Kantamanto Market, a secondhand exchange in Accra, Ghana, has piles of clothing taller than the people walking through it. When the wind picks up, T-shirts whirl around the seemingly endless rows of clothes, most of which have been discarded and donated from Canada, the United States, and Europe. It’s impossible to know the exact amount…
On a Wednesday night in Brooklyn, onstage in front of about 250 people, a woman who has been single for two and a half years recalled the last time she dated someone she actually liked. “I like that he was able to put me on to stuff that I didn’t know,” the woman said into…
ATOKA, Okla. — Year after year, eight million vehicles drove through this sleepy town just off U.S. Highway 75, which stretches from Texas to Canada. Almost none of them stopped. Atoka had fallen on hard times: Residents had moved away, and downtown buildings were decaying. Carol Ervin, its economic development director, began to plot how…
“Try this way,” says Zainal Abidin, an affable manager at the Prestige in George Town, Malaysia, cocking his head to one side. Mr. Zainal is showing me around the hotel, which is named after the 2006 Christopher Nolan film about two rival magicians. I’m supposed to see an illusion in which the corridor entrance transforms…
I am coming to New York with my family for the first time. We will be going to a Broadway show, museums, dinners and so on. What should I bring that will make me fit in and look good, but not touristy? — Nancy, Tucson, Ariz. A better question may be what would make you…
Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra, a food historian who as Puerto Rico’s leading gastronomy expert sought to define the island’s cuisine and educate the world about it, died on March 8 in San Juan, P.R. He was 67. His brother Carlos Ortíz Cuadra confirmed the death, in a hospital. He said that Mr. Ortíz Cuadra had…
WASHINGTON — In the spring of 2021, with studies of the coronavirus pandemic’s origins going nowhere and the issue embroiled in bitter partisan politics, David Relman, a microbiologist at Stanford, quietly made a request of his congresswoman. He told his representative, Anna Eshoo, that he was organizing a letter from leading scientists calling for an open…
Break out the Girl Scouts cookies and bonfire songs. The Art Production Fund held a camp-themed gala at the Pool and the Grill on March 15, complete with slushy machines, chicken fingers, lobster rolls and bags of Lay’s potato chips served on fine china. The art and fashion crowd embraced the dress code with gusto,…
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The products, which were sold at Trader Joe’s, Costco, Aldi and other retailers, have been linked to five cases of illness, a federal agency said.