Tips to a Workout in the Rain
Fans of soggy weather workouts swear by their benefits. Here’s how to exercise in a drizzle smartly and safely, and maybe even enjoy it.
Fans of soggy weather workouts swear by their benefits. Here’s how to exercise in a drizzle smartly and safely, and maybe even enjoy it.
More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers began a three-day strike Wednesday, a job action that could cause delays for patients — especially in California — in getting medical appointments, lab results and prescriptions. After contract talks failed overnight, the walkout started with a small number of employees in Virginia and the District of…
If you’re on TikTok (or have a youth in your home that’s on the app), you may have heard of marry me chicken, a dish so delicious it has motivated countless feet-draggers to drop their doubts and pop the question. (You can read Christina Morales’s fun piece on the subject in The New York Times.)…
Months passed. I ate okonomiyaki: the only thing my stomach could stand the first few weeks of Covid isolation. The only thing to settle my nerves after the uprisings a few months later. And then a version shared among friends, at a long-delayed reunion, on a patio in Oakland. A recipe I cooked during months…
Like other rewards programs, Blackbird collects basic personal data — name, ZIP code and birth date — as well as the details of each check: what you ordered, special requests, food allergies and the like. “Independent restaurants don’t have the tools to make use of that raw data,” Mr. Leventhal said. “There’s a difference between…
Three days after Sarah Burton showed her final Alexander McQueen collection at Paris Fashion Week, the brand’s parent company named Seán McGirr, an Irish designer, as her successor. “Alexander McQueen is a house we are passionate about, and we are confident that Seán McGirr will be able to pursue its journey with a new creative…
I’m as confused as a goat on AstroTurf, and I hope you can help me: My wife and I are retired. We got married a year ago. About two years before that, when we started to get serious about each other, I invited her to move into my home. (I own it, and there’s no…
Khalid Abdulqaadir’s life was full of secrets. He started keeping them when he was a teenager, after his father was accused of an unimaginable crime. He didn’t want to explain his family history every time he started a new relationship. So his secrets followed him, even as he got married. Many years later, Khalid was…
It wasn’t until I called Brendan Canning, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, that I found someone willing to speculate how an allergy in the esophagus might lead to the terrifying sensation of drowning. Canning, a self-described “science nerd,” is not a physician but a researcher who focuses on allergies and airways. He explained…
The linen closet did not hold nearly enough sheets to blunt the vengeance of a late-May freeze that turned umbrella-like Astilboides leaves into alien life-forms. There was nothing in any cupboard — or in the barn or the toolbox beneath the pantry sink — to convince the rains to come more gently, please, not several…