The Met Gala, in full ostentatious, crowd-pleasing costumery, returned this week, flooding the fashion news cycle. Ditto the hordes of fans jostling outside of fashion shows, and the audience scrums inside. So it shouldn’t really be a surprise that destination shows, the traveling extravaganzas featuring the in-between collections most often known as “cruise” or “resort”…
Comfort food can take different forms. At its most heartfelt, it’s those childhood tastes that resonate emotionally: a pan of noodle kugel, a chicken foot straight out of my grandmother’s soup pot, a buttered slice of my father’s warm anadama bread. They may not be comforting to everyone, but, to me, they’re as soothing as…
Updated May 6, 2022, 7:16 p.m. ET The Never-Ending Job Interview I applied for a position and over the course of two months, I had several interviews. I was asked to complete an assessment that included addressing four hypothetical situations. They paid me $500 for this work. Next, they want me to do several more…
Being a celebrity certainly has its perks: travel, red carpets, photo shoots, etc. But oftentimes, these glamorous work commitments often mean you’re away from your family longer than you might like. This Mother’s Day, Naked Cashmere is inviting loved ones to be part of the fun with its “Love” campaign supporting the Breast Cancer Research…
Their Mexican neighbors were bemused. The Zihuatanejo historian Rodrigo Campus Aburto, a young teen in the 1960s, recalls that the community thought the mostly American trippers were lunatics. He also remembers older teens sometimes attended fiestas that IFIF hosted on the beach. “Moon, fire and beer,” is how he describes the parties. Some smoked marijuana…
For more than half a century, the art collector Hester Diamond called the imposing, twin-towered Eldorado on the Upper West Side home. It was there, in her sprawling duplex, that she put together extensive collections of Modernist and old masters works, entertained art world dignitaries and raised her family. “My parents didn’t separate their social…
Some care facilities are giving older adults a way to visit their pasts to boost their well-being.
“I like to find the most impossible shot and then get really disappointed when it doesn’t happen,” the actress Greta Lee said, leaning over a billiards table in the Koreatown section of Manhattan. “I don’t know what that says about me.” She aimed at a solid red ball, which obediently dropped into a center pocket.…
Sometimes my aunts and uncles would take the constant communication a little too far, sending pictures of their bruised legs (from bumping into tables) or bloody noses (from the dry heat), positioning their wounds in perfect lighting. Other times I would check my messages in the morning to find a picture of spilled juice with…
Eric Kugler likes to say he met Judge Dean Hansell through Ed Sullivan and Ingrid Bergman. What actually brought them together in February 2011, though, was GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Now on the Superior Court of California, Judge Hansell, 70, had helped to start the alliance’s Los Angeles chapter in 1986.…