2020 was awful. Full stop. To help us cope through the good, the bad, and the pandemic, a few turned to retail. Aside from the sweatpants and food delivery, a few standout products stood out as the one thing that got us through quarantine in a weird way. Money can’t buy happiness but certain items,…
Svetlana Reznikova-Steinway, an emergency-room physician who lives in Phoenix, has spent the better part of a year pulling double-duty in an overwhelmed intensive care unit. Early in the pandemic, she and her husband, a urologist, developed a system for after work, stripping off their scrubs in their garage to protect their 12-year-old daughter and 10-year-old…
Rob Satran thinks of it as the Hoshizaki syndrome. Beginning last March, when the world went into lockdown and it became clear that, as Mr. Satran said, “people were not going to be spending their disposable income on normal things,” the trade in high-end appliances abruptly took off. Mr. Satran is a part owner of…
Kathryn Gongaware, a 32-year-old yoga teacher and comedian in Chicago, was always curious about Botox, but it wasn’t until she started mentioning it to friends and realized that people she wouldn’t have expected (including her au-natural-everything acupuncturist) were getting it that she felt comfortable making the jump at age 30. “The more people were open…
In the relentlessly on-demand world of livestream gaming, few are as in demand as the YouTube creator Valkyrae. Last month, over 650,000 fans viewed her playing the space-cartoon multiplayer game Among Us. A few days earlier, she starred as the blood-spitting heroine in Machine Gun Kelly’s new horror-tinged music video, “Day Walker.” Valkyrae, who goes…
Want to get the At Home newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here. Welcome. What constitutes a return to “normal” life? Is it when schools and offices are open consistently? When we’ve reached herd immunity? When we no longer wear masks in the supermarket? On planes? (Will we ever not wear masks in stores and…
Over the course of the pandemic, some of the most dangerous activities were those many Americans dearly missed: scarfing up nachos, canoodling with a date or yelling sports scores at a group of friends at a crowded, sticky bar inside a restaurant. Now, as more states loosen restrictions on indoor dining and expand access to…
April is National Poetry Month, and we want to celebrate with your verse. The Morning newsletter will be hosting a live event for Times subscribers on April 15 with the best-selling poet Rupi Kaur. Ms. Kaur will be talking about poetry and reading some poems submitted by Times readers. (We may also feature them on…
Fendi’s new direction under Kim Jones is one of classic British elegance infused with traditional Italian craftsmanship. Launching today, the famed atelier is releasing an exclusive capsule based on Jones’ spring-summer 2021 couture collection, his very first show for the house. Neither couture nor ready-to-wear, this limited-edition capsule presents ideas from his debut runway in…
The irony has always troubled Raafi Rivero. “People love Black athletes,” he said. “But they don’t love Black people.” In July 2013, it resonated anew for Rivero, a lifelong sports fan, when George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of Black teenager Trayvon Martin, the same weekend Rivero saw the film “Fruitvale Station,” about the…