The Food and Drug Administration has commissioned a review of its food and tobacco programs following public outrage over baby formula shortages and concerns about flavored nicotine products. Dr. Robert Califf, the head of the F.D.A., said the agency had confronted issues that “have tested our regulatory frameworks and stressed the agency’s operations,” prompting the…
Gallery openings tend to be staid affairs. White wine, art-world hobnobbing and maybe dinner. O’Flaherty’s, a scrappy gallery in the East Village of Manhattan that’s named after a nonexistent Irish pub, sought to invert the whole notion of the summer group show. First, it held an “open call” in which anyone — starving artists, children,…
Courtesy of Hill House Home Now and then, when a fashion piece is really good (in every sort of way), it becomes one for the masses. Such was the case with Hill House Home’s Nap Dress. No doubt you’ve seen it, whether on your Instagram feed or IRL. Maybe you even own one or two…
About halfway through 2021, Christopher Robbins had had enough. Laid off from a job he had cared about deeply after witnessing multiple media organizations in New York City collapse over the years, Mr. Robbins was ready to free himself. “There’s just a vanishing amount of good jobs,” Mr. Robbins, 36, a former editor at Gothamist,…
One less-utilized access point is the east entrance, 25 miles west of Cameron, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation. Both entrances, divided by 23 scenic miles along the canyon’s rim, lead to the same spot at the Grand Canyon Visitor Center. “Check the wait times online,” Mr. Mohn said. “But the biggest bottleneck is going to…
Good morning. It’s hot in New York, punishingly hot in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Arizona. It’s been extraordinarily hot in Britain, which recorded its highest-ever temperature on Tuesday. Many of us aren’t turning on stoves or ovens for anything today. Instead, I’m looking at easy summer salads: crunchy greens with carrot-ginger dressing, say; corn…
It’s early afternoon on a warm Saturday in June, and Sheep Meadow in Manhattan’s Central Park is awash with people relaxing on blankets and lawn chairs, laughing and chatting as they sunbathe or catch up over snacks. “I honestly had forgotten how busy it can get in the park,” says Amber Mayfield, 29 — the…
Quidditch, the sport of boarding school wizards riding broomsticks in “Harry Potter,” will become “Quadball” to the humans who play the game in real life, its leading organizations said on Tuesday. The groups cited financial obstacles imposed by Warner Bros., the producer of the movie series, holding the trademark to Quidditch, as well as a…
The guide stood before a small group in a dimly lit tepee. “Do you want to be entertained, or to go deep?” he asked. The answer came in giddy unison: “Go deep!” “Good,” he said. “That was a trick question.” The people got cozy on the pillow-strewn floor as the guide went to his keyboard.…
An Elegant Four-Bedroom Home in Northern Italy $1.51 MILLION (1.5 MILLION EUROS) This four-bedroom, six-bathroom villa sits on an embankment in Brunate, a village in northern Italy perched above the city of Como and its famed lake. Built in 1908 in the Italian “Liberty” style, a variant of Art Nouveau, the property has been owned…