Visiting a South Asian sweet shop during Diwali is a joyous and chaotic experience. Lines trail out the door. Employees furiously pack ornate boxes containing laddoos enriched with ghee, spongy rasgula and all manner of colorful sweets, often made with dairy, sugar and nuts and sometimes topped with a layer of edible silver foil. Friends…
Even in fields like urology, where male sexual pleasure and orgasm are considered integral, women’s sexual health “is seen as hysteria, Pandora’s box, all psychosocial, not real medicine,” said Dr. Rubin, who is also the education chair of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health. “Sexual health and quality of life is…
At Via Carota, the elegantly rustic restaurant that Rita Sodi and Jody Williams have been running in Manhattan since 2014, the deceptively simple seasonal food requires attention to countless details, unseen but tasted. The restaurant’s cookbook, organized by seasons, starts with spring and pages of what’s required to do justice to fava beans and a…
With crunchy, juicy, new-crop apples finally here to relieve their long-stored counterparts from last year, apple season is in full swing. There are approximately 7,500 varieties of apples currently grown in the world, and 2,500 in the United States alone. You’ll find only four or five kinds in most supermarkets, but your local farmers’ market…
“The idea of my work is to decolonize,” Ms. Ogisi said. “To be colonized is to be barricaded, to be controlled, to not be free; so I do that with textures, gravity, mass, density, lighting, everything possible, to open everybody’s mind to a better and freer world.” For her spring-summer 2022 collection, “Green Water, Blue…
Balancing on the slippery, shimmering stones of the breathtaking bridge, with the cold waters of the Neretva River glistening far below, Amir Hanic pokes his nose up and takes his last breath. Without looking up or down, only straight ahead, he leaps from the bridge, his hands and feet stiff like the outstretched wings of…
It was a crisp and sparkling fall morning in London, and within the Black Chapel designed by the artist Theaster Gates for the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park, a show was underway. Art world luminaries like Michael Craig-Martin, Eva Rothschild, Rana Begum and Hans Ulricht Obrist surveyed striking sculptural ensembles in shades of amethyst, coral,…
I have a dear friend who has been exploring and expanding her style. She will show up to dinner wearing a suit with a bow but without a shirt and with a huge hat, which gets in other diners’ way. She also loves to wear things that make a lot of noise while walking. Everyone…
Eric André cleared security at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, gave the gate agent his boarding pass and was moments away from stepping onto a plane when he was stopped by officers with the Clayton County Police Department. The officers questioned Mr. André, who is Black, about whether he was selling drugs and what drugs…
Four months after raging floodwaters swept through Yellowstone National Park, forcing it to close for about a week and chasing more than 10,000 visitors to safety, the rebuilding reached a milestone on Saturday as the park reopened its Northeast Entrance Road to vehicular traffic, the National Park Service said. Five sections of the road were…