sound advice

Release Your Rage to This Jogging Playlist, Courtesy of Mel Ottenberg

May 28, 2025

For this week’s installment of Sound Advice, our editor-in-chief made us a sweaty a sweaty, high-energy playlist titled “EVIL JOG.”

TINSELTOWN

“Haunted by the Ghost of Hollywood”: Inside Ryan Murphy’s New Suite at the Chateau Marmont

May 27, 2025

After spending the first few years of his career bunkered down at the Chateau Marmont, the writer and director now has a permanent office at the storied hotel, designed in collaboration with L.A. gallerist Trevor Cheney.

SOUND ADVICE

Artist Lizzi Bougatsos Made Us a Playlist Inspired by Valentino and Vinyls

May 23, 2025

“With this set, I was musing on a woman’s mind through the instrumentation of frantic guitar, pleading, and loss,” says the experimental musician and underground legend.

RETROSPECTIVE

Grimes, Ridley Scott, and Others Tell Us How Designer Syd Mead Invented the Future

May 23, 2025

To celebrate the opening of “Future Pastime,” a new retrospective on the work of the “Blade Runner” designer, we asked his collaborators and admirers to reflect on his legacy.

CHEERS

“Ma’am, Please Put the Joint Out”: Iggy Pop and Zoë Kravitz Join Us for a Champagne Shower

May 23, 2025

At the Tate Modern for the launch of Dom Perignon’s latest campaign, we asked Iggy Pop and Zoë Kravitz to complete the Warhol questionnaire.

COOKED

Why I’m Breaking Up With Hillstone

May 22, 2025

In the first installment of Cooked, Interview’s new food editor J Lee returns to Hillstone, the much-mythologized chain of restaurants he once loved. 

BESTIES

“There’s an Unspoken Mind Meld”: When King Princess Met Christine Baranski

May 22, 2025

On the set of “Nine Perfect Strangers,” the 26-year-old musician found a friend and mentor in Christine Baranski. Here, the besties link up to talk shamans, showtunes, and “lesbian bed death.”

RORSCHACH TEST

“If You’re Poor, Stay Away”: Phaedra Parks on Peaches, Prenups, and Pope Francis

May 22, 2025

Before making her grand return to “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” the perennial fan-favorite took the hot seat for this week’s installment of the Rorschach Test.

IN CONVERSATION

Lily McInerny and Kaia Gerber on Heartbreak, Hedonism, and Healing on Camera

May 21, 2025

“There was a version of myself before shooting this film and a version of myself after,” says the 26-year-old “Bonjour Tristesse” star. “And I like the version of myself after a lot more.”

CLICK

In Chessa Subbiondo’s Photographs, Hot Girls Are Always Crying

May 21, 2025

The photographer joined us to explain how she cultivated her icy, deadpan vision in her first photography book, “SPLINT.”

BADDIE

Rachel Chinouriri Wants You to Stop Drinking the Dumb Bitch Juice

May 21, 2025

Ahead of her US tour, the British pop star joined us to talk about cutting off toxic exes, finding little luxuries on the road, and opening for Sabrina Carpenter.

HISTORY

Thanks to Tourmaline, the Long-Awaited Biography of Marsha P. Johnson Is Here.

May 20, 2025

“I feel really blessed to have come up in a political community where we were receiving the gift of Marsha’s freedom movement,” the author told writer Journey Streams.

SOUNDCHECK

“We Met on Tinder”: From Berlin to Brooklyn with Electronic Duo Brutalismus 3000

May 20, 2025

While nursing a hangover, the German duo joined us backstage at Brooklyn’s Avant Gardener to talk soulmates, aliens, CEO killers, and “techno snobs.”

BACKSTAGE

For Colman Domingo, Telling the Story of Nat “King” Cole Was Personal

May 19, 2025

“You’re basically dynamite and I’m sugar this whole time,” Domingo told NYTW artistic director Patricia McGregor, with whom he’s co-written a play about Nat “King” Cole.

LOL

“Let’s Monetize This Friendship”: Will Forte, in Conversation With Seth Meyers

May 16, 2025

“I will follow her to the ends of the earth,” Forte said of his “The Four Seasons” co-star Tina Fey. “She’s as good as it gets.”

ON SET

Josh Holloway and Rachel Hilson Take Us Behind the Scenes of JJ Abrams’s Duster

May 15, 2025

The stars of “Duster,” the new series by J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan, got together just before its premiere to talk stunts, shootouts, and car chases.

OPENING

Can a Portland Gallery Make It In New York? The Girls Behind ILY2 Think So.

May 15, 2025

“Of course it’s a risk,” says Jeanine Jablonski of launching her and Allie Furlotti’s gallery, ILY2, in New York. “But I keep saying that if there was a time to take a risk, it’s now.”

LOS ANGELES

John Tottenham on His Debut Novel Service, an Ode to Bookstores and Bohemians

May 15, 2025

To mark the release of his sardonic debut novel, “Service,” the LA-based poet joined us to talk gentrification, yellow drugs, and name-dropping.

BACKSTAGE

Meet Tom Francis, the Bloodstained Beefcake of Broadway’s Sunset Boulevard

May 14, 2025

The morning after receiving his very first Tony nomination, the 25-year-old “Sunset Boulevard” star called Jeremy O. Harris to talk sweaty T-shirts and getting swole.

DIRECTOR

Durga Chew-Bose on Bonjour Tristesse and the Beauty of Being a First-Time Filmmaker

May 14, 2025

It’s not easy remaking a beloved piece of 20th century cinema, but the author-turned-director isn’t so concerned with the past.