This past Valentine’s Day, 71-year-old Brad Reese, proud grandson of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups inventor H. B. Reese, posted a scathing open letter to the manager of corporate brand and editorial at Hershey, accusing the company of unforgivably altering many Reese’s products by replacing real chocolate with compound chocolate — basically using vegetable oils instead of cocoa butter to lower costs and replacing real peanut butter with “peanut-butter-style crèmes.” “And Reese wasn’t alone in feeling like everything was getting worse,” writes Rachel Handler. “Everyone in my life I spoke to agreed that something was amiss, that Reese’s — and commercial chocolate in general — didn’t taste the way it used to.” Handler would spend the next several months tumbling down a chocolate vortex, encountering dozens of eccentric characters, all disagreeing about the fundamental question of what chocolate even is and who it should be for. “I learned that — not to sound like a LinkedIn guy — what’s going on with chocolate is a parable for the modern world. That at this particularly bleak end stage of capitalism, everything we once treasured has or will lose its essential essence and MrBeast will always be involved somehow.” For our cover story, Handler takes a deep dive into the molten belly of the chocolate world. Read it in full: nymag.visitlink.me/vKKky_

The president keeps admiring other men’s bodies at his rallies. So if you’re voting solely based on who has a MAGA-approved butt, you’re in luck. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

At a Lenape Powwow in in Prospect Park, Indigenous dancers, artists, and musicians gathered to drum, sing, and compete in dance contests. curbed.com/article/lenape-po…

In this installment of ‘The Hard Part,’ Amil Niazi responds to a reader’s request for useful first-time parenting advice as they deal with anxiety and information overload. thecut.com/article/good-advi…

Trump-backed billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy appeared “unbeatable” in Ohio. Now, he’s getting desperate. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

Republican Congressman Tom Kean Jr. disappeared for months. As he fights for political survival in the midterms, he’s barely emerging from the shadows. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

Every weekday, The Cut’s astrology expert, Claire Comstock-Gay (a.k.a. Madame Clairevoyant), reads the horoscope for every zodiac sign. thecut.com/article/daily-hor…

The Ohio congressman, a Trump protégé, has been accused of child abuse and spousal abuse and of having a history of violence. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

Theater Review: ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ loses its bite in this musical adaptation that’s heavy on the folksy stomps and fiddles. vulture.com/article/theater-…

Billy Crystal’s solo show on Broadway ‘860’ focuses on the loss of his home in the Palisades Fire, though he is often preoccupied with keeping things light. vulture.com/article/theater-…

This week the plot thickens — though it’s still not nearly as thick as Lee (Ethan Hawke) is capable of being. vulture.com/article/the-lowd…

Nikki from ‘Obsesssion’ met Nikki from ‘Obsesssion’ at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood. Inde Navarratte was impressed that her theme park doppelganger didn’t break character. vulture.com/article/hallowee…

For a few years, Elizabeth Holmes was everywhere. There she was on the cover of ‘Forbes’ in 2014, wearing heavy eyeliner and a black turtleneck, holding a vial pinched between her thumb and her index finger. For ‘Inc.’ magazine, she kept the turtleneck but dropped the vial, added a faint half-smile, and crossed her arms over her chest. She was the world’s youngest “self-made billionaire,” the celebrated founder of Theranos and inventor of a device that could use a single finger prick to test for hundreds of conditions. The black turtleneck does not appear in ‘You Can See Everything,’ the blockbuster new documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Instead, a softer and more domestic version of Holmes takes over the screen. She wears neutrals and goes barefaced except for mascara; she often holds a baby, the youngest of her two children with partner Billy Evans. They live in a rental on the beach. In this setting, her blonde frizz makes her look more like a busy mom than a prodigy in charge of her own image. “But as there was a knowingness to the younger Holmes’s image, there is a knowingness to how she presents herself in the film,” writes Sarah Jones. “This is the real Liz, Evans says, but is it?” Read more from Jones about Holmes’s unrecognizable and calculated new image: nymag.visitlink.me/4bO77u

A single survivor’s chaotic strategy results in one of the most baffling, riveting votes in recent memory. vulture.com/article/survivor…

The wives are so divided that not even a decree from Mary can force them to get their acts together. vulture.com/article/real-hou…

Dillon Maxwell Clarke is a 26-year-old model and tailor with a budding bespoke practice. His way of working, based on the practically artisanal Florentine tradition, is incomparable to that of most working tailors in New York. Each suit is almost entirely hand-stitched, taking upwards of 120 hours to complete. He can make only about a dozen a year — 15 at most. It’s rare that Clarke gets an order from someone he hasn’t previously met at a gallery opening, group dinner, or Fashion Week after-party. Many of his clients first encounter the lanky Brit on the dance floor in one of his signature suits with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. “I’m wearing it, and I’m enjoying it, and I feel good in my suit. I think people see that and are like, ‘Wow, that’s pretty cool,’” he says. Subtlety is especially critical in Florentine tailoring, which, unlike English or Neapolitan traditions, does not rely on vertical darts running down the breast to shape a jacket. “It’s a style in which the majority of the shape and structure of the suit comes from sewing, handwork, ironwork,” says Clarke. The process is time intensive, but a lapel, for example, will stay perfectly rolled for the lifespan of the jacket. “What’s the point if you can’t roll around in a suit? It should be an extension of you.” Read our full profile of the model-slash-tailor: nymag.visitlink.me/VO2TwQ

Clockwork has extended the theatrical window for Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’ another week, due to popular demand. First the Wicker 4DX screenings, now this? The movie sickos stay winning. vulture.com/article/the-devi…

Kid Cudi announced that he has written and soon will begin filming ‘Jean,’ a biopic about Jean-Michel Basquiat. vulture.com/article/kid-cudi…

Kenan Thompson wants to have a conversation with Shane Gillis before he hosts ‘SNL’ again. ‘I would just sit him down and be like, ‘So what do you think we could change there, pal?’” he said. vulture.com/article/kenan-th…