On a recent winter evening, Cat Fitzpatrick and Kay Gabriel were trying to decide how the former would introduce the latter, who was about to read from her new novel, “A Queen in Bucks County.” Ms. Fitzpatrick mentioned that the book had made her cackle on the PATH train. Making other trans women “crack up…
To walk into Veniero’s, the beloved Italian pastry shop on East 11th Street, just off First Avenue, is to step into a dreamscape of buttery cookies, cannoli and tarts heavy and trembling with jewel-colored fruit. On one side of the double-fronted building is the main cafe. On the other is the store, inside which, on…
Headliner Kebab aur Sharab Until now, the chef and restaurateur Salil Mehta’s focus has been Southeast Asia. Laut, his showcase for Malaysian food, was awarded a Michelin star. He has interpreted Singaporean food and drinks at Laut Singapura, Chard (now closed) and Singlish near Union Square, and provided tastes of Indonesia and Malaysia at Wau…
For emergency room doctors, they are a dispiriting and familiar sight: Children who return again and again in the grip of mental health crises, brought in by caregivers who are frightened or overwhelmed. Much has been written about the surge in pediatric mental health emergency visits in recent years, as rates of depression and suicidal…
Several festive new holiday drinks, suitable for year-end reveling, have been created by Nolet’s, a gin company that was founded in 1691 in Schiedam, the Netherlands, and is still family-owned. The cocktails are notable for the simplicity of their ingredients — no need to concoct arcane herbal mixtures, and the like. The Peppermint Southside, a…
Ah, yes. The time has come to look forward to the new year. In fashion, that means taking a look at the best 2023 fashion trends to come. I know, I know; with the way the trend cycle is going, it’s getting tough to keep up. Not to worry—you’ve come to the right place. We…
Complaining about cramped quarters is common practice for most people who live in apartments. But sometimes you don’t have to move to find a little extra space. That’s what Lauren and Michael Stein discovered. In 2012, they paid $895,000 for a two-bedroom co-op apartment in Midtown Manhattan that a previous owner had already expanded, by…
We spent the morning hanging around the dock looking for a boat to take us over. The weather was taking a turn for the worse when we finally found a captain. Among his various gigs, he navigated his single-motor craft several times a week over to Carriacou and loaded plastic tanks of fuel to sell…
In the State of Kerala in southern India, Dr. Chandni Sajeevan, the head of emergency medicine at Kozhikode Government Medical College hospital, led the response to an outbreak of Nipah, a virus carried by fruit bats, in 2018. Seventeen of the 18 people infected died, including a young trainee nurse who cared for the first…
“It’s extra Christmas!” Ellington said. “Last year, I got a dragon thing and my brother got a Nerf gun.” Kite Bernroider, 9, who lives in Vienna, said he can tell Kwanzaa is coming when his mother, Chanda Rule, a jazz vocalist, starts singing a Kwanzaa song. Ms. Rule, who is Black and married to an…