Anemia May Increase Dementia Risk

A new study confirms earlier reports that anemia — a condition caused by having too little hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying component of red blood cells — increases the risk for dementia. It found that having high hemoglobin levels does so as well. Dutch researchers looked at 12,305 people without dementia at the start of the study,…

Anna Wintour Removed Her Sunglasses for This

It’s not often something is such a spectacle that Anna Wintour, the artistic director of Condé Nast, takes off her sunglasses. But even she needed bare eyes Thursday to take in the auditorium of the Al Hirschfeld Theater in Times Square, which has been transformed into a fin-de-siècle Parisian nightclub for “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.”…

Swae Lee Sleeps With His Jewelry On

Swae Lee, half of the hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd, has been stepping out on his own. After teaming with such disparate artists as French Montana (“Unforgettable”), Post Malone (“Sunflower”) and Madonna (“Crave”), he is set to release his second solo album. He has also been honing a signature style, beyond his mop-top dreads and elaborate…

Celebrate Filipino Food

Good morning. Our Ligaya Mishan has a beautiful article in The Times today about the Filipina food writer Doreen Gamboa Fernandez, who died in 2002 but whose work is right now inspiring a new generation of cooks and restaurateurs. “She revolutionized Filipino food,” Ligaya wrote, “simply by treating it as what it is: a cuisine.”…