Peace and quiet don’t come easy in Midtown, but Alexander Tom has managed to find it across the street from the Gershwin Theater’s wicked witches. Mr. Tom, 29, is the associate program head of the musical theater program at Pace University in Manhattan; he also moonlights as an audition coach, working out of his apartment…
Sooner or later, we all must recognize what is no longer possible and find alternatives. Years ago, body mechanics forced me to give up tennis and ice skating and now strenuous gardening. I continue to do 10-mile bike rides several times a week in good weather, but two-week cycling trips up and down hills are…
Astrid StawiarzGetty Images The MTV Video Music Awards dress code is oddly specific. It’s not the time to pull out A Serious Gown like one would at the Venice Film Festival. Instead, celebs opt for camp and shock-factor, pushing the boundaries of what style means to them. From the debut of Madonna’s now-iconic white bustier…
Experts in public health law agree that Mr. Biden is on solid legal footing, because his actions are grounded in federal workplace safety laws. They say Republican governors who insist that vaccine mandates are an intrusion on personal liberty need a refresher on their own state policies. “That is pure hypocrisy,” Lawrence O. Gostin, a…
ANGELA WEISSGetty Images Just one day before the star-studded Met Gala in Manhattan, Brooklyn is hosting many of music’s biggest names for the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards. In characteristic spotlight-stealing style, today’s best artists brought true statement fashion to the early fall red carpet. From bright suits to bedazzled dresses, here’s what everyone, from…
Dr. Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general, made the rounds on Sunday television shows to defend the Biden administration’s new Covid vaccine mandates, portraying them as narrow directives that apply only to specific professions where the federal government “has legal authority to act” — a direct counter to Republican accusations of unconstitutional federal overreach. Dr. Murthy…
Daily Covid Briefing Sept. 12, 2021Updated Sept. 12, 2021, 8:49 p.m. ET Sept. 12, 2021, 8:49 p.m. ET A classroom at Yung Wing School P.S. 124 that a teacher is preparing for the start of the school year in New York City.Credit…Michael Loccisano/Getty Images As New York City’s public schools prepare to welcome roughly one…
A ghostly mansion inside The Shed: Boxwood hedges and desiccated urns filled an ersatz formal garden constructed in the performance space of Hudson Yards, the elaborate real estate development built on the Far West Side of Manhattan just before Covid-19 hit and which has stood as something of an empty monument to prepandemic dreams of…
“It’s terrible timing that this would happen, when right now we’re faced with a situation where humanitarian needs are escalating,” said Dr. Richard Brennan, the regional emergency director for the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean region. Cesarean sections, immunizations for polio, tuberculosis, tetanus and measles, diagnoses and treatment of TB, malaria, H.I.V., childhood nutrition, surgeries…
Martínez, también mexicanoestadounidense, relató la historia de su crianza en El Paso, Texas, donde pasó gran parte de su infancia tratando de “encajar” en una cultura dominada por los anglosajones, la cual esperaba que personas como ella cambiaran para ajustarse a los ideales de belleza eurocéntricos. “Para una niña de piel ligeramente oscura, una latina,…