Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. Maybe it’s just a mood, but I am embracing extra big and bold flavors this week — statement dishes, if you will. The recipes below use ingredients like capers, kimchi and barbecue sauce to bring some spark to your table, even on a Tuesday. What are you cooking…
It started with a simple sweater. After Harry Styles wore a color-block patchwork cardigan for a “Today” show rehearsal last February, knitters went into a kind of frenzy trying to reverse engineer the pattern. So many TikTok and YouTube users shared their process using the hashtag #harrystylescardigan — racking up tens of millions of views…
President Biden may cast his arrival in the White House as a return to business as usual at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but there’s at least one way he’s breaking from prevailing presidential tradition: he wears a Rolex. At his inauguration, Mr. Biden laid his hand on the family Bible wearing a stainless steel Rolex Datejust…
In an interview four years ago, Mr. Pope noted that nobody at that point had received compensation from any “wrongful life” suit. Since then, several plaintiffs have received hefty payments, and courts have weighed in as well. In Georgia, Jacqueline Alicea won a $1 million settlement from Doctors Hospital of Augusta and a surgeon there…
At least two American companies, as well as Russian researchers, are working on coronavirus vaccines for mink. The animals have grown sick and died in large numbers from the virus, which they have also passed back to people in mutated form. Zoetis, a large veterinary pharmaceutical company in New Jersey with more than $6 billion…
When tourists come to Stora Karlso, a limestone-ledged nature reserve off the coast of Sweden, they keep a respectful distance from the many seabirds that call the island home. Like most visitors to wild places, they aim to leave only footprints and take only photos — to slip between the strands of the web of…
Walking home in New York City a few months ago, I became an unknown witness to a touching demonstration of love. It was an everyday scene — one I caught with an inadvertent glance through the window of a garden apartment — of a grandmother cleaning up after dinner, with a toddler in her pajamas…
KYIV, Ukraine — After a revolution seven years ago, Ukrainians discovered that their ousted president had used public money to build himself a gigantic palace with a private zoo, a golf course and a garage full of antique cars. To prevent such corruption in the future, a raft of reforms were put in place including…
They call themselves the “Sisters of the Strange Sorority.” They have a playlist that includes “I’m Every Woman” and “Hit the Road, Jack” and they have never all met in person. But they are inextricably bound: by a man who used to be president, a man whom each has accused of sexual misconduct, a man…
Name: Jason Suran Age: 29 Hometown: Skokie, Ill. Now Lives: In a brownstone in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Claim to Fame: Mr. Suran is a postmodern mentalist and dapper showman who jokingly calls himself a “demon we should kill with fire just to be safe.” His updated twists on classic psychological illusions —…