In Pakistan, the Urdu word for “yesterday” is the same as the word for “tomorrow.” And lateness is generally acceptable. Sometimes, the sun sets while those observing Ramzan (the Urdu term for Ramadan) are on their way to an iftari, the fast-breaking meal after dusk. In those moments, stuck in traffic, a roadside samosa stand…
For 20 years, Richard Christiansen hustled. The Australian-born founder of Chandelier Creative, a New York-based creative agency known for its work with major fashion and commercial retail brands, was “pitching, pitching, pitching,” he says, constantly courting new business and traveling between offices in New York, Los Angeles and Paris. He was up early for flights,…
Owens/OWENSCORP; Courtesy of the designers. Getty Images Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. As Fashion Month shape-shifted and swelled beyond its bounds, I spent the past two months Zooming with designers, hearing how they’re adapting to this moment in time and what their customers are asking for…
Anthony Smith, a pastor at Houston’s Tabernacle of Meeting Church, performed the ceremony preceded by a demonstration of biblical humility. Instead of bouquets, the bridal party carried jugs of water to a towering altar draped in greenery and white flowers. Mr. Onuoha used the vessel in which the water was poured to wash Ms. Egwuatu’s…
In a glimpse of our post-pandemic world, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently set forth guidelines for vaccinated people. Among other things, they can hang out indoors and mask-free with small groups of other inoculated people. But you don’t need to tell that to the 6,000 older residents of Boca West, a 1,400-acre…
ENFIELD, Conn. — The bones of Brooks Brothers stores are scattered across 100,000 square feet here in a warehouse near the Massachusetts border, mixed in with a sea of cardboard boxes and junk. There are legions of mannequins, empty circular tables that once displayed neckties, posters of horseback-riding gentlemen from a bygone era. There is…
In California, the color of suffering is the juicy purple of seedless grapes. In Alabama and Alaska, it’s blood-colored. Blue signifies safety in many states, unless the blue is navy and you’re in Utah, in which case it communicates total catastrophe — the worst conditions possible. In New Mexico, nothing is better than green except…
With the New York charity circuit on hiatus, here is how some philanthropists and society figures are spending their time and resources during the pandemic. Nacho Figueras Age: 44 Occupation: polo player Favorite Charities: Sentebale, founded by Prince Harry to help children in Lesotho, Botswana and Malawi Is Harry a friend of yours? Mm-hmm. What…
On their second date, Dr. Anais Ovalle and Emily Black got lost hiking at the Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary in Sharon, Mass. Snow fell and then it got dark. Even though they lost cellphone service for a while and eventually had to call an Uber to get to their cars, both kept their cool. Dr.…
Pandemic willing, live shows will be back across the United States this spring and summer. (A patchwork of them, anyway.) Scores of festivals, benefits and theatrical events are playing it safe with digital editions or postponements, but some impresarios are forging ahead, adhering to safety protocols, capping audience size and keeping it outside, mindful of…