Heather Rendulic was 23 when she suffered a stroke that disabled her left side. Ten years later, her left arm and hand remain so impaired that she cannot tie her shoes, type with two hands or cut her own food. But for an extraordinary month, while participating in an innovative study, she suddenly was able…
Whatever a certain rodent’s speculations on the start of spring might be, February will always be a cold, gray slog. It’s inevitably the time when I daydream of flying off to some tropical Eden to eat lime-drenched papayas in the morning sun and pluck ripe mangoes from the trees in the afternoon shade. And I’m…
Where do broken hearts go on Valentine’s Day? Or any day for that matter? While romantics across the city were presumably holding hands over small bistro tables at overpriced restaurants or seated inside theaters in their best outfits, more than 150 people took refuge at an AllInOne Collective warehouse near Green-Wood Cemetery, in Brooklyn, communing…
The psychologist Lisa Damour shares advice on how to connect, what healthy emotions look like and when to step in.
If you’re planning to dine out in Buenos Aires, be prepared for an unfamiliar sight: lines. As the city springs back to life, the streets feel almost celebratory, an antidote to the lingering side effects of extended Covid lockdowns. Alfresco tables are packed. Locals who would never have queued up for dinner before the pandemic…
Tomeka Lynch Purcell and her husband, Herbert Purcell, entrepreneurs in Charlotte, N.C., decided that the cocktail scene lacked a bourbon appealing to women and to a Black audience. So they set out to fill the gap. Their new straight bourbon is called PurCellos1789, the number referring to the founding date of Mrs. Purcell’s hometown, Winston-Salem,…
Calling It Quits is a series about the current culture of quitting. One morning, in fall 2020, Francesca Camacho drove away from her 12-hour night shift as a critical care nurse at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and tried to merge onto the highway. The day’s work, in her words, was “just very terrible.”…
I keep seeing long evening gloves everywhere I turn: on Casey DeSantis, on celebrities on the red carpet. But I think of them as very out of date. Why are they so popular, and are we really expected to be wearing them now? — Cynthia, Havana, Fla. Elbow-length gloves, or opera gloves or evening gloves,…
For Greg Rice, ketamine was transformative. The drug, approved decades ago to sedate patients during surgery, was increasingly being used to treat mental health conditions like his depression. Since his teenage years, Mr. Rice had cycled through a long list of medications. Searching for relief, he sometimes abused his prescriptions and experimented with LSD, psychedelic…
New York Fashion Week rolled into town and left behind a sea of empty champagne bottles. Saks kicked things off on Feb. 8 with a cocktail party a few blocks from its Fifth Avenue flagship, hosted by Emma Roberts at the Jazz Club at the Aman New York. Two nights later, Document Journal and Loewe…