Our Shared Sense of Wonder Flannel, fireplace, falling snow and frosty windows. The chilly Vermont evening felt so romantic, yet I stood alone gazing up at the stars, struck by both the immensity of the sky and the realization that this was not the romance I’d imagined. He sat inside the warm log cabin, claiming…
Crisis as Opportunity In Amsterdam, Mr. Brown described Praxis as his response to being trapped inside his apartment during Covid, mixed with his longstanding interest in colonial America. “Ready to join America in 1776?” reads a company pitch deck. In 2022, Mr. Brown had been more specific about his motivation to build a city from…
George A. Cohon, a Chicago-born entrepreneur who, by introducing the Big Mac — or the Bolshoi Mak — to Moscow in 1990, helped whet Russians’ appetite for capitalism, died on Nov. 24 at his home in Toronto. He was 86. His death was announced by his son Mark. No cause was given, but he was…
Through it all, food provided a distraction from the news cycle. Cooking was our nourishment and comfort, our entertainment and delight. These are the 12 food stories that resonated most with readers this year. Just about everyone eats frozen pizza, even if they won’t admit it. Our staffers Julia Moskin, Cathy Lo, Vaughn Vreeland and…
Headliner Café Boulud What a difference a few blocks can make. The original Café Boulud, an Upper East Side neighborhood hangout and destination since 1998, has moved south about half a mile to an area where its customers are likely to be driven more by destination. It’s now installed in a somewhat grander setting near…
Life can be loud, busy, and sometimes stressful, especially when you get older, which is why it’s important to carve out self-care time for your mental health. OPEN is a digital platform and app that guides movement, breathwork, and meditation through a unique, cinematic delivery using music and sound. It’s a holistic approach combining science…
Scroll on Instagram or TikTok for even 10 seconds, and you know that recipe inspiration is easier than ever to come by. Despite the fire hose of cooking videos available online, we still can’t resist the allure of the analog: cracking the spine of a new cookbook. Hundreds of new titles publish each year, and,…
3. Shrimp Tacos You could lean into wintry weather, if you’re somewhere cold right now, and simmer some stew. Or you could make this beachy recipe from Yewande Komolafe, which comes with a side of sunshine. 4. Rosemary White Beans With Frizzled Onions and Tomato “Frizzled” is such a great word, a vivid and visceral…
In 1992, he covered famine in Somalia. In 1993, Sarajevo. In 1994, he crossed a bridge into Rwanda. When he looked down, he saw bodies caught on the rocks, their arms flailing in the water. It was at the edges of the world, in places of extreme suffering, that he discovered he could feel again,…
Shakima Tozay was 37 years old and six months pregnant when a nurse, checking the fetal heart rate of the baby boy she was carrying, referred to him as “a hoodlum.” Ms. Tozay, a social worker, froze. She had just been hospitalized at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Wash., with pre-eclampsia, a life-threatening complication…