Christina Zipf, Robert Glenn III

Christina Catherine Zipf and Robert Larry Glenn III were married Dec. 28 at St. John Vianney Roman Catholic Church in Gladwyne, Pa. The Rev. Msgr. Donald E. Leighton, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony, with the Rev. Dr. Alyn E. Waller, a Baptist pastor, participating. The couple graduated from Lafayette College, she cum laude.…

John Rensenhouse, Darren Sextro

John Conway Rensenhouse and Darren Dean Sextro are to be married Dec. 29 at the American, an events space in Kansas City, Mo. Sanford Robbins, a Universal Life minister and a friend of the couple, is to officiate. Mr. Rensenhouse (left), 64, is an actor, director, and theater producer and serves as artistic chair of…

A Restaurant With No Leftovers

Garbage is inevitable in the restaurant and bar business. Kitchen employees toss onion skins and meat fat into the wastebasket almost instinctively. Once-used plastic wrap and slips guarding the linens find their way into black bags for trash-day pickup. Plastic bags are ordered by the bundle and then often discarded after customers use them to…

A.I. Is Learning to Read Mammograms

Artificial intelligence can help doctors do a better job of finding breast cancer on mammograms, researchers from Google and medical centers in the United States and Britain are reporting in the journal Nature. The new system for reading mammograms, which are X-rays of the breast, is still being studied and is not yet available for…

New Year, New Recipes

Good morning. Happy new year. How’s the cabeza? Today’s reading is from Kingsley Amis’s “Lucky Jim,” the true Gospel of hangover literature: Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection.…

Reading ‘Us’ Through Its T-shirts

You could watch Jordan Peele’s “Us” a dozen times and still not catch all of the symbolism, references and ideas tucked in it. Yes, scissors are clearly a thing, but what’s with that tuxedo T-shirt? The movie, ostensibly about a family, the Wilsons, hunted by its doppelgängers, is something of an awards contender. Its star,…