Making Luxury Ice at Home

Nobody loves ice more than Americans. It’s a running joke, a quirk of the national personality: Iced drinks are as American as rock ‘n’ roll, pickup trucks and to-go cups. Way back in 1895, Mark Twain wrote that ice had become so inextricably linked with the United States that “there is but a single specialty…

Welcome to the Age of Nouveau Normcore

When Kate Moss made a surprise appearance on Bottega Veneta’s spring 2023 runway, perhaps the biggest shock was what she was wearing. The icon who launched a thousand Pinterest boards had traded her glam It Girl ensembles for simple, oversize jeans and a Kurt Cobain–worthy flannel-print shirt. The moment turned out to be a trend…

Would You Date a Podcast Bro?

“I was on a date in Chicago and I said that I said that I do digital strategy at first,” he recalled in an interview. “So she kept pressing and I was like, ‘Actually, I produce podcasts.’ Now, maybe it’s because I lied and said I did digital strategy first that she was not into…