When Dr. Roy Herbst of Yale started in oncology about 25 years ago, nearly every lung cancer patient with advanced disease got chemotherapy. With chemotherapy, he said, “patients would be sure to have one thing: side effects.” Yet despite treatment, most tumors continued to grow and spread. Less than half his patients would be alive…
Good morning. There are those who say you should never put cheese on shrimp, but they maybe have never tried the shrimp Parmigiana at Dan Tana’s in Los Angeles or the shrimp tacos at Toloache in New York, both of which are superb. They might wail at Eric Kim’s latest recipe for The Times, for…
Aubrey Gordon colecciona libros viejos de dietas. Ha acumulado casi 100 ejemplares, entre ellos el volumen de 1973 Slimming Down, escrito por el compañero de Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon. Este libro, que incluía capítulos como “La conspiración de los palitos de pan” y “Dos martinis en Connecticut”, fue con el que Gordon inició su colección.…
Estrella has long, wavy, jet-back hair. She tries to tame it with a thick-toothed comb in the backyard of her house, among the chickens, hammocks and looms. All around her, relatives come and go. It is November 2015, and Estrella is preparing for the annual festival called La Vela de las Auténticas Intrépidas Buscadoras del…
Elsewhere in the country, the conversation has begun to move on, away from early Covid alarm and into something more guardedly speculative. What will post-pandemic life look like? How have our priorities shifted? But for vast swaths of the nation, largely untouched by doses from Pfizer and Moderna, it remains late 2020 in many ways.…
At the drugstore, a rapid Covid test usually costs less than $20. Across the country, over a dozen testing sites owned by the start-up company GS Labs regularly bill $380. There’s a reason they can. When Congress tried to ensure that Americans wouldn’t have to pay for coronavirus testing, it required insurers to pay certain…
From the start, it was clear that this Marni show was not going to be like the other ones. Every guest was asked to wear a sort of Marni uniform — an upcycled garment from a former collection that the designer Francesco Risso and his team had hand-painted with sweeping washes of stripes — and…
Mr. Zarem, a workaholic, never married and didn’t drink, although he smoked marijuana to relax. He cultivated a devil-may-care style in untucked shirts and New Balance sneakers, but that style belied a fierce temper. The publicist Peggy Siegal, who once worked for him, swore that Mr. Zarem lobbed a typewriter at her when she erred…
Francesco Risso has been creative director at Marni since 2016, mixing the Milanese fashion house’s explosive prints and prim but off-kilter silhouettes with his own bold and often playful aesthetic. On Saturday, 18 months after Marni’s last physical runway show, the onetime protégé of Miuccia Prada upped the ante yet again with an experimental live…
Fashion Week is back in full force, and there’s a lot to see. Blink (or scroll too fast on Instagram) and you’ll miss the details: tiny bags, tall shoes, feathered hats, leather capes and diamond dog collars. So as part of a new series, Wow Moment, we’ll spotlight things we saw on the runways that…