January menus, with or without resolutions, ought to be gentler and milder, given December’s inevitable excesses. For postholiday cooking (since your kitchen has no doubt seen a lot of action lately), you want comfort, ease and lightness, and these three dishes cover all counts. They can be served sequentially, as a menu for a quiet…
Fashion 2020 In any other year, like clockwork, flocks of models, stylists, critics and photographers would migrate around the globe, chasing fashion shows from New York to Paris. Their usual pattern was upended in March, as coronavirus cases began to spike around the world. When in-person shows stopped, fashion photography ground to a halt too.…
A more contagious form of the coronavirus has begun circulating in the United States. In Britain, where it was first identified, the new variant became the predominant form of the coronavirus in just three months, accelerating that nation’s surge and filling its hospitals. It may do the same in the United States, exacerbating an unrelenting…
A flurry of headlines this week flooded social media, documenting a seemingly concerning case of Covid-19 in a San Diego nurse who fell ill about a week after receiving his first injection of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine. But experts said the sickness is nothing unexpected: The protective effects of vaccines are known to take at least…
In a year that has involved much isolation and solitary quality time, makeup can still be an escape from 2020. Makeup artists like Jezz Hill and Sam Visser, and content creators like Rowi Singh, have long played with and continue to use bright colors, sharp shapes and glittering jewels. In effect, they’ve kept the glam…
Like many Black and rural Americans, Denese Rankin, a 55-year-old retired bookkeeper and receptionist in Castleberry, Ala., did not want the Covid-19 vaccine. Ms. Rankin worried about side effects — she had seen stories on social media about people developing Bell’s palsy, for example, after they were vaccinated. She thought the vaccines had come about…
In Florida, less than one-quarter of delivered coronavirus vaccines have been used, even as older people sat in lawn chairs all night waiting for their shots. In Puerto Rico, last week’s vaccine shipments did not arrive until the workers who would have administered them had left for the Christmas holiday. In California, doctors are worried…
Prohibition in the United States, a short-lived experiment that began 100 years ago, popularized the speakeasy: an illicit establishment designed to sell alcoholic beverages during the years they were legally banned. Now, people are developing clandestine social clubs all over again — and even styling their parties after the era of speakeasies. That’s true even…
In other words, Avaline is for those who have never been curious how the sausage was made. For these consumers, wine may be a pleasure, but not one worth the modest effort to visit a specialist or to learn a little more about it themselves. Nothing is inherently wrong with that, even if Ms. Diaz…
After receiving a gift basket, the polite thing to do is post a photo of it in the group with a thank you. Often, friendships then develop. These self-proclaimed Drinkerbells may have initially bonded through booze, but many went on to organize charity fund-raisers, clothing drives and toy collections. When a woman mentioned she couldn’t…