For 15 years, my parents have paid for my adult brother to live in an upscale apartment in the expensive city where he went to college. He doesn’t work. He barely graduated from college, lost touch with his friends, then flunked out of graduate school. My parents were mortified, and I encouraged him to find…
People were messaging Ms. Kloots, asking what they could do. When she played music for Mr. Cordero and saw his vital signs improve, “I knew my mission,” she wrote in the book. She asked her followers to post videos of themselves singing and dancing at 3 p.m. Pacific Time to Mr. Cordero’s “Live Your Life.”…
The chef Marcus Samuelsson would not have made it through the pandemic without the help of his community. He says the support from his family, his Harlem neighborhood and his fellow restaurant workers made getting up every day have meaning. In the process, he fell even more in love with New York City. “Why did…
She spent afternoons playing Skat, a card game, with her mother and her mother’s friends, who taught her aphorisms such as “if someone shows you who they are, you should believe them” or “there’s nothing a hard drink can’t fix.” “I was 12,” Ms. Pelletier said. “They were seasoned and wise and had been through…
The community does practice what Dr. Letamendi called “pro-social gatekeeping,” where “Ships” fans redirect those who “remember” problematic aspects of the show. “A few times Tyler had to come in and be like, ‘Hey guys, we’re remembering a TV show. Maybe we remember the best parts!’” said Mr. Loller, a cast member who “played” the…
“Love life not working out? Health problems? Everything going wrong?” Amisha Patel used to be skeptical of astrological services that offered claims about the future. Her parents, who immigrated to the U.S. from India, would make annual trips back to Gujarat. When they returned to their New Jersey home, they would share predictions from Hindu…
If we were to list the things we absolutely required in life, Amina Muaddi Barbie heels don’t exactly top the list over food and shelter. But given MyTheresa’s massive summer sale, our wants are overriding necessities. With options from Ganni, Jacquemus, and Khaite offered up to 70% off at Mytheresa’s summer sale, it’s a budget-friendly…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Maxine Bédat swears she began with a fairly modest aim: to tell the life story of a pair of jeans, from a humble cotton plant nestled in the soil to the flares hanging in your closet—and even extending into their potential…
What’s on your menu these days? I’ve found returning to restaurants exciting and also a bit of a shock to the system. After many months subsisting on home-cooked soups and sourdough, I’ve become unaccustomed to the variety and richness of restaurant offerings and find myself craving simplicity, recipes whose ingredients are known to me, that…
Paula Weinstein can’t remember the last movie she watched in a theater. “Oh, golly,” Weinstein, the chief content officer of Tribeca Enterprises and an organizer of the 20th Tribeca Festival, said in a video call last week. “I don’t remember — it’s so gone from my head.” The 12-day festival, often held in April, was…