Elizabeth Holmes to Be Sentenced in Fraud Trial

[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,…

Smoking Weed at Thanksgiving

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.…

Raising Millions at Hollywood’s ‘Mom Prom’

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,…

Love Letter: Knowing Your Trigger

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?…

The Pasta You Need

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…

Celebrate the Season ‘20s Style

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…