The first Joe and Jill Biden American Outreach tour, a.k.a. the Group of 7 meeting in Britain, came to a conclusion Sunday evening. Though the president continued on to Brussels for NATO and a meeting with Vladimir Putin, the first lady returned to Washington. It had been, by most pundit-y accounts, a success: an effective…
To a wide circle of friends and family, Jesse Ruby was the go-to guy. The father who would drop everything and drive across town if his sons needed a ride. The cousin who spent weekends helping relatives move. The partner who worked odd jobs on weekends with his girlfriend, Virginia Herrera, to help make ends…
Courtesy of Tiffany & Co. If you know Tracee Ellis Ross, whether it’s from her 25-year career in film and television or through the lens of her vibrant social media channels, it should come as no surprise that she loves fashion. Like, really loves fashion. The actress’s love affair with beautiful clothes presents itself in…
Novavax, a small American company buoyed by lavish support from the U.S. government, announced on Monday the results of a clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine in the United States and Mexico, finding that its two-shot inoculation provides potent protection against the coronavirus. In the 29,960-person trial, the vaccine demonstrated an overall efficacy of 90.4…
In 2016, drawn by the smell of Easter cookies, I ventured into a small bakery in the village of Olympos, on the Greek island of Karpathos. The owner, a woman named Kalliope, was wearing what looked to me like a traditional costume. After chatting for a minute or two, I asked if she was dressed…
Rocket Science Events, founded in 2010 in Minneapolis, specializes in elaborate, imaginatively designed weddings held in nontraditional venues, like an airplane hangar or boxing gym. At the start of 2020, Gretchen Culver, its founder, had three part-time employees, a handful of independent contractors working events and revenue projected to be slightly below $500,000. Then, the…
What’s the hardest-working accessory in your home? Chances are, it’s a tray — whether you use it for ferrying drinks to friends, framing a decorative vignette or corralling mail by the front door. “We use trays for a lot of different things,” said Krista Schrock, a principal of the Los Angeles-based firm Disc Interiors. Sure,…
At the two locations of Tocabe, a Denver-area American Indian restaurant, customers have long asked the owners Matt Chandra and Ben Jacobs where to buy the Native and Indigenous ingredients used in the kitchen, like the wild rice in the grain bowls, or the bison for the glazed ribs with berry barbecue sauce. Last May,…
SAN DIEGO — Si eres una mujer cuya edad oscila entre los 18 y los 34 años, tal vez hayas notado un comercial de Phexxi mientras veías algo en Hulu. O quizá te hayas topado con el producto —un gel anticonceptivo no hormonal que las mujeres pueden aplicarse una hora antes de tener relaciones sexuales—…
In discussing his audiobook on caffeine with Terry Gross on NPR last winter, Michael Pollan called caffeine “the enemy of good sleep” because it interferes with deep sleep. He confessed that after the challenging task of weaning himself from coffee, he “was sleeping like a teenager again.” Dr. Willett, now 75, said, “You don’t have…