To maintain continence, the puborectalis muscle chokes the anal canal. The sling of tissue is supposed to release during defecation. Mine has not been doing that. Mid-March 2021, at a bowling alley, I watch balls thunder down lanes and wonder if I’ve had a bowel movement since Presidents’ Day. I try: Miralax, Restoralax, magnesium citrate…
PARIS — Of course it was going to go viral. The performance at the end of Coperni’s fashion show on Friday night offered many of the internet’s favorite things: a nearly-naked supermodel, 1990s fashion nostalgia and a high-ranking member of the Kardashian-Jenner family in the vicinity to bear witness. But the stunt was also, for…
PARIS — There’s nothing like a little Duran Duran in the morning. So it seemed, anyway, early Saturday when the first Junya Watanabe show in more than two years began: a whistle-stop reminder tour of Mr. Watanabe’s greatest hits, torqued through an early-’80s New Romantic lens and set to the strains of “Girls on Film”…
The fall social season is back with a twist. The Metropolitan Opera held its opening night gala on Tuesday for “Medea,” with a notably more diverse cross-section of the city’s philanthropic, arts and social circles. The venerable affair, which raised $4.8 million, also pushed the boundaries of what constitutes black tie, with some men ascending…
SAN FRANCISCO — Deb JJ Lee built a career in illustration on Instagram, one colorful comic at a time. Some of the comics that Mx. Lee, 26, posted on the photo-sharing site told stories about fantastical worlds; others meditated on Mx. Lee’s experiences as a Korean American. Without Instagram, Mx. Lee, who uses they/them pronouns,…