Sienna Miller strode into the Metrograph theater on the Lower East Side last Thursday night, looking every inch the movie star in head-to-toe Gucci. She embraced Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor, who was hosting a screening of “American Woman.” In the independent film, Ms. Miller plays a working-class mother in Pennsylvania whose teenage daughter disappears.…
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A recent analysis of gender differences in research reporting has found that female scientists are less likely to use positive language to frame their findings than their male counterparts. Share on PinterestThere are some key gender differences in the way that scientists present their findings. Clinical articles with male first or last authors were more…
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In the midst of the holiday rush, you might be tempted to buy the same generic scarf in 10 colors and consider your list crossed off. But if you’re going to bother giving gifts at all, it actually doesn’t take that much effort to get everyone something they’ll appreciate (and use) so much more. The…
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Ken Heyman, a leading photographer who worked with Margaret Mead, shot scores of assignments for Life magazine, collaborated with President Lyndon B. Johnson and endlessly sought new, revelatory ways of seeing the world, died on Dec. 10 at his home in Manhattan. He was 89. His daughter Jennifer McCarthy confirmed his death. Mr. Heyman first…
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Wasn’t it Sartre who said “Hell is other people’s workout music?” I know, it didn’t sound quite right to me, either, but I was having trouble concentrating as I looked around Electric Lemon, the restaurant on the 24th floor of the Equinox Hotel in Hudson Yards. As you probably guessed, the Equinox Hotel is owned…
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Cookies have always had a monopoly on holiday desserts, which is great if you’re into cookies. But in my opinion, tiny, delicate, ornamental desserts are a touch anticlimactic at the end of a holiday meal. For cocktail parties and giftable tins, of course, roll and bake to your heart’s content. But after a giant ham,…
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When hunter-gatherers living in what is now southern Denmark broke down pieces of birch bark into sticky, black tar about 5,700 years ago, they almost certainly didn’t realize that they were leaving future scientists their entire DNA. Ancient people used the gooey birch pitch to fix arrowheads onto arrows and to repair a variety of…
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If your skin glistens and even looks dirty after the moisturizing procedure, it’s time to change the care products. Why can a moisturizer make my skin oily? Sometimes a moisturizer can give a sheen and make the face oily, and this is not normal. Most likely, the jar contains hydrophobic substances, and your skin reacted…
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Many do not imagine their life without dry shampoo at all – this is how an express cleanser for the head and volume helps them. But do we all know how to use the product correctly? We completely replace ordinary shampoo with dry shampoo Dry shampoos are absorbent products, so their main task is to…
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Late Monday afternoon, New York’s creative communities met in Hell’s Kitchen at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. There were writers and dancers, actors and musicians, from uptown and downtown, all drawn together by the memory of one woman: the designer Isabel Toledo, who died in August of breast cancer. She was as close to an artist…
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