Alok Vaid-Menon Finds Beauty Beyond Gender

Name: Alok Vaid-Menon Age: 30 Hometown: College Station, Texas Now Lives: In a sunny, two-bedroom apartment with ample closet space in uptown Manhattan with a roommate. Claim to Fame: Mx. Vaid-Menon is a gender nonconforming artist, writer and comedian who uses their work to redefine beauty standards, examine colonialism and explore fluid identity. “The word…

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Omicron is spreading more than twice as quickly as the Delta variant in South Africa, scientists report.

ImagePeople waiting to receive a dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at a clinic in Hillbrow, South Africa, a suburb of Johannesburg.Credit…Joao Silva/The New York Times Underscoring growing concerns about Omicron, scientists in South Africa said on Friday that the newest coronavirus variant appears to spread more than twice as quickly as Delta, which had…

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A Smoky and Bright Pasta

Dinner always seems a little beside the point this time of year, which I fondly regard as cookie season. Why think about chicken when you could be daydreaming about hibiscus-ginger cookies, minty lime bars or chocolate babka rugelach? The brilliant recipe editors and bakers of New York Times Cooking have come up with 24 cookies…

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