Want to get the At Home newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here. Welcome. Virtual trivia. Online play reading groups. We’re negotiating a less-quarantined existence, but our pandemic pastimes remain predominantly home-based for the moment. We’re booking optimistic flights for summer and contemplating vaccine passports, but we’re still home making Yewande Komolafe’s tamarind-drizzled rice porridge,…
The pandemic might have made it harder to visit a skin-care professional for a facial or other treatments, but you can still achieve that wedding-day glow at home with an assortment of products and even massages that you can do yourself. Many skin-care professionals also offer virtual consultations as well as online tutorials. Home treatments…
In the movies, birth is usually an emergency. It begins with the woman’s water breaking, at the worst possible moment. She appears to be barely in labor, and yet she is rushed, through gridlock traffic, to the hospital. There she becomes angry, and the pain is her husband’s fault. She yells at him, perhaps even…
If you thought baseball caps, baggy jeans, and well-worn moto boots weren’t high fashion, think again. Like many designers in this mid-pandemic season, Hedi Slimane of Celine released their fall-winter 2021 collection in digital format today, operating on their own fashion calendar. As the show notes say, Celine’s world is a “utopian parade and melancholic…
For Saint Laurent’s summer 2021 campaign, which originally debuted in the African desert at the end of 2020, creative director Anthony Vacarello enlisted icons only. The cast includes familiar faces of the Parisian atelier: French actress and all-around legend Charlotte Gainsbourg, Julianne Moore, Indya Moore, Leo Reilly, and Chloe Sevigny. The film is directed by…
On Tuesday, several dozen organizations that work on addiction and other health issues asked Mr. Biden’s health and human services secretary, Xavier Becerra, to “act with urgency” and eliminate the rule that doctors go through a day of training before getting federal permission to prescribe buprenorphine. Many addiction experts are also calling for abolishing rules…
Colton Underwood, a star of “The Bachelor” and a former football player, came out as gay in an interview with Robin Roberts that aired Wednesday on “Good Morning America.” He described 2020 as a year of self-reflection, one that “probably made a lot of people look in the mirror and confront what they were running…
If you’re anything like me, you’re anxiously awaiting your first perfect beach day— i.e. the day when it’s finally acceptable to step outside in a swimsuit and nothing else. Everlane anticipated our collective desire for a summer (safely) enjoyed by the water and is finally launching its first swimwear collection, dropping tomorrow on April 15th.…
Women appear to have more side effects after vaccination than men. A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published in February, examined the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines and found that 79 percent of the side effects reported to the agency came from women, even though only 61 percent of the vaccines had…
Asparagus performs at its best with little effort: It retains its bright-green hue, delicate flavor and crisp-tender crunch when cooked quickly. Raw or roasted, blanched or sautéed, it pops up in a number of dishes that involve minimal labor, allowing the stalks to shine. When it comes to spring asparagus — and, perhaps, cooking in…