Headliner Wan Wan Erika Chou, who owns Wayla on the Lower East Side and Kimika in NoLIta, has added this Thai restaurant to her portfolio, in partnership with Tom Naumsuwan, a Bangkok native, who will be the executive chef. In a setting with exposed brick, velvet banquettes, an Art Deco chandelier and touches of gold…
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Faces I’ll Never Forget Emptying a drawer that for years had sat unsifted, I found old computer disks, a yellowed newspaper and a stack of senior photos of my first students. In our classroom in Watertown, Minn., these kids had watched me fumble with seating charts and desk arrangements, with lagging book discussions, with disrespect.…
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Gone are the days when sneakers meant a single type of outfit—sporty, practical, and intended for working out. The current style’s massive popularity in all parts of our wardrobe has meant that there are literally a hundred different ways to style them; as soon as we’ve mastered one look, we’re off hunting for fresh inspiration.…
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Marc Jacobs was by the bar vaping something cinnamon flavored. Justin Theroux was in the corner wearing a sleeveless T-shirt. A D.J. was playing Black Sheep’s “The Choice Is Yours.” It was around 1 a.m. at the Boom Boom Room at the Standard hotel, and if the customary after-party for the Met Gala was less…
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Prince Charles did not attend the gala for his own charity, the Prince’s Trust, held last Thursday at Cipriani South Street in downtown Manhattan. But there were plenty of other royals, both real and imagined. Prince Pavlos and Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece were there, chatting with Jazmin Grimaldi, daughter of Prince Albert II of Monaco…
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Biogen said on Tuesday that it would replace its chief executive and effectively give up on marketing a high-profile Alzheimer’s drug that has been a commercial failure since its controversial approval nearly a year ago. Michel Vounatsos, who has led the drug maker for over five years and presided over the approval and launch of…
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Walk into any pizzeria in New York City, with a few well-known exceptions, and you can order with your eyes closed: A thin-crust cheese slice is inevitable, a Sicilian or grandma slice is likely, an all-cheese white pie is probable. There will definitely be pepperoni, and because many owners buy from the same suppliers, the…
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When “Gilded Glamour,” the dress code of the 2022 Met Gala, was announced, it seemed to be either a recipe for extravagant disaster or irony. After all, the current era has often been compared to the late 19th-century Gilded Age, that period between 1870 and 1900 when extreme wealth was concentrated in the hands of…
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Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli, the owners of Frankies 457 Spuntino in Brooklyn, plan to open a location in Nashville, their first outside New York City. Mr. Castronovo and Mr. Falcinelli, who became childhood friends in Queens, opened Frankies 457 Spuntino in Carroll Gardens in 2004. In the years since, the owners have capitalized on…
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Mayor Eric Adams of New York was one of the first guests to arrive at this year’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute benefit, accompanied by his girlfriend, Tracey Collins, whom he introduced as his “other half.” The self-proclaimed “Swagger Mayor” wore a jacket by the Nigerian designer Laolu Senbanjo to match the theme of…
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