Jennie Davis Sears and Zachary West Fried were married Nov. 2 at the Bayside Historical Society in Bayside, Queens. The Rev. Tracy Sprowls, a Unitarian Universalist minister, officiated. The bride, 32, is a designer of Vince women’s footwear at the Manhattan office of Caleres, a St. Louis-based shoe company. She graduated with honors from the…
For many tourists visiting New York City for the first time, Tiffany & Co.’s Fifth Avenue flagship store is an attraction as important as the Empire State Building or a Broadway show. They come for its clever window displays, dazzling fine jewelry, and, more often than not, they come hoping to walk away with a…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Last December, Tanner Curtis, a Politics photo editor at The Times covering the 2020 U.S. presidential election, needed a break from the candidates. He mentioned to Eve Lyons, a photo editor for Styles, that he’d…
ImageCredit…Anthony Freda Katie Herzog was a largely unknown freelance journalist living in Seattle. Then she published an article in The Stranger about trans people who halt or reverse transitions. Two days later she started getting hate mail. “It is, by far, the most-read thing I’ve ever written,” Ms. Herzog said. It also made her “wildly…
Imagine if Kodak had answered the threat of digital photography by pivoting from film to outdoor grills. Imagine if Blockbuster had taken on the challenge from Netflix by shifting from DVDs to fast food. Imagine if men’s magazines stared down the post-#MeToo manpocalypse by disowning men. Maybe the last one isn’t so hypothetical? At a…
Welcome to the Running newsletter! Every Saturday morning, we email runners with news, advice and some motivation to help you get up and running. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Dear Readers, Tomorrow is the big day! The New York City Marathon. How are you feeling? Nervous? Excited? Scared? I’m all three!…
For the first time, a new study has observed that cerebrospinal fluid washes in and out of the brain in waves during sleep, helping clear out waste. Cerebrospinal fluid helps clear toxic waste from the brain during sleep. Recently, Medical News Today reported on a study that found that specialized immune cells are more active…
PAENGAROA, New Zealand — Australia and New Zealand are at war. Over honey. Not just any honey, mind you — this stuff isn’t sold in plastic bear-shaped bottles. It’s manuka honey, a high-priced nectar ballyhooed by celebrities as a health and beauty elixir. (Scarlett Johansson smears it on her face; Laura Dern heals her children…
Ten years ago, Susannah Cahalan was hospitalized with mysterious and terrifying symptoms. She believed an army of bedbugs had invaded her apartment. She believed her father had tried to abduct her and kill his wife, her stepmother. She believed she could age people using just her mind. She couldn’t eat or sleep. She spoke in…
When you are flying budget economy on a legacy carrier, the in-flight experience isn’t much different from regular economy (though your odds of getting the middle seat skyrocket). But on an ultra-low-cost carrier — such as Allegiant, Frontier, Ryanair or Spirit — you pay for food and drink, plus any bags beyond a personal item,…