It appears TikTok’s favorite emu, Emmanuel Todd Lopez, is going to be OK after his farm’s recent brush with avian influenza that killed many of his fellow feathered mates. His owner’s reputation, however, might not be doing so well after Twitter users posted screenshots of old tweets they said were from her account. Let’s walk…
State by state, it is hard to draw a line between school closures and learning loss, since some states that stayed closed longest fared best, and vice versa. Earlier research showed a clearer relationship between school closures and learning loss at the district level, but at a news conference announcing the latest N.A.E.P. report, the…
AMHERST, Mass. — “Here is our Wizard of Oz moment,” a guide asked on a recent afternoon, before opening a door and stepping into the front foyer of the Emily Dickinson Museum. It’s not a comment you expect at the former family home of a poet cemented in the public imagination as the reclusive woman…
North Korea. East Timor. Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave that for decades has been a tinderbox for ethnic conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. They’re not your typical top tourist destinations. But don’t tell that to Erik Faarlund, the editor of a photography website from Norway, who has visited all three. His next “dream” trip is to…
Winter squash, I love you. I love you in soups, stews and grain bowls, roasted with bacon for pasta, nearly melted into risotto and baked into bubbling lasagna. I love you for sweater weather and in the depths of winter, when it gets dark in New York at 5 p.m., and a good dinner really…
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Kanye West has defined most of his career with smash hits and a healthy dose of spectacle and theatrics, helping to redefine the modern concept of celebrity along the way. For a long time, those disruptions were largely welcomed in the music and fashion industries as he cut new creative paths. But the rapper and…
LAKEWOOD, Ohio — If you’re building an entertainment center in sports-crazy Northeast Ohio, it makes sense to go heavy on athletics. That was clear when the Fieldhouse, a 30,000-square-foot complex opened last weekend in this suburb that shares a border with Cleveland. Thousands of people turned out to scale an outdoor climbing wall, sign up…
After six years together, Evan Sterrett and his boyfriend were stuck in a dispiriting loop: They would fight about the same issues, time and again, as if they were characters in a predictable, no-longer-funny sitcom. Then, they met a cute younger man at a Los Angeles pool party. Could this guest star in their relationship…
NAPLES, Italy — “Welcome home,” Alberto Squillace said as he opened the door to the Omega glove factory. “The factory is my home and the artisans that work for Omega are like brothers and sisters to me,” added Mr. Squillace, the chief executive of Omega, and the fifth generation to work in the family business.…