Alexander (Xander) Cavaluzzo is a Manhattan-based writer and artist. He has contributed to Newsweek, Hyperallergic, Interview Magazine, Blackbook, Travel + Leisure, Cafe Society Magazine and dozens more publications.
TV
Break out the Lucky Strikes and stir up a stiff Old Fashioned: Everyone's Watching Madmen Again
Prestige television is now over twenty years old, but the fine art of the “re-binge” is just coming into its own. Here, one recovering ad-exec shares his binge diary. TL;DR It definitely hits different this time
By Alexander Cavaluzzo | April 2 2026
The second time around, Mad Men shifts. It steps into a new light, more seductive but also more complex, darker but also brighter. It was already a throwback when it aired—nostalgia for the early 1960s, for the gray-flannel confidence of American capitalism, for a time when a man could smoke through a meeting and still be...