Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher Whether tending to aging parents or friends battling illness, caretakers repeatedly give their time and energy to others. But at what cost to themselves? On this week’s Modern Love podcast, the actress Nazanin Boniadi reads “A…
In “One Good Meal,” we ask cooking-inclined creative people to share the story behind a favorite dish they actually make and eat at home on a regular basis — and not just when they’re trying to impress. In Spanish, the word cachete roughly translates to “slap in the face” — which is exactly the impact…
[Click here to get NYT Parenting in your inbox once a week.] Hello, and welcome to the first installment of the NYT Parenting newsletter! I’m Jess Grose, the lead editor of Parenting, and the mom of two girls who are 6 and almost 3. I’ll be your guide each week as we discuss all the…
Centers that provide mammograms to screen for breast cancer will have to tell women whether they have dense breast tissue, which can increase the risk of cancer and mask tumors, the Food and Drug Administration announced in a proposed rule on Wednesday. Dense tissue can hide cancer from X-rays, making mammography less reliable. Women with…
The mammy caricature, perpetuated by racist objects like dolls and ceramics, portrayed black women as subservient.CreditGabe Palmer/Alamy Mammy kitchen items, including jars, salt and pepper shakers, and kitchen bells, grew in popularity during the Jim Crow era.CreditJeffrey Greenberg/UIG, via Getty Images In a Black History Month roiled by tone-deaf scandals in politics and fashion involving…
The hallmark of a great pair of shoes is versatility. You know you’ve got your hands on something special when the same style works for brunch with friends, a day at the office, and a night out. Even better? When it’s super comfortable like a sneaker. Thanks to the growing popularity of the category, it’s…
Image Bill Mullen, a fashion stylist and illustrator, wants you to know that he used to wear a belt made out of teeth, skulls on every finger and cataracts of crosses, his exotic turnout once spurring a stranger to bellow, “Go for it, space monkey, go for it.” Solange Knowles is touting “Metatronia,” an architecturally…
It was 2 a.m. at a onetime brewery in Brooklyn, and Shangela, a multiseason star from “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” swirled and strutted in a glittery red gown, lip-syncing to “Toy,” the bubbly Eurovision winner by Netta. As she executed a flawless death drop, a deafening roar rose from the crowd of 400, a mix of…
“New York always had wonderful small independent theaters, and we went to them all the time,” Patti Smith, the writer, performer and 1970s icon, said at the Metrograph cinema on Ludlow Street on Thursday night. “The first independent cinemas were, like, 42nd Street theaters where you paid 50 cents,” she added. “You could watch Fellini…
Courtesy Beach pants are the type of clothing that give you the opportunity to step out of your usual trouser habits and wear what you really want: elastic waist bottoms that are kind of weird. They’re a fancy version of couch sweats, if you will. Zippers are discouraged, zany prints are a must, and hell,…