Over the past week, social media has been flooded with videos of knives slicing into ordinary objects only to reveal that they are actually made of cake. These hyper-realistic cakes have taken the shape of a bottle of hand lotion, a chicken thigh, a bar of soap, rolls of toilet paper and human heads. It’s…
Headliner Butterfield Market Express Window The new Butterfield Market, a branch of the 105-year-old store on Lexington Avenue, is moving into the spacious storefront once occupied by Dean & DeLuca, but it won’t be ready until the fall. Evan Obsatz, one of the owners (along with his sister, Joelle, and his father, Alan), said the…
Courtesy Haute couture is downright dreamy. It’s where the fashion world’s most-skilled show off the highest level of creativity, technique, quality, and craft. Indeed, wedding dresses have long served as finale looks of the couture collections, but for fall 2020—when the shows are virtual, when weddings have been postponed, when the glamorous affairs where one…
How will children make sense of the times we are living through? How can parents help them form — and understand — the narrative, even when they themselves feel worried, overwhelmed and unsure? I went back to several of the pediatricians I’ve consulted about different aspects of the coronavirus and asked: How are you telling…
Until about two weeks ago, Dario Calmese didn’t know he was the first Black photographer to shoot the cover of Vanity Fair. But he had a suspicion, so he asked the editors, who went digging. “To the best of our knowledge, it is the first Vanity Fair cover made by a Black photographer,” Radhika Jones…
A lot of people are passionate about food. They continuously look for new recipes to try out and purchase different types of ingredients to make the perfect meal. Some even visit many restaurants to try out different dishes. Food brings happiness to people. This also depends on what type of food you eat. You should…
As soon as I get used to the towering stacks of fragrant peaches and plump berries at the farmers’ market, the summer season comes to an end, and they’re gone. It always seems to go by in the blink of an eye. A few pieces of equipment make it possible to cheat the laws of…
Driving across Woodward Avenue in Detroit a few weeks ago amid a spirited George Floyd demonstration — this one a 30-mile motorcade into the suburbs, billed as the “I Have a Dream Protest Cruise” — my mind drifted strangely to an empty two-lane highway in Arkansas near the Texas border. The memory was jarring, sweeping…
When James and Meg Wilson began working from home in March, they realized their house in Oakland, Calif., would need a proper home office in a hurry. Mr. Wilson, 36, works in finance, and Ms. Wilson, 36, is a nurse practitioner engaged in telehealth. “And we have a little guy at home,” Mr. Wilson said,…
A few weeks ago, a nerdy joke went viral on Twitter: Future historians will be asked which quarter of 2020 they specialize in. As museum curators and archivists stare down one of the most daunting challenges of their careers — telling the story of the pandemic; followed by severe economic collapse and a nationwide social…