Wally Funk is finally going to space. When on Tuesday she crosses that arbitrary altitude that divides the heavens from Earth below, in a rocket built by Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin, she’ll be 82, the oldest person ever to go into space. But that is not what makes her so special. Ms. Funk is…
The Cannes Film Festival that just ended was notable for a number of things (besides simply being the first Cannes Film Festival since 2019): That a female director won the Palme d’Or for the first time since 1993; Jodie Foster’s special award; Adam Driver’s singing in “Annette.” And the fact that it was proof positive,…
Elena Ramirez Many of us are still wading slowly back into the waters of creative self-styling after dressing purely functionally for so many months. A smart approach: Start with smaller elements of your everyday look, and let accessories and accents give new life to the basics that have been starring in your rotation. For an…
Falling in love with a partner whose appearance is deceiving is a tale as old as time. In folklore, it’s a motif that crosses hemispheres, exemplified in “Beauty and the Beast”-type tales, in which a woman obliged to live with a beast falls in love with the animal, and later receives the happy surprise that…
“Calling all recruiters!” Makena Yee, 21, a college student in Seattle, shouted into her camera in a recent TikTok video. “These are the reasons why you should hire me!” Ms. Yee went on to outline her qualifications. “I’m driven with confidence, I love keeping organized, I’m adaptive and I’m a team player,” she said, as…
One of the luckiest things that can happen to a restaurant is for it to remain open long enough to become a place that famous people used to go. That was part of what made the March reopening of Balthazar, a SoHo mainstay since the height of the dot-com bubble, unusual. Jay-Z and Beyoncé turned…
The party was for the unveiling of a 1910 Grosvenor Atterbury mansion in Southampton that the developer David Walentas hopes to sell for $35 million. But the sprawling property didn’t sprawl quite enough for two guests in particular. Jesse Warren, 38, the town’s mayor, and his opponent, Michael Irving, 67, had been at war for…
Who can resist a stuffed animal? They’re warm, cuddly, soft objects designed for comfort. While plush toys have been known to soothe a crying baby or bring joy to a curious toddler, many adults have found relief in them, too. The writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, Sandip Roy, stumbled upon the “plushie” community…
LANGLEY, Wash. — I was just cutting into a juicy piece of steak that the chief executive of Uber, Dara Khosrowshahi, had grilled and plopped onto my plate, when one of his 8-year-old twin boys asked me: “Who was your worst interview and who was your best?” I replied that Kevin Costner was one of…
Was it the Anne Rice-style casting? Or the banal installation by the artist Doug Aitken? Was it the anachronistic clothes themselves, with their lazy nods to other eras and periods, that left a viewer with the sense that the Saint Laurent men’s wear show — like the mirrored sets on which it was held —…