In this week’s @newyorkermag , I wrote about the World Championship in Massage, in Copenhagen. Thank you to the many massage therapists who talked to me, including the great @waikru.massage , the champ, who massaged me. The excellent photographs are by @tobiasnicolai , who made me wish I could team up with a reporter for every piece.
In the new issue, a walk around the theatre district with Daphne Rubin-Vega, who dreamed of acting as a kid living in the neighborhood and who currently works there, starring in “The Adding Machine.”
In my Talk last week, backstage with Wallace Shawn and Deborah Eisenberg before their recent, extraordinary débuts as understudies in Shawn’s new play, “What We Did Before Our Moth Days.”
Sting and “The Last Ship” are coming to the Met, which we chatted about at Lincoln Center and I wrote about in Talk. He was eloquent, not surprisingly, and a lot of fun. Illustration by João Fazenda.
How we loved you, Catherine O’Hara. From 2016, some sweet and funny moments of hers from a delightful afternoon. (The fretting that I mention was remorse—she thought she’d embarrassed someone and was devastated about it. She was so warm and kind. And FUN. ❤️) Illustration by the wonderful @mrbachtell .
I’ll miss you, Café Un Deux Trois. I’m glad I could say goodbye last week. Here are good-times pics from then and over the years. Not pictured: the time @holswalls2.0 , @toddlefelt , and I spotted Sammy Hagar and I excitedly crayoned a “55” on our paper tablecloth. ❤️
