Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. When you think of couture, what comes to mind? Parisian confections floating down a runway, most likely. But American designer Ann Lowe’s custom-made designs for social fixtures from Jackie Kennedy to Marjorie Merriweather Post certainly qualify, even if not in the…
Some memory lapses are a normal part of brain function, experts say.
En esta entrevista, la psicóloga Lisa Damour ofrece consejos a los padres para enfrentar la ansiedad académica, resolver una pelea entre amigos y manejar los deseos de independencia.
Never underestimate the difficulty of a flat trail over a great distance. After my first five-hour day following the Island Walk, a new 435-mile trail that rings Prince Edward Island, in Canada’s smallest province, I limped into Points East Coastal Inn in bayside St. Peter’s Bay with a blister cooking on my right sole and…
FROM A PROFIT perspective, the appeal of synthetic vanillin is clear. True vanilla is a demanding crop, so labor-intensive that at times the market value of the beans has surpassed that of silver, weight for weight. And since each bean yields only 2 percent vanillin at best, the cost of pure vanilla is even higher.…
When her husband, Ashton B. Carter, the former defense secretary under President Barack Obama, died of a heart attack at home last October, Stephanie Carter was left with many questions about the future. But one thing she knew right away: She no longer wanted to live in the three-bedroom rental in Boston where it happened.…
Two days later, with 160 guests in attendance, they had a traditional Nigerian wedding ceremony at the Foundry, an events space in Long Island City. The bride and groom and their families wore colorful Nigerian wedding clothes and headpieces sourced from Africa, some of it designed by Anu Oye in Brooklyn. Anita Clegg, an alaga,…
In July 2020, KJ Smith, an actress and producer, was excited to get back to Atlanta. Ms. Smith plays Andrea Barnes, one of the lead characters on Tyler Perry’s BET comedy-drama, “Sistas,” which had pushed back shooting because of the pandemic. The cast and crew were filming new episodes, and Ms. Smith had decided to…
In September 2018, when Jessica Friedman Bendit and Dickran Walter Jebejian first met, they knew they would be just friends. They were newly-enrolled graduate students in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. They were also polar opposites in almost every way. She wanted marriage and children; he was…
I get fewer of those looks now that I’m a pediatrician, which is perhaps why I studied medicine in the first place, my interactions with others scaffolded within the confines of the doctor-patient relationship. I’ve always been good with roles, the affirmation of a job well done providing the validation I never felt I deserved.…