LOS ANGELES — “I’m adjusting to life on Mars,” says the artist Mark Bradford, as he folds his frame into a chair positioned a prudent nine feet from my own, and unpeels his mask from behind his ears. Yes, he says, his glasses fog up, too. Since mid-March, when California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, issued a…
One evening in July, my father locked up his home of 53 years for the last time, the house my sister and I grew up in, the one our mother filled with her crafts and book group meetings — until she didn’t. About 10 years after we moved out, Mom, in her 50s then, quit…
As the world awaits the arrival of a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine, a team of researchers has come forward with a provocative new theory: that masks might help to crudely immunize some people against the virus. The unproven idea, described in a commentary published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, is inspired…
Here’s a very opinionated guide for what to watch, where to watch it, where to buy it and what the heck is going on. Video Credit ✿What to Watch and When Fashion Month!Sept. 14 to Oct. 6 This is a season like no other. If the last set of digital shows/music videos/perfume ads/lookbooks, in July,…
Late last year, when my husband was very ill, my friend Debbie Goldberg dropped off a tsimmes, a holiday dish that I had not eaten in years. After heating it up and dipping my fork into the meat and sweet potatoes, memories of my own family — the sweet potato-and-pineapple casserole topped with marshmallows at…
Not so long ago, things didn’t look so great for the guitar, that global symbol of youthful freedom and rebellion for 70 years running. With hip-hop and Beyoncé-style spectacle pop supposedly owning the hearts and wallets of millennials and Generation Z — and so many 20th-century guitar deities either dead (Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain) or…
Tightlining is often referred to as the greatest secret of Hollywood makeup. The point is that the manipulations performed seem to be invisible to the naked eye. What is tightlining Today, you will learn about the “tightlining” makeup technique and its benefits. To reproduce the effect, it is necessary to draw a line inside the…
He broke up with you and left. How to live now? How to be happy? What will happen to you? Sadness, despair, loneliness, questions, and hopes. What if we get together?! If he sees me more often, he will come back to me! It is much easier to get over a breakup if you do…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageAn empty Covid-19 testing site next to W.V.U.’s Coliseum in July. The university said it was moving all undergraduate courses online through Sept. 25 following reports of parties held over the Labor Day weekend.Credit…Kristian Thacker for The New York Times For reopened U.S. universities, parties and pushback are upending…
Claire Ko and Eugene Kwak didn’t want a woodland cabin or beach house as their weekend getaway from Manhattan. They dreamed of living on a working farm. Never mind that neither had any experience farming. After years of shopping at the Union Square Greenmarket, they had become increasingly curious about where their food came from.…