When Lauren Annunziata sat down to eat pizza at her cousin’s birthday party in October 1995 at Kids N’ Action, a children’s entertainment center in Brooklyn, she had no idea that her future husband was at the same table as her. In fact, the only evidence that remains of Ms. Annunziata and Gabriel Vincent Piscione’s…
The first time Dana Rhoden spent time with Michael Baran was in 2010 at a mutual friend’s wedding in Coral Gables, Fla. “We danced all night and innocently kissed,” said Ms. Rhoden, now 43, and the owner of The Dana Agency, a public relations firm in Miami. “Nothing else happened because I was in a…
In November 2017, Varun Anand sat next to Hannah Smith at a bar in Manhattan’s West Village. They were attending the going-away party of a friend who Mr. Anand had worked with in 2016 on the Clinton presidential campaign, and who Ms. Smith worked with in 2012 on the Obama campaign. “We covered a ton…
It all started at a bar on St. Patrick’s Day in 2014. Valeria Estefania Dueñas was at the Brass Monkey in Washington celebrating her cousin’s birthday. John Harrison Garfinkel was there for St. Patrick’s Day drinks with friends. “I saw Valeria — and Valeria’s about 5-foot-5 — so she’s not short, but she’s having trouble…
The Untermyer Gardens Conservancy, which restores and maintains the 43-acre former estate in Yonkers, N.Y., celebrated its 10th anniversary on Sept. 14 with a sunset party. The event honored Stephen F. Byrns, the conservancy’s longtime president, and Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the majority leader of the New York State Senate. A garden tour was followed by a…
The first time I heard my father’s voice he had been dead for 53 years. It all started when my cousin, who lives in Jerusalem, gave me 25 audio reels in round metal cans. She had found them while cleaning out her parents’ home there. “They’re of your father singing opera,” my cousin told me…
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department moved on Thursday to block a bankruptcy plan that grants broad legal immunity to the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, whose drug OxyContin has been at the heart of the nation’s opioid epidemic. William K. Harrington, the U.S. trustee for the Justice Department, filed a motion in federal court to halt…
There’s no denying the divine pleasures of fall cooking, as those fresh, fast summer dishes give way to warm stews, hearty casseroles and sips of bourbon. Below are more than two dozen recipes that the New York Times Food staff looks forward to making as we transition into the most charming season of the year.…
While we tend to worry about inhaling viral particles like the coronavirus, new research shows the air quality at work may have subtle effects on cognitive function.
Doctors have poked and prodded NASA astronauts for years, and the astronauts, as government employees, have largely acceded to their roles as test animals in studying how an alien environment — outer space — affects the human body. But professional astronauts have historically been a small slice of humanity. Initially, they were chosen from the…