Using her arms as a makeshift clapboard, a Sudanese woman in a black hijab and black-and-white caftan clapped her hands together, signaling the beginning of the rehearsal. The other amateur Thespians, wearing comic stick-on mustaches, moved to their marks, improvising a scene in a women’s beauty salon where one patron’s hair is accidentally dyed blue.…
Black and Hispanic Americans were twice as likely as white Americans to lose Medicaid last year because of an inability to complete renewal forms during a vast trimming of the program’s rolls, according to a study published on Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. The findings from researchers at the Oregon Health & Science…
A new frontier has opened in fashion’s fur wars, as protesters targeted the homes of more than a dozen employees of Marc Jacobs in recent months, using signs, noisemakers and fake blood in an effort to force the designer to officially renounce the use of fur in his collections. Over the weekend, Mr. Jacobs accused…
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Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the former government scientist both celebrated and despised for his work on Covid, on Monday forcefully denied Republican allegations that he had helped fund research that sparked the pandemic or had covered up the possibility it originated in a laboratory, calling the accusations “absolutely false and simply preposterous.” In an occasionally…
As a rule of thumb, sneakers with suits are a terrible idea. Unless, perhaps, you are Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire media mogul who — seeming to chase Elizabeth Taylor’s lifetime tally of eight marriages — married his fifth wife on Saturday in a ceremony at his Tuscan-style vineyard in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los…
“It’s not a bag,” said Julio Torres, indicating the purse that dangled from his shoulder on a delicate gold chain. Whatever it was, it was shaped like a fish, and roomy enough to carry a small shell or maybe a couple of grapes. Mr. Torres had purchased the non-bag at a flea market in Paris…
Terry Robards, a former wine critic for The New York Times whose writing in the 1970s and ’80s helped Americans move beyond jug Chablis and cheap Chianti to explore regions and styles as far away — and, at the time, as exotic — as Burgundy and Tuscany and as close as upstate New York, died…
True comfort comes in a cushy, low wedge in buttery soft leather, a contoured footbed, and anti-slip traction. Since they are super lightweight, they are great for everyday walking and travel. Just like your favorite performance sneakers, they won’t fatigue your feet. Colors: Walnut Brown-Blood Orange, Jet Black-Sand Sizes: 5-12 Material: Leather, Rubber Customer review:…
At this year’s Couture Jewelry Show in Las Vegas, the designs were teeming with originality and innovation. There were fresh takes on classics (think: semiprecious hard stones like lapis), and tried-and-true materials took on new life (chains, beads, and more). Of the hundreds of thousands of pieces on display during the four-day-long event, here are…