The clone of the tree that grew from a seed that went to the moon doesn’t look like much. It’s still a callow sapling, a flurry of bright green leaves on a spindly six-foot trunk. But in 20 years or so, this American sycamore will be a formidable presence at the Folly Tree Arboretum, an…
When Stephan Weishaupt began looking for a weekend home outside Toronto, buying a 19th-century log cabin was the furthest thing from his mind. Mr. Weishaupt, the founder of Weishaupt Design Group and the president of a furniture company called Avenue Road, had long been focused on all things modern. When a friend told him about…
The worldwide culinary fame of Italy’s third-largest city boils down to one word: pizza. You can hardly hurl a tomato in the food’s purported birthplace — a scruffy, graffiti-stained port city of monumental Baroque buildings and narrow cobbled passageways — without hitting a gaggle of culinary pilgrims jockeying to enter one of the hundreds (or…
More Than Likes is a series about social media personalities who are trying to do positive things for their communities. Conrad Benner’s phone camera was fixed on Nile Livingston, an artist who stood in front of a blank wall. Mx. Livingston would soon paint a massive mural, and the “canvas” would be the side of…
It’s time to get up (and fidget).
“I’ve never had an Asian,” said another as he pulled me toward him. I flushed in anger as I pictured him posting a photo of us with a sushi emoji next to my username, as I had once seen a white man do to a hapless Asian guy on Twitter. Others were more subtle. I…
In September 2020, the couple went to Maison Pickle, a restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and over an outdoor dinner with their dogs, Mr. Rosenberg told Ms. Amrossi that he loved her. “I told him I loved him back, and then he came and he gave me a hug and kiss,” Ms. Amrossi said.…
When Shira Claudelle Catlin and Morgan Joan Keith met, they didn’t waste much time becoming an official couple. Almost one month to the day after connecting on Tinder, they became exclusive. The two matched on Tinder on Dec. 20, 2017, and had their first date eight days later at the now-closed Anthem Kitchen & Bar…
Experts say there’s no need to panic about your diet soda habit.
The World Health Organization declared Thursday that the artificial sweetener aspartame is “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” adding it to the same risk category as breathing in engine exhaust, working in dry-cleaning and consuming certain pickled vegetables. The W.H.O. suggests you’d have to chug quite a bit of diet soda to enter the danger zone. Its…