When the Philippine island of Boracay was in the rogues’ gallery of destinations marred by overtourism, large sections of its 2.5-mile main White Beach were jammed with thousands of visitors and long trains of beach beds and umbrellas. Fleets of boats motored up to the sand’s edge, and multitudes of peddlers sold trips and trinkets…
Christina Caron, a reporter for the Well section of The New York Times, asked readers how mass shootings had affected them. More than 600 people responded.
On the evening of Jan. 15, 2021, in a remote Arizona desert town, Christine Benton saved a life. She and her husband, Brian Benton, were traveling the country in a recreational vehicle and had parked near other R.V.ers at a winery in Willcox. As the couple were eating dinner, someone started shouting from an R.V.…
Even the most apathetic sports fan knows about the green hat. Sold exclusively at the Masters—the prestigious golf tournament held annually at Augusta National in Augusta, Georgia during the first full week of April—it’s not so much an accessory as a sartorial signal to the world that you were among those lucky “patrons” who attended…
Milling around in the crowd at the Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival on Sunday, it did not take long to deduce that many had come for the same reason: the hats. The parade, which started in the 1870s, is one of the very few fashion events where expertly crafted pieces coexist with amateur D.I.Y.…
Papaya King, the Upper East Side fixture known for its hot dogs and tropical fruit juices, is moving to a new location, across the street from its longstanding spot on the corner of 86th Street and Third Avenue. The manager, Mohammed Alam, said that there is no firm opening date, but they hope to open…
Other fans accepted the reports as truth, albeit with caution. “I think that media literacy is really important, and I have the benefit of having a few more years on some of these newer Swifties or younger Swifties,” said Katherine Mohr, a 31-year-old project manager from Madison, Wis. “I’ve been through the wringer on celebrity…
First comes love, then comes marriage. And a marriage celebration is, more often than not, observed with a wedding or wedding reception. If you’ve seen 27 Dresses, you know that the theme or dress code of a wedding can vary pretty considerably based on the individuality of the happy couple, so figuring out what to…
Senior executives of more than 250 pharmaceutical and biotech companies on Monday issued a scorching condemnation of a ruling by a federal judge that invalidated the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, and they called for the decision to be reversed. “The decision ignores decades of scientific evidence and legal…
This article contains major spoilers for Episode 3 of the final season of “Succession.” A “Succession” Sunday typically brings a feast of chaos and rich-people drama, so far away from most people’s reality that we in the audience can sit back and watch the betrayals, the catty class commentary and the creative, curse-laden insults with…