Susan Covell Alpert was crushed by grief when her 71-year-old husband, Larry, died of leukemia in 2008. Adding to her misery, a tidal wave of financial decisions and tasks demanded the new widow’s attention at a time when she could barely think straight. Like many couples, Susan and Larry, who were married for 46 years,…
The most generous interpretation of Twitter’s history is that it’s a company that has learned a lot from the way people use its product. After early users started reposting each others’ tweets accompanied with an “RT” label, Twitter built retweets. After a user proposed using a pound sign to create groups, and people starting doing…
Image John Barrett in his new salon.CreditDina Litovsky for The New York Times Last week the doors of the John Barrett Salon — the high-end, full-service beauty destination that has occupied the penthouse floor of Bergdorf Goodman for more than two decades — closed for the last time. To some, it was the end of…
If there were a Tony Award for making Broadway even more gay friendly, the winner would be Ryan Murphy, the creator of such television hits as “Glee” and “American Horror Story.” On Tuesday night, he hosted a special performance of “The Prom” at the Longacre Theater, so that L.G.B.T. teenagers could experience the musical, which…
Maybe it was the basket of radiance-promising snail sheet masks I found upon arrival to my hotel room, or the instant the mother of sustainable brand Saint Mill’s designer Myoung Yoo Suk made a beeline for me moments before her son’s show was set to begin, cheerfully offering up a Ziploc bag filled with homemade…
Image “How you gonna save money and you have bills to pay?” asked Cardi B at a recent BeautyCon event in New York City, during which she offered practical personal-finance advice.CreditDolly Faibyshev for The New York Times There is a lot of money to be made in beauty, and right now a lot of it…
Every once in a while an image appears that so viscerally frames the human story in a time of social or political paroxysm that it becomes a symbol. Such was the case this week with a smartphone photo taken during a demonstration in Sudan against the repressive regime of President Omar al-Bashir, as the protests…
Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher Within a period of 90 days, Brooke Rinehart lost her husband, her home and her sense of security. Facing criminal charges after her husband embezzled tens of thousands of dollars in her name, Ms. Rinehart returned…
Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. By Nichelle Gainer Rose Morgan and her friend Oletha White were driving from Chicago to New York in White’s brand-new 1938 Ford when they began crossing the George Washington Bridge. Morgan looked up and saw the…
Jean-Louis David, the influential French hairdresser who created looks for women that emphasized practicality as well as style, and who founded a worldwide chain of salons that bear his name, died on April 3 at his home in Épalinges, Switzerland, a suburb of Lausanne. He was 85. His son Jean-Christophe David said the cause was…