How Space Tourism Is Skyrocketing

Sales in the space tourism space, Mr. Curran acknowledges, “are reasonably difficult to make,” and mostly come from peer-to-peer networking. “You can imagine that people who spend $450,000 to go to space probably operate in circles that are not the same as yours and mine,” he said. Some of Mr. Curran’s most popular offerings include…

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The Multi-Layered Movie of American Fashion

When “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute show, opened last September as the world first adjusted to the idea of living with Covid-19, it signaled a fresh start by reframing the dialogue around homegrown design. Now its more sprawling, multi-layered successor, “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” takes…

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Fancy Fascinators and Floral Dresses

“Does anyone still wear a hat?” Stephen Sondheim wrote in the song “The Ladies Who Lunch.” They certainly do at the Central Park Conservancy’s annual Frederick Law Olmsted luncheon, better known as the “hat lunch,” now in its 40th year. At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, a trembling of well-heeled warblers gathered in gloomy weather at…

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Let the Oven Work for You

I made Ali Slagle’s gnocchi with sweet and hot peppers for dinner this week, which is one of those easy, let-the-oven-do-the-work recipes that hit just right after a long day. In that recipe, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers and canned chipotles roast in oil until they collapse into a sweet and smoky sauce for gnocchi, or…

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