For one brief and mostly glorious moment in 2013, my son, Joshua, and I had a cookie business. We had a kitchen that was as compact as a toy boat’s galley and a shop the size of a capsule hotel room. But the store’s design was beautiful — thank you, Joshua Greenspan — and just…
Changes in retail spaces — say, new cash registers at the nearest big-box store — are met by most shoppers with a “huh,” if anything. But for some, even the most seemingly minor tweaks are noticed and documented online as part of modern American history. On Facebook and Reddit, private groups and public forums like…
COLLEGE STATION, Tex. — On a steamy afternoon in June, Jim Poynter, the coach of the 7-on-7 touch football team at Lamar High School in Arlington, Tex., escorted one of his former players around the state tournament. In a game last spring, the player, Brett Green Jr., was knocked out after his head collided with…
Maple syrup dominates when it comes to pancake toppings, but the sap of other trees like birch and walnut can also be tapped. New Leaf Tree Syrups, a brand under the company the Forest Farmers, located in Mount Lyon, N.Y., and Marshfield, Vt., now bottles woodsy, organic American beech syrup; viscous and fruity sweet birch…
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Brittany Tomlinson hit record on her iPhone and cracked open a can of kombucha for the first time. She hated it. Then she loved it. Then she didn’t know how she felt. She still isn’t sure. “Low-key it’s kind of good, but it’s nasty,” Ms. Tomlinson said in an interview, continuing to waffle. However indecisive…
The oracles are screaming. They wave around their yield curves and their poll results and their images of ice and fire. Every headline is a forecast. Every stray observation supports a theory. Something is about to happen. (But when?) Many things are about to happen. (And here’s why!) Nobody is sure they know anything, but…
For die-hard shoppers, the recession in the late 2000s was defined by promotions: daily deals, flash-sale sites and steep discounts that went beyond half-off markdowns. At times, it felt like the whole world was on sale. A decade later, the promotional landscape looks a lot different. Today you can download Honey, a browser extension that…
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