Deaths due to substance abuse, particularly of alcohol and opioids, rose sharply among older Americans in 2020, the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, as lockdowns disrupted routines and isolation and fear spread, federal health researchers reported on Wednesday. Alcohol and opioid deaths remained far less common among older people than among those middled-aged and…
I was invited to a collaging party at a friend’s house recently. Crafting of any kind is pretty new to me, but I fell hard for the process of riffling through piles of magazines, old picture books, discarded catalogs and stacks of textured, printed papers. My contribution was a bunch of pressed autumn leaves and…
For two decades, Baker refused to divulge his secret. He finally cracked in 1947 and revealed all to General Mills. (How much he was paid he took to the grave when he died in 1974.) Instead of butter, he used vegetable oil in a batter thick with yolks and folded together with glossy peaks of…
She also gave it to Cassandra Grey, a beauty entrepreneur, who introduced the products at Violet Grey, an influential beauty e-commerce site and store. (Ms. Grey had already gotten a sample from Elizabeth Sulcer, a stylist in Los Angeles.) Ms. Griffith invested in Augustinus Bader, and she continues to fly the flag fervently. Soon Professor…
I was never exactly an unadulterated fan of Alessandro Michele, the recently-no-longer Gucci designer. I often found his collections overwrought and self-indulgent; unedited, like the rambling monologues he would conduct after shows in the guise of a news conference, throwing himself into a thronelike chair in exhaustion. Yet for the last week, ever since the…
My husband and I own a vacation condominium (with two bedrooms and two bathrooms) that we like to make available to our five adult children. We don’t use it over the holidays, but the kids’ use of it during this period has become contentious. Four are married, one is divorced and they all have children.…
Partying Till Sunrise The ritual builds community with non-Jews too. Shay O’Brien, a Ph.D. student studying sociology at Princeton, attended her first Shabbat dinner at a friend’s home on the Lower East Side at the beginning of November. “It definitely felt more special than a regular dinner,” said Ms. O’Brien, 32. And: “Someone made homemade…
María José Borquez, owner of Borquez & Asociados, agreed that most transactions are domestic, with many city buyers seeking homes in the south of Chile (particularly Patagonia), where she has seen a 20 percent increase in queries over the past four years, and a similar trend in pricing. “There’s a lot of interest in different…
Thanksgiving may be past us, but that only means one thing: The holiday season is just beginning. Your last handful of weeks before we officially ring in 2023 are sure to be chock-full of festivities, and there’s no doubt you’ll need a few good outfits to have on hand. Naturally, such ensembles also include a…
When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that would punish California doctors for spreading false information about Covid-19 vaccines and treatments, he pledged that it would apply only in the most “egregious instances” of misleading patients. It may never have the chance. Even before the law, the nation’s first of its kind, takes…