During a four-week residency at Casa Balandra, located in Marratxí about a half-hour drive outside of Palma, Majorca, this spring, Cassi Namoda would take long walks, picking oranges and green almonds along the way. “I might have been trespassing,” she admits. The New York-based artist, whose colorful paintings typically depict scenes of postcolonial Mozambique, where…
For the first time in its history, an American will run the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London. Shannon Tebay, who was the head bartender at Death & Co., the celebrated cocktail bar in Manhattan, has been chosen to be head bartender at the American Bar, long ranked as one of the most…
But reports of the death of the boozy cocktail may be exaggerated. The family-run, California-based boutique aperitif company Haus, which also bottles its drinks rather than canning them, has grown rapidly since launching in 2019. Its range blends fruit wine with everything from star anise, cloves, lavender and citrus to cinnamon, strawberry and elderflower. Flavoring…
TOM SCHIRMACHER/TRUNK ARCHIVE Dorothy Parker pinch-hit writing lingerie captions, and Joan Didion tried her hand at fashion-magazine display copy, but few literary heavyweights have ever found themselves moved to weigh in on a handbag. Colette might be the exception. In 1942, Hermès’s creations inspired her to write that “the beauty of the material calls for…
“Someday you must visit Egypt! Love, Bamma,” she wrote, sowing dreams — because if this gentle, shy, fine-boned old woman whom I adored could travel the world so boldly and often alone, maybe I could, too. So for my birthday, I asked for a trip on a train, because I’d never been on one and…
During menopause, which marks the end of a woman’s menstrual cycles, her ovaries stop producing the hormones estrogen and progesterone, bringing an end to her natural childbearing years. But those hormones also regulate how the brain functions, and the brain governs their release — meaning that menopause is a neurological process as well. “Many of…
My favorites are meal salads. When we were lucky enough to be taken out to a restaurant for dinner when I was a kid, I was thrilled to order the chef’s salad, the classic, protein-packed one often said to have been popularized in the 1940s by Louis Diat, the chef of the Ritz-Carlton in New…
Kmart opened its doors at 770 Broadway, a commercial landmark where the West Village meets the East, in 1996. Anyone who’s taken the 6 to Astor Place might recall the big red “K” that can be seen from the Subway platform, beckoning riders to hunt for discounts. For those who actually stopped in, searching for…
Alexandria, Va., USA – The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) announced Navdeep Kaur Brar, University of Oslo, Norway, as the 2021 recipient of the IADR John A. Gray Fellowship. Brar was recognized during the Opening Ceremonies of the virtual 99th General Session & Exhibition of the IADR, held in conjunction with the 50th Annual…
Alexandria, Va., USA – The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) announced Hazem Abbas, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, as the 2021 recipient of the IADR Lion Dental Research Award for Junior Investigators in the Behavioral, Epidemiologic and Health Services Category. Abbas was recognized during the Opening Ceremonies of the virtual 99th General Session & Exhibition…