A year ago, the Food and Drug Administration announced new regulations allowing the sale of over-the-counter hearing aids and setting standards for their safety and effectiveness. That step — which was supposed to take three years but required five — portended cheaper, high-quality hearing aids that people with mild to moderate hearing loss could buy…
Chile crisp or crunch has become as ubiquitous in the kitchen as peanuts on a bar. Depending on whose jar you’re opening, there are slight variations. A new one that’s densely packed with soybeans, fava beans, yellow split peas and pumpkin seeds doubles down on the crunch factor. The fire component is moderate. It’s from…
With Halloween jumping out at us tomorrow, and Thanksgiving waiting around the corner, the season is sporting its brightest colors. The trees are rubicund with turning leaves; the farmers’ market ruddy with apples and pumpkins; the impulse rack in the supermarket checkout line ablaze with beckoning bags of candy corn. What better match for this…
Robert Irwin, who died last week in San Diego, at 95, had one of the most restless, inquiring minds of any artist I have ever known. As the story goes, in 1966 he stepped back from one of his very ethereal, so-called abstract “dot paintings” — composed of small dots of near-complementary colors — and…
I thought pantyhose were dead, but now it seems as if they are being treated as the equivalent of actual pants. Are we really supposed to believe the pantyhose-instead-of-pants look I see on social media is going to be a trend? And I thought leggings were bad. — Susan, Vancouver, B.C. It’s true: Pantyhose (one…
Sandy Liang’s bow-adorned fashion shows quickly cemented the brand as the ultimate downtown uniform, and today, the designer launched their first-ever home collection. The eponymous brand, spotted on celebrities like Emily Ratajkowski, embraces girlhood dressing with rosette-studded tops, ballerina flats, and micr0-mini pleated skirts. Its new home items will complete the downtown fashionista’s home, with…
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One recent morning, in the bustle of Florence’s ancient central market, Silvano Marchetto, a stout 76-year-old man with a mane of white hair, sat nursing a Negroni as he considered what he wanted to cook for dinner. The butchers and fishmongers who walked by threw respectful nods his way. The silver bracelets on his wrists…
Almost six years after leaving Celine, the brand she transformed into one of the most influential fashion lines in the world, and a little more than two years after revealing that, wait — she was actually coming back, and under her own name, Phoebe Philo the messiah (sorry, designer) has finally returned to fashion with…
In music therapy, clients play and listen to music as treatment for stress, depression and anxiety. Here’s how it works.