A Simple Lemon Bar Recipe for Everyone

Here’s another crowd-pleaser of a recipe starring something yellow: Millie Peartree’s Southern fried corn, which cooks up glossy and fragrant, dotted with bits of roasted red pepper and crisp nuggets of bacon. The bacon makes this hearty enough to serve as a light main course, perhaps paired with Samin Nosrat’s salad-e Shirazi, a Persian cucumber,…

Watch Brands Borrow Some of Music’s Cool

In 2022, when Mark Ronson, the Grammy- and Oscar-winning D.J., songwriter and super-producer, became a brand ambassador for the Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet (A.P.), there was an element of kismet to the partnership. “I know about A.P. through music,” Mr. Ronson recalled last month on a phone call from his home in New York City.…

In Opera, Clocks Take the Spotlight

“At times I get up in the middle of the night and stop all the clocks. All of them,” an aging princess sings in “Der Rosenkavalier,” Richard Strauss’s sprawling opera of love, devotion and loss. And time is fleeting, the character explains to her young lover: It “courses between you and me — silent, as…