When Omicron Isn’t So Mild

While they may not be hospitalized for respiratory illnesses, “we are seeing some exacerbation of other conditions in individuals who are vulnerable,” said Dr. Sandra Nelson, an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. In some cases, patients were dehydrated from the effects of a…

Everyone Has Left the Chat

For Ellen Schiller’s chain of three, the end was a bit more abrupt. “We were all texting constantly in the beginning of the pandemic, and it was so dark and entertaining,” said Ms. Schiller, a 50-year-old fiber artist in Salem, Mass., until the group’s other two members decided to start a college consulting business last…

Otherworldly Beauty at Paris Couture Week

Otherworldly Beauty at Paris Couture Week Jessica Testa��Reporting from Paris Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times Watching the couture shows this week, it seemed to me like every designer had escape on the mind. (Who doesn’t?) That yearning was as apparent in the makeup as in the clothes. Here are beauty looks that stood…

Millennial Nightlife Swanks Up

One recent frigid evening, a procession of 30-somethings wearing peacoats and high heels beneath puffy layers pushed past a curtain and walked into the elegant red saloon of the Nines, a new piano bar in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan that aims to fashion itself as a downtown Bemelmans. A pianist played jazzy covers of…