The American Cancer Society has begun an ambitious, far-reaching study focusing on a population that has long been overlooked, despite high rates of cancer and cancer-related deaths: Black women. The initiative, called VOICES of Black Women, is believed to be the first long-term population study of its size to zero in specifically on the factors…
It’s one of those long days and your stomach growls as you scan your fridge. It seems overwhelming and a little stressful to cook, especially on the fly. So you order in. Again. I’m Melissa Clark, a columnist at New York Times Cooking, filling in for Jancee Dunn. My job is to help ease your…
In 2015, in the back of Star Casino in Sydney, Australia, Paul Carmichael began something extraordinary. As the new chef at Momofuku Seiobo, the first of David Chang’s Momofuku restaurants outside the United States, Mr. Carmichael turned what had been a fine-dining venue with European, American and Asian influences into a bastion of thoughtful Caribbean…
Before the air around Chloë Sevigny can be spritzed with her rose-scented perfume, it must first be cleared. Ms. Sevigny gasped when she learned that some people interpreted a remark she recently made on Instagram as passive-aggressive. “Always nice to be included,” she had written beneath a Variety magazine cover that she shared with Kim…
Furniture, clothing and food packaging can all shed tiny particles that can end up in our bodies.
Choosing a good bed frame and mattress is important, but there’s something else that matters nearly as much: The way you dress your bed. Your sheets, pillows and other bedding — and the way they’re arranged — can have a big effect on how appealing your bed is and how good it feels to climb…
In April, Princess Cruises told passengers that it was canceling a scheduled stop in Santorini, Greece, citing congestion. Four cruise ships were already anticipated to arrive on the same day in June, and were it to join, the ships would have brought some 17,000 visitors to an island of 15,500 residents. In the Aegean Sea,…
In 2000, Sheri Kathleen Cole and Ellen Elizabeth Moore took one of the greatest steps toward commitment in the modern era: They bought a home together. The act of purchasing a small rowhouse in the Southwest Center City section of Philadelphia felt like a natural progression in a friendship that began in 1992, when the…
In April, I published an essay in Madison Magazine about a meet-up where I asked my date, who was my age, 62, how online dating was going for him. Right to my face, with an open smile, he said that for someone so successful and fit (as he apparently saw himself), he was surprised he…
Kathryn Marie Brownlie wasn’t thrilled when, in November 2018, one of her two younger sisters, Meghan, grabbed her phone and told Brian Stephen Nagy via text that yes, she would go on a date with him. Though Mr. Nagy seemed like a nice enough guy, she wasn’t sure she was ready to date the man…