Come, play beneath the closing sky! Emily Hlavac Green slows time - before emerald turns to amber, before bicyclists zip past in blurred flashes. Today, New York wants to linger.

When we chatted with James McVey, he just put his first solo show on sale, describing the feeling like being on a “knife edge” (‘head of a needle,’ perhaps?) We talk about this specific feeling, the one he might be experiencing now having just released his EP, ‘Manabi’, “a fucking public diary entry!”

Louis Hofmann likes to drift away. During our conversation, music transports us to the past and smells (both pleasant and not-so-pleasant) take us to each birthday and the delightfully dusty belly of his cat. In acting, he drops into completely different worlds. Let yourself drift…