Daniel Paul Shear stopped at a red light in North Hollywood, Calif., in 2017 long enough to snap a photo of the Idle Hour bar, a building in the shape of a whiskey barrel, to send to Nora Charlotte Tillmanns. “I’m a native Angelino and I love fun design,” said Ms. Tillmanns, 32, who got…
When the coronavirus pandemic began, the Elgorts — the photographer Arthur; his wife, Grethe Barrett Holby; their daughter, Sophie, with her husband and their 3-year-old daughter; and their sons, Warren and Ansel — hunkered down together in their family home of 40 years on Long Island. To pass the time, Sophie, who is 35 and…
W Punta de Mita, on a secluded beach in Riviera Nayarit, Mexico offers 119 rooms. Rates start at $369 per room per night plus a $240 per room daily food and beverage minimum (or purchase of all-inclusive meal plan). For buyouts, guests must book at least 90 rooms for at least 3 nights. Wedding couples…
Edward BerthelotGetty Images One of the best shopping days of the year is upon us: Amazon Prime Day. Yes, the most wonderful time of year is practically here, where you can get all your favorites from viral TikTok finds to must-have beauty products at unbelievable prices. While the two-day online festivities don’t kick off until…
PARIS — The diva sings of love and unmitigated lust. Dressed in a scarlet evening gown with her hair pulled high, she cries out to her beloved, longs for a night of undying passion and yearns for the sun not to rise. The vocalist in the 1969 concert video is Umm Kulthum: the Arab world’s…
Zhao: Searchlight Pictures 20th Century Studios; Tran: @spenserharrison, @stayluckystudios; Ephron: Everett Collection Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. A few weeks ago I did something highly uncharacteristic and set an alarm to buy a T-shirt. It wasn’t your garden-variety Supreme or Vetements I was after, but a…
Amazon The marriage of influencer and Amazon that is The Drop—limited-edition collections co-designed by a content creator with IG chops—basically creates a fashion world power couple every time a new collab hits. And when they’re really good, collections can sell out before the 30-hour drop is even over. After seeing that happen with @signedblake earlier…
My 14-year-old son and I went to watch my younger son play in a baseball tournament. My younger son is popular and athletic; my older son is not. He’s more creative and a little effeminate. When we walked onto the field with our folding chairs, someone (I couldn’t tell who) shouted a gay slur. Some…
Ms. Chastain, 38, considers the relationship between espresso martinis and the Bravo universe as a chicken-or-egg paradox: Did reality TV stars (re)popularize the drink, or are their tastes a symptom of larger American trends? Coffee culture flourished during the pandemic, most notably on TikTok (remember dalgona coffee?). Ty Bridgwater, 23, began a series of iced…
In a tumultuous time humanity looks to the ancient world for guidance and inspiration. It’s a dynamic at least as old as Petrarch, the 13th-century Italian poet whose scholarship on the Greeks and Romans helped kick-start the Renaissance. Paul Skallas, a 36-year-old technology lawyer and writer, has today picked up antiquity’s torch. He’s an evangelist…