Name: Jayme Lawson Age: 23 Hometown: Washington, D.C. Now Lives: A studio apartment in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Claim to Fame: Despite never having acted in a film before, Ms. Lawson is generating Oscar buzz for her role in “Farewell Amor,” a tender drama by Ekwa Msangi about an Angolan family who reunite…
The 14 guests who sent screen shots of negative Covid tests to Jordan Scott and Nick Gash before their New Year’s Eve wedding did so out of devotion to a couple whose love felt worth leaving home for amid a pandemic. But they couldn’t have been blamed for expecting to attend a more action-packed celebration…
Other parts of the travel industry are helping, too Many corners of the travel industry are looking for a way to pitch in to help end the pandemic. More than a dozen U.S. airports now double as virus testing sites, including Chicago O’Hare and Chicago Midway, Los Angeles International, Tampa, Newark and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Inside…
“When I started practice 30 years ago, if someone had hip pain, we’d take an X-ray and even if they had arthritis, and were in their 40s, we’d tell them to modify their activity and wait,” said Dr. William Maloney, professor of orthopedic surgery at Stanford University. No longer. “The technology caught up with our…
RS: The one lesson I think fashion will not learn from this, which is the one it should learn, if I am being brutally honest, is that it should be less greedy. It became too much this economic machine. For the majority the first desire is economic growth. Everyone just had less growth, so everyone…
In late November, Cam Casey, a TikTok star with over seven million followers, was relaxing at home when he decided to upload a video of a science experiment that resulted in a Coca-Cola bottle exploding to Snapchat. Mr. Casey, 19, had read that the company had introduced a new TikTok-like feature called Spotlight within the…
Alexandra Levy Olsman and Zachary Isaac Frankel lived across Rittenhouse Square from each other at a young age and went to the same Montessori preschool in Philadelphia. But, when a mutual friend introduced them in October 2016, they had no memory of ever meeting. Mr. Frankel said the mutual friend, Lauren Jacobs, had reached out…
Imagine this: In the wee hours one morning, during a vacation in Southeast Asia, you set off with a guide to hike to the top of Mount Merapi, a volcano in Indonesia. After a grueling, miles-long plod, you arrive at the top, just in time for sunrise. You find the perfect spot to sit. As…
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has chosen Dr. David Kessler to help lead Operation Warp Speed, the program to accelerate development of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments, according to transition officials. Dr. Kessler, a pediatrician and lawyer who headed the Food and Drug Administration during the presidencies of George Bush and Bill Clinton, has been a…
Rachel Jennifer Heyman did some quick-fire swiping on the Tinder dating app at her apartment in Manhattan one Saturday evening in January 2019 with her friend over glasses of wine, a variety of Trader Joe’s appetizers and reality TV. “At points we would take each other’s phone,” she said, and swiped right for each other…