When hotel or motel guests check into their rooms, they expect at the very least to be greeted with a clean space, a made-up bed and in the bathroom, soap. But what happens when you leave that soap behind? They typically end up in the trash, said Shawn Seipler, the founder of Clean the World,…
LOS ANGELES — Their dogs play together among the canvases, drop cloths and spray cans. They crowd into cars on road trips to each other’s far-flung exhibitions. They sometimes share paint supplies. In an art world that is often competitive, the painters who have come to share a studio in the Boyle Heights neighborhood represent…
If you’d prefer to stay off the reservation sites, you can try calling: Restaurants of a certain era, like Yakitori Totto near Carnegie Hall, sometimes take last-minute reservations over the phone. Or you should join every restaurant obsessive I know in dining out at 6 p.m. Sure, it’ll be on the quiet side when you…
Lil Nas X caused a stir, as he is wont to do, when he arrived on the red carpet at MTV’s Video Music Awards last fall wearing a lavender hybrid outfit — half pantsuit and half off-the-shoulder gown — by Atelier Versace. The aim, explained the rapper, was to telegraph “a mix of masculine and…
Looking Ahead Lord’s Ed Szymanski and Patricia Howard, the owners of the seafood-focused Dame in Greenwich Village, are planning a new restaurant, scheduled to open in early fall, and, as Ms. Howard said in an email, inspired by London establishments like St John, Rochelle Canteen and Quo Vadis. “That style of simple, elegant, seasonal British…
San Francisco comes to Hudson Square at Pine & Polk, a newly opened food shop from Lindsay Weiss and Alyssa Golub, New Yorkers who met while working in San Francisco and named their store for two of that city’s streets. They’ve filled the shelves with a quirky assortment of food products they like, from producers…
In kitchen mythology, no archetype is more potent than the grandmother, and most powerful of all is the nonna. Even if you’re not Italian, you probably have an idea how the archetypal Italian grandmother looks and, more to the point, how she cooks. Pick a major cooking website and you can look up recipes for…
How did the paradox of the universe, full of prismatic galaxies and endless emptiness, come to be? How can the light of a dead star still shine? What legends do we tell ourselves to explain the figures we see sparkling in the night sky? What in the heck does any of this have to do…
My Sweetie We’ve endured lockdowns in Shanghai since March 2022, surfacing with just a day to buy provisions before going back into “house arrest.” My husband’s birthday fell on the second day of the current lockdown. I gave him, my spouse of 22 years, two packs of our favorite Swiss chocolates. He has slowly rationed…
RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Alyssa Shelasky, a travel, food, parenting and sex writer, recently experimented with a new medium: composing a “Missed Connection” on Craigslist. Earlier this year, she bought a weekend home near Rhinebeck, N.Y., with her partner, Sam Russell, and she’s been trying to get settled, maybe even find a friend. “When we first…