Thank You for Getting Me Through Cancer Jon Ellis had never been afraid to die. And he still wasn’t. But it was becoming more difficult to live through the pain. Pancreatic cancer, with which he was diagnosed not long after the pandemic hit, and chemotherapy rendered him a stranger in his own body. As a…
An undated photograph of Africville.Credit…Library and Archives Canada Similar to the urban renewal policies of the 1950s and 60s in American cities, Halifax decided to relocate the residents of Africville in order to build commercial and industrial districts in the area. In 1964, the Halifax City Council voted to authorize the relocation of residents, though…
More than six months after one of the largest infant formula manufacturing plants in the United States issued a recall and was then shut down because of contamination concerns, a newborn staple remains in short supply. In parts of the country, parents and their families are scrambling to locate precious containers of formula for their…
For over a decade, Nika Booth had a secret. “I didn’t tell anyone, and it was eating me up,” she said. “I was even in serious relationships where I never said anything about it.” To make matters worse, her secret was getting bigger. “I felt like I was going crazy,” she said. “But I grew…
Just when you thought Burning Man was over, Joseph Altuzarra went ahead and brought desert-ready fashion to the runways of New York Fashion Week—tastefully, of course. For spring/summer 2023, the designer looked to Don Juan and Desert Solitaire, an ode to nature in southeastern Utah written by Edward Abbey, neatly wrapped in fabric and left…
I am delighted with the shift away from skinny jeans and tightfitting pants to looser styles. But I am stumped on what to wear on top with wide pants. Wearing a school uniform for 13 years has made me allergic to anything too stiff, but I also want to look professional. What is the best…
If you needed further proof that Elena Velez is one to watch, take a look at her spring collection, “YR002: IN GLASS,” shown on Saturday afternoon in a Chelsea warehouse to a crowd of editors and fans, including Julia Fox and her son Valentino. Both were dressed in bespoke looks made out of bioplastic latex—a…