Christian Cooper and Amy Tan on How Birding Brings Them Joy: a Live Event
The two will discuss their shared love of birding in a free live virtual event as part of The New York Times summer birding project.
Read Your Way Through the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
What books and authors should I take with me? One grand feature of border culture is the lure of a bargain. For decades, the clarion call of cheap muffler (“mofle”) shops drew tourists south; now, it’s cheap dentures and Viagra. So let us offer a one-stop classic, the anthology “Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots and Graffiti…
15 Crochet Bags to Tote All Summer Long
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Quilt Squares Chinese Laundry Crochet Tote Quilt Squares Chinese Laundry Crochet Tote Your yarn-obsessed grandma aspires to this level of quilting. Dimensions: N/A Colors: Multi Material: N/A Advertisement – Continue Reading…
For a 30-Year-Old Virgin, It’s Now or Never
Clare Almand was born with congenital heart disease, so her life was never what she would call “normal.” By the time she was 30, she’d had 10 open-heart surgeries and her health was rapidly declining. Clare thought she was dying. With death looming, she was running out of time to do something she’d never done,…
New Obesity Drugs Come With a Side Effect of Shaming
Eileen Isotalo was always able to lose weight, but always gained it back. Now 66, her first diet was with Weight Watchers at age 14. She went on to try one diet after another and bought so many books on weight loss that she thinks she has more than the public library. In desperation, she…
Mark Bradford Strikes a Pose of Quiet Self-Reflection
Mark Bradford found his way to becoming an artist while working in his mother’s beauty shop. The Los Angeles-born artist used layers of the cheap end papers — thin delicate sheets used to protect hair from burning during perming — instead of paint in the early works that would soon earn him an international reputation,…
Ivan Menezes, Who Led a Liquor Giant, Dies at 63
Ivan Menezes, who as chief executive of the spirits corporation Diageo used his canny understanding of the drinking public to help the company grow into a global colossus, died on June 7 in London. He was 63. The cause was complications of emergency surgery for a stomach ulcer, a Diageo spokesman said. Diageo is omnipresent…
A Genius Tomato Salad Primed for Picnics
During the Food section’s weekly staff meeting, everyone went absolutely nuts over the photo of Hetty McKinnon’s dumpling tomato salad with chile crisp vinaigrette (above). Hetty’s recipes are always top-shelf, but this one goes above and beyond with its gorgeous, summery simplicity. She marinates a mix of tomatoes with grated garlic, basil and salt while…
Meatballs and Tomato Sauce Recipe, Hold The Spaghetti
Meatballs in tomato sauce are a comforting thing, a ruddy, garlicky Italian American classic meant to be nestled on a pile of spaghetti and showered in cheese. This dish is not that. True, it has meatballs, assertively flavored with garlic and browned in hot oil. And yes, they finish cooking in a savory, brick-red tomato…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Is Transforming A.I., One Leather Jacket at a Time
There’s a new tech titan in town and he’s preparing to enter the pantheon. How do we know? Well, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, has the company: He co-founded Nvidia in 1993, and the market cap is now about $950 billion, though at the end of May it was briefly in the $1…