Every morning, Ashley, a mother of two on Long Island, has to navigate an ethical minefield: Her children’s schools send out a health questionnaire for Covid-19. The “daily attestation,” as it is known, asks people to volunteer information about their health: “Fever of 100 or above?” “Sore Throat?” “In the past 14 days have you…
According to Mr. Baker, who has written two books on Polari, including “Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang,” the language is the product of “a very complicated and nonlinear chain” of events. He said it likely began as workplace slang among British sailors, who, traveling abroad, encountered the lingua franca of mainland Europe…
Bert Stern/Condé Nast/Shutterstock Directly below the Manhattan Bridge, on the mostly-vacant second floor of a Chinatown mall, there is a highly curated array of eveningwear at the vintage mecca James Veloria. When they were first released in the late ’90s and early aughts, many of these garments would have been displayed in gleaming department stores.…
Sergii Iaremenko/Science Photo Library and Leah Romero Regardless of your relationship status, Valentine’s Day is a highly divisive holiday. If you’re coupled up, then you better be prepared to shell out for your SO (candy, chocolates, lingerie, the whole nine yards). If you’re single, then you’ve likely got some Galentine’s Day plans to make, thanks…
When Helen Ho was laid off from her urban planning job in the spring of 2020, she knew she wouldn’t be looking for another full-time job anytime soon. The pandemic was slowly consuming every bit of our public and private lives, and eradicating many job prospects for the unemployed. “Even if I wanted to look…
Manfred Thierry Mugler, the French designer who died Jan. 23 at the age of 73, was nothing if not exacting. “A complete perfectionist,” said the model Naomi Campbell. “You couldn’t be one centimeter off.” This wasn’t because he was a terror, said Joey Arias, the torch-singing drag artist, who appeared in “Zumanity,” the Cirque du…
When the Sundance Film Festival announced that it was canceling all in-person events because of the pandemic two weeks before it began, festival goers could be forgiven for thinking the party was over. There would be no screenings at the Egyptian Theater in Park City, Utah. No swag lounges along Main Street. No celebrity sightings…
En una de nuestras peleas del último año, le pregunté a mi madre si creía que el internet la había empoderado para dejar a mi padre. Parecía confundida, y luego respondió con su frase enigmática favorita: “No lo sé”. Cuando llegamos al recinto, me retoqué el maquillaje en un vestidor mientras mi madre y mi…
For Ellen Schiller’s chain of three, the end was a bit more abrupt. “We were all texting constantly in the beginning of the pandemic, and it was so dark and entertaining,” said Ms. Schiller, a 50-year-old fiber artist in Salem, Mass., until the group’s other two members decided to start a college consulting business last…
Otherworldly Beauty at Paris Couture Week Jessica Testa��Reporting from Paris Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times Watching the couture shows this week, it seemed to me like every designer had escape on the mind. (Who doesn’t?) That yearning was as apparent in the makeup as in the clothes. Here are beauty looks that stood…