Who: Mother What: “Lost & Found” collection Where: Online at motherdenim.com Why: Fall is just around the corner—and Mother is ushering in the new season with a vintage-tinged 11-piece capsule collection, “Lost & Found,” which references throwback styles from the ’70s and ’80s. (Think: trucker hats, two-tone tops, and dark-wash denim.) We love the retro…
August might seem a little late to shop for swimsuits, but it’s also the time of year when many of us may finally be on vacation — and, hopefully, in or near a body of water. If you’ve waited ’til now to replace your old swimsuit, fear not. There are lots of options still available…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. FOMO has long been the driver of fashion trends. Whether it’s a limited-edition drop, that show only 100 people got invited to, or a miles-long waiting list for an “It” bag: introduce scarcity, and you have a recipe for desire. But…
The family of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cancer cells were taken without consent and used to pioneer numerous medical discoveries, reached a settlement on Monday with a biotechnology company that had used the cells. In a lawsuit filed in October 2021, descendants of Ms. Lacks, who died decades ago, accused the company, Thermo…
On a recent Friday morning, the cookbook author Molly Baz put the finishing touch on a new recipe for shingled tomato toast with sesame mayo. Reaching into a wooden salt cellar, she grabbed a three-finger pinch of salt and showered her dish. Not just any salt — Diamond Crystal kosher salt. “It’s just the only…
Headliner Yemen Café What does owning restaurants have in common with flying? Both are risky endeavors, and both are Akram Nassir’s careers. He’s a captain for Delta Air Lines and has just opened another Yemen Café. While achieving his dream of becoming a pilot, he went into the restaurant business with his father and uncle.…
This August menu is essentially designed for beating the heat on seriously sweltering summer days, when ice-cold everything seems appropriate. We’re on the right track, I think, with a chilled soup, followed by a room-temperature vegetable salad and a dessert straight from the refrigerator. The avocado soup — a cool, savory smoothie of avocado, lime…
It’s cruel that the best time of year to bake is also when you’re least likely to want to turn on the oven, and yet every summer I heat up the kitchen baking cherry pie and blueberry crisp. Desserts made with peak fruit are irresistible, and I mean that literally: I can’t resist them. I…
Jennifer Lopez’s 54th year on this planet is shaping up to be pretty iconic so far: Ben Affleck threw her a giant party, she lounged around in a bikini, chilled with her family, and has a new partnership with Intimissimi lingerie, which she showcased in a recent Instagram post. I mean, I, too, would be…
It’s a few days after the Broadway opening of “Here Lies Love,” the David Byrne/Fatboy Slim poperetta that charts the rise and fall of the Philippines’s infamous first couple, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. And here sits Jose Llana — he plays Ferdinand — in the kitchen of the Hamptons, N.Y., weekend house he shares with…