To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. How far would you go to see the winningest artist in Grammy history? Is it more or less than 5,800 miles? For Janny Nascimento, a 29-year-old English teacher in Brazil, missing Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour — the…
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. How far would you go to see the winningest artist in Grammy history? Is it more or less than 5,800 miles? For Janny Nascimento, a 29-year-old English teacher in Brazil, missing Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour — the…
How have you felt about the reaction to the show? You were in the second season for only a few episodes, but you played a major sinister role. [To recap: Tanya died when she tumbled from a yacht. She’d become convinced that her new “high-end gay” travel companions, including a British man named Quentin, were…
What is it with the animal world and fashion? Ever since man started wearing pelts, the two have been interconnected, flora and fauna used as a source of creativity, comfort, exploitation and politics. The results are sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrible, sometimes controversial. (Two weeks ago, during the couture shows in Paris, Schiaparelli set off a…
On a Saturday afternoon in late January, a stretch of North Sixth Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn looked as if the internet had physically manifested itself. Direct-to-consumer brands like Everlane, Brooklinen, Interior Define, Parachute Home and Gorjana are interspersed here between the giants: Nike, H&M, Patagonia and Lululemon. Only Glossier, purveyor of youthful…
“Hey, can we smoke in here?” asked the actress Natasha Lyonne, 43, in a leopard print dress, holding a pack of cigarettes. She was standing inside the newly opened Caviar Kaspia on the Upper East Side, a sister restaurant to the original in Paris. On Friday, Lauren Santo Domingo, the socialite and co-founder of Moda…
There is currently a class about the designer Thom Browne being taught not, as one might expect, at Parsons or the Fashion Institute of Technology or even Central Saint Martins, but at the University of Notre Dame. And not by a business professor, or an art professor, but by a philosophy professor. A philosophy professor?…
I live in a small apartment building where you can easily hear what’s going on in other people’s apartments from the hallway. I was leaving recently and heard my neighbor yelling at her 8-year-old son about his homework. She was shouting things like “You’re worthless!” and “You’re an awful child!” I was heartbroken for the…
If only these houseplants could talk. It’s easy to imagine they’d be screaming their indignation at the wintertime perches we’ve assigned them — places of painfully low light near some drafty window — in the inhospitable arid zone that is indoor heating season. “Enough, I’m begging you!” And: “Get me out of here!” But they…
If only these houseplants could talk. It’s easy to imagine they’d be screaming their indignation at the wintertime perches we’ve assigned them — places of painfully low light near some drafty window — in the inhospitable arid zone that is indoor heating season. “Enough, I’m begging you!” And: “Get me out of here!” But they…