Why Won’t My Husband Change His Will to Protect Our Baby and Me?
A reader wonders how to negotiate the sensitive subject of her husband’s outdated will, which she worries could leave her and her child without a place to live.
Where the ‘Rust Belt’ Meets the Runway
During fashion week, we will be spotlighting the small details we saw on the runways that surprised or delighted us. Bring on the sculptural shoes and antique fork jewelry. The designer Elena Velez splits her time between New York and Milwaukee. This alone is enough to make her unusual among the young designers showing at…
Why Are We Obsessed With Jiggling Foods?
Nevertheless, as recorded in an archive of oral histories collected by the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, those seeking refuge in America were often mystified, even unnerved, by this supposed exemplar of the national cuisine. “Oh, it shivers,” one teenager from Ukraine, then suffering through a famine that may have claimed as many as…
Ben Sinclair Gets Spiritual
Seven Photos The actor and writer examined — and smelled — himself with a community of seekers in Hawaii. Ben Sinclair was on a houseboat in the Rockaways section of Queens shooting an episode of “High Maintenance” — the HBO show he starred in and helped create — when he found a copy of “Be…
Little Dresses for Big Nights
It’s not easy to out-dress a room decked in leopard-print carpeting, leopard-print walls and red velvet banquets. But on Thursday night the crowd managed to upstage the décor at the Nines, the piano bar and supper club in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan that is named for its address — 9 Great Jones Street —…
How to Make the Best Miso Soup of Your Life
Seiji Ando never had to learn how to make miso soup. In Japan, it was the kind of thing they taught in elementary school. But as far as he can remember, he never really had to learn because he just always knew. His father and his grandfather were chefs who owned a sushi restaurant in…