A Daily Embrace My father worked 12 hours a day, five days a week. I missed him each second he was away. Every night when he would come home, I would run into his arms. Years passed. Cancer forced him to retire, then bound him to a bed, while I had to work. He died…
Headliner Rosette at Brooklyn Winery Founded in 2010, Brooklyn Winery makes wine in Williamsburg with grapes from small American growers, shipped upon harvest to the winery. The rest is left up to the winemaker, Chuck Gergley, and the wine director, Conor McCormack, whose efforts could be had at the winery’s bar. It has now moved…
In ELLE.com’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month we spoke to stylist and Emmy-winning costume designer Zerina Akers, who famously worked with Beyoncé on both Lemonade and Black Is King. In 2020, Akers took her work…
It wasn’t until James Joyce left Ireland that he wrote Ulysses and Dubliners, classics that embed themselves in the topography of his island home. He did so, says Jonathan Anderson, “via not being there, but meticulously being there,” tracing Dublin’s streets like a palm reader delineating not the future, but the past. Sometimes, Anderson says,…
Choosing cabinets for a kitchen renovation seems simple enough. They’re essentially boxes for holding dishes, glasses and cooking utensils. How hard could it be? The decision-making process, it turns out, can be quite involved, since there are so many design details and features available — and considering the significant investment required. So it’s worth making…
Beef stew may be considered old-fashioned, but it remains one of the world’s great dishes, and one of the easiest. Since realizing that I could call it “wine-braised short ribs” and serve it at a dinner party, I have made beef stew in whatever form I find it: rendang and chili, stracotto and birria, daube…
At least twice a month, Lizzy Laufters could count on getting a free coffee. A member of the Dunkin’ loyalty program, Ms. Laufters, a 22-year-old digital account executive for a public affairs firm in Raleigh, N.C., stacked up points by frequently buying her favorite drink — a medium caramel iced coffee with two creams and…
It was at a 1926 English department faculty meeting that he met another Oxford professor, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. The friendship propelled both toward realizing their literary worlds: Middle-earth and Narnia. First impressions were not hot. “No harm in him,” Lewis wrote of Tolkien after their first meeting. “Only needs a smack or so.” The…
WASHINGTON — The Energy Department’s conclusion, with “low confidence,” that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic has renewed questions about what sparked the worst public health crisis in a century — and whether the virus at the heart of it was somehow connected to scientific research. Scientists and spy agencies…
LOS ANGELES — On the red carpet before the Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles on Sunday, stars answered the usual questions. Were they excited to be here? Yes. How did it feel to be recognized? Amazing. What TV show would they want to guest star in? “The White…