What Are the Symptoms of Omicron Subvariants BA.4 and BA.5?
BA.5 has become dominant in the U.S.
Amazon Prime Grubhub Deal: What to Know
Amazon Prime members (including those who are already Grubhub+ members) will get a free year of Grubhub+. How can the offer be redeemed? Amazon Prime members can redeem the Grubhub+ membership by first going to amazon.com/prime/offer/grubhub/prime-deal and signing into their accounts. Customers should then click on “Activate free Grubhub+.” The next screen will ask Prime…
Willie Lee Morrow, Barber Who Popularized the Afro Pick, Dies at 82
Willie Lee Morrow, a son of Alabama sharecroppers who built a business empire around hair care products aimed at African American consumers, among them a comb designed to work with the natural styles that exploded in popularity in the 1960s — a tool he called the Afro Tease, but which came to be known as…
Nakedness Is Everywhere in Fashion, Even the Heel of a Shoe
All fashion week, we will be spotlighting the small details we saw on the runways that surprised or delighted us: Bring on the portable fog machines and antique fork jewelry. PARIS — Blink and you might have missed one of the most explicit homages to Azzedine Alaïa by his design successor, Pieter Mulier, during the…
Modern Love Podcast: ‘Do It, I Dare You.’
From The New York Times, I’m Anna Martin. This is Modern Love. And that’s my sister Emily. Do you remember Ms. Dina? Ms. Dina took care of me and Emily when we were young, and she’s this totally mythical figure to us. Our memories of her are full of color. I remember her hair is…
Democrats Offer Plan to Cut Drug Costs, Seeking Climate and Tax Deal
WASHINGTON — Top Senate Democrats on Wednesday released an updated plan aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs, signaling progress on a crucial piece of their bid to salvage some of President Biden’s stalled social safety net, climate and tax bill. Democratic leaders negotiated the drug-pricing proposal primarily with Senator Joe Manchin III of…
The Thirst for Merch
On Friday morning, a cloudless sky stretched above the Brooklyn Museum. As the sun marked the arrival of a sweltering July, clusters of people lined up an hour before opening to be the first ones inside. It was the first day that “Figures of Speech,” a multimedia retrospective of work by the designer Virgil Abloh,…
‘The Golden Age of Thrifting Is Over’
Tina Koeppe grew up thrifting. When she was younger, she would spend weekends going to thrift stores with her mother, hunting for unique trinkets and garments but mostly looking for quality items to fit into her family’s tight budget. Now in her 40s and with a daughter of her own, Ms. Koeppe has carried the…
F.D.A. Lets Juul Appeal Ban and Stay on the Market During a Review
The Food and Drug Administration has decided to allow Juul Labs’ vaping products to stay on the market temporarily, citing “scientific issues” that warrant a review of the agency’s ruling last month to ban the company’s e-cigarettes. The agency’s decision to conduct an internal review effectively moves the dispute out of the public eye in…
When a Bra Won’t Cut It
As Valerie Steele, the chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, said: “It was a shift in beauty ideals from a very voluptuous, high Victorian ideal, to a younger and slimmer ideal. What one fashion writer in around 1900 called ‘the shift from Venus to Diana.’” Tape, in that case, would…