“When I first went to work, all school products were drab and boring,” Mr. Crutchfield said in the Mental Floss interview. Trapper Keepers, he added, were “more functional and more attractive, with oodles of choices — therefore fun to have. And I had a lot of fun making them fun!” Ernest Bryant Crutchfield, known to…
A small study on the therapeutic effects of using psychedelics to treat alcohol use disorder found that just two doses of psilocybin magic mushrooms paired with psychotherapy led to an 83 percent decline in heavy drinking among the participants. Those given a placebo reduced their alcohol intake by 51 percent. By the end of the…
“I think she is self-aware about what she can do and what she doesn’t want to do,” Mr. Abdalla said. “She’s also pretty good at throwing a party. That’s a pretty big part of this job. She can get people to show up.” “It took me two years to embrace being a publicist,” Ms. Phillips…
A chicken dinner shouldn’t be a gamble; it should leave you feeling like a winner, winner. Whether you prefer your chicken bone-in or bone-out, the meat white or dark, the pieces cooked low and slow or fired hot and high on a grill, there’s a New York Times Cooking recipe out there for you. Our…
I can’t stop thinking about Yewande Komolafe’s delicious version of asaro. She published her recipe for the southern Nigerian dish a couple of years ago, after a trip to Lagos, and its perfect for when you’re craving something with a bit of warmth and substance. Her version is summery — light, brothy and deeply satisfying…
Around the time Dante turned 8, he started to seem a little off. The 70-pound Bernese mountain dog would pace his family’s home in Interlaken, N.Y., like a caged bear. Then he might stand stock still, staring trance-like at the pedals of the family’s organ. Or at a corner of a room. In the middle…
There’s a new face welcoming visitors to Boston. It belongs to a 3-year-old in Velcro sneakers, crouching by a boombox and haloed in gold. She’s the artist Rob Gibbs’s daughter, who stares unflinchingly from a soaring 70-foot mural across from South Station, the city’s biggest train terminal. Mr. Gibbs — who paints under the name…
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On a recent Sunday night in a Holiday Inn lounge on the fringe of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Paul Jefferson, a local songwriter with spiky hair and skinny jeans, took the stage to sing a couple of his better-known tunes, popularized in recordings by Keith Urban and Aaron Tippin. Between “You’re Not My God” and…
Lori Long and Mark Contreras met on Match.com in November 2015. For Ms. Long, their first date a few weeks later, at Tarpy’s Roadhouse, a restaurant in Monterey, Calif., was a high-stakes proposition. “Within our first few emails we were really clicking,” she said. Telling him about the spinal disease that causes her to pitch…