Entrepreneurs, as a result, have seen a business opportunity in creating an advocacy and visibility movement for menopause. Alisa Volkman, 49, who has twice greeted new phases of her life with an online start-up (the sex-positive nerve.com in her 20s, followed by the modern parenting hub babble.com) is now on to the Swell, an online…
Some people know how they’re going to spend their New Year’s Eve well before Dec. 31. Then there are those who wait until the last minute, fretting over where to go and whom to go with, or whether they should just stay home and conk out at 10:30 p.m. (A completely understandable and excellent choice.)…
The Drug Enforcement Administration confiscated more than 379 million doses of fentanyl this year, the agency said, and it seized more than double the number of pills laced with the potent synthetic opioid than it seized last year. The agency announced in a statement on Tuesday that it had confiscated more than 50.6 million fentanyl-laced…
My Unwritten Chapter Before she died at 42, my wife suggested I marry her colleague, Sandee. “There are chapters yet unwritten in your life,” she said. Sitting shiva shortly before Hanukkah, I first met Sandee as my son played with toys at my feet. A year later, on our second date, I told her about…
Amazon It’s no secret that Venus Williams is a multi-hyphenate—talented at all sorts of things beyond the sport where she made her name. The icon has style to spare, resulting in business extensions that bring her good taste to others, including EleVEN by Venus Williams, the line she launched in 2012 after getting an associate…
Lord’s is the second restaurant the chef Ed Szymanski and his partner, Patricia Howard, have built together in Greenwich Village. The first, which put down roots in the first pandemic summer, is called Dame. With its echoes of British nobility, the naming scheme is a way of letting us know that the two restaurants are…
Imagine you are hopped up on cough syrup awaiting the results of a Covid test. (It will be negative, but you don’t know that yet.) You are swaddled in a blur of plaid wool blankets; your throat is happily numb from a slather of Vicks VapoRub. Then your phone rings and it’s Chloë Sevigny. She…
It’s possible to get sick with multiple infections at once, but the likelihood is fairly low.
Sustainability is big news. In addition to grabbing headlines, it’s become a huge consideration in how people shop. A recent poll found that more than a third of millennial and Gen Z shoppers want brands to create products that are eco-friendly and ethical. When it comes to natural fabrics like bamboo, cotton and wool, it’s…
This was the year the world (mostly) reopened for travel. It came in fits and starts, and a year that was supposed to be the year of big travel turned, for many, into a summer of staycations with rising costs and yet another spike in Covid cases. But travel did come back, eventually, and with…