When Did Self-Help Become Self-Care?

Image Before she was running for president, Marianne Williamson was an author.CreditLucas Jackson/Reuters “Wellness” is a word that has come to encompass our latest dominant sociocultural obsession — how to take care of ourselves in the world. It may, at one point, have been popularly understood as an extension of self-help, a category of literature…

Something Sweet in the Candy Aisle

Kathryn Ann Pantaleo and Francesco Andrea Bello were married Aug. 10 in Whitestone, Queens. Msgr. John C. Tosi performed the ceremony at St. Luke Roman Catholic Church, where he is the pastor, with the Rev. Paul Kim taking part. Mrs. Bello, 37, is a speech-language pathologist in various Queens schools for the Department of Education.…

Hotel Review: Hard Rock Hotel, London

Rates A deluxe double room starts at £259, or about $320. The Basics With its new hotel at Marble Arch, Hard Rock Cafe International, Inc. brings it back to where it all began: London. The eponymous music, merchandise and restaurant company now has 186 cafes, 29 hotels and 12 casinos worldwide, but it started —…