A publicist for “Oh Gosnell” said that the creation of the play was inspired by Leiby’s comic monologue. “They laugh about it — we tell the truth about it,” says the website of the play now going by the name “Oh Gosnell: A Show About the Truth.” It’s written by Phelim McAleer, who is credited…
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Building on the success of their members-only ZZ’s Club in Miami, Jeff Zalaznick, Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi of Major Food Group are planning a New York City location. The New York branch of ZZ’s Club, to open by the end of the year, will take over the space in Hudson Yards that housed the…
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Dr. Loucks’s research and his new book, “The Mindful College Student,” illustrate how mindfulness can decrease stress and symptoms of depression, and improve sleep quality and physical activity levels. “Romanticizing your life” intersects with mindfulness, he added, in part by helping us become more in tune with ourselves. “If we’re trying to build a life…
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When she was successful, Dr. Iram said, the result was about 10 microliters of cerebrospinal fluid — roughly one-fifth of the size of a drop of water. To collect enough for infusions, she had to do the procedure on many hundreds of mice, taming the technical challenges that Dr. Wyss-Coray had warned of by sheer…
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Good morning. It’s a great newspaper section we printed last night, rolled into blue bags and delivered to the vicinity of our subscribers’ front doors this morning. I loved Kim Severson’s profile of the Gullah Geechee cook Emily Meggett, a woman who’s never used a cookbook in her life and just published her first, “Gullah…
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At the same time vendors, many of which suffered big financial losses over the past two years, have made their guest count requirements clearer and stricter, said Leah Weinberg, a lawyer and the owner of Color Pop Events in New York. “Pretty much every wedding vendor overhauled their contract after Covid hit,” said Ms. Weinberg,…
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These are not marginal rituals. When, at weekly Mass, many of the world’s more than 1.3 billion Catholics, about a sixth of the global population, eat a wafer of bread that has become the body of Christ — not in symbol but physical fact, through the mystery of transubstantiation — they are literally bringing God…
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“Just make it part of your body,” Mr. Hughes said. “Don’t hold it out in front of you.” And then there is his prescription for something we all suffer from: overdoing it. Think of your to-do list as the choice of rides at a county fair, he said, and don’t spend the whole day on…
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In the closing monologue from a recent episode of his HBO talk show, Bill Maher cataloged a series of social conditions that he suggested were hampering stand-up comedy and imperiling free speech: cancel culture, a perceived increase of sensitivity on college campuses, and Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars. Near the end of…
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Jessica Callaghan, 30, was scrolling through Instagram when an advertisement offered her a boyfriend. “There is no substitute for true love!” it read. “Find it today with Elan! ‘The Bushwick Bachelor!’” Ms. Callaghan, who works in public relations, had spent nearly a decade swiping around for dates and relationships on Tinder and Hinge, but she…
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