This is Tejal, filling in for Tanya — hello! I’ve missed you! I just got back from parental leave, which means that I’m now strategizing and scheming about what I’m going to eat each day with a sweet, sticky, roly-poly 6-month-old baby. You could say I’m eating a more salted version of whatever she’s eating.…
Before he died last year, Roland Griffiths was arguably the world’s most famous psychedelics researcher. Since 2006, his work has suggested that psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, can induce mystical experiences, and that those experiences, in turn, can help treat anxiety, depression, addiction and the terror of death. Dr. Griffiths and his colleagues at Johns…
By Kate Maxwell “They’re movable pieces of art,” says Budapest-born, London-based decorator Gergei Erdei of his new collection of hand-painted folding pinewood screens. Part of his Objects of Desires series, the six designs include trompe l’oeil columns, wing-footed mythological figures and interlinked geometric shapes. Erdei found inspiration for his pieces, which are over seven feet…
Granted, I was born and raised in California, but I will always consider the roast chicken from Zuni Café, in San Francisco, to be the platonic ideal of a Fancy Chicken Dinner. So my Zuni senses were tingling when I saw Melissa Clark’s new recipe for herby skillet chicken with greens. It hits all the…
In “Challengers,” Zendaya plays a tennis star named Tashi Duncan. Her clothes are central to her identity; the character is sponsored by Adidas and costumed in sporty-and-rich outfits by the designer Jonathan Anderson. “She’ll have a fashion line,” one of Tashi’s suitors predicts to another in the trailer. “She is going to turn her whole…
“I hope you don’t mind — I’ll have a coterie of boys coming in all night,” Alan Cumming joked as he sidled into a banquette at an Upper West Side wine bar last week. A director had messaged him on Instagram, hoping to get Mr. Cumming to act in his short film, and they’d agreed…
\\As a trillion-dollar global industry, fashion is hardly the magic factory sometimes depicted in the press. Yet it does produce wizards. One such is the Belgian designer Dries Van Noten, whose announcement this week that he would be hanging up his smock and retiring after 40 years at his namesake label occasioned an outpouring of…
The Montana Club, a celebrated bar, dining room and gathering place in Helena that was founded by frontier movers and shakers in 1885 — four years before Montana became a state — will close its doors after one final toast on March 29. The club, which also holds a notable place in Black history, has…
This month, Airbnb announced that, starting April 30, the company would ban the use of surveillance cameras in its rentals. The news was welcomed by those concerned about privacy. “Cameras are both creepy and a threat,” said Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, which has campaigned for a ban…
More than 40 years ago, a statue of the Virgin of El Quinche was brought to the United States by a family from Ecuador. To celebrate its arrival at the now-shuttered St. Ann’s Church in Lower Manhattan, Rosa Cartagena and a team of women started a new tradition at the church: making and selling fanesca,…