On Tuesday, in a ceremony that, of course, involved a soccer ball, the Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi pressed a button and a bottle of champagne smashed against the bow of Icon of the Seas, christening the world’s largest cruise ship at its home port of Miami. Like an A-list celebrity stepping onto the red…
When the 2024 Oscar nominations were announced this morning, the snubs of the two most prominent women involved in “Barbie” — the director, Greta Gerwig, and the lead actress, Margot Robbie — became the breakout story. The top-grossing film of 2023, passing the $1 billion mark worldwide, is based on the imagined life and times…
The Food and Drug Administration is requiring companies that make specialized cancer therapies known as CAR-T to add a boxed warning that the treatments themselves may cause cancers. The agency noted that the benefits still outweighed the risks of the therapy, which involves removing a type of white blood cells — T cells — and…
It is a disorienting moment for anyone who happens to be getting older. Look left, and teenagers are shopping for anti-aging serums. Look right, and supermodels in their 50s appear on magazine covers looking uncannily smooth. When an A.I. filter that adds wrinkles took off last summer, it was treated as a kind of novelty:…
Headliner YAO From Canal Street to Wall Street, not so far in distance, sums up the ambition behind this new restaurant from Kenny Leung, a chef, and his business partner Thomas Tang. They established their first, August Gatherings, in Chinatown nearly 10 years ago with a Cantonese menu that had some creative twists. This time,…
365 Dips On a Cape Cod beach last January, I braced for my daily cold water plunge. “Can I join you?” asked a stranger. I hesitated. But her red hair and wide smile reminded me of my younger self. “Sure,” I said. Ashley is 29. I’m 47. For seven minutes in frigid water, we shared…
This washable bag is everywhere, including my closet—and my mom’s, sister’s, and roomate’s, to name a few… It is truly the easiest thing to throw on. I resisted for a brief moment and can only say I wish I had bought it sooner. Dimensions: Length: 7 inches; width: 2 inches; height: 5 inches Material: Recycles…
I seriously contemplated transforming today’s newsletter into Five Weekday Breakfasts; such is my love of breakfast, and also in honor of our latest big recipe collection, “24 Breakfast Recipes to Make You a Morning Person.” You’ll see, however, that I went with the status quo and picked dinner recipes, for you below. I did include…
Aissam Dam, an 11-year-old boy, grew up in a world of profound silence. He was born deaf and had never heard anything. While living in a poor community in Morocco, he expressed himself with a sign language he invented and had no schooling. Last year, after moving to Spain, his family took him to a…
Claire Stern is the Digital Director of ELLE.com. Previously, she was Deputy Editor of ELLE.com. Her interests include fashion, food, travel, music, Peloton, and The Hills—not necessarily in that order. She used to have a Harriet the Spy notebook and isn’t ashamed to admit it.