Name: Midori Francis Age: 28 Hometown: Rumson, N.J. Now Lives: In a two-bedroom apartment on the West Side of Los Angeles, which she moved into last summer. Claim to Fame: Ms. Francis is a queer Asian American actress who starred in “The Sex Lives of College Girls” on HBO and “Dash & Lily,” a young…
That fall, a friend told the patient about a clinic at New York University that specialized in facial palsies. She quickly found it on the internet: the Facial Paralysis and Reanimation Center. She studied the faces of the doctors at the clinic. Dr. Judy Lee was a specialist in disorders of the ear, nose and…
PARIS — The cavernous Stade Jean-Bouin, the rugby arena in the 16th Arrondissement, was heaving late Wednesday night. Around 7,000 people were munching French fries, clutching drinks, waving their phones in the air and otherwise waiting for the third Balmain Festival to begin. Backstage, reached through a maze of hallways, the designer Olivier Rousteing was…
Natalie Dean, a biostatistician at Emory University, said it was difficult for researchers to establish how exposed people were to monkeypox or their differences in behavior, particularly when dealing with delicate information. “If you can refine it down to a population with a particular exposure, then it’s easier to compare a vaccinated group with a…
Throughout Florida, many airports have closed and some hotels have begun preparing to accept evacuees instead of tourists. As of Wednesday afternoon, Hurricane Ian had already contributed to the cancellation of more than 4,000 flights, most within Florida, according to Kathleen Bangs, a spokeswoman for FlightAware, a flight-tracking company. The effects on air travel, in…
In the months before March 2020, the food sellers in Kyoto’s Nishiki market often wished for an end to the seemingly endless stream of photo-hungry visitors from abroad who always seemed to be underfoot. “We weren’t used to foreign tourists,” said Nobuyuki Hatsuda, who leads a business alliance promoting the shopping street in the city…
Inside the white brick walls of Rodney Scott’s Whole Hog BBQ in Charleston, S.C., past the bright dining room, is the pit room, the walls, floors and equipment shades of copper and black. There, pork slowly barbecues over hardwood that has been burned into coals, prepared with the craft that Mr. Scott, a chef and…
They were standing in a Walmart parking lot when William’s wife turned to him and asked, “Are you gay?” Those three words catalyzed the end of their marriage, and the end of a 22-year partnership filled with many joys and rituals, including the haircuts William’s wife gave him. But those words were also an opportunity…
The fashion glitterati has made its final sartorial pit stop in Paris. The French capital always promises a bevy of street style stars, from editors to influencers and models off-duty that embrace the real marathon that is Paris Fashion Week. From the stars outside the Dior show to the positively flawless fall layering, we’re taking…
It was a startling discovery: Tiny pieces of an unborn baby’s DNA were found floating through its mother’s bloodstream — not inside the mother’s cells, where genetic material is usually found, but rather outside them. But when Dr. Yuk Ming Dennis Lo, a researcher in Hong Kong, described the finding in 1997, it was greeted…