Finding a new handbag is like finding a new romantic partner. There are trusty handbags that will surely keep you satisfied, but there are also newcomers that bring an excitement you can’t ignore. While it feels like a lot of the major brands are recreating the same silhouettes over and over again, we’ve taken it…
Chote Miya This Indian street food spot in the TimeOut Market in Dumbo, Brooklyn, has opened a branch in Chelsea Market. The owner, Jimmy Rizvi, also sells packaged Indian products in the new location. Chelsea Market, 75 Ninth Avenue (15th Street), chotemiya.com. Ol’Days Gradually moving north, from Buenos Aires and Miami to New York, this…
I Know Which “You’ll know when he’s ‘the one’,” my mother said. She died when I was 20, leaving no further guidance. At 23, I was stale inventory by Jewish matchmaking standards. Despair settled in. Until one Shabbat afternoon when Phil, an old friend of my roommate, breezed into our 93rd Street apartment. He was…
Today marks Day 22 of summer. Have you had your requisite ice cream cone(s) yet? Ice cream consumption is, of course, a year-round pursuit. But there’s just something about unrelenting daytime heat and balmy summer nights that makes every creamy bite all the better. What’s new and oh-so-nice in ice cream this season? I’m glad…
Even before the constitutional right to an abortion was struck down last month, health insurance coverage for it was spotty. Abortion benefits largely depended on where a woman lived or whom she worked for. Those factors have become even more crucial now that the Supreme Court has left it to the states to regulate abortion.…
If you have eaten at Sofreh, the four-year-old Persian restaurant in a Brooklyn brownstone, chances are you know its mast-o musir, a yogurt dip. The first things you see are chips of dried musir, the Iranian wild shallot, prized for its courtly but distinct whiff of garlic. Underneath this is a bed of musir-enriched yogurt.…
Studies suggest that cocoa might benefit health, but it’s unclear how that may translate to a typical bar of chocolate.
Ilya S. SavenokGetty Images There’s no denying Ugg continues to churn out amazing footwear, with its more recent Fluff Yeah slippers being no exception. We saw countless A-listers like Hailey Bieber, Gigi Hadid, Megan Fox, and Selena Gomez sport the cute, cozy shoes practically everywhere last summer, and it seems these days you can’t run…
For more than a week in the peak of summer, a sea of people dressed in red and white routinely cram the narrow, cobblestone streets of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona for the ceremonial running of the bulls, a heart-pounding, chaotic race that sometimes ends in severe injury or even death. Known as “encierro,”…
Davy Newkirk and Robbie Rivers were happy living in Los Angeles for many years, until the pandemic changed everything. “We were living in an area that became extreme with crime,” Mr. Newkirk said, “and we just wanted to get out.” At the same time, Mr. Newkirk, who is in his 40s and works as a…