Shopping for Pitchers

Pitchers can be useful all year long — for holding juice on a breakfast buffet or keeping water handy at the dinner table — but they really come into their own in the summer, for outdoor entertaining. Because “who wants to go back and forth to the kitchen to get water?” asked Young Huh, an…

Denise Richards, the Un-Housewife

MALIBU, Calif. — When Denise Richards first met with the producers of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” she wore a Guns N’ Roses T-shirt and ripped denim. “They said I was the first one ever to come in not all dolled up,” Ms. Richards, 48, said as she melted into a plush gray chair…

Hotel Review: Blique by Nobis, Stockholm

Rates From 890 Swedish kronor, or about $96. The Basics The Blique by Nobis is the third Stockholm hotel designed by Gert Wingardh, a pre-eminent Swedish architect, for the NobisCQ hotel group. Opened in April, this industrial property spans two buildings, a former warehouse designed in the 1930s by another renowned architect, Sigurd Lewerentz, and…

Should Black People Wear Sunscreen?

Image Hendrixx Love, 1, reacted as he got sprayed with sunscreen by his mother, Ashley Love, 23, at Coney Island Beach. CreditChang W. Lee for The New York Times Little heralds the arrival of summer like the smell of open water, smokey grills and sunscreen. Since the late 1970s, as medical researchers linked sun exposure to…