Wasn’t it Sartre who said “Hell is other people’s workout music?” I know, it didn’t sound quite right to me, either, but I was having trouble concentrating as I looked around Electric Lemon, the restaurant on the 24th floor of the Equinox Hotel in Hudson Yards. As you probably guessed, the Equinox Hotel is owned…
Cookies have always had a monopoly on holiday desserts, which is great if you’re into cookies. But in my opinion, tiny, delicate, ornamental desserts are a touch anticlimactic at the end of a holiday meal. For cocktail parties and giftable tins, of course, roll and bake to your heart’s content. But after a giant ham,…
When hunter-gatherers living in what is now southern Denmark broke down pieces of birch bark into sticky, black tar about 5,700 years ago, they almost certainly didn’t realize that they were leaving future scientists their entire DNA. Ancient people used the gooey birch pitch to fix arrowheads onto arrows and to repair a variety of…
If your skin glistens and even looks dirty after the moisturizing procedure, it’s time to change the care products. Why can a moisturizer make my skin oily? Sometimes a moisturizer can give a sheen and make the face oily, and this is not normal. Most likely, the jar contains hydrophobic substances, and your skin reacted…
Many do not imagine their life without dry shampoo at all – this is how an express cleanser for the head and volume helps them. But do we all know how to use the product correctly? We completely replace ordinary shampoo with dry shampoo Dry shampoos are absorbent products, so their main task is to…
Late Monday afternoon, New York’s creative communities met in Hell’s Kitchen at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. There were writers and dancers, actors and musicians, from uptown and downtown, all drawn together by the memory of one woman: the designer Isabel Toledo, who died in August of breast cancer. She was as close to an artist…
Conventional wisdom holds that empty nesters don’t need as much space as they did when they were raising children, so it makes sense to downsize. But not everyone finds that to be the case. When Richard and Jennifer Sands moved into a duplex condominium at the Seagate Residences in Delray Beach, Fla., in 2009, it…
For every Greta Thunberg and school-skipping climate change protester, there is another member of Generation Z buying inexpensive clothes on a smartphone. Their purchasing choices — fueled by influencer culture and catered to by a new wave of ultra-fast-fashion retailers such as Fashion Nova, PrettyLittleThing and Missguided (responsible for a £1 bikini that sold out…
The 52 Places Traveler For Stop #47, the 52 Places Traveler reveled in nature unleashed on the new Paparoa Track, where alpine forests and craggy peaks give way to dense rainforest. Dec. 17, 2019 Video transcript Back transcript Trekking Through New Zealand’s South Island Produced by Meg Felling and Sebastian Modak [MUSIC PLAYING] I’m not…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — “We’re very self-conscious about our bodies, and we’re fighting that every day.” So said Misa Kuranaga, a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet, one day in December by phone. She was in the midst of rehearsing the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy for the annual “Nutcracker” production and ruminating…