“Tea has my heart,” Liz Coleman explained as she sank into a chair under the gold-painted ceilings of the Grand Café in Oxford, England. “But I can’t live without coffee.” Ms. Coleman, 31, was getting her caffeine fix from an almond milk latte that she sipped during a break from a nearby conference this month.…
Here we are — the first day of fall. It’s an exciting time for cooking (Apples! Pumpkins! Gourds, both decorative and edible!), and we’ll be diving into those recipes headfirst the way a kid does into a pile of leaves. But let’s start the season off with something simple and soothing, with a touch of…
Liv Grace came down with respiratory infections three times over the course of four months. Each occurred after a visit to a medical provider in the Bay Area. Mx. Grace, 36, a writer who uses they/them pronouns, was infected with respiratory syncytial virus, which led to pneumonia, in December, after they were treated by a…
“La mayoría del tiempo, estoy contenta a medias”. Esas palabras son de Bob Dylan, y fueron pronunciadas por Brooke Shields la semana pasada, en la noche del debut de su espectáculo con entradas agotadas en el Café Carlyle, el íntimo club de Manhattan donde han actuado Bobby Short, Elaine Stritch y Debbie Harry. Esto ocurrió…
Mi marido y yo fuimos amigos durante años antes de tener una relación sentimental. Él lo sabía todo sobre mi pasado, cada aventura, cada fantasma. Después de tres años de noviazgo a distancia, dejó su trabajo de finanzas en Singapur para estar conmigo en Rhode Island y dedicarse a su pasión, el ciclismo competitivo, hasta…
Usually, you go to the zoo to look at live animals. But at the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, people also went to see the dead ones. The attraction, called the Delbridge Museum of Natural History, hosted one of the most impressive taxidermy collections in the country, with some 150 animals from…
It started with an email. The subject line: “Sylvia Kanner’s Siddur.” Kanner was my late mother’s maiden name. Siddur is the Hebrew word for prayer book. I was, to say the least, intrigued. The sender explained that she had purchased several Judaic items on eBay. One was a small, leather-bound prayer book. On the inner…
In a TikTok video that has now amassed nearly half a million views, the influencer Mady Maio describes taking a walk. But not just any walk: a silent one. For her, the 30-minute stroll was revelatory. No podcasts, no music. Just “me, myself and I.” She was resistant at first. (It was her boyfriend’s idea.)…
Sabato De Sarno, the designer who was essentially unknown outside the industry until he was handed the keys to the $10 billion Gucci kingdom earlier this year and tasked with reinventing a brand that had already been reinvented twice before — once by Tom Ford, as a uniform for sultry power players and then again…
Some people in the fashion industry think that London Fashion Week has become less exciting than its counterparts. But you have to wonder if those people pay attention to the streets. During the shows in London, maybe more than in any other fashion week city, the streets are a sort of laboratory for experiments in…