My stepbrother — with whom I am cordial but hardly close — connected with a childhood friend of mine on a dating app. She told him I hated him when we were growing up (30 years ago), and he confronted me about it. I tried to laugh it off and ascribe anything I said at…
For portraits, find the right backdrop Look for a clean background — a natural canvas with relatively solid coloring or shape, like a wall, open sky or foliage. If that’s not possible, move around the subject to find a backdrop that is less cluttered. Also, check that there are no upright objects, such as streetlamps…
DuPont and 3M, which was manufacturing PFAS and using one in Scotchgard, began studying the potential health effects of their formulations in part as an occupational-safety measure. Initially, scientists assumed that because the first compounds were so stable and resistant to change — “inert,” in chemistry parlance — it would be impossible for them to…
I moved to Spain about a year ago and at one of my first meals in Madrid, I saw a handsome young couple drinking some kind of unidentifiable light brown cocktail on ice with a wedge of orange and green olives. It was before noon and I was stumped. I had to know what it…
It’s such a short window, when peaches are ripe enough to eat just as they are, so it’s tempting to elevate this complex, floral fruit: to wax just a little bit too lyrical. Notes of vanilla are present, traces of almonds. Echoes are heard in chardonnays and rieslings, sémillons and proseccos. But a perfectly ripe…
I strongly believe that a little leap into the unknown is healthy for the psyche, which is why I’m taking a leap of my own: Starting this week I’m temporarily leaving the Food section, and this newsletter, to spend three months editing and reporting on The Times’s Live desk, which you may know as the…
Armed with only a scalpel, a clamp and a metal probe, Philip L. Sherman would routinely carry out his surgical mission in about 15 seconds, leave in as little as 10 minutes and hotfoot it to his car, which was probably parked illegally but perhaps spared a ticket by the inspired placard on his windshield:…
Headliner Nar Highlighting one whitewashed, reclaimed wood wall of this new Turkish restaurant is an impressionistic painting by Lia Ali of Rumi, the mystic poet and scholar who lived and is buried in the city of Konya. The fervid scene, also reflected in mirrors across the room, contrasts the light turquoise banquettes that calmly suggest…
Why It Matters: Opioid addiction affects every part of American society. Addiction cuts across class, race and geography, the KFF researchers found. Rural and white Americans were the likeliest to report personal or family opioid addiction, but significant percentages of Black, Hispanic, urban and suburban families did, as well. White families were more likely than…
“I’m back trying red,” Huma Abedin shared, talking about her look and lipstick, which has been the subject of many takes. The author and longtime aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was wearing a bright yellow floral sheath dress from One/Of by Patricia Voto, and standing next to the pool at a private…