Quidditch, the sport of boarding school wizards riding broomsticks in “Harry Potter,” will become “Quadball” to the humans who play the game in real life, its leading organizations said on Tuesday. The groups cited financial obstacles imposed by Warner Bros., the producer of the movie series, holding the trademark to Quidditch, as well as a…
The guide stood before a small group in a dimly lit tepee. “Do you want to be entertained, or to go deep?” he asked. The answer came in giddy unison: “Go deep!” “Good,” he said. “That was a trick question.” The people got cozy on the pillow-strewn floor as the guide went to his keyboard.…
An Elegant Four-Bedroom Home in Northern Italy $1.51 MILLION (1.5 MILLION EUROS) This four-bedroom, six-bathroom villa sits on an embankment in Brunate, a village in northern Italy perched above the city of Como and its famed lake. Built in 1908 in the Italian “Liberty” style, a variant of Art Nouveau, the property has been owned…
The rapid evolution of the coronavirus into an alphabet soup of subvariants presents a vexing challenge to health officials: They must make far-reaching policy decisions based on little biological certainty of which viral variants will be dominant this fall or winter. The Food and Drug Administration said at the end of June that it would…
So Jony Ive, the former Apple chief design officer and consultant, and the man most responsible for the visual allure of Apple products — the man who helped transform computers and phones into objects of desire, who made them more than mere vectors of functionality, but rather badges of identity — and his erstwhile employer…
“Look at that caterpillar,” Andrew J. Brand said one afternoon, as we passed a hummocky old bottlebrush buckeye shrub in my garden. What caterpillar, I thought, quickly training my eyes in the direction of his gaze rather than embarrassing myself by acknowledging that I hadn’t noticed anything. What he had spied looked to me like…
Timothy Hale had high hopes for this summer. “Last summer was a tease,” said the 29-year-old hairstylist and freelance photographer, who goes by Tim Hell professionally. “I was hoping this would be the summer I could finally have fun.” After moving to New York City from Baltimore in February 2021, then finding himself cooped up…
I developed a chocolate-cake recipe in honor of her. Lizzy died of pancreatic cancer in 2019, foreshadowed by the stomach pain she talked about in some of her later videos. I never met her in person, but I texted her almost every day for years. She was one of my best friends. She had even…
Have you ever been on a date in a bizarre or unexpected location? Maybe you crossed the Atlantic Ocean together on a cargo ship. Or perhaps you wound up on the side of a mountain. Or a restaurant after hours. The Modern Love Podcast wants to hear about your unconventional date spot. What led you…
The pandemic’s devastating impact on drug overdose deaths in the United States hit people of color the hardest, with rates among young Black people rising the most sharply, according to a federal report that was released on Tuesday and that analyzed overdose data by race, age and income. Overall, overdose deaths jumped 30 percent from…