I have eaten sweet-and-sour pork out of takeout containers on the floor of apartments while moving boxes towered over my head. I have plucked out its pineapple wedges and bell peppers with plastic chopsticks under strings of puffer-fish lights at long-gone Polynesian restaurants in New Jersey. I have eaten sweet-and-sour pork in which sugar and…
Roland Griffiths, a professor of behavioral science and psychiatry whose pioneering work in the study of psychedelics helped usher in a new era of research into those once banned substances — and reintroduced the mystical into scientific discourse about them — died on Monday at his home in Baltimore. He was 77. The cause was…
Caboodle the Extraordinary Cat Caboodle was a sweet but average cat. Not especially beautiful, intelligent, affectionate or agile, she lived a long, happy, uneventful life. When she died in September 1999, my husband and I buried her under a rose bush in our backyard. That October, the month of my 50th birthday and long after…
With the ThighMaster, Suzanne Somers tapped into a collective anxiety among women.
Military design was never really a part of the curriculum at the Shenkar College of Engineering, Art and Design in Tel Aviv, Israel’s pre-eminent fashion school and the alma mater of Alber Elbaz and other designers. The closest students got to combat thinking was an occasional collaboration, or upcycling old army uniforms donated by the…
After witnessing what appeared to be a total democratization of hairstyles at fashion weeks in February and March, I was interested to see what cuts and colors might emerge in the crowds during the latest fashion month, which started in September in New York and ended in early October in Paris. The days when hair…
Testing is fairly easy, and treatment can improve symptoms within months.
Wild Ivy Mick O’Sullivan, who owns Bell Book & Candle, and Peter O’Connell, of Molly’s and Malone’s, have created this new Irish drinking spot with a tavern menu that includes a 16-ounce rib-eye. Works by Rick Librizzi, a New York abstract expressionist who died in 2021, cover the walls. 293 Third Avenue (23rd Street), 646-649-2389,…
The green carpet is gone. Dark wood shelves are no longer in favor. At many Barnes & Noble stores, the green-striped wallpaper and hunter-green walls have been scraped away and painted over in sandy shades of white and pink as the nation’s biggest brick-and-mortar bookseller pursues, in fits and starts, a back-to-basics, books-first strategy. Other…
By the time you read this, Sam Sifton will already be on his way to my desk to sigh deeply and shake his head, like the time I said Taco Bell was the best restaurant near The Times’s office. “PIZZA is pizza-flavored,” he will say. But I’m chasing a thrill here! I want new adventures…