A hair salon set in a former church is unexpected. Add a chandelier made of at least 20 disco balls? That’s a good time, says Yoshi Burke, the salon’s owner. Mr. Burke, 32, opened the aptly named Disco Salon in the Grant Park neighborhood of Atlanta in March, and though the space is surrounded by…
Colin Carlson, a biologist at Georgetown University, has started to worry about mousepox. The virus, discovered in 1930, spreads among mice, killing them with ruthless efficiency. But scientists have never considered it a potential threat to humans. Now Dr. Carlson, his colleagues and their computers aren’t so sure. Using a technique known as machine learning,…
Enchiladas are warm hugs, enveloped in tortillas and blanketed in sauce. Whether topped with hills of Cotija cheese, or a silky salsa verde, or handfuls of herbs, the dish is a shorthand for deliciousness. Even the name alone — enchiladas! — becomes a catalyst for anticipation: Comfort is in the vicinity. It’s on the way!…
Everyone has one or two — or 20! — recipes that they know by heart. Perhaps, at first, you referred to the instructions every time you made it, but at some point, you memorized the measurements, how it should look and exactly how it should taste when it’s done. Eventually, it became a standby, your…
In the hands of Hunter Shaffer, the sentence you are reading right now would take seven or eight seconds to type. This entire article would be done in just over seven minutes, and a recent Sunday Styles print section of The New York Times would take about 86 minutes. During a recent online competition, Mr.…
In the middle of last year, the World Health Organization began promoting an ambitious goal, one it said was essential for ending the pandemic: fully vaccinate 70 percent of the population in every country against Covid-19 by June 2022. Now, it is clear that the world will fall far short of that target by the…
I am tired. Most days, it is not from weeding — not from the same root cause as the sensation at the back of my legs, when I climb the stairs at the end of a too-long session outside. It is deeper, and simply from being in the world, a landscape of invasive, impossible headlines.…
Last year the chef Daniel Humm converted Eleven Madison Park, his much-lauded palace of haute cuisine, into a palace of haute, plant-based cuisine. Now he is offering training wheels for vegan dining: Eleven Madison Home, a weekly subscription box to the tune of $150 ($285 for two) that includes a day’s worth of meals, with…
Headliner Kono Omakase, a type of Japanese meal that leaves the selection of dishes up to the chef, is most often associated with a parade of sushi bites. But it is also applied to yakitori at this restaurant from Atsushi Kono, an expert in yakitori, or “grilled bird,” usually skewered chicken. Mr. Kono was the…
HOUSTON — The Hughie’s on West 18th Street is one among scores of Vietnamese American restaurants around this city. But it may have more in common with a Dairy Queen. For starters, it used to be a Dairy Queen. The sign out front still has the eye-shaped outline of the ice cream chain’s logo. On the…