Twelve years ago, Robin Eileen Bernstein and her husband had separated but were not yet divorced. When her husband died unexpectedly, Ms. Bernstein decided to buy two burial plots: one for him and one for his grieving girlfriend. When the girlfriend later got married, Ms. Bernstein was left with a burial plot she didn’t want.…
This week at New York Times Cooking, we published an amazing list of recipes that kids — a notoriously choosy (and highly ungrateful) demographic — actually love to eat, sourced from readers of this very newsletter. But let’s not neglect the adults! We’ve got Eric Kim’s fiercely boozy ricotta pasta alla vodka below, alongside recipes for…
When I set out to make bolo de cenoura, a carrot cake found in Portuguese and Brazilian cuisines, I wanted to recreate what I’d had at bakeries or seen on Instagram: perfectly plated slices in vivid contrasting colors, an orange-amber crumb under a dark chocolate glaze. Often made at home in a blender or food…
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For decades, costumes meant to depict the future have taken inspiration from the streamlined silhouettes of the space age, and designers like André Courrèges and Paco Rabanne. But the way we dress in the coming years could be shaped more by climate change than life on the moon. That’s the premise adopted by the costume…
“Each hotel is different, but fewer people mean there are potentially fewer eyes on what is happening,” said Yvonne Chen, the director of private sector engagement at ECPAT-USA, a nonprofit trying to eradicate commercial sexual exploitation of children. “In light of Covid, we’ve seen vulnerabilities increase for everyone and vulnerabilities are what traffickers target.” Trying…
Name: Chloe Flower Age: 37 Hometown: Mechanicsburg, Pa. Now Lives: In a two-bedroom apartment in a Frank Gehry-designed tower in Lower Manhattan. Claim to Fame: Ms. Flower is a classical pianist and composer known for her self-titled crossover genre, “Popsical,” which merges classical music with pop and hip-hop. She performs on lavish pianos once played…
Grace Fooden and Michael Nicholas Correy make a practice of not dismissing the opinions of younger people in their lives. For example, at the beginning of 2018, Ms. Fooden, who had recently moved to Los Angeles from New York, didn’t object when a work colleague in her 30s grabbed her phone and set up a…
Additionally, when she tried to take the ring off the following day, it would not budge — “not with butter, not with soap, nothing,” she said. They ultimately went to the fire department, and a firefighter clipped it off. After a disappointing proposal, and a broken ring (they were able to salvage the diamond), she…
When Mtamanika Colisse Beamon and Marc Anthony VanSchaick were both working at WABC-TV in New York — she as a producer and he as a photojournalist — in 2007, neither was interested in meeting the other, despite the encouragement from a colleague. Mr. VanSchaick, 47, had a son from a previous relationship, “so all of…