While the specific requirements for international tourists to enter most of Europe are still being refined, bookings for summer travel there are already on the rise. Stefanie Schmudde, Abercrombie and Kent’s vice president of product development and operations, said there’s been a great deal of interest in travel to Europe, especially Iceland, a bucket-list destination…
“I understood that most viewers weren’t going to follow my grandma’s tips since she used non-famous brands,” Ms. Kim said. “But I thought it was a way to tell a story about her.” Ashley Kim, 30, a Korean-American who lives in Melbourne, Australia, discovered Chang Myung-sook — a.k.a. Milanonna — another YouTube creator, when searching…
“I think my days are getting a little bit numbered of doing nudity,” she said. “I’m just not that comfortable doing it anymore. It’s not even really an age thing, actually. There comes a point where people are going to go, ‘Oh, here she goes again.’” She jokes that it’s not fair to camera operators…
For weeks, thousands of people have crowded the streets of Colombia, protesting inequality, rising poverty and police violence. President Iván Duque has deployed the country’s military and police forces, and more than 40 people have died. On April 28, during a demonstration in Bogotá, three young dancers confronted their fear of violence there through the…
People have been metal detecting since 1881, when Alexander Graham Bell invented a device to find the bullet lodged in President James Garfield. But it took several more decades for recreational metal detectors — devices that resemble “sort of a skillet on the end of a pole,” as one newspaper put it in 1927 —…
On February 20, 1973, Lance Loud earned a place in musical history that, at the time, nearly stopped his career cold. That night, he appeared with his band, Loud!, on “The Dick Cavett Show” as part of an evening devoted to “An American Family,” the PBS program credited as TV’s first reality show. The cinéma…
This article is part of Owning the Future, a series on how small businesses across the country have been affected by the pandemic. “I expect this will be the first year Nevada does over a billion in cannabis sales,” said Nicolas MacLean, chief executive of Aether Gardens, a cannabis producer in Las Vegas. “And it…
When the temperature rises, it’s time to break out the floor, table and desk fans, especially if you don’t have central air-conditioning. But in a thoughtfully designed home, that can sometimes feel bittersweet, because so many fans look awkward or downright ugly. “Let’s be real,” said Laura Umansky, the founder of Laura U Design Collective,…
Weekenders seeking a good time are back in full force as well. On Main Street earlier that evening, Krishna Shah, 26, who lives in Manhattan, was waiting for an Uber to take her and a group of friends back to their rental house on Water Hill Road. “I don’t know which part of East Hampton…
The month of May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, a time to recognize the contributions and cultural influences of this diverse community in the United States. While this has been a challenging year for everyone, it’s worth noting that the pandemic has been a particularly difficult time for the Asian-American community. For the final…