Rumi Missabu, an avant-garde drag performer who was best known as a member of the anarchic, glitter-encrusted, hippie-drag troupe known as the Cockettes, which bloomed briefly at the turn of the 1970s in San Francisco, died on April 2 at his home in Oakland, Calif. He was 76. His death, from complications of chronic respiratory…
Roberto Cavalli passed away today at 83 in Florence, Italy. The famed designer started hisnamesake brand in the mid-1970s by working primarily with animal print leathers, which quickly became a signature. By the ’90s, he expanded to billowing silk dresses, printed corset tops, and l0w-slung denim jeans that, to this day, are still coveted among…
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The National Academy of Sciences is asking a court to allow it to repurpose about $30 million in donations from the wealthy Sackler family, who controlled the company at the center of the opioid epidemic, and to remove the family name from the endowment funds. The petition filed by the Academy in Superior Court in…
Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist were the first couple to meet and marry on “The Golden Bachelor,” ABC’s spinoff of “The Bachelor” featuring cast members 60 and older. On Friday, the newlyweds announced that they will also be the spinoff’s first couple to divorce. They made the announcement in a joint appearance on ABC’s “Good…
New research shows that alcohol-related liver disease and other health problems increased even more than expected among women ages 40 to 64 during the pandemic.
Good morning. I’m telling you to make your own pasta this weekend and I understand that, for some, the command will lead to rolled eyes, to sighs and protestations. Fresh pasta seems like such a pain. But it isn’t. Melissa Clark’s recipe, which combines flour, eggs, egg yolks and a little olive oil into a…
The air smelled of yeast and cheese and weed, and though what I had in front of me looked like a personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut, it was in fact a more expensive dupe. Some of the original pizza’s flaws had been airbrushed and overwritten, as in a favorite childhood memory. No veins of…
When Russian tanks first rolled into Ukraine more than two years ago, Artem Vradii was sure his business was bound to suffer. “Who would think about coffee in this situation?” thought Mr. Vradii, the co-founder of a Kyiv coffee roastery named Mad Heads. “Nobody would care.” But over the next few days after the invasion…