The Supreme Court upheld the jury award: punitive damages of $25,000 against Mr. Ginzburg and $50,000 against the magazine, and $1 in compensatory damages divided among the three defendants, including Mr. Boroson. Justices Hugo L. Black and William O. Douglas dissented, citing First Amendment protections. Warren Gilbert Boroson was born on Jan. 22, 1935, in…
Pearls of Wisdom Every birthday, my Filipino grandmother gave me pearls: necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings. Always tissue-wrapped and labeled with her fine handwriting. Pearls are what she believed a woman should be: polished, elegant. When I was in my punk-rock teens, her gifts drove me crazy — then guilty. “Please, grandma, save your money!” She…
This week marks one year of Where to Eat. What I hoped would be a digestible, funny and useful weekly guide to eating out in New York City is now a community of readers with thoughtful questions and strong opinions. How to celebrate one year? Traditionally, with the gift of paper. More specifically here: menus.…
Hours before the cast of the HBO drama “Succession” gathered for the premiere of its fourth and final season, the news broke: Rupert Murdoch, 92, the chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News, announced in his own tabloid that he was engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, 66, a former police chaplain of…
New York City is large and full of kebabs. There are self-basting kebabs of marinated lamb threaded with chunks of fat from a lamb’s tail at Uzbek grills; fried saucer-shaped patties of ground meat kneaded with flour at Afghan restaurants; skinless sausages of cevapi piled into freshly baked and opened loaves of lepinja at Balkan…
With the holiest month in the Islamic calendar right around the corner, plans for suhoor and iftar meals, which bookend long days of fasting, are well underway across the globe. Below is just a sampling of recipes often found on tables across cultures and countries throughout the holiday, which begins on March 22 in the…
Headliner Virginia’s Reed Adelson opened the original Virginia’s, named for his mother, in 2015 and found he had the very definition of a neighborhood bistro on his hands. But it was a trifle too compact. So, in 2021, with the pandemic and a new baby, he decided to close it, seeking to reopen in a…
When the headmistress at the North London Collegiate School told Lilian Lindsay that she should become a teacher, and that she would block her from finding any other type of work, Lindsay shot back: “You cannot prevent me from being a dentist.” “I knew nothing of dentistry,” Lindsay wrote in her unpublished autobiography, “but having…
Our use of antimicrobial cleaners spiked during the pandemic. Given the potential long-term health risks, it might be worth cutting back again.
It’s official: the -cores are dead, and with their timely demise comes a resurgence of preppy, minimalist dressing that focuses on well-made pieces meant to stand the test of time (and trends). And Tommy Hilfiger, the American designer famous for pioneering the ’80s and ’90s prep aesthetic, knows a thing or two about timeless, perpetually…