Visitors who missed the blockbuster Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum here earlier this year will still be able to spot plenty of pearls among the half-dozen of his paintings still on display in the museum’s Gallery of Honor through Oct. 10. But for anyone interested in learning about diamonds, a better bet is just a…
Dan Dower wants to change our attitude toward bees. “Part of the message is making people trust bees,” said Mr. Dower, who is one half of the jewelry brand Dower & Hall. “Be friendly towards bees. See them as friends, not as just things that sting.” This spring the brand introduced a Queen Bee necklace,…
Hi! I’m still here, Sam’s still on vacation, let’s talk about what to cook this week. Sometimes, you put a recipe out into the universe and genuinely wonder: Will anyone care? It’s the scary, vulnerable side of developing recipes, and I felt it when I first published this recipe for homemade Hamburger Helper (above) in…
A century and a half later, by which time the Riviera had ceased serving as an “outdoor hospital” and become a playground of the rich, another high-stakes theft took place at a hotel restaurant in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Its owner was known to accept paintings in lieu of payment — “My kind of hotel,” Picasso joked. In…
About five dozen people lost jobs when Stitch Fix ceased operations at the factory and mill in November, Mr. Ford said. Some of them, he added, had been working at the sites for decades. “All those skills would have been lost,” he said. By March, the facilities had reopened as Buck Mason Knitting Mills, and…
For The New York Times Magazine, the reporter Jen Percy interviewed dozens of victims of sexual assault to understand the complicated reactions to trauma.
On a sunny afternoon in a cluttered music room at East High in Denver, two sophomores practiced violin while their music teacher, Keith Oxman, labored over a desk in an adjoining office. The ceiling fans were off to prevent the sheet music from scattering. The windows were sealed shut. East High is Denver’s largest high…
I was 15 the first time it happened. I was staring at the empty apartment and wondering what would happen if the police figured out what my dad had done. For years, my family had been living in a commercial building — illegal for residential use — above my father’s Pilates studio. He had opened…
Soy musulmán. Mi posible suegro, Bob, es cristiano evangélico. Yo quería pasar el resto de mi vida con su hija, Jillian, pero Bob tenía serias dudas sobre eso. “¿Y si ejerce su hombría musulmana contra ti?”, le preguntó a Jillian. Cuando Jillian me contó el comentario de su padre, pensé: “Casi ni tengo hombría. ¿Cómo…
Harriett Falvey is a creator of couture keepsakes. She designs and constructs the delicate, time-honored accessory that a bride wears right before walking down the aisle: the wedding veil. Ms. Falvey, 38, began designing custom veils in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, switching from creating wedding gowns and bridal party outfits. The idea…