Jermaine Stone’s first exposure to wine occurred by happenstance, when he took a job in the warehouse of Zachys, the Westchester wine retailer and auction house, to put himself through college. An aspiring rapper from the Wakefield section of the Bronx, Mr. Stone, now 38, rose rapidly in wine, forging a career as a fine-wine…
Wardrobe foundations are the key to easy daily dressing. Mix-and-match is an artful magic that blends style and ingenuity. When you pair items in unexpected ways, each well-loved piece can feel fresh with every wear. And the start of spring is a natural time to refresh your routine. Why not start from the ground up…
Shahida Begum said that when the floor fell out beneath her, she had just turned to ask colleagues why the lights had gone out. Kabir Mollah said he was inspecting garments when a friend called his cellphone, screaming that the building was on a perilous tilt. Nazma Begum said she had washed her long black…
Alex Miller, a software engineer living in Brooklyn, needed a date for his brother’s wedding. Being a digitally savvy millennial, he came up with a plan to attract a potential plus-one for the ceremony: He printed about 20 personal ads with his contact information and posted them around his neighborhood. Mr. Miller, 32, was surprised…
The dough is built from a base of poi — a sticky, starchy paste of boiled taro corm and water. Taro isn’t a traditional doughnut base, but it is a pillar of Hawaii’s native culture and diet — an ingredient that farmers are slowly working to bring back to Hawaiian farmland. The business buys taro…
Hace más de una década llegó al mercado un dispositivo médico con una promesa tentadora: era capaz de congelar y eliminar sacos de grasa persistentes de forma rápida, indolora y sin cirugía. El dispositivo, llamado CoolSculpting, había aparecido en un sector de la belleza ya saturado que vendía vientres más planos y mandíbulas más marcadas,…
Oscar de la Renta. Versace. Alberta Ferretti. Roberto Cavalli. Elie Saab. Christian Louboutin. Zuhair Murad. Ashish. The list of the designers who have made looks for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which began just over a month ago in Arizona and ends in California in August before heading overseas, is like a mini-tour of fashion weeks,…
For the Taking the Lead series, we asked leaders in various fields to share insights on what they’ve learned and what lies ahead. The canon of soul food and Southern food is the product of a melding of American ingredients and memories of dishes from places once called home. When, over the course of decades,…
I’m deep in an Alaskan forest halfway through an 8K race when I find myself alone. Above me, 100-foot spruces bend and bellow, set upon by wind so loud I mistake it for an airplane. Below me, a slushy, icy mess of a trail. Ahead of me — no one. It’s a drizzly November morning.…
I absolutely detest any waistline above my navel. I am a mom, but not a mom jeans fan. What am I to do with the current trend for high-rise pants? My low-ish rise jeans and pants from the 1990s and beyond are getting threadbare, but is there a way I can adapt and look current…