The Power of Quitting
Society often tells us that it’s admirable to persist at all costs. But a new book by a professional poker player says sometimes you need to walk away.
A Night Out With Old Jewish Men
David Roffe, 70, swirled pink wisps of sugar floss onto sticks, thrusting pink clouds of cotton candy into the hands of young, stylish partygoers. By day, Mr. Roffe, a stout, 5-foot-2-inch retiree, lives in the Rockaways. But last Thursday night, at the first Old Jewish Men Fall Ball, an intergenerational mixer held at Congregation Beth…
Ticketmaster Cancels Sale of Taylor Swift Tickets After Snags
Bonnie Gross, a production coordinator from New York City, waited over six hours struggling with the Ticketmaster website. When she finally got the chance to purchase tickets, inventory was scarce. “I get to page where I can buy tickets and there are no seats available. There is one seat available,” Gross, 28, said. “It was…
Help! I Was Banned From Lyft and No One Will Tell Me Why.
His explanation: good customer service is labor- and resource-intensive, and its benefits are hard to measure by many companies’ metrics. (Lyft did not respond to questions about Mr. Orosz’s thesis.) Many customers give up. But Matt, you mentioned to me that if I hadn’t stepped in, you were going to use connections from the California…
New Movie ‘The Menu’ Serves Fine Dining on a Skewer
Hawthorn is at the opposite end of the restaurant spectrum from the sandwich shop in last summer’s lovable “The Bear,” about an ambitious young chef called home to run his family’s chaotic business, where he introduces the phrase “yes, chef” to build respect and camaraderie in the kitchen. In “The Menu,” when “yes, chef” is…
Thierry Mugler: Nothing Is Ever Too Extreme
Manfred Thierry Mugler, the boundary-pushing French couturier whose glamazons and fembots helped define fashion in the 1980s and ’90s and who died earlier this year, famously hated retrospectives. “In the museum world, everyone knew he was against the idea,” said Thierry-Maxime Loriot, the curator at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the institution that finally…
Why Does Fashion Love This Radical Anticapitalist Concept?
This article is part of a series examining Responsible Fashion, and innovative efforts to address issues facing the fashion industry. Lately, one word has cropped up again and again in conversations about fashion and climate change: degrowth. What does it mean? Jason Hickel, an economic anthropologist and proponent of the movement, has written that degrowth…
A Thanksgiving Cook’s Timeline
My brother is hosting us for Thanksgiving in Los Angeles, right at the edge of the San Gabriel mountains, and it’ll be a team effort, but I’m in charge of the cooking. This means I can’t put it off any longer: It’s time to think things through and really get organized! I’m definitely looking to…
Cheap Dinner Recipes for the Whole Family
Feeding a family is no joke. That one doesn’t eat raw tomatoes, this one hates chicken (unless it’s in nugget form) and that one over there won’t touch anything green. It’s improbable, if not impossible, to please everyone all at once, so instead of trying to address every little preference with one finished dish, opt…
Nan Goldin and Laura Poitras: Two Artists, One Devastating Film
The artist Nan Goldin didn’t think she was worthy enough for the director Laura Poitras to make a documentary about her. Poitras had won an Academy Award in 2015 for “Citizenfour,” about Edward Snowden, and had been placed on a federal watch list after her 2006 Iraq war film “My Country, My Country.” Goldin recalled…