Having a 13-Year-Old Means Reliving Middle School
A mom’s view of raising a young teen in 2023.
Michael Leva, Who Found Fashion Fame Early, Is Dead at 62
By 1995, however, he was consulting for a Japanese company, the Miki Corporation. “It’s good money for very little headache,” he told Constance C.R. White of The Times. “I literally made no money when I worked on my own. I make good money now.” Michael Leva was born on Jan. 15, 1961, in Denville, N.J.,…
Roasted Chickpeas With Peppers and Goat Cheese Recipe
There’s a time-honored technique for roasting bell peppers. This recipe isn’t it. The tried-and-true method produces lissome, velvety peppers with a concentrated, sweet flavor. But it’s also a pain. Charring the whole peppers over an open flame, then steaming, cooling, peeling, seeding and deveining them, is time-consuming and messy, and it leaves sooty flecks of…
U.S. Will Resume Offering Free At-Home Covid Tests
The Biden administration, looking ahead to a possible winter surge of Covid-19, announced on Wednesday that it was reviving its program of offering Americans free coronavirus tests through the mail and would spend $600 million to buy tests from a dozen domestic manufacturers. The website for the program, covidtests.gov, will begin accepting orders on Monday,…
Julia Allison, Pioneering Influencer, Finds Love With Law Scholar Noah Feldman
Still, there was an acculturation process — particularly for Mr. Feldman, who is not really the dance-like-no-one-is-watching type. To begin with, Ms. Allison was immersed in a scene, centered on Burning Man, about which Mr. Feldman knew nothing. “Many of Julia’s friends have jobs I didn’t know existed until I met Julia,” Mr. Feldman said.…
The Reach of Wildfire Smoke Is Going Global and Undoing Progress on Clean Air
On the heels of an exceptionally fiery and smoky summer, two new reports released Wednesday confirmed what many Americans have been already seeing and breathing. Smoke from increasingly frequent and increasingly large fires has started to undo decades of hard-won gains in air quality, and the problem is expected to only get worse, not just…
14 Rare Photos of Gisele Bündchen Early in Her Career
Here, Bündchen gets her hair and makeup done while on the phone. She started modeling in 1994 when she took a class with her sister to prepare for an upcoming debutante ball. Her course included trips to Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo, and it was during this time that Bündchen was scouted by…
Sufjan Stevens Says He Lost Ability to Walk From Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Sufjan Stevens, the indie-rock singer-songwriter, said in a statement on his website on Wednesday that he was in recovery from a rare neurological condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome that had taken away his ability to walk, saying he had been hospitalized for several weeks but was expected to recover. “Last month I woke up one morning…
The Magician of Milan
Mr. Blazy has become the epitome of an alternative approach: a designer who puts himself second to the products, the people who make them and the people who buy them. “He doesn’t see himself in the driver’s seat of the company,” said François-Henri Pinault, the chief executive of Kering, the group that owns Bottega Veneta.…
Four-Ingredient Nutella Brownies With a Five-Minute Prep Time
I nearly always end this newsletter with a dessert, as my sweet tooth demands, but sometimes you have to start off with a treat. And Jessie Sheehan’s Nutella brownies demand a spot right at the top. Using only four ingredients — Nutella, flour, eggs, salt — and one bowl and a spatula for mixing, it’s…