They also factored in time: The plan assumes that SNAP families will get 99 percent of their beans from a can. Among the other convenience foods it includes are hard-boiled eggs, prepared salsa, baby carrots, boxed macaroni and cheese and bagged salad greens. “It was a scientific, analytical process,” said Stacy Dean, a senior Agriculture…
Marissa Meizz, 23, was out to dinner with a friend in the East Village in mid-May when her phone started buzzing. She tried to silence it, but the texts kept coming. They all wanted to know: Had she seen the TikTok video? She clicked the link and a young man appeared onscreen. “If your name’s…
Le supliqué que dejara de preocuparse y prestara atención. Cuando le expliqué la situación a mi terapeuta, me recomendó que viéramos a alguien especializado en el trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo, o TOC, del que Mike y yo sabíamos poco. Más bien, pensábamos que lo conocíamos, pero lo que imaginábamos era la versión cinematográfica: lavarse las manos con…
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. — “My studio out here isn’t quite as set up for photography as my place in the city,” the artist Cindy Sherman said before the 90th-anniversary gala for Guild Hall. The multidisciplinary arts institution in East Hampton is where a newbie painter named Jackson Pollock once showed his radical drip paintings, and…
Mr. Maxey, 33, started posting online because, at the time, he didn’t see any Black people on the internet signing, especially doing interpretations of songs he liked by artists such as J. Cole, Mac Miller and Big Sean. “I was trying to expose the deaf community to my culture as a Black man from the…
For much of this summer, Dylan Fogarty, 28, the director of academic partnerships for an education start-up, has been having a blast in Fire Island Pines: hosting pool parties at his four-bedroom house, making new friends at the Low Tea bar, and dancing at the Pavilion club till dawn to pop songs by Lady Gaga…
Last fall, Randi Hipper decided to, as she put it recently, “go in-depth with the crypto space.” After hearing about NFTs on Twitter and other social media platforms, Ms. Hipper, then a 17-year-old senior at Xaverian High School in Brooklyn, began releasing her own digital artworks — cartoonish and self-referential pieces showing her cruising in…
DJ Kaiser and Tom Saggio didn’t necessarily plan to marry last September — it just happened. The couple had bought a house together in St. Louis that July and decided that marriage should be the next step, despite the absence of proposals or the exchange of rings. Rather than attempt to wrangle family together during…
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration admonished the Republican governors of Texas and Florida on Friday for blocking local school districts from requiring masks or taking other measures to protect students from the coronavirus in the coming school year. The secretary of education, Miguel Cardona, sent a pair of letters to the governors and their education…
Dr. Jose U. Scher, a rheumatologist at NYU Langone Health who has studied the effect of vaccines on the immunocompromised, said that the C.D.C. vote — and the guidance from its experts — would help patients who had been agonizing over whether to seek out a third shot. Previously, he said, when people tested themselves…