‘I Wouldn’t Let Him Go’ On Dec. 8, 2015, Mr. Tompkins was on a kayaking trip on General Carrera Lake, which straddles Chile and Argentina, with a group of friends, including Mr. Chouinard. Ms. Tompkins, who was several hours away by car, had discreetly given a member of the group a satellite phone, a device…
I once believed that weekend mornings were a time for elaborate culinary rituals. After a quick jaunt to the farmers’ market for fruits and herbs, I would prepare biscuits or scones from scratch, while jazz or Afrobeat filled the air. Now, with a 4- and 1-year-old shaking me from sleep seven days a week, weekend…
Hospitals are more likely to give drug tests to Black women delivering babies than white women, regardless of the mother’s history of substance use, suggests a new study of a health system in Pennsylvania. And such excessive testing was unwarranted, the study found: Black women were less likely than white women to test positive for…
“Crispy” is one of the most appealing adjectives in food, right up there with “crunchy” and “creamy,” not to mention “sizzled,” “smashed” and “seared.” It conjures pleasure before you’ve even cooked or purchased the food in question, let alone taken a bite. What is it? The delicate shattering sensation? The immense satisfaction of that sound?…
Four months ago, Joshua Lutz started scouring the country for Chartreuse, the bright-green herbal liqueur based on a secret recipe of 130 botanicals and produced in the French Alps by the Carthusian order of monks for more than two centuries. Mr. Lutz, a health care technology professional based in Huntington Woods, Mich., has loved the…
Welcome to Same Same But Different. As Gen Z and millennial fashion editors, respectively, we know a thing or two about shopping—for all ages, and especially our demographics. As we find the best products for you, we can’t help but do a little shopping for ourselves and build our personal (age-appropriate) wish lists. And now,…
NASHVILLE — “Bless your heart!” Lucinda Williams delivered the Southern benediction in her distinctive drawl. She has a memoir coming out soon, and Ms. Williams, the celebrated singer-songwriter who has been compared to Raymond Carver for the acuity of her work, was nonetheless not too sure about this particular literary endeavor. So when a visitor…
“I am ginseng,” boomed the voice of Tilda Swinton to partygoers in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur, where Sulwhasoo, the Korean beauty brand, was throwing a lavish dinner to celebrate its new partnership with the 152-year-old institution. A promotional video featuring Ms. Swinton played overhead, depicting a ginseng root spinning in circles.…
In honor of this year’s 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso, museums and other cultural institutions are pulling out all the stops, with about 50 exhibitions and events in the United States and Europe. Some offer novel perspectives on the celebrated artist’s seven-decade career: At the Cincinnati Art Museum, “Picasso Landscapes: Out of…
The colors of a Peter Halley painting are assaultive — lurid hazmat oranges and jaundiced yellows nearly blinding in their acid-dipped fluorescence. And that’s before the dread creeps in, the suspicion that despite being connected in innumerable ways, each of us has never been more alone. In the 1980s Halley devised a simple vocabulary: cells…