Whatever your Fourth of July plans currently entail, you’ll want to set aside some time to shop the best Independence Day fashion sales. Tons of big-name stores and retailers like Nike, J.Crew, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Net-a-Porter are offering up to 70 percent off, so you can get high-quality finds for a fraction of the…
Opening Kappo Sono “Elevated” has become the word of choice lately to describe restaurants. But for a truly elevated kaiseki experience, take the lift up to the sixth floor of a Union Square building where the chef Chikara Sono, who was an owner of Kyo-Ya (now closed) in the East Village, presides over a 12-seat…
A new study tracked weight changes associated with eight popular drugs.
There is a scene in the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion” in which Ms. Dion describes her dedication to designer heels. “When a girl loves her shoes, she always makes them fit,” the singer said, spreading her fingers to demonstrate how she has contorted her toes to accommodate shoes ranging from size 6 to…
[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora] La portada de agosto de Vogue, protagonizada por Jill Biden, se publicó en internet el lunes —cuatro días después del gran debate— y trajo consigo una nueva ronda de escrutinio sobre su papel como ferviente defensora de su marido, quien está inmerso en una preocupante campaña para la…
Heat is only part of the picture. Here’s why humid air makes us irritable and exhausted — and how you can cope.
The older I get, the more I love the Fourth of July. (This might be because, as a kid, I cared about only the promised pyrotechnics: fireworks, sparklers, kissing my seventh-grade crush on the Ferris wheel at the county fair.) When the calendar flips from June to July, it activates some sort of happy Pavlovian…
Thomas Falcone The mic pack. Can’t perform without it! Thomas Falcone This is our final rehearsal before the show. Practice is essential before any performance, no matter what size audience we have. Thomas Falcone This is our moment to tighten up the musical arrangements, sort final choreography and blocking, and also get a sense of…
[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora] Nadie está a salvo. Ni en una cafetería, ni en un tren, ni en un avión. Sin querer y sin tu consentimiento, en cualquier momento puedes convertirte en el protagonista del día en las redes sociales, y no de uno de los buenos. Este fue el caso de…
The life of a Florida carpenter ant can be brutal. These half-inch ants are territorial and have violent bouts with ants from rival colonies in the Southeast. Combat can leave the ants with leg injuries. But as scientists recently discovered, these ants have evolved an effective wound treatment: amputation. In the journal Current Biology, on…