Even with traffic on the 405, it probably would have taken at most three hours for Victoria Pardo Uzitas to drive from her home in San Diego to SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles to see a performance of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. Instead, she and her teenage daughter crossed the border to Tijuana, flew to…
Within 24 hours of Taylor Swift’s surprise appearance at a Kansas City football game in September, Ashlee Hartley and her husband, Charlie Tighe, began gathering materials for their Halloween costumes. A red jacket. A blond wig. A bottle of blue Gatorade. Ms. Hartley, 31, and Mr. Tighe, 35, who live in Sarasota Springs, N.Y., hand-painted…
Of all the designers who stepped off the fashion wheel during the pandemic-induced show hiatus, Hedi Slimane of Celine is one of the very few who has not returned to the same-old-same-old runway system. Instead he offers up his collections when and how he wants. His last live women’s show was part of a dual-gender…
It’s not fall for Alicia Maher until she smells the warm spices from her slow-cooked squash dessert at her home in Los Angeles. As she sets up her ofrenda, an altar to honor her ancestors, she thinks about her childhood in El Salvador, where her aunts and grandmother took her to Tonacatepeque, a municipality of…
Quetcy M. Lozada, a first-term Philadelphia City Council member, stood on a September evening near an elementary school just off Kensington Avenue, the epicenter of a sprawling fentanyl market in a city that saw a record 1,413 drug overdose deaths last year. Just a block away, the street and sidewalks were dotted with used syringes…
Good morning. A number of years ago, on a sunny afternoon in Melbourne, Australia, I ate a pork gyro, a species of gyro I had never encountered before. I’d grown up eating lamb gyros at Mr. Souvlaki on Montague Street in Brooklyn, but never pork ones. Maybe beef ones, too, occasionally. But mostly lamb: the…
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On Sunday, at a grandiose country resort, some 200 guests were seated inside a massive tent draped with white curtains, the sun peaking through the ceiling and onto their faces. They had flown in from New York, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles, which is not unusual for the typical big city fashion show. But…
This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world’s expanded view of what art is and who can make it. Annie Leibovitz often says she is obsessed. In a recent video interview from her Manhattan studio, she related how obsessed she was with space exploration. She also described…
The loss of Lahaina remains a wound felt across all of Maui. Two months after destructive wildfires killed at least 97 people and razed thousands of acres of the island’s western side, Maui is fully open to visitors. Tourists are bustling along streets on the north coast, sunbathing on Kihei beaches and admiring the dazzling…