Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. When this spring’s Met Gala, with its theme of “gilded glamour,” collided with the leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling, there was plenty of talk about the cognitive dissonance of the two events—celebrities preening in couture while…
And then you heard about “Nope”? I got an email for an untitled Jordan Peele project, my first big audition in a long time. I was assuming it’d be a one-liner or something because he’s at the point where he can get any actor in the world to be in his films, but then I…
In a Brooklyn subway station one April morning, as commuters waited for a G train, a 44-year-old man named Daniel Auster was found unconscious on a platform after a drug overdose. He was brought to the Brooklyn Hospital Center, where he died six days later, after being taken off life support. A D.J. and photographer…
Good morning. The punishing heat continues where I stay. While I’m turning on the stove occasionally, my meals are mostly running no-cook and salad-adjacent: say, marinated celery salad with chickpeas and Parmesan or, in the same vein, marinated zucchini with farro, chickpeas and Parmesan. Who wants to labor over a burner when you could eat…
The peaceful pastime is secretly a full-body workout. Here are a few techniques to keep in mind.
Amazon Someone can have the strongest pajama game around, then be absolutely crippled when a heatwave strikes. Fashion-wise, the fact of the matter is the category is overwhelmingly won by menswear-inspired sets, long sleeves and pants, or really fantastic sweatsuits—all stuff that looks great on but isn’t meant for hot temps. With the dog days…
Some hotels seem instantly comfortable, with a little flair, and others are hilariously retro, like the Garland in North Hollywood, Calif., named after Beverly Garland, a 1960s actress who wanted to create a hideaway for friends and family. Whimsical and bizarre, it has a fun lobby bar that serves the Beverly Garland martini. I loved…
An upbeat lead single ready for radio. An album title and release date with plenty of notice. A magazine cover story, followed by a personal mission statement, a fresh social media account, a detailed track list and a merchandise pre-sale. For most musicians, these are time-honored bullet points in the playbook for introducing a major…
When she has the time to get to the airport early, Anne Marie Mitchell, a communications professor in Chicago, will treat herself to a few hours in the airport lounge, either using a free pass from her airline credit card or paying a day-use fee. “You get access to a bar, a nice clean bathroom,…
When I pick up a knife, my husband is not nervous, not really. He keeps an eye out. He hovers. Finally, he can’t help himself: He reaches over and gently adjusts my guiding hand, making sure the fingers are curled properly and only the knuckles face the blade, so I won’t cut myself as I…