August is winding down, but restaurant season (a.k.a. fall) is only ramping up. I’m always getting my restaurant bona fides in shape, and thankfully you all sent me some wonderful questions to keep me spry. This week, we have a reader asking for L.G.B.T.Q.-owned businesses, another seeking recommendations for wine bars that don’t “phone it…
“It’s about availability, but also about peer acceptability,” said Dr. Kevin M. Gray, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. “Generally speaking, young people don’t see these substances as dangerous, but the consequences of using them are still there.” Although the risks associated with psychedelics tend to be…
Send the Old Stuffie I moved about 1,600 miles with four suitcases filled to the brim. No room for the old: my childhood stuffed animals, Arizona memorabilia or generalized anxiety disorder. As the plane departed for Tennessee, I rewrote my identity; an ideal list of traits, starting with “super chill,” ending with “very extroverted.” But…
“She wore a black-and-white power suit, double-breasted and very graphic, with big lapels outlined in white. You could say she was making a statement.” Elizabeth Williams could have been describing an uptown matron smartly turned out for lunch at Sant Ambroeus. But the subject was Gloria Allred, the women’s rights lawyer, whose image she captured…
“It means that the expectation is for you to do more than the company actually compensates you for, and that will work out well for you,” she said. “That doesn’t make sense to me. You do the work you are compensated for, and if you want to go above and beyond, good for you, but…
At Screaming Mimi’s, an upscale vintage emporium just south of Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, the store’s manager, Dani Cabot, held out a variety of belts: a wide band from Donna Karan, a minimalist cincher from Claude Montana and what Cabot described as a “high-drama Moschino moment.” The actress Patina Miller considered the options, but not for…
The naming of diseases has long been contentious and not just in Africa. In the first months after its emergence in China, the illness we call Covid-19 was unofficially dubbed “the Wuhan virus,” a designation that gained currency on social media before finding its way into the mainstream. What happened next was not entirely surprising:…
Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a single count of driving under the influence of alcohol in connection with a car accident in Napa County, Calif., in May. As a result of the plea, which Mr. Pelosi, 82, entered in absentia in Napa County Superior Court, he…
The release of Meghan Markle’s debut podcast series is exciting in itself, but the fact that her outfit from the cover art is shoppable—and under $25? Thrilling. The first episode of the Duchess of Sussex’s Spotify exclusive series, Archetypes, premiered today. The cover features a brand new black-and-white portrait of Meghan in which she wears…
Courtesy Every so often, a trend comes along and wears down even the most skeptical critics. Just look at the catsuit, the Barbie-core aesthetic, and low-rise jeans. And now, there’s the cloud slide. The so-called “ugly shoe” has officially catapulted to full-blown trend status according to pretty much everybody, everywhere on TikTok. True to their…