Gucci Heir Alleges Child Sexual Abuse

For the last five years, the name Gucci has been synonymous with success, with a fashion reinvention that has helped redirect the luxury industry toward inclusivity, emotion and the importance of creativity. The family that created the brand has a more complicated, darker past, one involving tax evasion, generational feuds and murder. This week, another…

A Cheesy Toast to Dream About

There’s a classic early 20th-century comic strip by Winsor McCay in which, after eating a Welsh rarebit close to bedtime, characters fall into wild, vivid dreams — often horrible, always bizarre — then wake up regretting their choice of dinner. Called “Dream of the Rarebit Fiend,” I think about it every time I make myself…

How Quarantine Killed the Weekend

Tom Oling, 51, a television planner who lives in Denver, can’t remember the last time he dressed up for the weekend. “I haven’t worn shoes with laces since April,” he said. “There are now only three to four shirts in the rotation.” Now that Mr. Oling is working from home, every day feels identical whether…

House Hunting in Canada: A Rowhouse in Old Montreal With Income Potential

A Six-Bedroom House With Vintage Features in Montreal $4.8 MILLION ($6.25 MILLION CANADIAN DOLLARS) This four-story attached greystone rowhouse is in Old Montreal, the historic riverside district just east of Montreal’s downtown core. The property faces Marché Bonsecours, a restored 1847 building that once housed the city’s main public market. Behind the market building are…

Chicken! Plums! Red Onions!

Melissa Clark has a terrific new recipe in The Times this week, for a sheet-pan dinner of roast chicken, plums and red onions (above). She came up with it as a dish appropriate to Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which begins on Sept. 18, but it’s outstanding whatever your faith or lack thereof: a…

Drugmaker Pauses Covid-19 Vaccine Trial for Safety Review

Here’s what you need to know: ImageLaboratory technicians worked on an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca last month.Credit…Natacha Pisarenko/Associated Press AstraZeneca halts a vaccine trial to investigate a participant’s illness. The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca halted global trials of its coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday because of a serious and unexpected adverse reaction…