A funny thing happened when Kameron Lennox revisited the music video for “Physical,” the 1981 pop megahit by Olivia Newton-John, who died on Monday. For most of the video, Ms. Newton-John bounces around a gym, training and terrorizing out-of-shape men while wearing a white leotard. In true 1980s fashion, that leotard was layered over magenta…
ROME — It turns out that Italians don’t necessarily like pineapple on their pizza, after all. Or at least not enough to keep nearly three dozen Domino’s Pizza franchises afloat. Last month, the Italian outlets of the American pizza conglomerate extinguished their pizza ovens, unable to win over picky palates in the place where pizza…
Without fail, the first thing I notice when I’m not in New York or other major cities is how difficult it can be to find a fantastic, write-home-about-it meal. This isn’t a knock on suburbs — which are in the midst of their own dining revolution — but rather an acknowledgment: Finding a great meal…
Hair can be fussy, uncooperative, moody. When it does not bend, curl or sit on command, it can be frustrating. Hair can be a handful, a time suck, a money pit, a drag. Perhaps no one knows this better than Black women. Enter, stage left: braids. And not just any braids. Many Black women are…
Our Silent Fire One recent summer evening, my husband and I were sitting by the fire pit at our home north of Chicago, watching the flames dance, feeling tired but content. If someone had been watching us, they may have thought, “Now there’s a couple with nothing to talk about.” But, after 38 years of…
I love denim. Be it in the form of jean shorts for summer, mom jeans for weekend errands, or an oversized denim jacket for fall, denim is my tried-and-true category that never fails (even for the slightly less casual moments). Yes, I’ve been through the phases of trends; skinny jeans—which once were trendy and then…
There’s been a lot of turnover in theater leadership lately. Some have been drummed out of their jobs. Others have quit to do something else in the arts. Many have retired. Daniella Topol, the artistic director of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and a career-long theater director, is leaving to become a nurse. The unusual move arrives…
Headliner Sandro’s The chef Sandro Fioriti has owned a restaurant bearing his name in New York since 1985. Now, at 74, he’s still tossing pasta, in a new location. He opened his first with the help of Tony May at 420 East 59th Street, previously occupied by the super-luxe Palace. (It is now Pino Luongo’s…
The longtime symptom of Covid is becoming more common, and sometimes more severe, with the dominant BA.5 subvariant.
The show has also spurred instant demand for the delectably sloppy Italian beef sandwiches at the center of the plot’s chaos. Search interest on Google, according to Google Trends, nearly doubled after the show was released on Hulu on June 23, and Chicago-style restaurants across the country are feeling the effects in person. Mike Klaersch,…