On a recent Friday evening, David Igbokwe and his friends were relaxing in their Miami Beach Airbnb, listening to music and getting ready to go out to dinner. Their plans were interrupted by a knock at the door. “City of Miami Beach,” said Jackie Caicedo, a code compliance officer who works for the city. Mr.…
the look Ranchers and seekers of the “mythic West” travel each year to a small Nevada city to practice a tradition born of labor and regional identity. Photographs by Aubrey Trinnaman Text by Jared Stanley Produced by Eve Lyons March 9, 2019 Image The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, now in its 35th year, draws thousands…
Haley Jill Draznin and Jason Leibowitz were married March 9 at Guastavino’s, an events space in New York. Rabbi Daniel Alder officiated. The bride, 28, works in New York as a reporter and producer for CNN, covering political and business news. She graduated from Emory University in Atlanta. She is a daughter of Sharon Rosenberg…
Lara Filine and Peter Ernest Blume were married March 7 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Angel L. Lopez, a staff member of the City Clerk’s Office, officiated. The bride, 58, is an information technology enterprise architect at Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, N.J. She was previously a chief technology officer at Credit2B, a software…
Vanessa Beatriz Golenia and Peter Gynd Medley were married March 6 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. A staff member of the City Clerk’s Office officiated. On Feb. 23, the couple took part in a celebration ceremony in the Yucatán, Mexico, that was produced by Mia Rovengo, a New York playwright, and took place at Hacienda…
“Project Runway” arrived on television at the end of 2004, the same year that Mark Zuckerberg created a website called The Facebook at Harvard. In 2007, Apple released the first iPhone. Three years later, when “Project Runway” was in its seventh season, Instagram appeared in the App Store. That tech-history lesson is to say: 2019…
An intriguing new study suggests that the order in which we choose food items might have an impact on how many calories we consume overall. A recent investigation into food choices reaches a surprising conclusion. Consumers often face an array of food choices, whether they are picking a meal in a restaurant or from a…
Members access the space, located in Central Brooklyn, by having their fingers scanned and giving a passcode. Upon entering, they find a lounge, complete with couches, a barber chair and books on finance. The spiral staircase leads to an area with workstations. Inside on a recent day, a man who works as a consultant helped…
Researchers discover a drug that has the potential to stop sepsis before the condition reaches major organs and becomes fatal. A new preclinical trial of a sepsis drug brings hopeful results. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that occurs when an existing infection — such as one that develops in a cut, a respiratory infection, or…
Image CreditPhoto Illustration by The New York Times; Photos via Shutterstock and New York Public Library The hamburger is suddenly embroiled in a political dispute. Supporters of the Green New Deal, according to a Republican talking point, are anti-patty. “They want to take away your hamburgers,” Sebastian Gorka, a former adviser to President Trump, said…