Dr. Abraham B. Bergman, a pediatrician who was instrumental in passing a federal law to combat sudden infant death syndrome, a once misunderstood loss that caused not just parental heartbreak but guilt and blame, and who put his stamp on other enduring public health laws, died on Nov. 10 in Seattle. He was 91. The…
The debut season of “The Golden Bachelor,” ABC’s dating show featuring contestants 60 and older, concluded on Thursday night with an episode in which its lead, Gerry Turner, a 72-year-old retiree and pickleball enthusiast from Indiana, proposed to Theresa Nist, 70, a financial services professional from Shrewsbury, N.J. “For the first time since 1968, I…
There is an extravaganza of cleanliness to be found just behind an unmarked door in a corner of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This is the home of Kingbridge’s massive new cleaning facility, which opened in January 2020. It’s where a fastidious, highly labor-intensive process takes place, one Mr. Aviles believes is necessary for clothing to…
In the Caribbean, the customary way of celebrating the holidays is with a thick and creamy cocktail made with several types of milk and brimming with rum. The drink varies from nation to nation — cremas or kremas in Haiti, coquito in Puerto Rico and crema de vie in Cuba, to name a few. But…
Hello and welcome to Improv Night. In this totally unscripted edition of Where to Eat, I spontaneously create an entire newsletter based on prompts that readers have emailed to wheretoeat@nytimes.com. (I did invite emails from people who will be visiting New York City during the holiday season, so maybe the questions aren’t totally spontaneous. But…
Welcome to Same Same But Different. As Gen Z and millennial fashion editors, respectively, we know a thing or two about shopping—for all ages, and especially our demographics. As we find the best products for you, we can’t help but do a little shopping for ourselves and build our personal (age-appropriate) wish lists. And now,…
In this liminal space between Thanksgiving and December’s deluge of holidays, my tastes are confounding. Almost nothing sounds appetizing after weeks of talking and writing and thinking about hearty casseroles and sides and salads, followed by at least one full week of eating them. But there is one dish that caught my eye in this…
Like the annual grape harvest, each year brings a crop of provocative, entertaining and educational wine books. Here are four of the year’s best, along with a couple more well worth noting. Credit…Murdoch Books “How to Drink Australian” by Jane Lopes & Jonathan Ross (Murdoch Books, $60) This book from the American sommeliers Jane Lopes…
The syllabus is much like what one might expect from an undergraduate English course, with texts by William Wordsworth, Willa Cather and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. But there is one name on the list that might surprise budding scholars. Taylor Swift. In the spring semester, Stephanie Burt, an English professor at Harvard University, will teach a…
The rate of suicides involving guns in the United States has reached the highest level since officials began tracking it more than 50 years ago, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rate increased by more than 10 percent in 2022 compared with 2019, and in some racial…