It was a little before 6:30 on a recent weeknight, and the kitchen in Geoff Sobelle’s West Village home was in chaos. Two toddlers zoomed around on a ride-on truck and begged him to read from an “Alice in Wonderland” pop-up book. “In a minute,” Sobelle told his son as he stirred artichokes that were…
A nasty bug took up residence in our house recently, felling us all for a miserable few days. Boy were we grateful for the miracle nutrition of Alexa Weibel’s easiest chicken noodle soup! Lex’s recipe gets maximal flavor out of minimal ingredients, with ground chicken, shallot and thyme adding loads of depth without the need…
If there’s one lesson I’ve learned as a frequent flyer, it’s that the luggage you choose can make or break your travel experience. The luggage brands will hold all your travel essentials, keep you organized, protect your luggage from damage, and remain super easy to maneuver in busy airports…while the wrong suitcase will only serve…
If there are any words we live by, it’s that life is short, so buy the shoes…and bags and clothes. And now, you can with some major discounts. Black Friday weekend, which rolls into Cyber Monday, holds some of the best markdowns of the entire year on everything and anything, from Apple deals to Dyson…
Why don’t women’s clothes have more pockets? And when they do, why are they so small and useless? It’s like being short-sheeted. I cannot believe this is still going on in the 21st century. Please explain. — Shoba The pocket problem is a perennial one, for good reason. The story of those — often, as…
When Chong Zhou moved to New York City in 2013, she and her friends would organize entire days around trips to the Chinatown in Flushing, Queens, to eat, get foot massages and shop for groceries. Ms. Zhou, a business analyst at Meta, arrived in the United States from Shenzhen, China, in 2009 to attend Ohio…
Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away, and while many Americans will be staying at home or with family and friends, others will be checking into hotels where guests can participate in turkey trots and try Thanksgiving-themed spa treatments — all while letting someone else worry about cooking. Here are five options from coast to…
Vaccine appointments for kids remain limited, and Novavax shots are hard to come by.
Alexa Addison remembers what vapes looked like when she was in high school. The dominant e-cigarette was Juul, a slim, black rectangle with sharp corners that resembled a flash drive. By the time Ms. Addison, 19, started college at the University of North Carolina Wilmington last year, the vape du jour had shifted. She saw…
At Kaneshie Polyclinic, a health center in a hardscrabble neighborhood of Accra, the capital of Ghana, there is a rule. Every patient who walks through the door — a woman in labor, a construction worker with an injury, a child with malaria — is screened for tuberculosis. This policy, a national one, is meant to…