When she graduated from Hollywood High School in 1961, Carrie White did her hair up in a bubblegum-pink beehive. She had learned, she wrote in her memoir, that “if I could get my hair right, my life would work better.” After attending beauty school, she developed a reputation for getting other people’s hair right. And…
Both Jenny Dhoumo and Lauren Kirshenbaum found out on Instagram. Ms. Dhoumo, a 24-year-old New York University senior was in a cafe, doing schoolwork, when she saw a friend’s repost from Rolling Stone, announcing that Taylor Swift would speak at the N.Y.U. commencement this month and receive an honorary doctorate of fine arts. Ms. Dhoumo,…
On my last prepandemic trip to the Loire Valley, in 2018, I found myself in a familiar place. Ten years after my first road trip on the region’s castle route, I was back at the 500-year-old Château de Chambord, joining a small group of European and American tourists on a guided tour. Within seconds of…
“With privacy, it’s like, once it’s out, it’s out,” Professor Meiklejohn said. Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, a physician and the director of Women on Waves, a nonprofit that provides resources for abortion seekers, found this to be the case when she tried setting up her own crypto wallet. “It had exactly the same diligence requests as…
Courtesy In the inimitable words of Blink 182, “work sucks, I know.” Or maybe it doesn’t; maybe you love your job—I hope you do. But even if so, there’s no denying that the mass return to office is…an adjustment. Now that many business and corporations are trending away from WFH, it means we’re making like…
Buzzy start-ups promising easy access to mental health medication found an eager market on social media. Should anyone be looking for treatment on TikTok, though?
I am an advertising professional who lives in Brooklyn, with a closet biased toward work wear and American heritage brands, but I will soon be moving to Los Angeles. How do I adjust my wardrobe to embrace the new climate and lifestyle? I don’t want to adopt a completely foreign or uncomfortable style, yet I…
There’s a thin red line weaving through the egg sandwich at All Day Baby, a restaurant in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, and it’s at least one reason crowds come for brunch, despite the impossible parking. That alluring condiment? It’s strawberry jam, which runs down the shiny slide of American cheese melted over…
Less than two weeks ahead of the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death, which spawned a global reckoning over racism and policy brutality, and on a smaller but nonetheless visible scale, a lack of diversity within the fashion industry, an impressive range of talent, including Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing, gathered at Parsons School of…
Of all the edible heralds of spring, rhubarb may be the rosiest — and the most sour. After a cold, gray Northeastern winter, piles of the lipstick-red stalks at the farmers’ market practically glow, tempting even ambivalent cooks to scoop them right up. So what, if in their natural state, the stalks are astringent enough…