Nobody is grinding up porcelain dishes into a fine powder and snorting it like cocaine. I repeat, nobody — not the kids in your seventh-grade classroom, your teenage children or the most-popular Gen Z TikToker. Good, that’s settled. What people are doing is pretending to grind up porcelain dishes into a fine powder and snort…
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Several times a week, Claudia Berroa simmers purple Peruvian corn with pineapple skins to make chicha morada for her restaurant, Claudy’s Kitchen, in Riverdale in the Bronx. As the cobs rise in the bubbling liquid, she thinks of her mother, who used to boil the beverage over a wood fire in Lima. “I wanted to…
With the promise of finding love, would you kiss the lips and grope the intimate areas of a bronze statue? Susanne Parker Loelius, the author of this week’s Modern Love essay, decided she would. “Being a follower of Jesus comes with certain expectations of conduct and purity,” Ms. Loelius wrote. “But this was a statue,…
The New York Times is looking into nonprofit hospitals, which receive billions of dollars in tax breaks every year, to see whether they are fulfilling their charitable missions. We’re investigating how people who are uninsured or on Medicaid are treated compared with wealthier patients. Do well-connected or rich patients get different kinds of treatment? Are…
Google just quietly launched its first-ever smartwatch—and the sleek circular design just might make it the chicest piece of wearable tech on the market. Last night at the Made by Google event in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg, the tech giant unveiled the new Pixel Watch. Despite sunny weather outside, turns out, the watch face was inspired by…
Experts have long known that fitness is good for the brain. A recent paper connects different types of workouts with assorted improvements in memory.
It was so popular, she added it to the menu, published the recipe in local newspapers and included it in her first cookbook. Ms. Wu helped write the blueprint for American Chinese chicken salad as we know it, more than a decade before Wolfgang Puck put his own version on the menu at Chinois, his…
When Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, proposed a national ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, the bill sparked controversy across the political spectrum. But few spoke of its potential impact on the growing number of women who are having children in their 30s. The proposed ban would allow exceptions to save…
For their youngest son’s fifth birthday this summer, Edith Lemay and her husband took their children on a hot-air balloon ride above central Turkey that began before dawn. As the sun rose over the Cappadocia region, it revealed other balloons floating in the sky and some chimney-like rock formations on the ground below — a…