Twitter helps the powerful discover their worst selves and leaves everyone else vulnerable. Facebook brings people together only to subject them to marketing and manipulation. Our social feeds aren’t ready for the 2020 election. None of them are even ready for today. In recent months, they have faced serious scrutiny from Democratic and Republican lawmakers…
When Dean & DeLuca opened on Prince Street in 1977, three years after New York Magazine declared SoHo the most exciting place to live in New York, the artist Donald Judd soon began doing his weekly grocery shopping there. He and his wife, a dancer, lived nearby on Spring Street at a time when it…
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Getting dressed during the month of August can suck. At this point, you probably hate you entire summer wardrobe, have run out of all ideas to create looks that can work outside and in air conditioned rooms, and literally can’t bring yourself to try any longer. Thankfully, Copenhagen Fashion Week has just kicked off and…
I met my step-grandmother (the mother of my stepmom) when I was 4. She didn’t have any other grandchildren at the time, and I thought she considered me family. But 14 and 11 years ago, when my stepmother’s daughters were born, it became clear that I was a second-class grandchild. It didn’t help matters when…
Mark Fischbach recently had an existential crisis, ranting that he had squandered his life playing video games. His lamentations, which he filmed and posted on YouTube three months shy of his 30th birthday, were viewed nearly one million times. Insanely, that number is rather on the low side for Mr. Fischbach, who is better known…
On a Friday afternoon in July, the temperature was in the high 90s. But inside Brrrn, the cool fitness studio in the Flatiron district where the temperature is kept cool, it felt like a brisk November morning. “Fifty minutes, 50 degrees, 100 percent,” is one of its mottos, and, indeed, the thermostat in the workout…
Summer Fun 15 Photos View Slide Show › Image Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times A select group of “Hamptons influencers,” meaning people who Instagram their Aperol spritzes, gathered at a rented McMansion in East Hampton Friday evening for a screening of “The Politician,” a forthcoming Netflix series starring Gwyneth Paltrow and created by,…
In a modern oven in Pasadena, Calif., this week, yeast that could be as old as ancient Egypt was used to bake an especially aromatic loaf of sourdough bread. The baker, Seamus Blackley, was experimenting with yeast he had extracted from a 4,000-year-old Egyptian loaf. He was trying to make his own bread using the…
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