Not long before Christmas, as the pandemic was taking a devastating toll in rural Iowa, Rebecca Tinti was visiting some neighbors who had fallen ill. At the family’s farm, she found seven of them, including a newborn baby, bedridden with sickness, leaving a 6-year-old girl to take care of everyone else. Ms. Tinti stepped in…
There is general agreement on very little in this world, save, perhaps, for one thing: This year has been a mess, and the next one cannot come fast enough. So it should be a surprise to no one that the prognosticators at Pantone — those trend forecasters who scour the globe for months noting developments…
All the Things We Have Tried Before Over the Centuries For ages, posters on forums like Reddit have used “/s” at the end of a post to indicate sarcasm. But the history of tone indication is much older. In her book “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation,” the grammar historian Lynne…
Jose Perez/Bauer-GriffinGetty Images From decadent Marchesa dresses to Versace power suits, Selena Gomez can wear it all, flawlessly. Flip through the singer’s every best outfit and, truly, “Look at Her Now.” View Gallery 182 Photos 1 of 182 December 7, 2020 Filming her new Hulu TV series, Only Murders in the Building, in New York…
Resilience: It’s a vegetable-seed industry buzzword, and a mission — to breed genetically resilient varieties that stand up to pests, diseases and the rigors of a shifting climate. Each resilient variety becomes a tiny, critical ingredient in a resilient seed system that supports agriculture, the foundation of a resilient food system. And in the tumultuous…
I decided to record consistent body fat measurements for myself and a friend using the Halo, a Fitbit bathroom scale and a highly rated skin caliper. In November and December, I took early-morning measurements with the Halo and bathroom scale; my wife pinched my skin folds in four areas with the caliper. I measured my…
In March of 2019, 50 people were charged for their role in a coordinated effort to buy admission to elite American universities. They included an heiress to the Hot Pockets fortune, Michelle Janavs; the Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Huffman; and the television star Lori Loughlin and her husband, the designer Mossimo Giannulli. Perhaps the most famous…
As pop culture puts it, shopping in thrift stores can trigger painful memories (see: Marge Simpson reworking a Chanel-esque suit, Pen15‘s tween leads pawing over a secondhand Tommy Hilfiger shirt, or Jenny Humphrey’s entire character arc). But thanks to a growing resale market—with an expected value of $64 billion in the next five years—the firsthand…
What My Mother Taught Me My mother, Wilma, adored Lifetime movies. Sick days away from school meant sleeping in, waking to the hum of television. Sporting an oversized T-shirt and fever, I would inch into the hall, listening for those sentimental melodramas. I’d creep to the living room couch and burrow against my mother. Though…
Nina Garcia’s’s Holiday Gift Guide 2020 Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Dec 8, 2020 Courtesy In an effort to make this year’s holidays as festive as possible, ELLE editor-in-chief Nina Garcia handpicked some of her favorite…