LOS ANGELES — Ayo Edebiri has an arresting screen presence because she doesn’t look like she’s acting. In “The Bear,” the frenetic restaurant drama that has been one of the most talked-about shows of the summer, she is usually the calm at the center of the storm. In real life, she’s the same — unassuming,…
During her 20s, like countless other New Yorkers in that age group, Sarah Steele “bopped around apartments that mostly, you know, weren’t so nice,” she said. Ms. Steele’s résumé of rentals includes studio apartments in Prospect Heights and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as well as a diminutive one-bedroom in Williamsburg that she shared with a longtime (now…
There is a way through Spain that is all horseshoe arches, keyhole windows and bronze doors carved in Arabic script. It meanders into crenelated forts, Moorish castles overlooking the Mediterranean and grand mosques reconfigured by Christians into cathedrals. As the child of an Iraqi woman and a Swedish-American man, I have always been drawn to…
LOS ANGELES — Ayo Edebiri has an arresting screen presence because she doesn’t look like she’s acting. In “The Bear,” the frenetic restaurant drama that has been one of the most talked-about shows of the summer, she is usually the calm at the center of the storm. In real life, she’s the same — unassuming,…
SALT LAKE CITY — It was late in the day for muskrats to be out on Mill Creek, or at least the stretch that runs between a parking lot and a playground near the southern limits of the city. But there they were, two of them, one big and one small, paddling back and forth…
DOHA, Qatar — An 18th-century turban ornament glistening with diamonds, emeralds and pearls has a fascinating back story, yet almost none of it appeared on the placard that once accompanied the piece in the Museum of Islamic Art. But on Oct. 5, when the museum is scheduled to reopen after being closed for nearly a…
Pop quiz: What lives in the ocean, sports a mushroom top, radiates a trail of angel-hair tentacles and lends its name to a trendy internet haircut? Last week, a striking photo shoot featuring Nicole Kidman ignited discussion of the so-called jellyfish haircut on social media. Some debated whether Ms. Kidman’s look was a true jellyfish…
I remember the exact moment I was sold on sneakers as the secret to making any outfit look effortlessly cool. In 2015, I watched a designer take a bow at the end of her runway show wearing slouchy trousers paired with plain white sneakers—and immediately set out to get my own pair. Almost a decade…
My cat is a bona fide chatterbox. Momo will meow when she is hungry and when she is full, when she wants to be picked up and when she wants to be put down, when I leave the room or when I enter it, or sometimes for what appears to be no real reason at…
I work in a corporate environment which traditionally has been formal, but over the years there has been a greater shift toward business casual and away from suits. Recently I had an accident that required a medical procedure, and I’m wearing a visible bandage. Should I try to hide it with more clothing, nominally “cover”…