When Kimille Taylor agreed to design the interior of a home in Telluride, Colo., in 2013, she expected the job to be business as usual. That was before Ms. Taylor, a New York-based designer, met Steve Morton, the local architect working on the project. “We got along right away,” Ms. Taylor, 50, said. “It was…
The allure of a homemade fruit pie is real: Just imagine a bubbling double-crusted blueberry number cooling by a breezy window. But the prospect of rolling dough on a steamy day can send even confident cooks packing. To turn out stellar pies showcasing summer’s ripest fruit — without heating up the kitchen — you want…
About six years ago, Michael López-Alegría, then president of the association’s United States chapter, and Andrew Turnage, the group’s executive director, started discussing the idea of such pins. NASA has given pins to its astronauts since the earliest days of the space program “But none of the other agencies have anything like that,” Mr. López-Alegría…
Christian VierigGetty Images After a year spent in sweatpants and sweatshorts, I’m finally interested in wearing hard pants again. But if I’m spending on denim, I want jeans that look as good five years from now as they do today. Enter: the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale. In between fashion and home finds, Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale has…
OAKLAND, Calif. — On March 5, 2020, my family attended our sixth grader’s school music performance, then went straight to dinner and a concert at Yoshi’s, a local jazz club, to celebrate my husband’s birthday. We didn’t know at the time it would be our last family outing for more than a year. The following…
The game of first lady fashion is one played 12 months a year, at pretty much any time, watched by a global mass of avid spectators who care for reasons national, personal and political. Participants are drafted as soon as they get their jobs, whether they like it or not. Jill Biden has famously been…
If you’re mixing cocktails for friends and don’t want to keep going to the freezer for ice, an ice bucket is essential. “I tend to use them for entertaining,” said Julie Reiner, a founder of Social Hour Cocktails and an owner of the bars Clover Club and Leyenda, in Brooklyn. “I use one when I’m…
Bishan, atónito, me gritó como si hubiera olvidado a nuestro hijo. Corrimos de vuelta al templo mientras él murmuraba de manera sombría que era imposible encontrar a Nozy en un complejo tan grande y lleno de niños en edad escolar. Volvimos a comprar las entradas, entramos sin aliento y allí estaba, metido entre dos leones…
“Problems can arise if one partner feels ‘skin-starved’ and the other feels that they offer enough affection or doesn’t prioritize affection and physical touch as integral to the success of the relationship,” said La’Tesha Sampson, a clinical social worker and the founder of Great Joy Counseling and Consulting Services in Clark, N.J. Reneze Lopez, 25,…
Rita Cantina, a festive Mexican restaurant in the Hamptons, has been getting a lot of attention since opening this summer. On a recent Wednesday night Hannah Bronfman and Brendan Fallis were seated in one corner, enjoying items like margaritas and littleneck clams. At the bar, spirited diners in fedoras and crop tops slammed back tequila…