When David Geffen Hall officially reopens to the public on Oct. 8, following a $550 million renovation, the Lincoln Center venue will finally offer drinks approaching the caliber of its performers. Don Lee, whose résumé include the Manhattan cocktail bars PDT and Existing Conditions, has designed the cocktail menus for the space’s more than a…
As the sun peaked, heat waves rose from the cypress-covered hills around me. The turquoise waters of the Ionian Sea shimmered on the western horizon, and olive groves stretched toward infinity to the east. Over the deafening chorus of cicadas, which indicated we were in the hottest part of the Mediterranean summer, the rhythmic thud…
The artistic director of Hermès, Pierre-Alexis Dumas, stood on the fourth floor of the French luxury house’s new flagship store a few weeks before its official opening, speaking in hushed tones to his assistant, who was crouched over a large painting by Antoine Carbonne, delicately rubbing its edge with a cloth. Mr. Dumas had personally…
Courtesy Believe it or not, October is upon us. It crept up on you, didn’t it? From Halloween parties to fall foliage peeping, there’s lots of goodness in store this month, but one of the most meaningful things about October is that it marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It’s sad but true that most people…
A few nights ago, my husband opened “Imbibe,” a bartender’s guide, to find our favorite Sazerac recipe. It was scrawled with notes going back a decade. We first added the bar spoon of maraschino liqueur in 2012. A scribble dated 2020 reminded us how much we liked the version with four dashes of Peychaud’s bitters…
How did we get here? Before the Cures Act provision, doctors had different approaches to giving patients their test results. Some offices would contact patients within hours or days; others sent paper results via mail. Some would take a “no news is good news” approach, sharing results only if they revealed something worrisome; others waited…
Courtesy of Kohl’s Does it seem like life just got busier? Suddenly schedules are booked with days that can take you from work to drinks to late dinners. As fun as it may be to say yes to everything, it does lead to a problem: What do you wear when plans that take you out…
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded on Monday to Svante Pääbo, a Swedish-born scientist whose decades spent trying to extract DNA from 40,000-year-old bones culminated in the unveiling of the Neanderthal genome in 2010. The publication of that genome opened the door to investigating questions that had bedeviled paleontologists since Neanderthal fossils…
One morning in August, just before sunrise, Bella Hadid arrived at a warehouse in Brooklyn. Blinking back at the bright light, she squinted a little, her skin bare and a tiny bit sunburned, her hair brooming out of a hastily tied low ponytail. She wore a Starface zit sticker on her left cheek. “I thought,…
PARIS — We live in a dirty, dirty world. A world where muckraking, mudslinging and drain-the-swamp chanting are just part of daily life. Little wonder Demna, the mononymous designer of Balenciaga and master of the visual metaphor, decided to get down into the pit and wallow. To be specific: He decided to truck in 275…