Jessica McClintock, a fashion designer whose romantic, lacy confections dressed generations of women for their weddings and proms, died on Feb. 16 at her home in San Francisco. She was 90. The cause was congestive heart failure, said her sister, Mary Santoro. In 1969, Ms. McClintock was a newly divorced mother and had been teaching…
My Mother, My Friend My first semester of college, I only called my mother twice. At my house, I felt generally misunderstood and judged for my weight; at school, I was finally free. But the pandemic forced me home. I spent the first months in my room. Then, my mother and I started watching Chinese…
If the start of spring break is any indication — when an average of more than a million fliers a day passed through security at U.S. airports — domestic summer travel is poised to pop. Airlines have been expanding their route networks, especially in vacation destinations, as competition for leisure travelers heats up. Leisure travelers…
LONDON — The announcement this week that the AstraZeneca shot, the workhorse of global vaccine rollouts, had achieved nearly 80 percent efficacy in a gold-standard American trial was met with relief by the many countries relying on it. “When you get the call, get the jab,” the British health secretary, Matt Hancock, urged, part of…
Headliner Sona Priyanka Chopra Jonas, a star and producer of the film “White Tiger,” is the marquee name involved in this new restaurant. She’s serving as creative adviser. Her friend Maneesh K. Goyal, an entrepreneur whose father owned a restaurant but who is new to the business, is doing the heavy lifting. He has brought…
The last year has been one of reflection, and for the fall-winter 2021 season, designers spoke to our quarantined times in what we hope will be the final fashion month at home. There were lingering notes of indoor life with cozy knitwear trends, but also an acknowledgment that we’re at the precipice of the world…
Many couples were forced to postpone their weddings because of the coronavirus, but that didn’t stop some from deciding to start families anyway, ahead of getting married. Now, as restrictions are being lifted, and more weddings are getting planned, some couples will be marking two major life events at once: a new marriage and parenthood.…
There are photo shoots, there are presidential photo shoots — and then there are Vladimir Putin presidential photo shoots. Rarely has the leader of a global power embraced the staged publicity still with such creative, yet clichéd, fervor, not just feeding the global desire for a caricature of himself, but actually creating it. Cue, for…
Federal health officials said early Tuesday that results from a U.S. trial of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine may have relied on “outdated information” that “may have provided an incomplete view of the efficacy data,” casting doubt on an announcement on Monday that had been seen as good news for the British-Swedish company as well as the…
Positive trends in pandemic statistics in the United States are easy to distrust. After all, the country went through two false dawns last year, in the late spring and then again in the late summer, when declines in case reports prefaced even darker days. Each time, the apparent good news prompted relaxations and reopenings that…