On Sunday night, Hillary Clinton, fresh from attending the opening night of “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’” on Broadway at the Music Box Theater, swept into the Rosevale Cocktail Room at the Civilian Hotel on West 48th Street. As candles flickered on tables, with miniature models from productions like “Hadestown” and “Dear Evan Hansen” displayed on a back wall,…
Meati, a self-described “animal-free” food company that makes its products almost entirely from mushrooms, has entered the crowded market for meat alternatives. They don’t use portobello caps and the like, but mycelium, the fungal threads in mushroom roots. With smidgens of oat fiber and chick pea flour, plus vegetable and fruit extracts for color, the…
A dress Mr. Scott designed for a Moschino collection inspired by game-show kitsch, which featured an entire TV dinner on its train, played a starring role in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2019 exhibition “Camp: Notes on Fashion.” (That dress was one of about 15 Moschino outfits in the show.) Alongside the runway stunts, Mr.…
It was snowing steadily when I arrived at Stowe Mountain Resort last Tuesday. I was surprised by the absence of lift lines as I walked onto the bright red gondola. I was even more surprised when I dropped into a favorite ski run and snow boiled up around my thighs and a cold spray of…
Weeks before the Brooklyn Botanic Garden updated CherryWatch, the online tracker that documents the progress of a majority of the garden’s 220 cherry blossom trees, staff members noticed that some people had already begun to check the website for the first signs of spring. “People will sort of jump the gun and see that we’ve…
It’s the first day of spring, which means you’re officially allowed to start daydreaming about asparagus and artichokes, green garlic and peas. So what if all those vegetables aren’t available locally, spring is here! And this creamy asparagus and goat cheese tart (above) is calling your name. It looks fancy. But made with purchased puff…
Courtesy of Madewell, Banana Republc and Kate Spade | Collage by Leah Romero I’m in need of a sartorial reset. Apparently, so is the rest of the fashion world. Yes, the runways are dotted with spectacles and performances worthy of endless social media posts. And yes, maximalism may always be in the trend rotation. But…
Kantamanto Market, a secondhand exchange in Accra, Ghana, has piles of clothing taller than the people walking through it. When the wind picks up, T-shirts whirl around the seemingly endless rows of clothes, most of which have been discarded and donated from Canada, the United States, and Europe. It’s impossible to know the exact amount…
On a Wednesday night in Brooklyn, onstage in front of about 250 people, a woman who has been single for two and a half years recalled the last time she dated someone she actually liked. “I like that he was able to put me on to stuff that I didn’t know,” the woman said into…
ATOKA, Okla. — Year after year, eight million vehicles drove through this sleepy town just off U.S. Highway 75, which stretches from Texas to Canada. Almost none of them stopped. Atoka had fallen on hard times: Residents had moved away, and downtown buildings were decaying. Carol Ervin, its economic development director, began to plot how…