Ah, the flesh. For the last four weeks, it has been everywhere in fashionland: side-boob, under-boob, butt cheek, butt cleft, belly button, nipples, hip bones, upper ribs, the whole sweep of the back from skull through spine — a veritable bounty of body parts, unclad, cut out and otherwise on view for all to see…
Name: Quintessa Swindell Age: 25 Hometown: Virginia Beach, Va. Now Lives: In a loft in Downtown Los Angeles and a one-bedroom apartment in the East Village of Manhattan. Claim to Fame: Quintessa Swindell is a nonbinary trans actor who stars in DC’s “Black Adam,” a big-budget film in which Mx. Swindell plays Cyclone, a superhero…
Gyunabe (literally “beef pot,”), a simple stew of sliced beef, onion and miso paste, quickly evolved into more well-known dishes like sukiyaki (“spade grill,” so named because farmers used their spades as makeshift simmering pots while working in the fields) and gyudon (“beef rice bowl”), which are each made with thin-sliced beef simmered in a…
You could say that shrimp scampi, like “chai tea,” is a dish so nice they named it twice. But really, it comes down to a mistranslation. The word “scampi,” in Italian, refers to a type of crustacean that’s similar to a langoustine — resembling a tiny lobster and often sautéed in olive oil with garlic…
Once you’re up to speed on the basics, getting outside on Rollerblades is a surprisingly good workout.
Today, we’re revisiting the story of Bette Ann Moskowitz, who lost her husband of 56 years on the eve of the coronavirus pandemic. When Bette first met her husband, she was taken by his “smoldering looks and banked fires.” He was from Brooklyn; she was from the Bronx. They had little in common and their…
Many Europeans carry genetic mutations that protected their ancestors from the bubonic plague, scientists reported on Wednesday in the journal Nature. When the Black Death struck Europe in 1348, the bacterial infection killed large swaths of people across the continent, driving the strongest pulse of natural selection yet measured in humans, the new study found.…
Later that night, Ye videoconferenced in to Chris Cuomo’s program on NewsNation from the back seat of a vehicle, with no light. The content of the conversation toggled between coherent and worrisome, and the staging felt haphazard and desperate. He was largely unable to meet the camera with a firm gaze. He appeared like a…
“When I think of icons, I think of Audrey Hepburn or Brigitte Bardot, or somebody really extraordinary,” Ms. Rodin said. “I am so not that person.” She does, however, tend to follow her own lead, inclined to regard every challenge as a fresh opportunity. Consider her farsighted SoHo boutique: a Bauhaus-inspired, gray-walled gallery-like space that…
HAIFA, Israel — A tangy scent permeated Mariam Sindawi’s kitchen as she scattered flecks of ruby-colored sumac into a simmering pot of caramelized onions, following a centuries-old Palestinian recipe handed down by her mother. Mrs. Sindawi, 82, was preparing mussakhan — flatbread layered with onions cooked in olive oil from the village where she spent…