Birds’ nests may not be all that unusual in the Hudson Valley. But at the rural retreat of Susan Orlean, the author and writer for The New Yorker known for her animals beat, the most notable tangles of sticks and straw are not in trees but her kitchen, displayed along a neat bluestone wall just…
With the New York charity circuit on hiatus, here is how some philanthropists and society figures are spending their time and resources during the pandemic. Adam D. Weinberg Age: 67 Occupation: director, Whitney Museum of American Art Favorite charities: American Academy in Rome; Storm King Art Center; Coalition for the Homeless; N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund…
The coronavirus pandemic has been rough on virtually everyone. But those who have been single through the isolation, fear and upheaval say they’ve been confronted with a distinct set of challenges — not necessarily more or less severe than those who are coupled up, but different. Some who said they were content with being single…
Johnson & Johnson announced on Friday that its one-dose coronavirus vaccine provided strong protection against Covid-19, potentially offering the United States a third powerful tool in a desperate race against a worldwide rise in virus mutations. But the results came with a significant cautionary note: The vaccine’s efficacy rate dropped from 72 percent in the…
Tune into Jessica Tull’s YouTube channel, with its half a million subscribers, and you can watch her clean her house. Really. On time-lapse videos, some attracting more than three million views, she washes floors, scours sinks, dusts fixtures and folds laundry. Occasionally, one of her three young children passes through the shot. But mostly, she’s…
MOLLY SJ LOWE; GIO STAIANO; MYRTHE GIESBERS Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. The designer Iris van Herpen recently became fascinated by what scientists call the “wood wide web,” the communication network used by fungi to send messages between plants—think of it as nature’s answer to the…
Demand for single-family homes under $100,000 and 100 years or older has remained steady year over year, according to Realtor.com, but the pace of sales for this niche market has gained momentum in the pandemic, following the national trend in overall home sales. “In January 2020, the median days on market for these homes was…
The death of the haute couture — those wildly expensive, wildly extravagant clothes, made by hand for the very, very few — has been often predicted. It was predicted during the Great Recession, for obvious reasons. It was predicted during the rise of streetwear, thanks to social evolution. It was predicted as more and more…
MIAMI — America’s business leaders, freed from the office, looked around the country, taking note of its coronavirus lockdowns, taxes and rabble rousers. And many said as if in unison: Miami! Blackstone Group: Miami! Elliott Management: Miami! Silicon Valley venture capitalists: Miami! And the charming mayor, Francis X. Suarez, a registered Republican, knowing he had…
Last fall, Caroline Chalmer and Mie Ejdrup, both former jewelry retail analysts who met a dozen years ago as students at Copenhagen Business School, made a career move that they probably would have advised clients to avoid. In the midst of a pandemic, they began a jewelry business. As Ms. Ejdrup put it, in a…