’t Rich People Just Stop Working?

“Billionaires should not exist,” Senator Bernie Sanders said last month. And, at the Democratic presidential debate this week, he said that the wealth disparity in America […]