Last October, on a mountaintop in Mallorca, my now-husband balanced precariously on a pile of rocks and accomplished the impressive feat of pulling out a ring box without tumbling. As he slipped the gold band on my finger, I couldn’t stop smiling. The moment was perfect—intimate, natural, and totally us. And there wasn’t a diamond…
Finding Trust in Trauma In a movie, a twangy guitar riff would have played. I was a longtime lone ranger with debilitating social anxiety after moving from New Jersey to Tokyo and back again. She was a sandy-haired palomino mare who had become a therapist for traumatized veterans. The kicker? She, herself, had suffered prolonged…
Where does the story pick up this season on HBO’s fantasy epic “House of the Dragon”? “So,” the actor Tom Glynn-Carney told a reporter on Monday night at the Season 2 premiere at Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom, everything “hits the fan.” His character in the “Game of Thrones” prequel, the newly crowned King Aegon II Targaryen,…
Whether it’s complaints about air traffic at the East Hampton airport, teenagers partying on the beach or the arrival of Uber and Lyft drivers, the controversies that dominate the news cycle on the East End of Long Island, N.Y., are usually about one thing: noise — and who, in a place where residents are used…
Surgeons removed the kidney of a genetically engineered pig from a critically ill patient last week after the organ was damaged by inadequate blood flow related to a heart pump that the woman had also received, according to officials at NYU Langone Transplant Institute. The patient, Lisa Pisano, 54, who is still hospitalized, went back…
Opening Bedford Post Tavern When post roads were horse and buggy interstates, the Bedford Post Inn, dating from 1762, was a rest stop. Its gracious restaurant is now reopening after renovations with the chef Sam Mason turning out tavern fare like oysters, onion tart, skirt steak and grilled chicken, not just his usual pastries. Like…
There’s a cool factor inherent to Golden Goose, an unmissable laid-back attitude that runs through all the fashion brand’s pieces. From its artfully distressed sneakers, built to look lived-in and marked by vintage-inspired silhouettes and symbols, to its languid knits and leather jackets with sparkling appliqués, to the label’s new line of handbags: a subversive…
The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to approve the use of MDMA, also known as Ecstasy, for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. An independent advisory panel of experts will review studies on Tuesday and is expected to vote on whether the treatment would be effective and whether its benefits outweigh the risks. The…
What does summer taste like? Is it the salty snap of a hot dog? The creamy balm of strawberry ice cream? The tart-sweet burst of a handful of blueberries? One of our New York Times Cooking editors recently described the linguine recipe below as “a pasta that tastes like summer,” and I found myself hungry…
The weather in Scotland is often filled with clouds and rain. However, today’s Dior cruise show was one of those unicorn days where the sun shone bright. When the guests, including Jennifer Lawrence and Lily Collins, arrived at Drummond Castle in Perthshire, the landscape and endless, immaculately manicured gardens served as the perfect backdrop to…