The Look: May’s Best-Dressed List

It’s starting to look a lot like summer—style-wise, that is. After countless Covid variants, events are (finally) back in full force, and we’re happy to see our favorite celebs out in the world wearing real clothes again, like in the Before Times. Without further ado, we’ve rounded up the standout ‘fits at the hottest events…

Shopping for Adirondack Chairs

A hefty outdoor seat with a laid-back posture and wide, flat arms, the Adirondack chair has a lot to recommend it. It generally stays where you put it, resists harsh weather and has arms that double as cocktail tables. Most important, though, “it just screams summer,” said Ann Stillman O’Leary, an interior designer based in…

Living the #ConventLife

Before she entered the Community of St. John Baptist in 2012, Claudette Monica Powell performed in an acoustic rock duo and an improv comedy troupe in Los Angeles. Now she goes by Sister Monica Clare, sings in a church choir in Mendham Township, N.J., and posts matter-of-fact videos about convent life on TikTok. “Most people…

The ‘E-Pimps’ of OnlyFans

Chatters aren’t necessarily better at extracting money from subscribers than a creator who handles her own inbox; in fact, they can be worse. “You should do your homework very well about who you hire,” a 29-year-old OnlyFans creator, who goes by Sonia LeBeau, told me. She has worked with agencies in the past and had…

Everything, Embellished, All at Once

Former bad boys of New York’s downtown art scene spent last Sunday in the polo fields of Greenwich, Conn., where the Brant Foundation Art Study Center held a pared-back opening for Spencer Sweeney, the artist, D.J. and party ringleader. Instead of a lavish affair with spit-roasted lamb, artists like Dan Colen, Nate Lowman and Tabboo!…