It started with mild anxiety. Emily, who asked to be identified only by her first name because she was discussing her mental health, had just moved to New York City after graduate school, to start a marketing job at a big law firm. She knew it was normal to feel a little on edge. But…
In 1958, when Mary Pat Laffey Inman became a stewardess — as they were then called — for Northwest Airlines, she was 20 years old and the clock was already ticking. At 32, she would be forced to retire. That is, if she didn’t marry, get pregnant or even gain too much weight before that:…
Una mañana cualquiera, Susan Glass puede sentarse en el patio de su complejo de apartamentos en Saratoga, California, e identificar de oído hasta 15 especies distintas de aves: un arrendajo de Steller, un pájaro carpintero, un herrerillo unicolor. Para ella, la observación de aves es más que un pasatiempo. “Las aves son mi vista”, afirmó…
Stars of the past year’s biggest movies descended on the Royal Festival Hall in London for the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday. The ceremony, which was hosted this year by the actor David Tennant, honors achievement in British filmmaking, but American celebrities were well represented on the (actually) red carpet. “Oppenheimer” was the night’s biggest…
Good morning. Saltimbocca — the name translates from the Italian as “jump in the mouth” — is a dish traditionally made with veal cutlets wrapped with prosciutto and sage, quickly cooked in butter and oil, and occasionally topped with cheese for a run beneath the broiler. Saltimbocca is, our David Tanis has written, largely a…
On a recent Thursday morning in Queens, travelers streamed through the exterior doors of La Guardia Airport’s Terminal C. Some were bleary-eyed — most hefted briefcases — as they checked bags and made their way to the security screening lines. It was business as usual, until some approached a line that was almost empty. One…
On Fridays at 10 a.m., Richard Bement and Zach Ahmed sign on to their weekly video chat. The program that brought them together provides online discussion prompts and suggests arts-related activities, but the two largely ignore all that. “We just started talking about things that were important to us,” said Mr. Ahmed, 19, a pre-med…
BEFORE THE $135-PER-PERSON tasting menu begins, you are gently invited to wash your hands. A sink stands along the wall. It’s important to make these ablutions publicly, to show everyone that your hands are clean, because at Naks, a Filipino restaurant that opened in Manhattan’s East Village in December, there are no forks on the…
Is it possible that the next great American media mogul is a woman who would rather sit in bed watching hours of “Grey’s Anatomy” than sit courtside at a Los Angeles Lakers game? Is it possible that she has made crowds of thousands of women scream over her sex tips? Is it possible that, on…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. The photographer James Nachtwey showed up at Bradley Cooper’s farmhouse in Pennsylvania one freezing morning in January, armed with a coat and a camera. “Let’s take a walk,” an affable Mr. Cooper suggested, leading Mr.…