Thanksgiving Is All About Food. Will Ozempic Make It Better or Worse?
The weight-loss drugs that have swept into the cultural conversation crash into a holiday that’s all about food.
A Guide to Assisted Living
Are you confused about what an assisted-living facility is, and how it differs from a nursing home? And what you can expect to pay? Here’s a guide to this type of housing for older people. What is assisted living? Assisted-living facilities occupy the middle ground of housing for people who can no longer live independently…
How Targeted Weight Loss Ads Can Haunt Future Brides
Alysia Cole, 34, a wedding stylist in Chicago who often works with plus-size brides, has seen the effect of these ads on her clients, many of whom are recovering from eating disorders and unhealthy relationships with diet culture. The ads, she said, feed the weight-related insecurities that many future brides have, and that many of…
This Chocolate Chess Pie Is a Dessert Checkmate
Butter, chocolate, sugar, eggs, vanilla, cocoa, salt. Those ingredients make up Vaughn Vreeland’s new chocolate chess pie (above), a veritable litany of all the baking stuffs we want when the weather turns cold and the yule log turns warm. Made with a store-bought pie crust (or a half-recipe of this foolproof pie dough), it’s the…
As Bedbug Anxiety Spreads to Asia Exterminators Turn Profits
It’s a good time to be a professional bug killer in Asia. Fears of major bedbug outbreaks have been palpable across the Asia-Pacific region for weeks, amplified by breathless news media coverage of an outbreak in France earlier this year and a smaller, more recent one in South Korea. Those cases, along with a general…
A veces separarse es un acto de amor
Un mensaje en la aplicación de citas Hinge pide que escribas dos verdades y una mentira. Podría decir: estuve en una secta cuando era adolescente. Me comprometí tras solo dos meses de noviazgo. Tuve un derrame cerebral a los 44 años, después de poner fin a mi matrimonio de 19 años. ¿La única salvedad? Las…
Holiday Preset: Focusing on Self-Care Before the Festivities
Right after Halloween, Ashley Guerra started being inundated with invitations — for Friendsgiving, for holiday parties and for New Year’s Eve. “The holidays always feel a little chaotic,” said Ms. Guerra, 33, who lives in Dallas and works in product marketing for a tech company. “It’s more eating, more drinking, more late nights, more energy…
Life With Minivan
My life is pretty relaxing right now, but there’s a chilling period each day that derails all of my sleekest and sturdiest emotional trains, and that’s the dark corridor between 8:30 and 8:42 a.m., when my two daughters leave for high school. I would offer you details — sounds, mostly; terrifying sounds! — but your…
The Bergdorf Blonde Moves to Park Avenue
The Bergdorf blonde is now taking meetings at the Regency Hotel. Parvin Klein, the veteran colorist who perfected an iconic shade of blonde, has painted her last highlight at the Bergdorf Goodman department store salon. Though the salon space changed hands at least four times during Ms. Klein’s 36 years of employment — Sergio Valente,…
Amid Antisemitism, Wearing the Star of David Is an Embrace of Heritage
About four years ago, after the deadly shooting at a synagogue in Poway, Calif., in April 2019, Abby Adams and Sammy Gabbai started an Instagram account to share stories of Jewish solidarity. The account, Why I Wear My Star, featured posts containing people’s reasons for wearing Star of David jewelry and other Judaica. Ms. Adams…