This year I made time to grow the best vegetables, monster vegetables, that I’ve ever grown in my life. My houses are never done. And I’m writing my autobiography. That’s the scariest project for me because I don’t really like everything about myself — where I’ve been, what I’ve done. I get up at 6:30…
Some 200 Barbie fans braved a hard rain on Wednesday evening as they made their way to the Rizzoli bookstore in Manhattan for the release of a coffee-table book celebrating the doll’s fashion history. Inside, some took off their raincoats to reveal pink skirts, scarves, sweaters and blazers. Before a panel discussion began, they helped…
For those of us who grew up in the shadow of war, ambition was something natural, a vital drive. It was not so much a desire for fame and notoriety but rather an urge for personal fulfillment, a way to assert oneself outside the hardship and to overcome it. My mother and father taught me…
I love writing, I love acting, going onstage and doing my little one-woman show, and I refuse to be defined by a number, by an age. I think that’s terribly old-fashioned and not relevant in today’s world. But you have to be resilient in this business. Rejection is a part of it. I look with…
People can experience dizziness, anxiety and even “phantom” aftershocks following a quake.
I am going to an eclipse watching party, but aside from the viewing glasses, which I already have, what should I wear? Dressing in theme seems silly, but I want to acknowledge the event. — Susan, Rochester, N.Y. It’s human instinct, when celebrating a total solar eclipse — a moment of real darkness in the…
The rapper Cardi B found herself embroiled in a sharp back-and-forth with a social media personality this week after he brought up her social class, upbringing and skin color. A quarrel soon erupted over colorism and questions of who gets to profit over which public affect. Of course, Cardi B isn’t one to shrink from…
Are you tired of spending a fortune at fancy coffee shops just to get your daily caffeine fix? Well, worry not, because I’m here to spill the beans on how you can brew barista-quality espresso right in the comfort of your own kitchen. As a home-brewer coffee enthusiast myself, I’d like to share some of…
The last episode of “The New Look,” the Apple TV+ series about Christian Dior, Coco Chanel and the birth of post-World War II fashion, aired on April 4. A fictional take on the choices those designers had to make to survive, the show offered its own new look, not just at the origin story of…
In the olden days, before it was X and before many users decamped to alternative social media platforms, Twitter was the place to be for a collective experience. Election updates! Weather events! That time Oprah interviewed Meghan Markle! Whether these moments were fun or terrifying or both, the site was where millions of people went…