Ecotherapists Are Working to Make the Outdoors More Inclusive
Amid pandemic stress and racial violence, many communities of color have turned to wilderness areas for healing.
Beach Bunny Is Building an Indie-Rock Career in a Time of TikTok
One morning last August, Lili Trifilio was feeling emotional. “I’m honestly so nervous,” the singer-songwriter, then 24, admitted, her voice rising as she shook her head. It was the day before her indie-rock band Beach Bunny would headline a sold-out show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Beach Bunny’s recent success had seemed…
A Guide to Miami: Restaurants, Attractions and Where to Stay
Unlike many cities, Miami has boomed over the course of the pandemic. Thousands relocated to South Florida where restaurants, attractions and retail shops remained open, with Miami’s tropical sparkle seemingly a panacea for life in lockdown. “The pandemic caused Miami’s stock value to go up,” said Craig Robins, a real estate developer who has helped…
Expert GeoGuessr Players Know That Google Maps Spot Instantly
An unremarkable stretch of highway and trees, as seen on Google Maps’ Street View, appeared on the screen. It could have been anywhere from Tasmania to Texas. “This is going to be south Philippines, somewhere on this road down here,” Trevor Rainbolt said instantly, clicking on a location on a map of the world that…
Blockbusters at Balenciaga and Margiela
PARIS — It was just a regular Wednesday afternoon — except the sidewalks of the normally sedate Avenue Georges V were clogged by a shrieking mass of teenagers, smartphones aloft, free hands waving over police barriers in a frenzy. It was the sort of scene that wouldn’t be surprising outside a rock concert or a…
Ken Auletta Finally Wrote the Harvey Weinstein Story He Wanted to Tell
Are monsters made or born? That is the existential question Ken Auletta takes on in his new book, “Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence.” “What is Harvey Weinstein’s Rosebud — a loss, a lack, that explains what came after?” Mr. Auletta asks at the start of his ogre’s odyssey. Or is he…
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…