Here’s what you need to know: ImageJohnny Salinas Jr. rearranged the bodies of people who died of Covid-19 at Salinas Funeral Home in Elsa, Texas, last month.Credit…Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times Key Data of the Day The U.S. reports its highest single-day virus death toll of the month. Officials across the United States…
The 1918 influenza pandemic is the deadliest in modern history, claiming an estimated 50 million lives worldwide, including 675,000 in the United States. By some measures, the toll of the Covid-19 surge in New York City this spring resembled that of the 1918 flu pandemic. In March and April, the overall death rate was just…
Getting dressed seems a little pointless these days when we have nowhere to go, but that hasn’t stopped us from eyeing The Outnet’s clearance sale. Starting today, designers like Gucci, Prada, Ganni, and more are up to 80%, so we’re indulging in some serious self-care. But instead of mindlessly sifting through the 3,000 items that…
Tim Williams and his twin brother, Fred, recently recorded themselves listening to the nearly 40-year-old hit “In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins. In the video, the two ride the ebb and flow with some serious head nodding as the song swells toward a climactic moment. “Hold on, I didn’t prepare for this. I have…
You can count on one hand the number of photos of the Belgian fashion designer Martin Margiela on the internet. Which is to say that the first documentary about his life and career is called “Martin Margiela: In His Own Words” for a reason — he is the film’s narrator, offering sensible and diligent assessments…
College life was designed around community and togetherness. Now we are attempting to retrofit it for the opposite — with physical distancing, fewer people and the elimination of most in-person gatherings. The final days of summer offer an opportunity for incoming students and their families to prepare for a semester anchored by public health principles.…
Every so often a word bubbles to the surface of our cultural consciousness and then it’s seemingly unavoidable. This year, in addition to the term “trauma,” it’s “vulnerability.” (Both are apt for a time of widespread social inequality, illness and unemployment.) It’s been ten years since Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of…
Courtesy of USPS, Parks Project, and @ClaraBelleUK Style Points is a new weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Merch, like so many things, comes in waves. While the right band T-shirt has always been reliably cool, music merch’s fashion cred arguably crested with Cali Thornhill DeWitt’s T-shirts for Kanye West’s The…
In an act of defiance, Joe Logue, a retired Marine, affixed a military gas mask and headphones before beginning his chest-and-arm workout at a New Jersey gym that had gone rogue. It is illegal for health clubs to be open for anything other than private training sessions in New Jersey, one of only seven states…
Linus Adolfsson opened up the Madison Avenue location of Hästens Sleep Spa on March 1. By March 10, he closed the store, which sells high-end beds, and the three locations he owns in Los Angeles with his business partner Carl Larsson. His reaction involved unprintable exclamations of woe. Hästens is a Swedish mattress company that…