The countdown to Thanksgiving has officially begun. And while most people gather at a loved one’s house for dinner (4 p.m. or bust!), a brave, avant-garde few forgo the headaches and the dishwashing and their worst relatives, choosing instead to leave the work to the professionals. Whether you’re a restaurant Thanksgiving lifer, or you’re just…
For some people, a bad table is one where nobody can see them. For others, it’s one where everybody can. In my book, a table is bad when it distracts you from settling down and paying attention to the meal. There’s a table like that at the new East Village restaurant Claud, a lone two-top…
No Need to Be Anyone Else After I fell down the stairs as a toddler, I became very timid. Hoping to expand my comfort zone, my parents signed me up for a baby gymnastics class, enlisting my grandfather to take me. Week after week, he sat with me on the sidelines. I never got the…
Liane Emerson picked the place for her third date with Austin Bailey. She knew the Midtown bar was cool, but her date wasn’t so sure. “He thought it was weird,” she said. But by the time their cocktails arrived, Mr. Bailey, 25, had come around. “The drinks are good,” he said as he sipped his…
Courtesy of retailers As announced in a press release earlier today, Oprah’s Favorite Things List is back for 2022. Fans who’ve been tuning into the annual list since 1996 will need no introduction as to why it remains exciting 26 years later. But for the uninitiated or anyone who might feel too shy to ask…
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As a child, her brother said, Ms. Powell was both bookish and dramatic. “She loved to be onstage, and loved just being over the top and having everyone watch her,” he said. And, he added, she was “the most experimental and sophisticated cook among us, and we were all people who cooked.” She met the…
MEXICO CITY — The formula was familiar: invitations from Vogue; a carpet filled with celebrities, fashion designers and models dressed to the nines; even a theme: Day of the Dead. Last Thursday night, these elements came together not on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, but at a museum in…
Headliner Molyvos After nearly 25 years on Seventh Avenue and 55th Street, this Greek restaurant has found a new, less sprawling home at the southern edge of the theater district, in the former Esca space. “We wanted something smaller,” said Nick Livanos, who owns the restaurant with family members, “and this gave us the opportunity.”…
At the University of Michigan, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 1955, she wrote for the school newspaper and for The Detroit Free Press. After graduation, she was hired by United Press International, which on one memorable occasion sent her to cover a show by Elvis Presley in Detroit. She wangled an…