Mr. Sperling was struck by Ms. Schoenfeld’s kindness and the energy she brought to their conversations. Ms. Schoenfeld, who is originally from Stamford, Conn., but spent time in Manhattan growing up, works as a travel and lifestyle manager at Roman & Erica Inc., a luxury travel and lifestyle management firm based in New York. Mr.…
When the chef Asma Khan was growing up in Kolkata, India, she learned that there was very little mustard oil couldn’t do. Dry skin? Weak joints? A common cold? A dab of the oil could cure them all. But she loves cooking with it most: drizzling it into begun pora, a rich and smoky mashed…
Buying fine jewelry can be an emotional journey. Not only is the price an investment, but finding the perfect piece to buy for yourself or, given that Mother’s Day is right around the corner, for your mom is like a deep dive into the human psyche. Is this the moment for a classic pair of…
Penny, a 3-year-old sorrel mare with a white blaze, had been slobbering her feed and fighting her bit, signs of a likely toothache. An exam confirmed that she needed two wolf teeth extracted and the sharp edges of some molars ground down, procedures that required propping her jaws open with a speculum. To protect Penny…
A 32-year-old psychologist in Britain developed blood clots and died 10 days after he took his first dose of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine, a report released by a London coroner on Wednesday found, in a highly rare case of a fatal reaction to the vaccine. The inquest, which was requested by Charlotte Wright, the widow of…
WASHINGTON — President Biden plans to nominate Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, an oncologist who has run the National Cancer Institute for the past six months — and a cancer patient herself — to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health, an administration official said. If confirmed by the Senate, Dr. Bertagnolli would…
Loren Rex Cameron was born on March 13, 1959, in Pasadena, Calif. His mother, Barbara (Chambers) Cameron, was an office manager at Sears. After her death in 1968, he moved to Dover, Ark., to live with his father, Robert, a nuclear engineer and nuclear plant manager. Robert Cameron had a farm and raised horses, and…
Have you ever wondered what happens to your clothes when they no longer feel fit for your closet? It’s an interesting, and complicated, question to answer—and even more so when you factor in the many parts of the fashion cycle that are virtually unknown to most everyday shoppers. Sure, your well-loved pieces could go to…
Spring is a real jolt to the senses. For the seasonally depressed, the first sight of tulips and cherry blossoms can be cathartic. For the allergy-stricken, the jolt is more of an affront, the deluge of pollen irritating the eyes and sinuses. The arrival of longer days may be the greatest shock to the system.…
The four art dealers who trade together as LGDR have opened a gallery on East 64th Street with a preposterous inaugural exhibition — but before you take that the wrong way, remember the etymology. Preposterous, adjective: from the Latin prae-, meaning “before,” and posterus, or “coming after.” Something preposterous is turned the wrong way. It…