Noma Is a Flex Again, the Strangers Mistress Question, and the Sudden Le Labo Allergy at Equinox

RPS from London is coming in hot!

Hello from London. I have been bad—very bad—and I owe you an apology. I’ve gotten a wave of texts and emails asking what happened to the newsletter this week and, more to the point, what happened to me after I skipped an issue. Nothing, I can say confidently. I’ve been skipping around London, trying new restaurants, singing at the top of my lungs in pubs, getting tours of new members’ clubs, and doing everything except writing to the thousands and thousands of you who subscribe to me.

I’ve made this one extra jam-packed to make up for what I missed (though I can’t fit everything in), and there’s more coming out of London, so the trip will be worth it.

And for paid subscribers as of May 1 who plan to attend the first RPS event, expect a London surprise I’m bringing back from this trip. Invites will be sent out around the first week of May.

We have a very belated NEWS & NOTED for you today, with some fun tidbits: everyone’s obsession with the identity of the mistress in Strangers by Belle Burden (and a few clues that may lend themselves to guesses about who may play her in the adaptation), how secretly going to Noma has become a flex, and the backlash to the new Le Labo products at Equinox.

Stick around down below for what the “broligarch” crowd is up to, Ken Griffin adds to his Basquiat holdings and pushes back on New York’s empty-apartment tax, and more…