If there’s one lesson I’ve learned as a frequent flyer, it’s that the luggage you choose can make or break your travel experience. The luggage brands will hold all your travel essentials, keep you organized, protect your luggage from damage, and remain super easy to maneuver in busy airports…while the wrong suitcase will only serve…
If there are any words we live by, it’s that life is short, so buy the shoes…and bags and clothes. And now, you can with some major discounts. Black Friday weekend, which rolls into Cyber Monday, holds some of the best markdowns of the entire year on everything and anything, from Apple deals to Dyson…
Why don’t women’s clothes have more pockets? And when they do, why are they so small and useless? It’s like being short-sheeted. I cannot believe this is still going on in the 21st century. Please explain. — Shoba The pocket problem is a perennial one, for good reason. The story of those — often, as…
Alexa Addison remembers what vapes looked like when she was in high school. The dominant e-cigarette was Juul, a slim, black rectangle with sharp corners that resembled a flash drive. By the time Ms. Addison, 19, started college at the University of North Carolina Wilmington last year, the vape du jour had shifted. She saw…
It is curious how some things never go out of style. Throughout the first act of the new movie “Priscilla,” when the titular heroine is still living in Germany with her parents, she wears one thing almost every day: a heart-shaped locket tied around her neck on a black ribbon. At first it telegraphs innocence.…
As 7 a.m. approached on Sunday, a crowd of runners stumbled blearily off the Staten Island Ferry in fleece blankets and body glitter. The blankets were for warmth, and the body glitter for morale to help them through the 26.2 miles that lay ahead. With energy gels and bodega coffees in hand, the crowd made…
The summer of 2023 was painted pink. The “Barbie” movie broke records at the box office and inspired “Barbiecore,” an aesthetic “made up primarily of hot pink, and similarly bold rosy hues like fuchsia and magenta,” according to a New York Times article about the rise of Barbie-inspired home décor. “Everything I buy is always…
Si los ojos son la ventana del alma, ¿el historial de búsqueda de Google es una ventana de qué? ¿De nuestros juanetes y forúnculos? Un vistazo a las últimas búsquedas en internet de mi novio hizo tambalear nuestra ya precaria relación. Este es un cuento con moraleja tanto para el corazón como para el navegador.…
“The measurement of time,” said Alex Reifsnyder, “is something that doesn’t really get altered any time throughout the year except for these two days.” Mr. Reifsnyder, 28, was of course referring to the second Sunday in March, when daylight saving time starts in the United States, and the first Sunday in November when it ……
But for some, the citizen-as-brand trend rings hollow. “To me, the word ‘citizen’ is a synonym for ‘responsibility,’” Sarah Vowell wrote in an email. Ms. Vowell, whose essays and books, including “The Partly Cloudy Patriot,” interrogate America’s past and present, said: “In a republic, every citizen is saddled with a perpetual, time-consuming, unpaid part-time watchdog…