Despite being known for his head-turning looks—on himself, as well as clients like Lady Gaga—Nicola Formichetti keeps his camera off on our Zoom call. Though I’m initially disappointed not to witness a sartorial conversation starter via computer screen, he manages to start off just fine. In fact, the super-stylist-slash-designer brings it all the way back…
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Move over, hygge. You, too, lykke, lagom, niksen and bella figura. Another international buzzword has come to town, loaded with the promise of improving lives. “Marie Kondo’s Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life,” just out from Ten Speed Press, is the Japanese tidying guru’s latest book and the…
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Like many New Yorkers who left the city in the early days of the pandemic, Elana Tenenbaum Cline and Daniel Cline assumed it was a temporary measure. When they decamped from their Brooklyn apartment to Ms. Tenenbaum Cline’s parents’ house in Connecticut with their newborn son, Noah, they expected to return to the city within…
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Accordingly, many restaurant owners are choosing to work with reservation services based on these perceptions. Erika Chou, a partner in River and Hills Hospitality Group, which operates New York establishments like Kimika and Wayla, used OpenTable at her previous restaurants. Now, all her restaurants are on Resy. “They work with a great group of restaurants,”…
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These days, checking your mailbox can be a disheartening experience. You shuffle past catalogs and bills, riffling through political fliers and advertising postcards addressed to “Resident.” But sometimes, if you’re lucky, you come across an envelope with handwriting that you recognize, thanking you for something you did, or gave. The thank-you note may seem to…
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For others, the wait is not for a device, but for answers. Even with ailments where a clear link can be established, like smoking and lung cancer, the illness can take years to manifest, Dr. Albert Rizzo, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association, said. “I think it’s a wait-and-see of really looking at…
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Ms. Philpott has a theory. “People who work in sexual health often come from a biomedical background, and they focus on death, danger and disease,” she said. “They’re not encouraged to think of themselves as sexual beings.” The fact that most sexual and reproductive health programs are delivered by big aid agencies doesn’t help, she…
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WASHINGTON — A new study by Moderna suggests that its updated coronavirus booster strengthens a key component of the immune system’s defense against the Omicron subvariant that accounted for most infections in the United States in recent months. The company announced the findings in a news release on Monday. The underlying data has not yet…
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Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who lived for 18 years in Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and whose intriguing tale inspired the 2004 Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal,” died on Saturday in that same airport. The cause of death, in Terminal 2F at about noon, was a heart attack, a representative for the…
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