In this new version, Safran suggested, the teachers could have a voice. A familiar voice — Kristen Bell’s, who performs the voice-over for each Gossip Girl post, then and now. In the first episode, the teachers, led by Kate (Tavi Gevinson), resurrect the Gossip Girl handle as a means to cow their students, an extremely…
“The teacher said periods,” Ms. Fonte said. Her mother was a doctor who took her to the Philippines annually on medical missions. In high school, Ms. Fonte worked as a peer sex educator and interned at a drug rehabilitation program for teenagers. In her school planner, she used shorthand to identify where she had to…
Enforcing that rule is another matter entirely. Before the start of “Annette” — an esoteric musical with songs from the band Sparks — three-fourths of the moviegoers around me had removed their masks, and the ushers simply shrugged. (There’s a reason the French gave us the phrase “laissez-faire.”) After the movie ended, as the standing…
Name: Bryce Wettstein Age: 17 Hometown: Encinitas, Calif. Now lives: In a two-story Spanish-style home in Encinitas with her family. The backyard features a 10-foot vertical ramp and skate bowl. Claim to fame: Ms. Wettstein is a top-ranked skateboarder who will compete this summer for Team U.S.A. when skateboarding makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo.…
Last spring, when the nation’s Covid-19 cases were soaring and tests were in short supply, some scientists wondered whether a new approach to disease surveillance might be on Americans’ wrists. One in five Americans uses a Fitbit, Apple Watch or other wearable fitness tracker. And over the past year, several studies have suggested that the…
While peak-summer vegetables don’t need much more than some salt, oil and a sliver of space over an open flame, they’re positively ignited by a little extra attention. These vegetarian recipes range from minimum effort to medium. Most operate as sides or entrees, depending on what you pair them with, but all deliver hugely flavorful…
School may still seem blissfully far off for American students in the midst of summer. But for many who are eligible, time may be running out for a back-to-school necessity: getting fully vaccinated against the coronavirus before classes resume. Many of the country’s more than 13,000 districts, especially in the South and Southwest, plan to…
“It puts us in a bad place,” agreed Dr. Karina Bishop, a geriatrician at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Ethically, she added, “if this drug was available right now, I would not feel able to prescribe it.” Even as individual doctors grapple with advising patients, hospitals and health systems are devising protocols for when…
Good morning. Here’s the report from where I sit: David Tanis is in The Times this week with a sweet summer dinner menu (above) that I think you could make this evening if you’re not too exhausted by [gestures] all this. It’s for a cherry tomato salad with green beans, chickpeas and feta followed by…
“People will look,” warned Minna Caroline Smith in Lapham’s Quarterly about her pioneering tricycling touring of the coastal North Shore in eastern Massachusetts. It wasn’t just that the self-powered adult tricycles were novel, but so, too, were the women riding them. It was 1885. The gender shock may now be gone but as the only…