Family photos, children’s artwork and other mementos can be an interior design challenge. We want to display them proudly, but kindergarten art projects and snapshots of relatives don’t always harmonize with the rest of the décor. What to do? It all comes down to the presentation. “Everything in a home should have meaning,” said Lauren…
After years of litigation to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable for the deadly abuse of prescription painkillers, payments from what could amount to more than $50 billion in court settlements have started to flow to states and communities to address the nation’s continuing opioid crisis. But though the payments come with stacks of guidance outlining…
Well, hello there, Linda, Christy, Naomi and Cindy, the O.G. supermodels; women for whom the term was created; creatures who became so famous that they didn’t even need last names, like Aretha or Marilyn. Back, once again, on the cover of the September issue of Vogue, that vestigial megalith from the magazine era, decades after…
Last year, when food prices rose along with so many other costs, José Theoktisto began to think about how to lower operating expenses at the Venezuelan restaurant he runs in upstate New York. He worked with different suppliers, and he raised menu prices. Then he took a closer look at his statements and found that…
Oysters, a vital food crop harvested from New York Harbor long before European oysterlovers arrived, all but disappeared about 100 years ago, done in by overfishing and pollution. Now the bivalves are coming back; there are signs that they’re starting to regenerate in some of the local oyster beds, thanks to an initiative, the Billion…
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There I was, being influenced by Gen Zers on TikTok, when I stumbled upon a shoe that stopped my scroll. It was an incredible cream-colored Simone Rocha confection with a chunky plastic sole and pearls strung atop floral straps that crisscrossed to cinch at the ankle. And it was a sneaker. Traversing the digital landscape,…
As our hot, stuffy plane approached Bodrum, the seaside resort city on Turkey’s southwest coast, I closed my eyes and imagined a cool plunge into the crystalline turquoise waters of the Aegean. It was late July, and I was going home for vacation, despite warnings about the record heat. Southern Turkey is always hot in…
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If you think that sopping up the garlicky, winy sauce with a hunk of bread is the pinnacle of shrimp scampi, Ali Slagle is about to rock your world. In her shrimp scampi with orzo (above), it’s the rice-shaped pasta that absorbs all that lovely sauce, a smart tweak that results in this easy, five-star…