It’s hard to say which Barr causes Laurie Metcalf more anguish: Roseanne or William. As I sat down with the actress on a recent Sunday evening at Orso on West 46th Street, heads were exploding over the attorney general’s four-page memo summarizing the Mueller report as exonerating President Trump of colluding with the Russians. Even…
Maureen Dowd: You once grabbed George Clooney’s butt on “Roseanne,” when he was playing your boss at the factory. Laurie Metcalf: Confirm. It was scripted that I grab it, so who am I to pick a fight with the writers? According to the Proust questionnaire in Vanity Fair, you want to be reincarnated as the…
Ronan McKenzie for Universal Standard Who gets to look like a fantasy? It’s a contentious question for fashion, a realm where exclusion and power are often seamed together, and “beauty” becomes defined by limitations instead of ideals. That’s why today’s kind of exciting. It marks the launch of Rodarte x Universal Standard, a collaboration that…
Though summer is in sight, spring has only just begun and with it comes in-between weather to confuse the heck out of us and our wardrobes. We’re all familiar with those days that start out brisk, heat up around noon, and take a chilling dip at sunset, but rather than dealing with haphazard outfits that…
Ed Begley Jr. Age: 69 Occupation: actor Location: Studio City, Calif. Favorite Room Mr. Begley and his wife, Rachelle Carson, hired William Hefner, a Los Angeles architect, to design a French-Mediterranean home with the highest green certification, LEED Platinum. Mr. Begley’s favorite room is the kitchen. “I make a very good guacamole,” he said. Is…
When Kirstin and Jason Frazell head to their weekend house in the western Catskills, they don’t leave their city friends behind anymore. They don’t have to. Since they bought their Sullivan County home in 2014, the Frazells have convinced five other families or couples in their social circle — including their next-door neighbors — to…
The temperature hovered just above zero, but that didn’t stop Max Greenfield from heading to Serendipity 3, the old-fashioned cafe and general store on East 60th Street known for its indulgent ice cream desserts and frozen hot chocolate. Actually, he blamed it on his daughter, Lilly, who just turned 10. As part of her birthday…
Mother’s little helpers. Wine o’clock. Sleeping pills. Parents have long relied on a variety of chemicals to help them get through the day. But modern-day expectations — along with the pressures of balancing work and home — are breeding guilt and anxiety, leading some moms and dads to look for new ways to relax without…
Every Monday, the chef Daniela Mass shows up at Beth Fisher’s Upper East Side apartment with grocery bags full of ingredients like spaghetti squash, salmon, sweet potatoes and Swiss chard. In the Fishers’ kitchen, she prepares three four-person meals for Ms. Fisher and her husband, along with snacks. The weekly cost for a visit by…
For Amelia Sandell, the Hudson Valley was appealing because it was nothing like the Hamptons. Although now, she admits, that argument is getting harder to make. “It feels like the amount of people from Brooklyn who are buying second homes here is growing exponentially by the day,” said Ms. Sandell, 43, who lives in a…