“It was like a version of ‘Modern Family’ meets ‘Groundhog Day,’” said Elana Hirsh Widmann, after she and Michael David Schoenbrum settled into her childhood room in Morristown, N.J. They had left their Gramercy Park apartment in March 2020 when the pandemic hit to stay with her family for a couple of weeks, which in…
In just a few years, Topo Chico, the sparkling water sourced from Monterrey, Mexico, went from “big in Texas” to the bubbliest thing since spiked seltzer. These days, hip restaurants in Brooklyn serve bottles of it alongside vegan empanadas and Oaxacan tacos. American grocery giants like Whole Foods and Kroger stock their shelves with it.…
“Laminate vows” was included on the prewedding checklist for Catarina Salvador Espírito Santo Cristovão Neto. After all, when you’re getting married in the Pacific Ocean, just beyond the wave breaks, that’s probably a good thing to do. Ms. Neto also proved herself to be rather resourceful when she found hers and his wedding attire online…
Isaiah Bryant said he wasn’t much for traveling before he met Emily Maretsky. He’d gone abroad with USA Ultimate, which is the governing body of Ultimate Frisbee in the United States (he is now a member of its board of directors). But just booking a ticket and going somewhere? Not really his thing. Then, in…
In the before-before times, or maybe the before-before-before times, not only prepandemic but also pre-Sept. 11, New York Fashion Week was held in Bryant Park, around the historic anchor of the old garment district and the schmatta land of Seventh Avenue. After awhile the neighbors got annoyed by the flood of fashion people taking over…
Dr. Kaitlin Flannery and John Mancini were 29 and 28 when they met on Bumble in April 2018. They were both living in Palo Alto, Calif. — she was a resident in anesthesiology at Stanford University, and he was a lead data scientist at a cybersecurity start-up in San Jose. At the time, they couldn’t…
Self-expression has always been important to Larsen Thompson. Spending her childhood in and out of dance classes — she first rose to prominence when a video of her teenage self dancing to a pop anthem went viral — the actress and Global Pandora Muse found herself drawn to anything creative from a young age. “My…
On the first night of the U.S. Open, about 150 philanthropists, tennis royalty and boldfaced fans crowded into the President’s Box at Arthur Ashe Stadium, not only to watch Naomi Osaka play, but also to support the USTA Foundation and its mission to bring tennis to underprivileged youths. “We’re tennis parents,” said Mike Tyson, the…
As for how to stock up: Surgical masks are readily available at online retailers like Amazon or Target. And although it was difficult, if not impossible, to find respirator masks like N95s at the beginning of the pandemic, they are more readily available now. On its website, Wirecutter has a comprehensive breakdown of the different…
Transplants are not cheap, averaging around $7,000 but often rising to $20,000 or more, depending on geography, the type of procedure and the amount of work that needs to be done, said Dr. Akash Chandawarkar, a former plastic surgery chief resident at Johns Hopkins University who is now in Manhattan. To some guys, that can…