Our Shared Sense of Wonder Flannel, fireplace, falling snow and frosty windows. The chilly Vermont evening felt so romantic, yet I stood alone gazing up at the stars, struck by both the immensity of the sky and the realization that this was not the romance I’d imagined. He sat inside the warm log cabin, claiming…
Crisis as Opportunity In Amsterdam, Mr. Brown described Praxis as his response to being trapped inside his apartment during Covid, mixed with his longstanding interest in colonial America. “Ready to join America in 1776?” reads a company pitch deck. In 2022, Mr. Brown had been more specific about his motivation to build a city from…
Life can be loud, busy, and sometimes stressful, especially when you get older, which is why it’s important to carve out self-care time for your mental health. OPEN is a digital platform and app that guides movement, breathwork, and meditation through a unique, cinematic delivery using music and sound. It’s a holistic approach combining science…
In 1992, he covered famine in Somalia. In 1993, Sarajevo. In 1994, he crossed a bridge into Rwanda. When he looked down, he saw bodies caught on the rocks, their arms flailing in the water. It was at the edges of the world, in places of extreme suffering, that he discovered he could feel again,…
During last year’s holiday season, people started popping into a baking forum on Reddit with two million members to share a photo and ask a burning question: What on earth is this cookie cutter supposed to be? The earnest answers often helped clear up the bakers’ confusion. Quickly, however, the posts began surfacing so often…
Back in 2001, Britney Spears wearing a pair of tiny hot pink bikini bottoms atop low-slung, metallic green flares felt revolutionary. The pop star’s outfit in the sweaty, sexy music video for “I’m a Slave 4 U” sent shock waves through pop culture. As with all things Y2K, the exposed thong is once again back…
When Simon Elkaim hired an architect to redesign his Manhattan apartment, he was clear about his thoughts on color: the bolder and more vibrant, the better. There’s a simple reason for that preference. “I’m colorblind,” said Mr. Elkaim, 69, an international real estate developer. Specifically, he can see pure, bright colors like blues, reds and…
Here’s a holiday recipe you probably haven’t made. First, pour two brightly colored powders into a bowl. Then add water and mix until a dough-like substance forms. Place that into an animal-shaped baking mold, remove it and put it inside a plastic oven. Set a timer for 90 seconds; when you hear a ding, open…
At around 10:30 p.m. last Wednesday, in a downtown skate park under Interstate 95 in Miami, four wrestlers entered a ring: Bingo, Midnight Player, Rina Yamashita and Stray Cat. More than a thousand people, including men in baseball hats and Miami Dolphins jerseys and one woman holding a small dog, lined metal barricades around the…
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. Optimus Prime and Megatron. And Taylor Swift and Kanye West. Feuds don’t get more colossal than the one between two of the biggest stars in music. (And the reality TV star Kim Kardashian, who was married to West for a time, has been involved too.)…