When the pandemic lockdowns began, Jennifer Jewell, a garden writer and podcaster, was traveling on an East Coast speaking tour. She and her partner, John Whittlesey, planned to be away from their Butte County, Calif., home for weeks, so they had skipped their usual spring vegetable-garden preparations, including ordering seeds. “Quick,” they thought, “find a…
Night owls may never truly love the those early hours. But there are simple ways to make them feel a little less painful.
The diverse crowd that Singers attracts can be partly attributed to its branding — or rather, lack thereof. Its exterior is nondescript, bearing no distinctive L.G.B.T.Q. markers like rainbows or trans flags, but word of mouth has lured a growing pool of regulars. The staff, like that of C’mon Everybody, a bar known for its…
How did they know how to live like this, giving themselves to the moment, this murmur of voices, these reflections off glass, with no need for it to lead anywhere? Always I had this longing for plot, motivation, story — some shimmer to chase through the night. I wondered if this was the American in…
Huddled in the North Atlantic between Iceland, Scotland and Norway, the Faroes — an 18-island archipelago and self-governing nation within the Kingdom of Denmark — captivates visitors the instant they land at the airport on the island of Vágar. Silence saturates the emerald green slopes and basalt cliffs. Sheep roam the grassy expanses that are…
Morgan Riddle was being watched. Outside the grandstand, while she idled beneath the summer sun, a passer-by stopped, turned and pointed a phone at her, then wordlessly walked away. Ms. Riddle just adjusted her black oval Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy-style sunglasses. Once inside the tennis match, while she and more than 1,000 other spectators found their seats,…
A series about how cities transform, and the effect of that on everyday life. As the sky began to tint lemon-yellow one evening last month, 50 or so Parisians marched along to the Rue de l’Aude in the south of the city and gathered in a nautically themed loft space filled with chairs. Some of…
Yes, you can eat standout Korean food without going broke I wrote this week about the rapid rise in Manhattan of Korean restaurants that qualify as fine dining, including Jungsik, Atomix, Cote and Oiji Mi. The term fine dining implies a certain attentiveness in service and, on the plate, an attention to detail that can…
On Monday evening, the first day of the U.S. Open, actors, designers and former professional athletes walked into a side entrance, lined with tennis fans at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. They walked a blue carpet, the same color as the famous courts. A crowd of about 200 people arrived…
Doctors in Australia had screened, scanned and tested a woman to find out why she was sick after being hospitalized with abdominal pains and diarrhea. They were not prepared for what they found. A three-inch red worm was living in the woman’s brain. The worm was removed last year after doctors spent more than a…