Thousands of attendees of the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert were stuck there on Sunday after heavy rain on Friday night led officials to close the road that leads in and out of the makeshift town. More rain was expected on Sunday, and organizers have told attendees to conserve food and water. The…
More than 85,000 highchairs sold online and at retailers across North America are being recalled after reports of two dozen falls related to the chairs, according to federal regulators. TOMY International, a toy and nursery company, is voluntarily recalling about 83,000 Boon Flair and Flair Elite model highchairs in the United States and an additional…
Hello from Atlanta, where school started a month ago and we are deep into packing lunches, working hard and trying to ignore the recent courthouse shenanigans that seem to keep Georgia on everybody’s mind. We are also still mourning our terrible peach season. By some estimates, nearly 95 percent of the crop was lost largely…
Ask Patricia Anderson how she is doing, and you probably will not get a routine answer. “Today, I’m working and I’m fine,” she said on a recent Tuesday. “Saturday and Sunday, I was bedridden. Long Covid is a roller coaster.” Before the pandemic, Ms. Anderson practiced martial arts and did without a car, instead walking…
“The Bishop’s Wife” was received positively outside church channels, including a review by Janet Maslin in The Times. HuffPost asked Ms. Harrison to write a column about Mormonism. She did, and her essays drew the attention of a group called the Strengthening Church Members Committee, she said. Ms. Harrison’s local bishop called her in to…
Odds are the world of capital-F fashion never gave a moment’s thought to Jimmy Buffett, the bard of Margaritaville, who died on Friday at 76. Yet the truth is the undisputed king of easy-listening yacht rock probably exerted as much influence on style as any designer that ever sent a model down a runway in…
The Canadian government is warning L.G.B.T.Q. travelers to the United States that they may be affected by a series of recently enacted state laws that restrict transgender and gay people. Global Affairs Canada, the foreign affairs department, added a brief notice on Tuesday to a long list of travel warnings involving the United States that…
Early afternoon, late summer. Humid, 83 degrees. The cicadas were whirring outside. I closed my laptop, got up from the desk in my home office and went to the bedroom. I lay down and began flipping through “The Church of Baseball,” a book by the screenwriter and director Ron Shelton about the making of his…
“No llores”, me dijo. “Eres estadounidense”. Oía eso a menudo, lo privilegiada que era por ser estadounidense. Mis compañeros de clase ni siquiera sabían que tenían tarjeta de seguridad social, pero mi madre había enmarcado la mía como si fuera una reliquia familiar. Su fe religiosa y su determinación de triunfar en Estados Unidos no…
In July, Tashea Channell Younge, a private chef and caterer from New York City, flew to Los Angeles, all expenses paid, to cook a private dinner in a luxurious kitchen for 15 people. She then cooked for the N.F.L. wide receiver Noah Brown and some teammates. Later that month, she was back in New York…