Lip reading is hardly an exact science. Jeremy Freeman, 49, who has been called upon as an expert lip reader in cases involving sexual assault, insurance fraud and other serious matters, described it as a skill that can be honed with considerable practice. For Mr. Freeman, who was born deaf, the practice has “been ingrained…
Aisha Kamaria Cole, who goes by the name Pinky Cole, has been called a visionary and a provocateur. She also has a knack for helping meat eaters step outside their comfort zones at her plant-based burger chain, Slutty Vegan. Stepping outside her own comfort zone became a priority when she met Derrick Jermaine Hayes, the…
The panini arranged in soft mounds in the vitrine of Sant Ambroeus on Madison Avenue fairly ooze. There is the tuna, decadently layered with marinated artichoke; the pillowy frittata; the turkey stacked high with mozzarella and tomato and shellaced with Dijon mustard, all as savory looking as they are seductive. As they should be, said…
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My husband’s elderly parents moved in with my sister-in-law. Their house was sold, and my sister-in-law used the proceeds to add a bedroom and upgrade a bathroom for them at her house. (There was an extra bedroom in the house, but no bathroom on that floor.) My husband asked my sister-in-law not to make these…
“I’m a totally different designer and person than I was before,” says Bishme Cromartie, a season 17 Project Runway competitor who is back for the show’s All Stars competition and grateful for the chance to show the judges how his work has evolved. “I’ve focused on making sure I’m more intentional with my designs,” he…
Stoked by the energy of Brown and Green, my garden took root some 35 years ago. It was James and Al who accompanied me throughout its formative stages, always there as I wielded a boombox and case of cassettes alongside my long-handled shovel and loppers. What is a garden, really, but a real-life version of…
The rise of dadfluencers has also been fueled by the booming popularity of TikTok. “With Instagram, a lot of men were uncomfortable with putting up these edited, staged pictures and captions,” said James Nord, a founder of Fohr, an influencer marketing firm in New York City. “But TikTok has been a great entry point for…
Boyhood Memory, 64 Years Later Indiana, summer 1959: It was my first season of organized baseball. The same was true for JR. I was a Black kid living in the inner-city; he was a white kid from the suburbs. The youngest team members, we, as 8-year-olds, were both relegated to the dugout. With each game,…
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