When I was a teenager, my grandfather Agustín Flores Castruita would call me every Saturday morning to let me know exactly which church festivals he would be hitting up that day. These festivals, in East Austin, Texas, where he lived, were like circuit parties for the neighborhood’s older Mexicans and Mexican Americans. There were concerts,…
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The intimacy of the First Street space, which they transformed into a wine bar, was lost, as was some of the quirkiness. International wines were added to the list. Ms. Alevras largely withdrew from the restaurant as the couple’s second child was born. But the food still drew people to the dining room. “Many New…
Courtesy There’s no denying it: Here at ELLE, we love fashion—we’re a fashion magazine, after all. And we have a lot to say about it. From our favorite leather jackets for the season to the most comfortable pairs of high heels, we’re almost always talking shop(ping). Lately, though, we’ve been discussing one thing and one…
When Gabriel Hendifar, the artistic director of the New York-based design studio Apparatus, first set foot on the fourth floor of an unassuming Chelsea building in 2015, he knew he’d found his next headquarters. Behind a vaultlike copper door lay the high-ceilinged former studio of the painter Philip Taaffe; the space had previously been the…
Linda Neff, chief of the epidemiology branch in the C.D.C.’s Office on Smoking and Health, said that the sheer number of young people continuing to vape suggested the agency needed to keep working to educate teens about the effects of nicotine addiction, which “harms the parts of the brain that control learning, mood and impulse…
One of the first dishes I learned to make when I moved to Los Angeles a few years ago was Minh Phan’s rice porridge with squash and brown butter. I’d fallen in love with it at her restaurant Porridge + Puffs, where she served the soft, comforting rice — somewhere between risotto and congee —…
Barnard, the private women’s college in New York City, will begin offering abortion pills on campus next year, college officials announced Thursday. The decision, to take effect in September, signals how the nation’s colleges and universities are becoming another front in the nation’s pitched battle over abortion after the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe…
About half of the 14 contestants wore Americana garb: a shirt with a toile-esque pattern of bald eagles, red-white-and-blue camouflage, shortalls that looked like an American flag. Almost all wore wraparound sunglasses. Many sipped tallboy cans of beer as they shared tales of barbers, including one dramatic anecdote about a hairstylist being unreachable that morning…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday asked U.S. physicians to watch for cases of Ebola, which has been surging in Uganda in recent weeks. As of Thursday, there were 44 confirmed cases and 10 deaths in Uganda, with a few dozen possible cases and 20 deaths still under investigation, making this the…