Courtesy Believe it or not, October is upon us. It crept up on you, didn’t it? From Halloween parties to fall foliage peeping, there’s lots of goodness in store this month, but one of the most meaningful things about October is that it marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It’s sad but true that most people…
A few nights ago, my husband opened “Imbibe,” a bartender’s guide, to find our favorite Sazerac recipe. It was scrawled with notes going back a decade. We first added the bar spoon of maraschino liqueur in 2012. A scribble dated 2020 reminded us how much we liked the version with four dashes of Peychaud’s bitters…
How did we get here? Before the Cures Act provision, doctors had different approaches to giving patients their test results. Some offices would contact patients within hours or days; others sent paper results via mail. Some would take a “no news is good news” approach, sharing results only if they revealed something worrisome; others waited…
Courtesy of Kohl’s Does it seem like life just got busier? Suddenly schedules are booked with days that can take you from work to drinks to late dinners. As fun as it may be to say yes to everything, it does lead to a problem: What do you wear when plans that take you out…
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded on Monday to Svante Pääbo, a Swedish-born scientist whose decades spent trying to extract DNA from 40,000-year-old bones culminated in the unveiling of the Neanderthal genome in 2010. The publication of that genome opened the door to investigating questions that had bedeviled paleontologists since Neanderthal fossils…
One morning in August, just before sunrise, Bella Hadid arrived at a warehouse in Brooklyn. Blinking back at the bright light, she squinted a little, her skin bare and a tiny bit sunburned, her hair brooming out of a hastily tied low ponytail. She wore a Starface zit sticker on her left cheek. “I thought,…
PARIS — We live in a dirty, dirty world. A world where muckraking, mudslinging and drain-the-swamp chanting are just part of daily life. Little wonder Demna, the mononymous designer of Balenciaga and master of the visual metaphor, decided to get down into the pit and wallow. To be specific: He decided to truck in 275…
Ashley Barber didn’t know there was an all-female class when she drove in her first demolition derby at the Tennessee State Fair, seven years ago. She competed in the men’s category that night, and lost her helmet from all the hard knocks but placed seventh out of more than 60 cars. The adrenaline, the competition…
HOUSTON — At POST Houston, a popular food hall, the lines stretch long for ChòpnBlọk, where the Nigerian American owner Ope Amosu offers a familiar customizable template — rice, vegetables, protein — that are deeply influenced by his West African pride, and his London-born, Houston-raised identity. Take the Golden, a nod to the Gold Coast…
For years, Karla Cruz has searched New York City for dishes reminiscent of her childhood in Panama, like sancocho, tamales and carimañolas, but there was nothing that emulated those foods she loved. So she promised herself that if there was ever an opportunity, she’d open her own Panamanian restaurant. In New York City, where the…