It’s hard to tell if you’re in the presence of a great panettone until you cut into it. (And if you don’t believe there is such a thing as great panettone, read on.) Inside, a great panettone has a creamy yellow crumb, scented with citrus and rich enough to leave your fingers lightly buttered when…
We have been invited to the fanciest house I can imagine for a holiday party (OK, the White House). My husband expects to wear a suit, with perhaps a holiday tie. A simple black or navy dress is my usual go-to, but that feels too basic and business-y; on the other hand, I also don’t…
A clinical psychologist shares her tips for relieving stress.
On Dec. 19, 2019, I led my last Clemson, S.C., Christmas Bird Count. For almost 30 years, I’d been the compiler, the person responsible for organizing dozens of volunteer birders to count every species encountered across a 15-mile-diameter circle. The event, which merges my passion for birding with my profession as an ornithologist, is a…
“There was no warning of this particular patch of air,” he said. The seatbelt sign was on at the time, but some of those who were injured did not have their seatbelts on, Mr. Snook said. The National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating, he said. “We’re going to have to look back at the…
A flurry of galas capped off the year. Creative Time held its first gala in three years on Dec. 7 at Powerhouse Arts, a former power station along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn that has been transformed into a nonprofit arts space. Guests, many dressed by Loewe, marveled at the sleek complex once known by…
About a decade ago, Andrea Clay went online to read about newly revised guidelines on cervical cancer screening. None of her health care providers had mentioned that women over age 65 who were at average risk for cervical cancer could stop getting Pap tests if they had been adequately screened until then. But that’s what…
Though Morris wrote that her marriage was “open,” Clements keeps things strictly PG, whether out of discretion or lack of dirt. Her most passionate affair might have been an imaginary one with Lord “Jacky” Fisher of Kilverstone, an Admiral of the Fleet who was possibly first to use the expression OMG, in a 1917 letter…
Rica Allam, who lives in Stuttgart, Germany, loves celebrating Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, which begins tonight. There’s just one problem: It is very hard to find a menorah in her hometown. So she learned to make one herself. Ms. Allam, a university adviser and mother of two, is one of only about 118,000…
Newt Gingrich was not happy. It was the night of Dec. 6, minutes before the U.S. Senate race in Georgia was called for Raphael Warnock, and over on the Fox News show “Hannity,” the finger-pointing for Herschel Walker’s imminent loss had begun. One major culprit: TikTok. TikTok? The Chinese-owned social media platform, which hadn’t even…