A Conjugal Encounter The Holiday Inn clerk smirked when we checked in early without luggage. He had no clue that after 14 years of marriage and two children, we were in crisis: My wife stating, “I’m not getting my needs met”; our dramatic loss of income; my unwelcome dreams of living separately. No, this was…
One particularly striking study published in 2017 looked at how alcohol can affect your heart rate in social settings. The study was carried out at the Munich Oktoberfest, the world’s largest public beer festival. The researchers recruited more than 3,000 men and women who had been drinking, but were not legally impaired. They tested their…
The historian and social critic Ibram X. Kendi is used to getting hate mail. And sometimes the disdain for him and his work takes the form of a phone call. So when he does not recognize the number he does not often answer. Such was the case on a recent day when Dr. Kendi, who…
“Are we still in a pandemic?” a seatmate asked. Short answer: yes, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it from Dior’s spring/summer 2022 presentation. Entering the storied French house’s show in the Jardin des Tuileries felt like muscling your way through a jam-packed nightclub, in large part thanks to Blackpink member and brand ambassador Jisoo, whose…
Americans who received a third dose of a coronavirus vaccine in recent weeks reported side effects at roughly the same rates as they had after their second shots, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday, a reassuring sign about the safety of additional doses. At the time of the C.D.C. study, which…
JULIANNY CASADO Forget wondering or guessing what inspired someone when they create a collection—it was definitely “the disco glamour of the ‘70s” for mega-influencer Kellie Brown (aka @itsmekellieb). “Silky, billowy, and groovy, this collection is fun and wearable whether you are city chic or a boho babe,” she said of her latest for ” data-vars-ga-product-id=”3b58aee7-565d-438a-a57e-1564c1fb6232″…
The man with the hammer treats everything as a nail, the saying goes. Something like that seems to be afflicting Eleven Madison Park in its new vegan incarnation. The restaurant’s chef and owner, Daniel Humm, is using the skills he brought to meat and seafood to whack away at vegetables. Almost none of the main…
Headliner Oliva This bright, spacious Spanish restaurant featuring tapas is a new addition to West Harlem. It opens in the three-month-old Manhattanville Market food court, part of the Jerome L. Greene Science Center at Columbia University. Like the rest of the market, it’s run by the chef and restaurateur Franklin Becker, who has put Chris…
Not long before their wedding on Nov. 3, 2018, Ian Mitchard and Steph Davis were sitting in their home in Moab, Utah, talking about death. For them, it was not an uncomfortable or even uncommon conversation. As wingsuit flyers, BASE jumpers and sky divers, they regularly spent more time in the air than some species…
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