An unremarkable stretch of highway and trees, as seen on Google Maps’ Street View, appeared on the screen. It could have been anywhere from Tasmania to Texas. “This is going to be south Philippines, somewhere on this road down here,” Trevor Rainbolt said instantly, clicking on a location on a map of the world that…
PARIS — It was just a regular Wednesday afternoon — except the sidewalks of the normally sedate Avenue Georges V were clogged by a shrieking mass of teenagers, smartphones aloft, free hands waving over police barriers in a frenzy. It was the sort of scene that wouldn’t be surprising outside a rock concert or a…
Are monsters made or born? That is the existential question Ken Auletta takes on in his new book, “Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence.” “What is Harvey Weinstein’s Rosebud — a loss, a lack, that explains what came after?” Mr. Auletta asks at the start of his ogre’s odyssey. Or is he…
BA.5 has become dominant in the U.S.
Amazon Prime members (including those who are already Grubhub+ members) will get a free year of Grubhub+. How can the offer be redeemed? Amazon Prime members can redeem the Grubhub+ membership by first going to amazon.com/prime/offer/grubhub/prime-deal and signing into their accounts. Customers should then click on “Activate free Grubhub+.” The next screen will ask Prime…
Willie Lee Morrow, a son of Alabama sharecroppers who built a business empire around hair care products aimed at African American consumers, among them a comb designed to work with the natural styles that exploded in popularity in the 1960s — a tool he called the Afro Tease, but which came to be known as…
All fashion week, we will be spotlighting the small details we saw on the runways that surprised or delighted us: Bring on the portable fog machines and antique fork jewelry. PARIS — Blink and you might have missed one of the most explicit homages to Azzedine Alaïa by his design successor, Pieter Mulier, during the…
From The New York Times, I’m Anna Martin. This is Modern Love. And that’s my sister Emily. Do you remember Ms. Dina? Ms. Dina took care of me and Emily when we were young, and she’s this totally mythical figure to us. Our memories of her are full of color. I remember her hair is…
WASHINGTON — Top Senate Democrats on Wednesday released an updated plan aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs, signaling progress on a crucial piece of their bid to salvage some of President Biden’s stalled social safety net, climate and tax bill. Democratic leaders negotiated the drug-pricing proposal primarily with Senator Joe Manchin III of…
On Friday morning, a cloudless sky stretched above the Brooklyn Museum. As the sun marked the arrival of a sweltering July, clusters of people lined up an hour before opening to be the first ones inside. It was the first day that “Figures of Speech,” a multimedia retrospective of work by the designer Virgil Abloh,…