LOS ANGELES — A two-hour prime-time special on ABC. Cupcakes the size of cars at Disneyland Paris. Collaborations with a dozen fashion designers, including Marc Jacobs. More than 30 books, including one from Taschen so big it comes with a carrying handle. Small and subtle are not the Walt Disney Company’s style. But a new…
Resy, the restaurant-reservation service founded in 2014, said Friday that it had acquired its smaller competitor Reserve. Though Resy is the nation’s largest privately held reservation service, it is still small in comparison with OpenTable, which was bought by the publicly traded Priceline Group (now called Booking Holdings) in 2014 for $2.6 billion and is…
A Senate inquiry faulted state and federal oversight for fatal heat strokes and chaotic evacuations at nursing homes after last year’s hurricanes, calling for tougher disaster preparedness standards on Friday. Officials with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency that was a subject of the inquiry, have said they would clarify expectations…
SEATTLE — Standing in a supermarket produce aisle, her face shadowed with dread, the middle-aged woman speaks directly to the camera and makes a plea for common decency. “We should not be taxed on what we eat,” she says in a commercial that is being broadcast across Washington State. “We need to eat to survive,…
Pharrell Williams has a lot on his plate right now—from opening his Miami eatery Swan and Bar Bevy (a partnership wit nightlife tycoon David Grutman) to making sure Donald Trump never plays “Happy” at another one of his rallies again. But even in the midst of all this, Pharrell isn’t too busy to lend his…
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new form of an extremely potent opioid to manage acute pain in adults, weeks after the chairman of the advisory committee that reviewed it asked the agency to reject it on grounds that it would likely be abused. The drug, Dsuvia, is a tablet…
As Thanksgiving gatherings go, they are a motley group: the Curcurbitaceae, a vine-growing family with nearly 1,000 members, including pumpkins, melons, zucchini and cucumbers. Some are gourds — hard-shelled, bitter, stringy and suitable only for decoration. But the winter squashes offer countless delicious uses in soups, salads, main courses, side dishes, breads and desserts. Their…
Proven by yours truly, a beautiful scarf can be worn as a top, a bag, and more. But if the Spring 2019 runways are any indication, scarves are heading north. Classic Versace prints were tied around the head like a pirate, Kate Spade New York premiered vintage-inspired bandanas that are destined to be worn while…
While some Americans have prepared for next week’s election by obsessively following the news or canvassing neighborhoods, a small minority has poured that energy into a more quirkily patriotic pastime: crafting! Etsy, the online craft store, has in recent years become a clearinghouse for homemade political paraphernalia. During the 2016 election, meme-able phrases from debates…
LOS ANGELES — It was the golden hour here when Sunny Suljic tumbled out of a black S.U.V. and onto Sawtelle Boulevard, a commercial strip just west of Route 405 lined with Japanese noodle joints and third-wave coffee shops. His mother was in tow, carrying his skateboard. With his shaggy mop of hair stuffed under…