What if an uncontrollable urge to rapidly eat large amounts of food is rooted in an impaired brain circuit? If that were the case, people who live with binge eating disorder — a psychiatric diagnosis — might be no more at fault for overeating than a patient with Parkinson’s disease is for their tremors. That…
The Jewish deli is such a defining part of New York City that it might as well be the very air we breathe (along with pizza, dim sum, Trinidadian doubles and curbside halal). On Friday, an exhibit about just that arrives at the New-York Historical Society on the Upper West Side. “‘I’ll Have What She’s…
If, like many New Yorkers with a taste for Tibetan food, you are used to finding your momos and shapaley at the top of rickety staircases, or behind cellphone stores, or in the backs of gift shops, your first trip to Nha Sang in Elmhurst, Queens, may come as something of a shock. Nha Sang…
Across the Aisle Laura and I spent the fall of 1960 bantering about the upcoming presidential election. Both freshman at Texas Lutheran College, we discovered that we shared an interest in politics, though from opposite sides. As we poked and jostled one another, I saw that Laura was bright, beautiful and determined. Our mutual friends…
Headliner Brasserie Fouquet’s Desbrosses Street in TriBeCa is not exactly the Champs-Élysées, but it’s a fairly broad boulevard. So it’s still an appropriate home base for this venerable Paris brasserie, now with a global presence. It’s managed by Groupe Barrière, whose hotels often house a Fouquet’s. Built into the Hotel Barrière Fouquet’s New York, the…
The night before the midterm elections the winds of change were blowing through the halls of Casa Cipriani on South Street at the tip of Manhattan, whooshing over the step-and-repeat of celebrity entrances at the 67th annual Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards, more colloquially known as “the fashion Oscars.” They blew past Drake,…
Fashion’s heavy hitters descended upon Casa Cipriani for the 2022 CFDA Awards last night and, per usual, hijinks ensued. Heidi Gardner confessed to doing jello shots en route to the party, Julia Fox lit a blunt off her Edie Parker clutch, and Cher’s arrival sent everyone into a collective tizzy. Natasha Lyonne had no qualms…
A list of things Jimmy DeSana photographed — shoes, sofas, legs and butts — misses his true subject, which was a sensibility. He regarded the body as a playground, gender as an ongoing invention, and domestic interiors as surreal constructions. He had a queer take on life. A familiar presence on the downtown New York…
Courtesy of the Brands Giving gifts is a continuum: On the one end you have accessible little tokens of affection, which are touching and memorable in their own way. On the other end are the big moments, the ultra-special gifts that’ll make her entire year (or even years). These presents are investment pieces that often…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Even by fashion designer standards, Sander Lak is absurdly attuned to colors. Whether it’s the neon-soaked New York City in Taxi Driver (which he saw when he was way too young), or the jangly dissonance of Baskin Robbins’ hot pink and…