Full Circle Home on short-term disability, my back “out” again, I hobbled on a cane to a lunchtime Brooklyn 12-step meeting to mark my fourth anniversary sober. After the meeting, Tom wished me congratulations and we exchanged numbers with plans for coffee. A few days later, waiting on 12th Street and 7th Avenue in Park…
At Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles in mid-April, Lynda McGee, one of the school’s college counselors, checked her paper shredder. She needed to make sure it had the optimal effect: loud, obnoxious and finite. Soon, her high school seniors would parade into the room clutching rejection letters from colleges across the nation, and…
Functionality is important in a foyer or entry hall: You need somewhere to put down your packages and keys, take off your shoes and hang up your jacket. But there’s something else that matters just as much. Whether you have a proper foyer or not, the entry to your home is the first space you…
Not long into the pandemic, Americans were eager to tip their front-line-working baristas and servers. But now that tip fatigue has set in — driven by the proliferation of payment tablets that suggest tipping for everything from a sandwich at a grab-and-go counter to an ultrasound — consumers are often bewildered by when and how…
Zendaya, because she surprised everyone during Labrinth’s set on weekend two. And because of the way her lace-up over-the-knee black dominatrix boots put a spike in her sweet pink slip dress. This rose has thorns. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Coachella
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Wardrobe foundations are the key to easy daily dressing. Mix-and-match is an artful magic that blends style and ingenuity. When you pair items in unexpected ways, each well-loved piece can feel fresh with every wear. And the start of spring is a natural time to refresh your routine. Why not start from the ground up…
Shahida Begum said that when the floor fell out beneath her, she had just turned to ask colleagues why the lights had gone out. Kabir Mollah said he was inspecting garments when a friend called his cellphone, screaming that the building was on a perilous tilt. Nazma Begum said she had washed her long black…
Alex Miller, a software engineer living in Brooklyn, needed a date for his brother’s wedding. Being a digitally savvy millennial, he came up with a plan to attract a potential plus-one for the ceremony: He printed about 20 personal ads with his contact information and posted them around his neighborhood. Mr. Miller, 32, was surprised…
Hace más de una década llegó al mercado un dispositivo médico con una promesa tentadora: era capaz de congelar y eliminar sacos de grasa persistentes de forma rápida, indolora y sin cirugía. El dispositivo, llamado CoolSculpting, había aparecido en un sector de la belleza ya saturado que vendía vientres más planos y mandíbulas más marcadas,…