“If I had known how divorce was truly going to be, would I have tried harder to stick it out?” Emily O. Gravett asks in her Modern Love essay, “The Art of Dividing Up a Marriage.” Although Ms. Gravett read countless books on divorce before getting one herself, she found that nothing could prepare her…
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Nobody embodies The American Dream quite like Ralph Lauren. The designer is indisputably the king of East Coast prep, defining and redefining the meaning of casual sportswear for over half a century. Yet he also does Old Hollywood glamour flawlessly, with classic, timeless, and, of course, sexy pieces. His love of both New York and…
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One of the locations is mirrored after an Italian deli, and it has green and white checkerboard flooring, deli cases and even tomato cans and olive oil canisters as props. Another is modeled after a 1960s supermarket, and the Superette team has a Blockbuster video store themed dispensary in the works. Drummond Munro, Superette’s chief…
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It was even worse than the clips implied — an hour of incompetent exposition, farcical bumbling and maracas-shaking. A distraction for an increasingly insular, self-referential show that’s run out of energy and expertise, and refuses to find it elsewhere. The show has slowly moved away from regional specialties and technique-centered challenges, from focusing on, say,…
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Courtesy of Hotel Il Pellicano The hotel lobby gift shop was once a catchall for eminently skippable souvenirs. But lately, travelers to some of the world’s most stylish destinations are coming home with something a cut above the standard souvenir T-shirt. “The age of the $40 Hawaiian shirt while staying in an $800-a-night room is…
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My friends and I got tattoos so we could feel dangerous. Not very dangerous, because very dangerous people went to jail, but slightly dangerous, like a thrilling drop of botulism in a jar of jelly. We walked down the narrow white hallway of the only tattoo shop near our Midwestern college and glanced at the…
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In ancient Egypt, chamomile was considered a gift from the divine. Offerings of the flower were made to the powerful sun god Ra as a form of worship; King Tut’s sandals were decorated with the bloom’s likeness; and the plant’s oil was used to anoint the dead, including the body of Ramses II. The ancient…
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The following has been edited for length and clarity. What caused you to undertake such an ambitious project? I saw black goat-hair tents when I was a teenager traveling in the Middle East and even then, I realized that although I had studied history, I had heard almost nothing about nomads. But in places like…
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On his first weekend living in Washington, Tyler Austin Cherry decided to go to Nellie’s Sports Bar, in the U Street Corridor, by himself. Mr. Cherry, who was a rising senior at the University of California, Los Angeles in June 2014, was spending the summer interning at the Center for American Progress in Washington, and…
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Lucas Timothy McMahon had just finished seeing “The Cher Show” on Broadway in January 2019 when he was introduced to Elise Marie MacPherson at a friend’s birthday party. He was eager to talk about the performances. “I started doing some re-enactments,” he said. Ms. MacPherson, an actress who goes by Ellie, found them hilarious. Mr.…
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