Welcome. The winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere will occur next week, on Dec. 21. Here in New York, there will be just nine hours and 15 minutes of daylight on Tuesday, after which the days will begin to lengthen. Of course, the solstice is also the first day of winter, so even as the…
The Metropolitan Opera announced Wednesday that it would require all eligible adult employees and audience members to get Covid booster shots in order to enter the opera house, making its safety measures stricter than those on Broadway or at other venues. The Met is the first major performing arts organization in the city to announce…
Christmas Eve dinner can vary depending on how you celebrate, but the meal should always satisfy and delight. Whether you abstain from meat and dairy, feast on seven fishes or roast pork to get in the Christmas spirit, New York Times Cooking has plenty of recipes to help you usher in the holiday. On the…
The faulty coronavirus testing kits developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the early weeks of the pandemic were not only contaminated but had a basic design flaw, according to an internal review by the agency. Health officials had already acknowledged that the test kits were contaminated, but the internal report, whose…
After two years of ditching bras and languishing in leggings, many are welcoming structure back into their lives — and, for some, that extends to their clothing choices. “Going-out clothes have made a powerful comeback,” Morgane Le Caer, the content lead at Lyst, the shopping platform, said in an email. Ms. Le Caer added that…
Good morning. Gabrielle Hamilton is leaving us, she writes in her farewell column for The New York Times Magazine this week, closing her laptop on a column she’s written since 2016 and returning to the restaurant she was forced to shutter by the pandemic. That’s a boon to diners in New York but a sad…
Kroger, the national supermarket operator and one of the nation’s largest retailers, has restructured its Covid-19 benefits for unvaccinated employees and will charge some of them if they remain unprotected, a spokeswoman for the company confirmed on Wednesday. Last year, before coronavirus vaccines were available, the company began offering two weeks of paid time off…
Kisha Anderer, 42, a stay-at-home mother in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn, hopes to get $1,500 or $1,600 for her Peloton bike, but admitted, “I wish I would have sold it over the pandemic,” when the bikes were as hard to find as toilet paper. Ms. Anderer received her bike as a birthday gift…
I wonder if something like the opposite is happening now: The allure of presentism is causing people to romanticize contemporary perspectives at the expense of an excessively vilified past. It’s uncomfortable to dwell in gray areas, to admit imperfections, to acknowledge blind spots — better to have a 100-minute documentary or four-part podcast to allow…
Outi de Falbaire, the founder and CEO of Barnes Mauritius, said that the average home price of around $3,000 a square meter ($280 a square foot) has held steady since before the pandemic. Although luxury prices can reach as high as $10,000 a square meter ($930 a square foot) in some cases, she noted that…