Early in this century, the documentary director Olivier Meyrou, at the invitation of Pierre Bergé, spent two and a half years filming the couturier Yves Saint Laurent and his employees and associates. Bergé, of course, was one of them: Saint Laurent’s longtime business manager, hard-nosed where Saint Laurent was dreamy, is a central figure in…
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PARIS — The morning of Jacques Chirac’s funeral the sun came out. There was an autumn crispness to the air and Paris was, on Monday, as it is wont to be at such times, gleaming with pomp and a sense of circumstance past. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was in town; so was President…
MAKE IT SCREAM, MAKE IT BURNEssaysBy Leslie Jamison Pity the personal essayist, fated to play with a reader’s tolerance for that most cursed of vowels. Too many “I”s and you’re self-absorbed; too few and: Where are you in this piece? Perhaps no other writer of her generation has wrestled with this conundrum more than Leslie…
In 2017, the Dallas food blogger Urvashi Pitre published the “Indian Instant Pot Cookbook.” By any measure, it was a hit, selling more than 100,000 copies. But under the contract she signed with her publisher, Callisto Media, Ms. Pitre received no advance, the payment often given to an author when a book deal is signed.…
LOS ANGELES — If you can navigate the maze of roads and freeways in this city and choose not to break a single traffic law, congratulations. You deserve a prize. That prize could have been $20,000, in fact, if you had enrolled in the first L.A.’s Safest Driver contest this summer. Deborra Sarei, 46, a…
ImageCreditOzier Muhammad/The New York Times Researchers are in another fight about food. This week the Annals of Internal Medicine published studies arguing that eating red meat poses minimal health risks for most people, and that even our certainty about that link is weak. With these conclusions in hand, the authors offered a set of recommendations…
Billy Durney, the Brooklyn restaurateur and pitmaster, has been talking for several years about the fried chicken that he planned to bring to Red Hook. At first, there was no reason to doubt him. That the man is comfortable with long time horizons was clear to anyone who watched how patiently he studied the science…
The Greek Revival charmer that’s home to the husband-and-wife actors Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry looks modest from the road, rather like a playhouse for a sophisticated child. “We love that — our friends keep forgetting what we have here,” said Ms. Eikenberry, who starred for eight seasons (from 1986 to 1994) with Mr. Tucker…
ImageRuby City, a 14,000-square-foot contemporary art center designed by the British architect David Adjaye, debuts October 13 in San Antonio TX, and will house the art collection of philanthropist Linda Pace, heir to the Pace Picante salsa fortune, who died in 2007.CreditDror Baldinger/Ruby City and Adjaye Associates Red Jewel of Texas Linda Pace, a philanthropist…