Pajeon, those crisp-edged, scallion-filled Korean pancakes, are delectable in any weather. But it’s on rainy, blustery days, when the skies seem bleak and the air feels damp, that the chef Sohui Kim craves them the most. Ms. Kim, an owner of Insa and The Good Fork restaurants in Brooklyn, told me this as she was…
When it comes to cold-weather staples, tights are as essential as sweaters. The difference? An entire section of your closet is dedicated to tops warm enough to brave chilly weather in, but there’s probably only a pair or two of tights in your drawers. Fall is a perfect time, though, to add quality tights to…
The poets Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky met at a party in Brooklyn nearly a decade ago and bonded over astrology. Mr. Dimitrov, 34, a Sagittarius, and Ms. Lasky, 41, an Aries, went on to develop the Twitter account, Astro Poets. Now over half a million followers receive their weekly forecast and daily quips. Their…
On a summer afternoon in Mexico City’s leafy Roma Norte neighborhood, a steady stream of customers filled the tiny coffee shop Raku, which means “joy” in Japanese. While they were drawn by the coffee, I was in the new spot to learn how the owner Mauricio Zubirats makes a cup of matcha tea. The fine…
In a move that worries many public health experts, the federal government is quietly shutting down a surveillance program for dangerous animal viruses that someday may infect humans. The United Nations Environment Program estimates that a new animal disease that can also infect humans is discovered every four months. Ending the program, experts fear, will…
SOUTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. — The only piece of fiction in Jenny Slate’s new book, “Little Weirds,” describes a love that grew old in an un-air-conditioned house by the Atlantic Ocean. “I was trying to say goodbye to my ex-husband, who is an important person in my life and a friend,” the actress and comedian said…
It’s easy to imagine lounging in the garden at the sprawling villa of Julia Felix, a savvy Roman business woman who lived in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in the first century A.D. There would have been wine to drink, and fresh figs, apricots and walnuts to savor. The warm sea breeze would have…
This Halloween, my daughters will don their wigs and wands and, holding out their plastic pumpkins, knock on the doors of houses where friends used to live. The migration happened slowly at first. Our “best friend couple” moved home to Louisville for a new job. Seven years gone, their door still flashes the shade of…
“See that hand?” said Justin Hartley, pointing to the second hand on his Rolex Daytona as it skimmed the black-and-champagne face. “That hand is going so slow. And it never speeds up.” On a sun-dazzled morning in late September, Mr. Hartley, 42, a star of the prime-time weepie “This Is Us,” was at Wempe Jewelers,…
On one recent intensive care unit shift, I admitted a man whose heart had stopped earlier that day. By the time I met him, it seemed clear that he wasn’t going to live. So when he went into cardiac arrest for what I suspected would be the last time, I headed out of the unit…