For the past year or so, all the restaurant obsessives I know have been particularly obsessed with figuring out what post-pandemic diners want. Convenience or ceremony? No-contact ordering or tableside trolleys? Service charges to fund higher wages or smaller portions to allow lower prices? Nobody agrees. For all the predictions floating around, I don’t know…
Hoping for More I worked three teaching jobs and slept in our apartment’s unheated kitchen to give my teenage children the bedrooms. I had scant time for food shopping, insufficient time to sleep, zero time for anything else. We subsisted on rice, beans, pasta, tuna, peanut butter. It seemed absurd to hope for more —…
Getty + Design Leah Romero Everyone wants to be Emma Chamberlain, or at the very least be her friend. How could you not? She’s effortlessly cool, wildly stylish, and refreshingly low-key. “Low-key” for someone with 16.2 million followers on Instagram, that is. The internet-influencing, coffee-sipping, art-collecting, sweater vest-wearing 21-year-old is, ostensibly, good at everything, which…
Travel this winter, like pretty much everything else, is not expected to be a bargain. While rates for hotels and flights tend to drop after the holiday highs, resilient demand for travel portends higher prices at both ski and beach destinations, where winter is high season. Still, with flexibility and creativity — like avoiding peak…
After numerous allegations of sexual harassment and lawsuits claiming wage theft, the Willows Inn, a world-renowned restaurant and inn on a tiny island in the Pacific Northwest, has closed. An investigation by The New York Times in April 2021 revealed that workers at the Willows said they had been subjected to verbal and sexual harassment,…
Christian MacDonald If the last few seasons of fashion shows have taught us anything, it’s that sheer is here. The world of tights can seem intimidating or even old-fashioned, but brands like Wolford and Fogal are making the wardrobe staple anything but. On the runways, Valentino, Nensi Dojaka, and Victoria Beckham are just a few…
Courtesy What you put on your feet when you walk outside can say a lot about you, but why not treat your indoor shoe choice with just as much care? Sure, you’re not strutting down a runway in your house (or you are, we don’t judge), but from your bedroom to the kitchen is just…
The benefits of group (music) therapy.
Imagine a single dose of vaccine that prepares your body to fight every known strain of influenza — a so-called universal flu vaccine that scientists have been trying to create for decades. A new study describes successful animal tests of just such a vaccine, offering hope that the country can be protected against future flu…
Christopher Massimine is trying not to lie. He’s trying not to lie when his wife asks him whether he has sorted the recycling, or when his mother-in-law’s friend Mary Ann asks whether he liked the baked appetizers she brought over. He’s trying not to lie to his therapist, who has him on a regimen of…