Rent the Runway, the company known for lending designer dresses to women for special occasions, has received a new round of financing that increased its valuation to the unicorn level of $1 billion. The valuation announced on Thursday is a milestone for Rent the Runway, which was founded a decade ago and has been working…
Popcorn can either be good or bad for a person’s health, depending on what goes into making it. On its own, without any added sugar or salt, popcorn makes a nutritious, healthful snack. Popcorn is a type of corn kernel that, when people heat it, it pops to become light and fluffy. Popcorn contains plenty…
Image Paco Rabanne, spring 2019CreditFirstview Eighteen months ago, Alexandra Connell, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, introduced the online marketplace Patti & Ricky, which bills itself as “fashion for people of all abilities.” Among the products is a line of “discreet” sliding bead fidget jewelry from Love Dawne aimed at those with A.D.H.D. and anxiety…
It’s like being hit with a ton of … blossoms. “The Orchid Show: Singapore,” the New York Botanical Garden’s 17th annual orchid extravaganza, running through April 28, features the natural species and hybridized sensations of Southeast Asia — upward of 70 percent of the display in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Thousands of them, in…
El Espace is a column dedicated to news and culture relevant to Latinx communities. Expect politics, arts, analysis, personal essays and more. ¿Lo mejor? It’ll be in Spanish and English, so you can pass it on to your tía, your primo Lalo or anyone else (read: everyone). When Netflix announced this month that it had…
Courtesy of brands Ahh, the ’90s. If there’s one article of clothing that has become synonymous with the golden era of fashion, music, and pop culture, it’s the slip dress. The delicate, silky garment was once seen as a fashion faux pas—a risqué lingerie piece worn only in the comfort of your home—but when industry…
The Explorers Club celebrated the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing of Apollo 11 at its March 16 dinner at the Marriott Marquis. A stage full of Apollo astronauts, from left: Harrison Schmitt, Fred Haise, Michael Collins, Alfred Worden, Walter Cunningham, Buzz Aldrin and Rusty Schweickart.
It’s Wednesday, July 11, at 1:34 p.m. in the great state of New Jersey, and Jane Smith, whose identity we are protecting for reasons that will become clear in the next six words, needs to go to the bathroom. Shy about using her workplace restroom for this specific, usually-once-a-day type of relief, she decides to…
Somehow, about a year ago, I found myself backstage at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Rachel Bloom, the star and my co-creator of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” was about to perform some songs from our show in Lincoln Center’s prestigious American Songbook series, and she had invited me to do a number with her called “JAP Battle.” Me,…
Whether it’s happened to you or in front of you, many of us are familiar with the screen-share disaster: the accidental exposure of something private (like, say, a friend’s “I’m pooping at work” text) while projecting your screen before a group of colleagues. The only surefire way to avoid this is to do as the…