Monica Lewinsky se reinventa como modelo

¿Cuál es el siguiente paso en la carrera de Monica Lewinsky, la exbecaria de la Casa Blanca convertida en activista contra el acoso escolar, escritora y productora? Modelar. Lewinsky es la estrella de una nueva campaña que la marca de moda Reformation presentó la semana pasada. La campaña, intitulada “You’ve Got the Power” (El poder…

My Husband Keeps Leaving Me

A month after Andrew proposed to me, he and I went to couples counseling, where, in our first session, he said, “If I have to choose between you and the Army, I choose the Army.” His words knocked the air out of my chest. Five years earlier, on our first date, he had said (after…

Love Italian American Style: That’s Amore

Christopher Joseph Marazzo did the unthinkable one Friday evening in October 2019. He left his bowl of pasta unfinished, and walked over to Rose Angelina Teresa Minutaglio’s booth in the back room at Forlini’s Italian restaurant in Lower Manhattan. “She has this old world beauty, like a black-and-white photo,” said Mr. Marazzo, who turns 33…

An Instant Crush Over Mashed Potatoes

The cardboard cup of mashed potatoes Gustavo Chagas Lopes handed Luke John Robinson III on Oct. 11, 2021, was not meant to be an aphrodisiac. But for Mr. Robinson, something in the way Mr. Lopes, then the manager of the Brooklyn restaurant Sally Roots, had passed them off was spellbinding. “Gustavo is just so striking,”…

A Chicken Stew With Mayan Roots

Seven years ago, just as Jorge Cárdenas was about to open Ix Restaurant in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, he returned to his home in Quetzaltenango, in the highlands of Guatemala, to make sure that his recipes tasted like those his Mayan grandmother had taught him to make. He worried about his version of jocón, a…