Restaurants are bustling and dining rooms are buzzing. If you want a reservation at the newest and hottest places, you are out of luck unless you know somebody. On the surface it seems that restaurants have safely emerged from the despairing depths of the Covid pandemic and the throbbing hangover that followed. Yet one key…
“Girl power, basically,” said Hillary Taymour, the designer of Collina Strada, backstage before her show at the start of New York Fashion Week. She wasn’t talking about bows and whistles; she was talking about the state of women in the world. “I wanted to make a wardrobe to take on anything,” Ms. Taymour said, standing…
Wallpaper is a powerful design tool that can transform a room. You start with a white box and end up with what feels like an entirely different space, wrapped in an intricate floral design or a bold geometric pattern. But which one: Intricate or bold? Floral or geometric? With so many colors and patterns available,…
In October 2020, Melissa Cuc was visiting friends in South Florida. They were excited about attending a party that weekend. She was not. “I said I’d rather die than go out for Halloween in Miami,” Ms. Cuc, 27, said. She relented and wound up at the party, wearing a leopard-print skirt. Early into the event,…
More than two years into our marriage, we still have date nights nearly every night. This irks my friends and family when I ignore their calls as I buzz around the house, lighting candles and cooking dinner. Around 7 p.m., my husband and I sink into the couch cushions, plates in hand, to watch a…
Graduating from medical school takes a lot of hard work. Falling in love while you’re doing it takes a whole lot of luck (and some work as well). Dr. Liu was in her third year of medical school at U.C.L.A., and Dr. Park was just starting his first year of ophthalmology residency training there. Dr.…
When Zachary Ian Miller first met Jill Diane Rafson, he faced a tough question as a football fan: playoff game or second date? It was January 2022, and Mr. Miller and Ms. Rafson had matched on the dating app Hinge. After about a week of chatting on the app — subjects included pop culture and…
Loyal readers of the author Kristen Nicole Arnett may not be surprised to learn that the night she met Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, she was at home in Winter Park, Fla., sipping wine from a 7-Eleven store. Ms. Arnett, 43, whose novels include the New York Times best-selling “Mostly Dead Things,” was unwinding after work on…
CooperSurgical, a major medical supply company, is facing a wave of lawsuits from patients who claim that one of its products destroyed embryos created with in vitro fertilization. Fertility clinics across the world used the product, a nutrient-rich liquid that helps fertilized eggs develop into embryos. This week federal regulators made public that the company…
The texts start rolling in around the last week of January. “I hope the girls are getting their prescribed four Sumos a day.” “Two Sumos down before 1 p.m.” “And now I’m eating a Sumo!!!” My friends and I approach peak Sumo orange season with thunderous enthusiasm, and for good reason: The arrival of the…