The title of HBO’s “Painting With John” is a bit of a misnomer. Yes, there is painting. And there is John — John Lurie, the multi-hyphenate creator and performer who moved on to visual art from music and acting years ago, after, he says, contracting Lyme disease. But “with”? In the six-episode series, which begins…
That doctrine was echoed in the mid-20th-century teachings of Norman Vincent Peale, an American clergyman widely known as “God’s salesman,” whose 1952 best seller, “The Power of Positive Thinking,” urged followers: “expect great things and great things will come.” Among Peale’s cheery bromides, reportedly embraced by Donald Trump’s father, Fred, and later by Mr. Trump…
We gathered today to witness the historical inauguration of President Joe Biden and our first female, South Asian, and Black Vice President Kamala Harris. And through sobbing tears of relief, Ella Emhoff’s sparkly coat offered yet another bright spot from today’s events. While most attendees chose solid colors and monochromatic outfits—purple, in particular, being significant—Emhoff…
So, when do we learn how to paint? In the HBO series “Painting With John,” the actor, musician and artist John Lurie talks about that time he did cocaine for three hours in a broom closet with Rick James and Steve Rubell, and that other time when he set himself on fire and wound up…
Five Bedrooms and Two Retail Spaces in Gibraltar $1.9 MILLION (1.4 MILLION BRITISH POUNDS) This three-story rowhouse sits on a bustling corner of Main Street in the heart of Gibraltar, the 2.6-square-mile British Overseas Territory hanging off the southern tip of Spain. The building includes a 3,300-square-foot duplex residence with five bedrooms and two bathrooms,…
What was your greatest disappointment? My greatest disappointment was the lack of consistency of public health messaging and the inconsistency of civic leaders to reinforce the public health message. You can read between the lines what that means — “civic leaders.” Covid-19 Vaccines › Answers to Your Vaccine Questions If I live in the U.S.,…
The other men began a typical moderate-exercise program, riding bikes at the lab five times a week at a pace they could comfortably sustain for 30 to 40 minutes. Over the course of the next six weeks, the HIIT group pedaled intensely for a grand total of less than an hour, while the moderate-intensity group…
When I got sick and lost my sense of smell — a common neurological symptom of Covid-19 — the foods I loved became muddled and ugly. My brain was incapable of interpreting the delicious information floating around me, unable to detect, let alone identify, any of the aromas I took in through my nose. Without…
On Dec. 8, an 81-year-old man in Britain named William Shakespeare, who had been hospitalized following a stroke, became one of the first people in the world to receive a clinically authorized and fully tested coronavirus vaccine. For more than a month since then, we have been watching needles enter upper arms. Like many early…
What The Study Did: Researchers examined individuals’ motivation to self-test and to distribute self-test kits given the urgent need to increase COVID-19 testing coverage and contact tracing. Author: Cedric Bien-Gund, M.D., of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The…