Until fairly recently, Danksgiving wasn’t much more than a funny word that cannabis fans used for smoking weed on Thanksgiving. It’s easy to see how the portmanteau came about: “dank,” a slang term for high-quality weed, fits into the name of a holiday that appeals to the appetite — whether one is high or not.…
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Glamour, altruism and cognitive dissonance hung in the air. Some of the most conspicuously privileged people in America, dressed in gowns and tuxedos, wrapped in diamonds, were sipping passion fruit margaritas garnished with skinny jalapeño slices as they considered bidding on items like a nine-session facial, known as the beauty sandwich,…
For two decades, Julie Buckner Armstrong would walk into the street to avoid the staghorn ferns that thrived in her Florida neighborhood. She didn’t know why. In her Modern Love essay, “Who’s Afraid of a Lovely Fern?” Ms. Armstrong pieces together why the sight of a staghorn fern would make her shudder. [Like this newsletter?…
This isn’t a newsletter about Thanksgiving. But it is a newsletter about the days leading up to Thanksgiving, three weeknights for fast, easy dinners. My personal guidelines for those days: Make everything as simple as possible. Don’t cook or eat anything that echoes the sweet and mushy dishes (I say this with love) of the…
Paris in the 1920s was a continual celebration of of creativity, of artistry, culture, and joie de vivre all set to the rhythm of jazz. As effervescent as champagne and as exuberant as a weekend-long fete, the sophisticated decade sparkles with sartorial influence. Once revolutionary and now iconic, the fashion trends of les années folles…
Experimentar “lengua vellosa”, hormigueo en la piel y la caída del cabello son algunas de las manifestaciones poco comunes pero que se pueden presentar por el coronavirus.
Chez Panisse, the Bay Area locavore mecca helmed by chef Alice Waters, has long served a singularly minimalist dessert at its casual upstairs café: ripe fruit in a bowl. To select the right figs or pears or olallieberries for each bowl, Chez Panisse’s kitchen staff carefully tracks the ripeness of each one, sorting, sniffing, and…
In September 2021, when their business was forced to close because of financial challenges, friends and family donated to their GoFundMe, raising more than $20,000 to reopen. At the same time, Mr. Sankofa was an executive chef and Ms. Gambarian was a pastry chef, working to help open the Cree Wine Company, a wine bar…
Ms. Brown-Taher was so moved by the project that she created a similar pendant in memory of her own dog, Stevie Licks. Creating personalized jewelry as a tribute to a pet is no less involved than undertaking any other bespoke project, according to Ms. Brown-Taher. She consults with each client in person or via video…
This holiday season, amid global concerns of rising interest rates and possible recession, many beauty companies are marketing gifts that might seem out of sync with the economic climate: extremely expensive seasonal offerings, some of which are several hundred times the price of one of their entry-level items. Yet beauty industry insiders say they are…