Coronavirus or not, one thing is certain: People will find each other, they will fall in love, and somehow, they will say their vows. “Love is going to survive this,” said Kate Edmonds, a wedding and event planner in New York. “I don’t think it’s emotionally sound to keep postponing weddings. There needs to be…
There is nothing like a good cup of coffee. In fact, that good cup of coffee could be one of the most productive ways to get your day started. It’ll provide you with the energy and get and go that you need to get moving. However, this is only the case if you can whip…
The first weekend in June, Cyré Olivia Coleman, 29, a student in Randolph, Mass., did something that even a month earlier would have felt like a far-fetched dream: took a family vacation. Since March Ms. Coleman hadn’t left her home, which she shares with her mother, brother, 4-month-old-daughter and the father of her child. “We’ve…
When lockdown began a few months ago, as some women adopted sweatpants and worn-in tees as a virtual uniform, others were buying apparel that’s considerably more alluring: lacy push-up bras, slinky thongs and other undergarments that are more characteristically reserved for P.P.E.-free, socially undistanced activities. On La Perla’s website, for example, sales of the Ambra…
At the end of yet another long day indoors, when I want to unwind, I’ll put on the commercial breaks from the 1985 American Music Awards or CBS’s May 3, 1983, broadcast of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” I am transported to a magical time, full of smiling faces and hokey jingles, when you could…
A previously unpublished piece by Louisa May Alcott, the author best known for her novel “Little Women,” is now available in print for the first time. The piece, “Aunt Nellie’s Diary,” is one of Alcott’s earliest works. She hand-wrote it in a journal in 1849, when she was only 17. The story offers a new…
During a normal week, Jordan Pavlin, the editorial director at Knopf, seldom ate at her desk. Depending on the day, she might be meeting with literary agents over lunch, catching up with an author over an after-work drink, or having a quick bite before a cocktail party for a newly released title. She still doesn’t…
ImageLining up for tests at a site hosted by a migrant justice organization in Phoenix on Saturday.Credit…Matt York/Associated Press People seeking drive-up coronavirus tests in Phoenix faced a three-mile-long car line last weekend. On Friday, Arizona’s largest laboratory received twice as many samples as it could process. The phone line for testing appointments at a…
Everything you love about your neighborhood bar — the ambience, the crowds, the music, the free-flowing alcohol — makes it the ideal place to catch Covid-19. Around the country, bars are becoming a common source of coronavirus outbreaks. In Louisiana, at least 100 people tested positive for the virus after visiting bars in the Tigerland…
Tiny wireless sensors for recycled N95 masks could verify, in real time, whether the respirators are being exposed to proper decontamination conditions. They’re being developed and tested at the University of Michigan through a new National Science Foundation RAPID COVID-19 grant. The batteryless sensors are designed to provide more accurate and less cumbersome monitoring during…