A Pasta to Please Everyone

Hi and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. This is one of those strange in-between weeks, right? Not bad-strange, not at all, but what you need for the next few days most likely bears no relation to what you’ll need in two weeks, as we loll around in these post-Christmas, pre-New Year’s days. And so below…

Welcome to the Era of the Post-Shopping Mall

Surfacing As the mall declines, American Dream — a “destination” at the height of capitalism — rises. ImageNickelodeon Universe is the largest indoor theme park in the Western Hemisphere.Credit…Ross Mantle for The New York Times One morning in early December, I left my office in midtown Manhattan, took a 20-minute bus ride to the New…

Love and Real Estate

“Are you sure you want me to move in with you?” I asked. “Where the hell else are you going to go?” he responded. Ah, love and real estate. In New York City, they are always entwined. I sputtered before recognizing his answer as unequivocal commitment, to me. My new love — his name is…