Amanda Renee Bupp is known among friends for being notoriously punctual. But when it came time to meet Kim Anh Jiménez for the first time in May 2019, she was late, rattled, and out of sorts. Ms. Bupp was nervous to meet the woman she had been getting to know, and falling in love with,…
As winter looms and Americans increasingly gather indoors without masks or social distancing, a medley of new coronavirus variants is seeding a rise in cases and hospitalizations in counties across the nation. The Biden administration’s plan for preventing a national surge depends heavily on persuading Americans to get updated booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and…
[Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison. Follow for the latest news.] Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, recently praised Elizabeth Holmes’s thoughtful focus and “determination to make a difference.” The actress Ricki Noel Lander said Ms. Holmes was “a trustworthy friend and a genuinely lovely person.” And Channing Robertson,…
The therapy will cost nearly $200,000. But it’s the first treatment in 100 years to alter the course of the disease, which usually begins in adolescence.
Until fairly recently, Danksgiving wasn’t much more than a funny word that cannabis fans used for smoking weed on Thanksgiving. It’s easy to see how the portmanteau came about: “dank,” a slang term for high-quality weed, fits into the name of a holiday that appeals to the appetite — whether one is high or not.…
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Glamour, altruism and cognitive dissonance hung in the air. Some of the most conspicuously privileged people in America, dressed in gowns and tuxedos, wrapped in diamonds, were sipping passion fruit margaritas garnished with skinny jalapeño slices as they considered bidding on items like a nine-session facial, known as the beauty sandwich,…
For two decades, Julie Buckner Armstrong would walk into the street to avoid the staghorn ferns that thrived in her Florida neighborhood. She didn’t know why. In her Modern Love essay, “Who’s Afraid of a Lovely Fern?” Ms. Armstrong pieces together why the sight of a staghorn fern would make her shudder. [Like this newsletter?…
This isn’t a newsletter about Thanksgiving. But it is a newsletter about the days leading up to Thanksgiving, three weeknights for fast, easy dinners. My personal guidelines for those days: Make everything as simple as possible. Don’t cook or eat anything that echoes the sweet and mushy dishes (I say this with love) of the…
Paris in the 1920s was a continual celebration of of creativity, of artistry, culture, and joie de vivre all set to the rhythm of jazz. As effervescent as champagne and as exuberant as a weekend-long fete, the sophisticated decade sparkles with sartorial influence. Once revolutionary and now iconic, the fashion trends of les années folles…
Experimentar “lengua vellosa”, hormigueo en la piel y la caída del cabello son algunas de las manifestaciones poco comunes pero que se pueden presentar por el coronavirus.