Good morning. No cooking tonight. I want you to order a pizza from your favorite source for ordered pizza; or call in to the Chinese restaurant that’s pretty good; or pick up Indian food from the spot near the highway. You could get a rotisserie chicken. I suppose you could heat water for some blue-ribbon…
Good news for viewers ready to take a break from the drama in D.C.: The third season of “The Crown” has landed on Netflix. In the recently released trailer, as Queen Elizabeth (played by Olivia Colman) is getting ready for her Silver Jubilee, she says, “On days like today, ask yourself, ‘In the time I’ve…
If 2019 was any indication, 2020 will be the year of Justine Skye. The past few months have been great to the Brooklyn native; she landed two acting roles—one as a stripper named Keesha in the film Already Gone and another as, well, another stripper named Violet in BET’s Tales, which brought to life Cardi…
Schools in the Pacific island nation of Samoa were closed indefinitely on Monday and children have been barred from public gatherings amid a measles epidemic that has killed at least six people, most of them younger than age 2. As Samoa, a country of about 200,000 people that is part of the same island chain…
Cutting boards are the workhorses of the kitchen. But they’re equally at home in the dining room or living room, as casual serving platters. “Boards are just so beautiful and easy,” said Shelly Westerhausen, the author of the cutting-board-focused cookbook Platters and Boards (Chronicle Books) and the founder of the blog Vegetarian Ventures. “I’ve always…
When is quirky a savvy career move? It is when you are a young designer who once made a raincoat of quilted see-through plastic and inserted vintage copper pennies into every panel. It is when that same designer — Emily Bode — turned a love of vintage textiles like African country cloth, ticking torn from…
Last year, my daughter asked if I would knit her a turkey hat for the five-mile Turkey Trot run in Prospect Park on Thanksgiving morning. For almost a decade, she and her former college roommate have run this race together, getting up early to start the day with a little healthy exercise. My contribution generally…
There are some crimes that are almost impossible to forget. For me, they include the death in 1999 of Kendra Webdale, an aspiring young journalist who was pushed in front of a New York subway train by a 29-year-old man with schizophrenia who had stopped taking his medication. That same year, two mentally…
ATHENS, Ohio (Nov. 18, 2019) – New research at Ohio University shows that a particular subclass of low-density lipoproteins (LDL), also known as “bad cholesterol,” is a much better predictor of potential heart attacks than the mere presence of LDL, which is incorrect more often than not. The presence of LDL is considered an indicator…
What The Study Did: Whether natural premature menopause and premature menopause that results from surgery to remove a woman’s ovaries before age 40 are associated with increased risk of developing cardiovascular diseases was the focus of this observational study. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ Authors:…