Mandelbrot, a.k.a. Jewish biscotti, have taken on a special significance for Rosh Hashana at By the Way Bakery, a kosher, gluten-free and dairy-free group, with four locations in Manhattan, Westchester County and Connecticut. Its new mandelbrot come studded with tart-sweet pomegranate seeds, rimon in Hebrew, symbolic for the New Year holiday because the pomegranate, with…
Good morning. René Magritte made a painting of this day in 1956, a Surrealist depiction of a crescent moon hanging in a tree, rather than in the sky behind it. It’s a quiet, powerful work. The moon disrupts our sense of depth and leaves us unsettled, as if in a house of mirrors, as if…
If you’re having dinner at Gramercy Tavern or Union Square Cafe, you might want to save room for dessert at Caffè Panna nearby. Hallie Meyer — whose father, Danny Meyer, owns both restaurants — is ready with an affogato sundae with crunchies, drizzles and cream at this, her new ice cream parlor. The neatly tiled…
Suzuki, an izakaya restaurant sharing a space with Satsuki, a high-end sushi bar, is offering lunch to go. Just inside the doorway on the ground floor there’s a counter selling bento boxes that feature generous portions of teriyaki salmon, fried or grilled chicken, glazed eel, beef stir-fry, a meatloaf-style burger or a poke bowl, all…
It is hard to defend soliciting donations from the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law professor, has been trying. Mr. Lessig is a friend of Joichi Ito, who resigned as the director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, as well as from the boards of The New York Times Company and…
ImageChild care can cost a typical family a third of its income. CreditAudra Melton for The New York Times Almost anyone with a child in day care or preschool has received the call. They say your child has a minor ailment like pink eye and must go to the doctor. Otherwise, they say, the child…
Victor VIRGILEGetty Images Designer Demna Gvasalia is hitting the refresh button on his career and has announced that he will be stepping down as head designer at Vetements, the popular Parisian label he founded with his brother, Guram, in 2014. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELTGetty Images “Vetements has always been a collective of creative minds. We…
Late one morning in June, L.J.’s husband got a distressed call from one of his wife’s colleagues. “You’d better come here right away. Your wife is acting weird,” the colleague said. Ms. J., who had just returned from a doctor visit during which she underwent a minor painful procedure, kept asking her colleague for a…
I’m on an airplane, and the announcement comes: If there are any physicians on the flight, please identify yourself to the flight attendant. I tense up, counting to 10, giving all the adult emergency room doctors and cardiologists who I am sure are snoozing around me a chance to ring their little call buttons or…
LOS ANGELES — When Francisco Rodriguez, 31, was incarcerated in a federal prison near San Diego, he began writing songs. He had grown up in Santa Maria, Calif., listening to corridos, a form of traditional Mexican ballads that his parents and grandparents loved, so that is what he gravitated toward writing. Corridos are ballads born…