PAGE 11 Women who have aborted a child — especially through chemical abortion drugs that necessitate the woman seeing her aborted child once it passes — often experience shame, regret, anxiety, depression, drug abuse and suicidal thoughts because of the abortion. Medication abortion is used in early pregnancies, typically before gestation at 12 weeks, and…
Johnny Kompar In ELLE.com’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month we spoke to Susan Korn, the designer behind the (nearly) eponymous brand Susan Alexandra. Known for her colorful, beaded pieces, Korn has slowly transformed her company…
I have a bit of a reputation: If you’re planning on going to Philadelphia, talk to Nikita. I’m by no means an expert, but I visit our sister city (brother city?) three or four times a year — and I think you should, too! The mental block that seems to keep many New Yorkers from…
Demand is mounting for Mounjaro — though like some other trendy medications, it has yet to be approved for weight loss.
Times are tough right now. You are probably on a budget like everybody else, including me—which means I’m looking for every possible way to cut back, particularly when it comes to travel expenses. Paying $40 to check a bag…in this economy? No thank you. Enter The Bigger Carry-On suitcase from Away. This piece of luggage…
Hav & Mar is something you don’t see in Manhattan every day: a new Marcus Samuelsson restaurant, and a good one at that. He has operations in New Jersey, Florida, Georgia and three countries outside the United States. At home in New York, though, Mr. Samuelsson’s footprint was limited to Red Rooster in Harlem and…
Ukrainian Springtime Love Song At my Ukrainian grandmother’s house in Chicago, circa 1970, Easter began right after Christmas. The aroma of burning candle, melting beeswax, vinegar dye and fresh coffee would wake me. Grandma would be sitting at her table, barefoot. In one hand she cradled an egg. In the other, she held a kistka,…
Anna Russett, a workshop attendee, marveled at how similar Ms. Tilghman’s experience had been to her own. Ms. Russett, 31, worked on social media for a big advertising firm in Chicago, while amassing tens of thousands of followers on her personal Instagram account. Curious, she decided to go all in on influencing just “to see…
Headliner Greywind Dan Kluger, the former executive chef at ABC Kitchen who went on to open Loring Place and its pizza sideline, Washington Squares in Greenwich Village, is opening this restaurant and bakery just north of Hudson Yards. The executive chef, Caitlin Giamario, who worked with him at Loring Place, and the pastry chef, Jake…
Jamila Norman has a few houseplants, for the record, all thriving, at her home in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta. But although she has room out back, there is no garden. “My friends shame me for it,” Ms. Norman said. “They shame me for it all the time.” Is she ashamed? She is not.…