6 Ways to Sleep Better in the Summer
Though seasonal shifts can derail your sleep, there are things you can do to snooze more soundly when it’s hot out.
Hypebeast Makes a 7-Story Bet on Its Future
As influencers saturate the sneakerhead community with unboxing videos and guides on where to get the latest trends with little more overhead than a ring light, Hypebeast, one of the first online platforms to arrive as a source for streetwear culture, is doubling down to the tune of seven stories. Founded by Kevin Ma nearly…
Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Woman Who Had Only Dated Men’
Seen by a 7-Year-Old Transaction complete, the little girl grips her bag of Skittles and lingers at the concession table. She looks me in the eye and says, “You’re pretty.” Stunned, because I can’t remember when I last received an unsolicited compliment, and unsure I heard her correctly over the excited chatter of the crowd,…
Chewed and Rolled: How Cats Make the Most of Their Catnip High
Cats, so often, are a mystery, even to those that know them best. Why do they sleep so much? Why do they want your full attention one minute, none the next? How can they find their way back home after being stranded miles away for years? The writer Haruki Murakami, who is known for putting…
Chambers in TriBeCa, and More NYC Restaurant Openings
Melba’s at Wollman Rink Through the end of the year, Melba Wilson, the Harlem chef and restaurateur, will be serving many of her specialties at Wollman Rink in Central Park. Her restaurant is in the Overlook, the second floor of the rink’s food concession, run by the Bronx-based catering company Great Performances. Last winter, Ms.…
What Makes a Bathing Suit So Expensive?
There is a machine in South Brooklyn that looks like a transparent coffin and whirs like an industrial fan. Its metallic innards flit and glide until, within an hour, it releases a swimsuit, dropped from the machine’s underbelly like an egg. It is a high-tech process that seems simple: Click a button, get a very…
James Beard Awards 2022: Mashama Bailey and Owamni Win Top Honors
Mashama Bailey of the Grey in Savannah, Ga., was named Outstanding Chef, and Owamni by the Sioux Chef in Minneapolis, owned by the chef Sean Sherman and Dana Thompson, was named Best New Restaurant at the James Beard Foundation awards on Monday night. The ceremony, hosted by Kwame Onwuachi, the foundation’s 2019 Rising Star Chef,…
Getting the Most Bang for Your Buck While Traveling Overseas
For American travelers heading abroad, the growing strength of the dollar is the upside of a volatile economy. Currently, the exchange rate with the euro is about $1.04, meaning each 100 euros will cost about $104. One euro was worth about $1.22 this time last year. The present rate is down significantly from its high…
Restaurant Review: Mels in Chelsea
Mel’s, a pizza place that opened in Chelsea in March, seems determined to show everybody a good time. Most pizza places accomplish this with pizza alone, but Mel’s doesn’t stop there. You pass from the front door into a dim tunnel, as if you were entering a nightclub. At the end of it, past the…
How Elvis Measured His Success: With Watches
Of all the swagger and style that defined Elvis Presley — the gyrating hips, the clothes, the cars, the smirk of all smirks, that hair! — his collection of watches probably didn’t elicit giddy screaming across teen-dom in the late 1950s. But “Elvis,” a new biopic of the singer’s life, celebrates it all. Directed by…