Ron Rice, a high school chemistry teacher who had been trained to explore for oil, but who instead made a fortune by concocting coconut-laced suntan lotion in a 20-gallon garbage can in his garage and seductively branding it Hawaiian Tropic, died on May 19 in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was 81. His death, in a…
I think I’m suffering from a case of fashion stubbornness: I just don’t like any of the office wear that is “in.” Since coming back to work, I’ve noticed that the way I dress has diverged quite a bit from the other women in my office. I much prefer the tailored styles of yore to…
What is it like to be Derek Blasberg’s muse? Mr. Blasberg, the social butterfly and YouTube fashion ambassador, had just introduced Lauren Santo Domingo at a benefit dinner for the Parsons School of Design, as his “mentor and muse.” “I can only compare it to being Josh Safdie’s muse in ‘Uncut Gems,’” said Ms. Domingo,…
If the Met Gala has become the ultimate high-fashion costume party, the Oscars the ur-brand marketing opportunity, and the VMAs an expression of pure dress-up id, the Cannes Film Festival, which will draw to a close on May 28, is the anything-goes oleo of all of the above. It is simply so long — 11…
Yousuf Bakshi, a junior at Harvard, recalled getting in line at El Jefe’s Taqueria at 2 a.m. in Cambridge, Mass., to grab a late-night snack after a recent night out. Mr. Bakshi, 20, couldn’t help noticing that nearly everyone ahead of him in line was on their phones, all scrolling through the same app: Sidechat.…
Recently, it seems as if teens and college students have had to grow up quickly. Facing a deluge of global and local crises, Gen-Z is past any “age of innocence,” when worries were relatively low stakes (e.g. wondering whether to skip the prom because it’s lame vs. wondering whether to skip the prom because it…
I’ve thought a lot about my children this week, as I think just about every parent in America has. They are life itself, and my life specifically. There were moments when I didn’t have much of an appetite, and other times when I went out of my way to cook because it was nice to…
One of the tastiest things I ate this year was still-warm ricotta, just off the fire, at a farm in Sicily. I scooped some of the white, wobbly mass onto my plate, seasoned it with coarse salt and used a spoon to catch every drop, restraining myself from licking the plate. That ethereal ricotta also…
She graduated from the Clifton School, a girls’ high school, in 1950; worked as a telephone operator, saleswoman and hotel clerk; and married Carter Henderson, who wrote for The Wall Street Journal, in 1957, the same year she moved to New York. She became a naturalized citizen in 1962 and moved to Florida in the…
CHICAGO — As drag brunch came to a close at a Mexican restaurant here last Sunday, the performers conga-lined their way through the crowd of about 40 party people who were just this side of tipsy on Brunch Punch. But this was no standard drag brunch; it was a Taco Bell Drag Brunch. And that…