There is a food-related bit on the Hulu series “Only Murders in the Building” that I think of often. It begins in the show’s second episode: At an apartment-lobby memorial for a deceased neighbor, the debt-stricken Oliver Putnam, played by the incomparable Martin Short, rushes to a table of free goodies. “You know, this is…
Celeste Yim, supervising writer and comedian known for their work on Saturday Night Live (e.g. “Trend Forecasters” with Bowen Yang and Aidy Bryant): “My favorite accessory for Pride Month is a lanyard to hold my keys. The lanyard is the perfect successor to the carabiner. People with social power wear lanyards: CEOs with corporate badges,…
In 1988, a 65-year-old man’s heart stopped at home. His wife and son didn’t know CPR, so in desperation they grabbed a toilet plunger to get his heart going until an ambulance showed up. Later, after the man recovered at San Francisco General Hospital, his son gave the doctors there some advice: Put toilet plungers…
In a heady swirl of bright white silk and lace, the young ladies of the Cotillion Society of Detroit Educational Foundation are presented as debutantes. The Society’s annual ball is the culmination of eight months of etiquette lessons, leadership workshops, community service projects and cultural events. As the girls take to the dance floor, they…
GENEVA — At IWC Schaffhausen’s booth at the Watches and Wonders fair in the convention center here this spring, Maurice Moitroux, IWC’s associate director of brand marketing, gestured toward a large, clunky, beige device sitting atop a counter near the entrance. “It looks like a microwave, but it’s actually a computer,” he said. Intended to…
Its 20 different complications, divided on two dial faces, include grande and petite sonnerie, a minute-repeater and an instantaneous perpetual calendar. “I am not technical. I read what they say about the watch, and I recognize that it is fantastic and what it can do — but I am not a watchmaker — I bought…
ALBUQUERQUE — Someday, Andrew Thomas plans to have a silver watch cuff custom-made in memory of his father. It won’t be an exact reproduction of the one his father wore, he said, but it will reflect the same traditional Diné (Navajo) style, perhaps with nugget turquoise, a touch of coral and some silver appliqué work.…
WONG I totally hear you about the superhero cape. There was a time when, intellectually, I could appreciate a watch like a Richard Mille, but I didn’t get why some people were so nuts about it. Until I put one on, and thought, yeah, I’m a baller now. And with people being a bit surprised…
“It’s a combination of lunar and solar cycles that are not in perpetual synchronicity,” he said. “The years are not always the same length. They vary between 352 days and 355 days. “The best we could do is break it down into cycles of 12, which means every 12 years, it needs an adjustment —…
The News A majority of Americans with health insurance said they had encountered obstacles to coverage, including denied medical care, higher bills and a dearth of doctors in their plans, according to a new survey from KFF, a nonprofit health research group. As a result, some people delayed or skipped treatment. Those who were most…