Some of the largest consumer brands in the country have continued to raise prices aggressively this year while raking in large profits, posing a tough problem for the Federal Reserve as it aims to tame inflation. Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Unilever have each reported raising prices significantly in the second quarter, from about 8 percent at…
Spoilers ahead about the ending of Barbie (2023). If you don’t want to be spoiled, turn back now! At the end of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie, Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie) tells Barbie creator Ruth Handler (Rhea Perlman) that she doesn’t feel like Barbie anymore. She decides to be human, and the final scene finds Barbie…
If you’re among the millions of movie-goers who scored tickets to the Barbie movie on opening weekend (or among the millions more, myself included, who lived vicariously through TikTok reviews and spoilers), you may already recognize this gold heart-shaped necklace from Missoma. Engravable Heart Ridge Locket Pendant Necklace Engravable Heart Ridge Locket Pendant Necklace Credit:…
Josh Robinson, who grew up outside Halifax, Nova Scotia, can remember eating his first donair when he was around 7 years old, roughly two decades after the sandwich, composed of spiced, spit-roasted meat topped with a sweet sauce and wrapped in pita bread, first emerged as a regional delicacy. “There’s nothing like it, there really…
On a balmy recent evening, the Carl Freedman Gallery in the English coastal town of Margate was the setting for a double celebration. Fourteen guests gathered to mark both the opening of “To Be Held” — a group show curated by the filmmaker, photographer and fashion designer Ronan Mckenzie — and the launch of “Plentiful,”…
Within every cancer are molecules that spur deadly, uncontrollable growth. What if scientists could hook those molecules to others that make cells self-destruct? Could the very drivers of a cancer’s survival instead activate the program for its destruction? That idea came as an epiphany to Dr. Gerald Crabtree, a developmental biologist at Stanford, some years…
Why It Matters: Case counts have become less reliable. Even if people who are infected with the coronavirus never seek testing or treatment, they shed the virus in their stool. That has made wastewater surveillance a useful way to keep track of how much virus is circulating in a community. At the height of the…
A new analysis of data from a large clinical trial of healthy older adults found higher rates of brain bleeding among those who took daily low-dose aspirin, and no significant protection against stroke. The analysis, published Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA, is the latest evidence that low-dose aspirin, which slows the clotting action of…
Here at New York Times Cooking we publish hundreds of new recipes every year, so it would be easy to overlook the tens of thousands already available in our vast archive. But let’s not do that, because sometimes a classic, like Pierre Franey’s exquisite zucchini with shallots, is just what a meal needs. This recipe…
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