The mythic figure that is the billionaire tech genius in the nowhere man tee may finally be about to meet its long overdue end. The arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the FTX cryptocurrency trading platform, on Monday in the Bahamas on charges of fraud, may signal not just the next stage in his…
To some, the early 2000s were a fashion fever dream. Juicy Couture tracksuits. Hoodies under blazers. Wrists crowded with rainbow rubber bracelets. Graphic tees, vests, V-necks and thin scarves. Unironic fedoras. Double denim (or all denim everything, à la Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake). The list goes on. But for those who were of sentient…
Chloe Kim has never been afraid to fall down (she always gets back up), nor to ask for food in the middle of a press conference (she’s frequently hungry, she said…), even less to perform unbelievable tricks, spins, and flips that she alone masters (at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, no less). Not even gravity…
The new subvariants do not have radically different symptoms from previous versions of Omicron in vaccinated people.
Astor Place Hairstylists, the venerable barbershop that has stood in the East Village of Manhattan for about 75 years, almost closed during the pandemic. Not only has it survived, but the buzzing of clippers is now joined once a month by DJs who turn the 10,000 square-foot basement into a dance club. The party was…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. After producing her beloved, ’90s-inspired namesake line for a decade, Jennifer Chun was getting a little burned out. The process had become “so routine that I wasn’t thinking outside the box anymore,” she recalls. “I would produce two seasons and then…
In case you missed it, Chopard quietly opened its new flagship boutique in the iconic Crown Building on New York City’s Fifth Avenue. It marks an exciting—and historic—move for the haute jewelry and watchmaking house, from its former home of 15 years on Madison Avenue. To fête the occasion, co-presidents Caroline and Karl-Friedrich Scheufele invited…
Finding a home that feels right isn’t easy. Sometimes, as Jeremy and Jen Lewis discovered while hunting for a place in Seattle, it can take years. The couple, who had been working in finance in New York, moved to the West Coast in 2006 with their children — Ben, now 24, Sarah, 22, and Margaret,…
Here, in no special order, is a year’s worth of memorable dishes I ate around New York. All come from places that did not make my list of 10 favorite restaurants: The world does not need cacio e pepe bagels or cacio e pepe breakfast cereal, but it probably does need the cacio e pepe…
Are we back to normal? As I shuffled through the archives to choose my favorites of the new restaurants I reviewed this year, it sure looked that way. New York City’s restaurant business, among the first pieces of the economy to fall to the pandemic and among the last to recover, has come roaring back…