Welcome. Take five minutes today and let The Times’s classical music writers and some of their favorite artists convince you to fall in love with string quartets. I spent my five with the musician and producer Rostam Batmanglij’s pick, the second movement of Ravel’s Quartet, an easy courtship. It’s been snowing here in New York…
June Rose grew up speaking Burmese, English and Hindi. Her father settled down and raised orchids. When the Japanese attacked Rangoon in 1941, when June Rose was 9, the family evacuated to India and spent five years there. June Rose remembered Indira Gandhi, a future prime minister of India, watching over her as she played…
Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody have been together since their first date nearly 43 years ago, a giddy daylong romp through Greenwich Village that began with brunch and ended with them making out on a street corner. “I’m going to marry you,” he declared. “You’re going to get hurt, because I’m not going to marry…
After a year when so-called “soft pants” prevailed, we’re finding true solace in the tried, the true, and the blue. Here, six different styles of denim (and how to style them) to take you through 2021. SKATER GIRL Celine Spring/Summer 2021. Courtesy Pant One Wide Leg Jean The Only Jane theonlyjane.com $325.00 Rigid High-Rise Bootcut…
After the pandemic left fitness studios and gyms around the country shuttered or operating at reduced capacity, Margaux Drake let her regular yoga practice go. It wasn’t a lack of interest in classes offered on Instagram or Zoom. Ms. Drake, an entrepreneur in Grand Rapids, Mich., did plenty of high-intensity interval training classes online. But…
Good morning. Andrea Nguyen has a lovely story in The Times this week about family celebrations of Tet, the Vietnamese holiday observed on the Lunar New Year, which this year falls on Feb. 12. “When Vietnamese people celebrate Tet,” Andrea writes, “they describe it as ‘an Tet,’ an expression that translates to ‘eating the New…
In the last twelve months, the value of a single unit of Bitcoin has risen from less than $10,000 to more than $30,000. Companies including Square and IBM are using blockchain, the technology behind the currency, to design and improve digital payments methods. But what can you actually buy with Bitcoin? As it turns out,…
Market Overview St. Croix, with about 50,000 residents, is the largest of the three main U.S. Virgin Islands, followed by St. Thomas and St. John. In addition to its many white-sand beaches, it is known for its diving sites, including the Buck Island Reef National Monument, one of three underwater national monuments in the U.S.…
“This has been a complete — I won’t say disaster, but it’s been pretty close,” said Dr. Hanny Al-Samkari, hematologist and clinical investigator at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Cancer patients are receiving “mixed messaging,” he said, and the guidance they get largely depends on their state. Every day he receives a…
Dr. Robin Larabee was thrilled to start offering coronavirus testing at her pediatrics practice in Denver last fall. Testing for children is often scarce, and her new machines could return results within minutes. She quickly discovered an unexpected obstacle: a major health insurer that paid her less than the cost of the test itself. Each…