Kevin Langdon Ackerman had a good lead, so he left his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Beachwood Canyon on a Tuesday morning in August and drove 18 miles northwest to Sylmar, Calif. He guided his metallic black BMW off the 210 and up the winding road to the top of Little Tujunga Canyon;…
This column is part of a series for the Design special report of The New York Times. Readers are invited to send questions to designadvice@nytimes.com. We moved into a new place in March, and our plans to furnish an extra room were waylaid by the pandemic. Is it a good idea to get a pullout…
One of Harry Evans’ gifts as a journalist was his understanding of power: who had it, why they got it, and — most significantly — how they misused it. His career as perhaps the United Kingdom’s most accomplished newspaper editor took off in the sixties, when, as the editor of Darlington Echo, he helped turn…
Last November, the internet fell in love with Tanqueray, a straight-shooting New Yorker who shared memories of her life as a burlesque dancer in the 1960s and ’70s with the many millions of people who follow Humans of New York on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Her tales were full of underground glamour and gritty…
Pascal Le SegretainGetty Images Dior will premiere its spring-summer 2021 runway show live from Paris on Tuesday, September 29 at 2:30 PM CET (8:30AM EST). Every designer is getting creative with their seasonal outputs in the time of COVID, from quarantine-inspired fashion to audience-free unveilings. For the very first time, Dior will stream its ready-to-wear…
In 1975 Valentino Garavani, then the most feted couturier in Rome, moved his ready-to-wear show from Italy to Paris, the better to underscore his position as an equal of fashion’s luminaries rather than a lord of the outer regions. This weekend his heir, Pierpaolo Piccioli, moved it back — or at least to Milan, the…
Join me on a quick trip to fall 2007. The orange enV is the hot phone everyone wants. Regular paparazzi muses are still wearing cleavage-y dresses on top of jeans. The decision to wear one’s Uggs rolled or unrolled causes the occasional existential crises. And one fashion item reigns supreme: North Face’s zip-up fleece. Not…
“I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought I was a failure because I didn’t have a record deal yet,” Mariah Carey writes in her memoir, “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” which comes out on Tuesday. Now 50, the singer and songwriter has recorded 15 studio albums, including more No. 1 singles than any other…
When Fariha Róisín was 12, the idea for what would eventually become her first novel came to her in a dream. She didn’t have all the words for all that she wanted to say, but she started anyway. Now, at 30, and with a body of poetry, personal essays and other writing that has delved…
With so much macabre folklore and superstition surrounding them, crows and ravens are popular Halloween symbols of spookiness. You can create a flock — or, more accurately, a “murder” (of crows) or an “unkindness” (of ravens) — to decorate your home with just some newspaper, wire, tape and paint. If you don’t want to work…