The Agriculture Department approved the production and sale of laboratory-grown meat for the first time on Wednesday, clearing the way for two California companies to sell chicken produced from animal cells. It will likely be years before shoppers can buy lab-produced meat in grocery stores. But the government’s decision will eventually allow the sale of…
As one of the only Indian girls in her tiny Canadian mountain town, Natasha Singh stood out — and she was unafraid of being different. At 13, she shaved her head. By 17, she had run away for good. A few years later, she came out to her mother. Natasha’s worldview was worlds apart from…
Plopping pints of mint chocolate chip or cherry vanilla onto the table after a laid-back dinner is a time-honored summer tradition. Effortless and crowd-pleasing, store-bought ice cream is the beloved finale to countless hot-weather meals. But, with some advance planning and a smidge more work, you can transform purchased pints into the kind of nostalgic…
Three teenage girls were found slumped in a car in the parking lot of a rural Tennessee high school last month, hours before graduation ceremonies. Two were dead from fentanyl overdoses. The third, a 17-year-old, was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Two days later, she was charged with the girls’ murders. Prosecutors cited…
The flier announcing a new exhibition in Queens, “Home-O-Stasis,” doesn’t give an address. Instead, it has instructions: When you reach the Queens Public Library in Flushing, “go up to Kissena Boulevard till you see the Q17/Q27 stop. Go past the garage gate, enter the mini-mall on the right where scooters and bikes are parked outside.”…
Concision — that was the word to come to mind after eight surprising days in this men’s wear capital, and in Florence. Did some unseen force take a blue pencil to all the slack narratives, rehashed inspirations, derivative references that prevailed in recent seasons? Suddenly everything seemed crisp and focused, like early Hemingway after he’d…
Jason McDonald discovered glassblowing more than two decades ago at an after school program in his hometown, Tacoma, Wash. He was 14 at the time, and it was nothing like anything he had ever seen before, he said: immediate, dangerous and sobering. “It was like magic,” he said. When he was diagnosed with A.D.H.D. at…
Eroxon, a topical gel, “helps men get an erection within 10 minutes,” according to Futura Medical, the manufacturer.
Gwyneth Paltrow has been popping up in unexpected places this year. She was in court in March, dressed impeccably, and won $1 after being found not at fault for a ski crash. She was on a cruise ship. And on Friday evening at 3 Dollar Bill, a queer club in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of…
Surely no one with a sweet tooth and a pulse can resist a skillet-size giant chocolate chip cookie (above). I certainly can’t. It’s so much easier and quicker than the usual cookies you have to scoop and bake in batches, since here you just press the dough directly into the pan. The payoff is eating…