You know what they say about too many cooks? It did not happen with “Made Here: Recipes and Reflections From New York City’s Asian Communities,” a cookbook celebrating New York’s extended and diverse Asian communities. This hefty, brightly photographed volume was assembled and written by volunteers at Send Chinatown Love, a nonprofit that grew out…
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For the members of Brooklyn’s Aleppan Jewish community, the tinier the meat- or cheese-filled pastry, the better the cook. At Hanukkah, which this year begins on the evening of Dec. 7, they take as much pride in their distinctive tradition of using two candles rather than one to light the menorah — representing both the…
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Who: Alessandra Ambrosio and PatBO What: Collaborative collection Where: Online at patbo.com and in PatBO stores Why: Miami is the ultimate winter escape for the chillier months, and supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio brought her love for the humid city to life in her second collection with resortwear label PatBO. You can expect the ideal getaway wardrobe,…
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Coralie Charriol is the friend you want to have around when it comes to holiday gifting. As the CEO of her late father’s eponymous watch brand, she has the refined taste of someone working in fine jewelry and watches, coupled with the humor and warmth of a mother and close friend. After all, the best…
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Tim Rogers, a sought-after New York hairstylist who fashioned gold-standard looks for a long list of notables, including Adele, Yoko Ono and Roger Federer, and commanded gold-standard prices to match, died on Nov. 3 at his home in Gaylordsville, Conn. He was 51. His father, Ian Rogers, said the death came after a brief illness,…
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In an airy conference room high above Manhattan, the designer Sagi Haviv explained the difficulties of creating an elegant logo for the United States’ semiquincentennial. The first problem was 18 letters long. “It is a very difficult word,” Mr. Haviv said, veering gracefully around the pileup of prefixes that Congress chose to describe the 250th…
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Dale Arden Chong is the Senior Fashion Commerce Editor at ELLE.com. Previously, she was an editor at MensHealth.com and has written for Who What Wear, GLAMOUR, The Coveteur, and more. She loves fashion, food, and art, among other things—but her greatest love is K-pop idol V of BTS.
In 2021, her donations paid for materials to create 50 beehives and monitor their construction, giving miners in the rural community of Weasua, Liberia, an alternate means of earning an income; and in 2022, the money funded the construction of a public toilet in that village. That year, she also joined the organization’s founder and…
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Almost exactly a year after setting off a flurry of public opprobrium with a holiday ad campaign that pictured children clutching what looked like B.D.S.M. teddy bears amid other adult paraphernalia — a snowballing crisis that took the company by surprise and sent sales into a nosedive — Balenciaga brought its fall 2024 show to…
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Traumatic brain injuries have left more than five million Americans permanently disabled. They have trouble focusing on even simple tasks and often have to quit jobs or drop out of school. A study published on Monday has offered them a glimpse of hope. Five people with moderate to severe brain injuries had electrodes implanted in…
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