Hi, it’s Pete Wells, restaurant critic of The Times and hopeless summer person. I love summer and everything that comes with it — heat waves, shark sightings, weird smells, you name it. Last week, panic set in as I realized September is well underway and I haven’t swam, fished, grilled or listened to “Padam Padam”…
Lisa Robin Lyon was born on May 13, 1953, in Los Angeles. Her father, Leonard Lyon, was an oral surgeon, and her mother, Roslyn (Robin) Lyon, was a homemaker. Lisa told Mr. Chatwin that she had a dark childhood and created rituals — counting, touching things — to self-soothe. Before she found bodybuilding fame, she…
Venice will not be included on UNESCO’s list of “World Heritage in Danger” after a panel voted on Thursday to reject the recommendation of experts at the agency who had raised concerns that Italy had not done enough to protect the fragile city, which is threatened by climate change, mass tourism and development. Still, representatives…
By Zoey Poll Seen from Paris’s Pont de la Tournelle, the eight-story facade of the landmark restaurant La Tour d’Argent looks about the same as it did when its third-generation owner André Terrail grew up there in the 1980s, deploying toy parachutists into quayside traffic. But the interior is no longer indifferent to the 21st…
Ever since the Covid-19 lockdowns lifted in 2021, when people began to emerge from social isolation and the fashion system started to work again, we’ve been asking the same question: What do we wear? The world was different; we were different. Staring into your closet was like staring into a foreign land. First, the answer…
I’ll start with an apology, because you’ve been cheated out of your weekly Tanya-mail. Instead you’re stuck with me, Becky, a known vegetable eater and one of the twisted minds behind @nytcooking’s social accounts. Consider doing me a solid and peeking at our Instagram, TikTok and YouTube channels? I’d like to dedicate this platform to…
MDMA-assisted therapy seems to be effective in reducing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a study published on Thursday. The research is the final trial conducted by MAPS Public Benefit Corporation, a company that is developing prescription psychedelics. It plans to submit the results to the Food and Drug Administration as part of an…
It has made cameos in “Friends,” “Gossip Girl” and “Elf.” It has been reincarnated as a cake, a Limoges porcelain box and a champagne-diamond pendant. It has been rendered in chrome-plated resin as part of a sculpture of Andy Warhol by the artist Rob Pruitt. And, as other entities in the fashion world have been…
Carlos Raposo Dão Impecável Tinto 2021, 13 percent, $18.99 Impecával, which means impeccable, is an apt description for this fresh, pure, floral, herbal red made of biodynamically grown touriga nacional from the Dão region of Portugal. Carlos Raposo, the winemaker, served an apprenticeship making wine with Dirk Niepoort, the groundbreaking Portuguese producer, before establishing his…
We’re not sure how it’s already mid-September, which speaks to just how busy this time of year can get. The days are getting shorter, the evenings have been handed over to homework and — if the displays at Michaels are any indication — the holidays are just around the corner. It’s the perfect time to…