President Biden’s $400 billion proposal to improve long-term care for older adults and those with disabilities was received as either a long overdue expansion of the social safety net or an example of misguided government overreach. Republicans ridiculed including elder care in a program dedicated to infrastructure. Others derided it as a gift to the…
Brianne Day makes a wide array of wines from the Willamette and Applegate Valleys in southern Oregon. Along with the usual pinot noirs and chardonnays, she also uses unexpected varieties and makes creative blends that are always a treat to try. When the pandemic struck in March 2020, she feared the worst, as her Day…
The coronavirus disrupted much of the bridal fashion industry, driving down sales and forcing designers to showcase their collections virtually instead of in person. But through it all, Jackson Wiederhoeft kept extra busy and productive. The 27-year-old designer, who got his start at Thom Browne and released his first collection in 2019, has a passion…
After a pause last year because of the pandemic, the Michelin Guides for restaurants in several cities in the United States are up and running again. The venerable French company announced Thursday that starting next week, it would begin revealing the stars and other ratings for restaurants in Washington D.C., Chicago and New York. The…
The trend is not confined to Levi’s, which lays claim to inventing the blue jean in 1873. Madewell, the popular retail chain owned by J. Crew Group, has also been seeing enthusiasm around looser fit jeans and balloon pants, even among skinny jean acolytes, which is viewed as a turning point for the fit. Today…
‘We’re Not Tourists’ Invariably, there are going to be complaints about the return of those who bring an end to all of that. Cheryl Dunn, 63, a photographer and documentary filmmaker, described the Lower East Side as having been transformed by a sense of community. “You go in a shop and people have time to…
Last year, my brother and his wife suffered a tragic loss when their young son drowned in an accident at their home. Since then, my sister-in-law has been extremely reluctant to travel to see our family, and I’m not sure why. My brother would love to visit, but I think he defers to her because…
Courtesy of AppleGetty Images Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. In fashion, there’s normcore, there’s gorpcore, and there’s even Totoro-core. And then there’s carbon. It might be the most unlikely buzzword to pop up in the industry, but over the past few years it has been in…
Sigrid Jakob showed up to Green-Wood Cemetery hot on the heels of a recent victory: The deer dung she was cultivating in her apartment had just yielded a particularly exciting specimen of fungi. She’d gathered the dung in a park in the Bronx, she said, and was currently storing it in Tupperware that once housed…
Ever since the pandemic started, mental health experts have worried that grief, financial strain and social isolation may take an unbearable toll on American psyches. Some warned that the coronavirus had created the “perfect storm” for a rise in suicides. The concern was seized on by lawmakers who were eager to reopen the economy. In…