A MOLECULE AWAY FROM MADNESS Tales of the Hijacked Brain By Sara Manning Peskin On an ordinary day in August 2016, Lauren Kane was sucked into a zombie apocalypse. The recent college graduate and aspiring fiction writer had moved back into her mother’s house; she spent her days polishing short stories and binge-watching episodes of…
Growing up in the town of Republic in southwestern Pennsylvania, Matthew Yokobosky would visit the local tailor most days after school. “His name was Danny Mariotti, and I used to go and watch him sew,” he said. There were the Trevallini sisters, whom he liked to observe constructing jeweled flower arrangements and wedding bouquets. “Oh,…
In 2018, the actress Frances McDormand gave an acerbic Oscars acceptance speech in which she celebrated “hooligans and anarchists” and “feminist mothers,” but also ended on a two-word suggestion to her Hollywood peers, with no further explanation: “inclusion rider.” While her speech generated buzz around the idea of an inclusion rider — a contract provision…
A year ago, Humberto Leon opened a restaurant with his family on the northeast side of Los Angeles. It was a destination for fashion fans from the start, and not just because Mr. Leon is a well-connected designer who was a founder of Opening Ceremony, the brand and erstwhile cool-kids boutique. The food and décor…
It is as big a shift as when ready-to-wear merged with made-to-measure in the 1960s and ’70s. And yet, while the evolution has been taking place for a while, the “streetwear” designation lingers. As fashion week dawns, say many designers, it’s time to bury it. What does it even mean? “I’d like to have a…
WASHINGTON — The White House has been meeting with outside health experts to plan a pandemic exit strategy and a transition to a “new normal,” but the behind-the-scenes effort is crashing into a very public reality: A string of blue-state governors have gotten ahead of President Biden by suddenly abandoning their mask mandates. Two of…
Jerome Chazen, an original partner in the Liz Claiborne company, which helped reshape how career women dress, died on Sunday at his home in Upper Nyack, N.Y. He was 94. The death was confirmed by his son, David. Mr. Chazen was a driving force behind Liz Claiborne Inc. as it outfitted a generation of women…
Recent research may indicate that humans are more sensitive to body odor than our evolutionary ancestors were. Is this good news? It could be for Phillip Miner, a nightlife promoter who holds a party called “Pheromone” for armpit fetishists (the next will be held Feb. 10). Pent-up demand for nightlife — after so many months…
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There’s really nothing humble about a head of cabbage: It can play just about any part, like the Sarah Paulson of the vegetable kingdom. It thrives in every possible environment — cooked hot and fast in a ripping-hot oven, braised low and slow until silky, charred assertively on a grill, massaged with dressing or fermented…