As a companion to T’s 212 series about New York institutions, the 213 column highlights beloved landmarks in and around Los Angeles. Los Angeles is the promise of speed denied. It’s a city of five-lane freeways where traffic crawls. A city that teases the possibility of instant stardom, yet it can take years to land…
Even the worst eggplant Parmesan is pretty good. But one thing it will never be is unapologetically crispy. “Eggplant Parm is just kind of …,” Angie Rito paused before finishing her sentence, “ … mushy?” Not in a bad way, said Ms. Rito, who owns Don Angie, an Italian American restaurant in the West Village,…
The days of unrestricted privileges for leisure travel across much of Europe are numbered. Currently, travelers from dozens of countries, including the United States, can enter with just their passport and move freely through most of the European Union for stays under 90 days. But a new entry requirement called the European Travel Information and…
To say, “I’m just going to make a sandwich,” can imply some level of defeat, of phoning it in, a sigh of acceptance. But a sandwich can be a litmus test for what you want to give on any one day. There are, of course, the low-effort sandwiches: the peanut butter and jelly, the classic…
These BFFs have learned that a 40- or 50-year age gap is no deterrent to connection.
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The Big Apple is a good place for reinvention, and the Swiss poet Frédéric-Louis Sauser had reason for a restart here in the spring of 1912. At 25 years old he’d washed up in New York Harbor, nearly penniless after trying his luck in Russia and Brazil. He couldn’t vanquish his writer’s block, and he…
You can find anything in Queens. And yet for decades, the Louis Armstrong House Museum has been a well-kept secret on a quiet street in Corona. The longtime residence of the famed jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader, it is a midcentury interior design treasure hidden behind a modest brick exterior. The museum’s new extension, the…
At Ci Siamo, the Danny Meyer restaurant, you can order Jell-O shots made with Campari and French gin served individually in coupe glasses. Attaboy, the cocktail bar internationally recognized for its cocktail program, offered the shots recently during a party for their 10-year anniversary. Jell-O shots have been passed around at private bashes thrown by…
My grandmother and mother have great skin, so I have good genes, but eating healthy is important for my skin, too. I haven’t had instant ramen in 10 years and don’t drink soda. When I wake up, I wash my face. I’m really into certain aromas and when I found this Clé de Peau soap…