BALTIMORE — The new coronavirus booster shots have found a modest number of takers at one of this city’s few remaining public vaccination sites, with nine doses given on one recent day and 15 on another. More than a month after the retooled shots were rolled out, only about 5 percent of Baltimore residents have…
SAN MARINO, Calif. — Ralph Lauren’s strength — the thing that has kept the all-American company going for 55 years — is world building. Or, rather, worlds building. Each brand under the company’s umbrella represents a different aesthetic universe: a Western saloon (Double RL), the Hamptons social circuit (Purple Label), an old collegiate quad buzzing…
Fashion brands celebrated big anniversaries. Louis Vuitton celebrated the bicentennial birthday of its founder with an exhibition of 200 trunks reimagined by 200 collaborators. The traveling show, at 660 Madison Avenue until the end of the year, held an opening party on Thursday. Bulgari, the Italian jewelry house, celebrated 50 years in America with an…
One might be hard pressed to recall which film took home best picture at the 2001 Academy Awards. But what Björk wore to the ceremony may evoke a different response. The singer, who was nominated for best original song for “I’ve Seen It All,” from Lars von Trier’s film “Dancer in the Dark,” in which…
“Restaurants began as places to show off status,” said Andrew P. Haley, an associate professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi. Generally, this took place in public, where discerning diners could be seen demonstrating their discernment. The members-only clubstaurant, on the other hand, confers another kind of status, suggested Megan J. Elias, the…
As our third pandemic winter approaches, you can mitigate risk without missing out.
Micah y yo volvimos a hablar otra vez por FaceTime. Primero mes con mes, luego cada semana. Antes de mi regreso, nos dejamos de hablar por tres días en busca de sabiduría. Casi me desmayo en el aeropuerto de Lisboa. No importaba. Ambos obtuvimos nuestra respuesta, y esa respuesta fue no. No teníamos un “por…
But the Myers-Briggs test had an intrinsic thematic quality that the others lacked. Most existing tests concluded that each personality category had a positive and a negative: An extrovert was good, an introvert was bad, for instance. But Myers felt that each personality type had strengths and weaknesses. Rather than build a test that favored…
The rules of style often dictate restraint, but based on the winter 2022 fashion trends, there were no such inhibitions. Even the jewelry at the fall/winter 2022 fashion shows went toe-to-toe with blocky shoulder pads, oversized jackets, sparkly tops, clashing prints, and blinding neon fabrics, almost out-competing the clothes for attention. But the metals and…
Ease is subjective, and its meaning can vary depending on who you ask. In this collection of staff favorite recipes, easy can mean that your meal comes together in 15 minutes, or that it requires no more than six ingredients, or that you can pop a casserole dish of kitchen staples into the oven without…