How can you make your coffee-stained sweatsuit look Zoom-appropriate? Jazz up your quarantine look with the accessory that just won’t quit: the headband. We saw the style make a comeback down the Altuzarra runway in Fall 2017 then again at Prada’s Spring 2019 show, and it’s only gained speed since (much to the dismay of…
From a distance, what divides white wines from reds seems pretty clear. Yes, the color is obvious, but it’s also the methods of production. To make red wine, the producer begins by macerating the juice of the grapes with the pigment-bearing skins. This adds not only color to the juice but also tannins, which contribute…
As an urban anthropologist, Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman felt a duty to record her experiences in lockdown. After all, this was a once-in-a-century global pandemic. And so, for the past 49 nights or so, she has noted her mood at the end of the day. Mostly, her moods have been fairly positive. But then, last Sunday, her…
It was 2019 when Revolve enlisted Aimee Song for an apparel collection, the first time that the American retailer had done so with an influencer. As the founder of Song of Style, the former interior designer amassed a hefty and loyal following of fans (5.5 million on her personal Instagram account) who identify with her…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageA food distribution point in the Bronx in April.Credit…Stephanie Keith for The New York Times As millions more Americans join the jobless rolls, even more economic pain is in the forecast. Another 3.2 million people filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week, in the latest evidence of the economic…
If you’re single and dating, you’re no doubt facing special challenges during this horrid pandemic. But as a biological anthropologist who has spent some 40 years studying romantic love around the world and the brain circuitry of this ancient and universal human passion, I’ve come to recognize that in some ways, coronavirus has given you…
We live in a suburb in the Midwest with few Covid-19 cases. While we obey our state’s shelter-in-place order, the neighborhood kids play close together for an hour each day. One family, who are friends, asked that our 10-year-old daughter keep away from this group. They are concerned that my wife, an emergency doctor on…
New York City’s coronavirus outbreak grew so large by early March that the city became the primary source of new infections in the United States, new research reveals, as thousands of infected people traveled from the city and seeded outbreaks around the country. The research indicates that a wave of infections swept from New York…
New Yorkers have found that working from home, even when home is a studio apartment, is mostly doable. Working out from home, though? That’s another matter. While those in the suburbs and country often have backyards — or at least more spacious living rooms — to jump, kickbox and repetitively lunge in, since the coronavirus…
New Yorkers have found that working from home, even when home is a studio apartment, is mostly doable. Working out from home, though? That’s another matter. While those in the suburbs and country often have backyards — or at least more spacious living rooms — to jump, kickbox and repetitively lunge in, since the coronavirus…