She was known as the “Red Headed Ball of Fire,” a title given her for her stature — she was a diminutive 5-foot-1 — and her fiery hair. She found the moniker, which was often shortened to “Ball of Fire,” corny. But Betty Rowland was a burlesque queen nonetheless. A headliner in the racy variety…
In 2017, less than two years later, the F.D.A. took the rare step of demanding that Endo pull Opana from the market, citing the grave public health consequences of its abuse. The company complied. Over the five years from the appearance of the blood-disease cluster in Tennessee to the drug’s withdrawal from the market, the…
“It is possible to work with brands and still remain fact-based and science-based,” she said, but she acknowledged that “part of it is necessity — because debunking was taking up so many of my hours.” Ms. Wong quit her job in 2019 to devote herself full-time to Lab Muffin Beauty Science, but she still sometimes…
One common knock against the Chicago area is that “real” nature seems far away. Apart from Lake Michigan — arguably the region’s best natural attribute — it’s sprawling suburbs and monotone fields of corn in every direction. I have subscribed to this idea for years. But it’s not actually true. If you’re looking for nature…
[theme music] anna martin From The New York Times, I’m Anna Martin. This is Modern Love. On today’s show, we’ve got two stories about adoption — one from the perspective of a mother and the other from the perspective of a daughter. The first story starts over 60 years ago with a baby and a…
“You know that scene where Mary is washing Jesus’s feet with an alabaster jar of nard?” David Moltz said recently. “It’s such a spiritual moment in the history of civilization — what would it smell like?” Nard, or spikenard, a lesser-known essential oil than lavender, bergamot or jasmine, is best known from its biblical reference…
By the time Warren Lotas’ first store opened its doors in Los Angeles on a recent Saturday morning, hundreds of people had already queued up outside. Some had started camping out the night before, eager to get early access to a streetwear brand known for its namesake designer’s distinctive heavy metal-inspired, hand-painted illustrations and high-quality…
Good morning. You miss me? I was in France for work, and if the food wasn’t as great as I’d dreamed it might be, after more than two years in the home office, at least there were ham and cheese sandwiches. Jambons beurres: warm, skinny baguettes with unsalted butter and thin slices of juicy ham…
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A Four-Bedroom Contemporary Home in Ecuador $550,000 Perched at the eastern edge of El Cajas National Park, a UNESCO-designated biosphere reserve, this contemporary home sits on four undulating acres outside of Cuenca, Ecuador’s third-largest city. With the 110-square-mile park as its backdrop, the four-bedroom, three-bath house “is isolated and surrounded by nature,” said Ashley Rogers,…