The jewelry designer Matthew Harris often wears on his pinkie an eye-catching signet ring with the letter M in diamonds embedded under its crystal surface. The ring is nothing like the classic gold signet that his father wore, or the one he was given when he graduated from high school. Signet rings are a family…
A friend recently showed me one of the handmade sake cups that he adores. It was a deep midnight blue rounded copper cup sprinkled with gold flecks, like a starry sky. And it was made by Gyokusendo, a family company established in 1816 that specializes in tsuiki, the Japanese term for copperware hammered by hand.…
Chocolate has long been synonymous with Valentine’s Day. But rather than buying one of those heart-shape boxes with lots of mystery sweets inside for loved ones and friends, what if you made your own? “Crafting candies is not just a sweet treat,” said Kirsten Fear, a Londoner taking a class at Melt, a chocolate shop…
Cam y yo no habíamos hablado en más de un año cuando me mandó un mensaje: “Oye, ¿acabas de seguirme en Letterboxd?”. Así era. Ver su nombre en mi teléfono electrizó algo debajo de mi esternón, una marquesina parpadeante regresó a la vida después de años de desuso. “Sí, ¿no te molesta?”, le contesté. “Necesitaba…
In weddings, as in football, the will to win may be nothing without the will to prepare. That’s why Laura Arvizu and Robert Marquez, of Paso Robles, Calif., started planning their wedding in Mexico 14 months ago. “We wanted the destination wedding of our dreams,” said Ms. Arvizu, 28, a sales manager at a company…
Brooke Ellison, who after being paralyzed from the neck down by a childhood car accident went on to graduate from Harvard and became a professor and devoted disability rights advocate, died on Sunday in Stony Brook, N.Y. She was 45. Her death, in a hospital, was caused by complications of quadriplegia, her mother, Jean Ellison,…
A lengthy report by the Department of Justice on President Biden’s handling of classified documents contained some astonishing assessments of his well-being and mental health. Mr. Biden, 81, was an “elderly man with a poor memory” and “diminished faculties” who “did not remember when he was vice president,” the special counsel Robert K. Hur said.…
The strumming of a Spanish guitar and the voices of Eydie Gormé and Los Panchos echoed throughout the hall as “Sabor a Mí” played on a loudspeaker. Hundreds of mourners made their way into Judson Memorial Church, near Washington Square Park in Manhattan. Inside the sanctuary, all attention was front and center on an ofrenda,…
Remember the last time you bit into a chocolate-covered strawberry? If the shell snapped audibly, pooling on your tongue as it melted, then chances are that chocolate was tempered. Tempering, essentially melting and cooling chocolate, is why that thin shell of chocolate yielding to a juicy berry cracks with such a crisp, satisfying sharpness. No…
An academic journal publisher this week retracted two studies that were cited by a federal judge in Texas last year when he ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone should be taken off the market. Most of the authors of the studies are doctors and researchers affiliated with anti-abortion groups, and their reports suggested that medication…