I’ve Always Struggled With My Weight. Losing It Didn’t Mean Winning.
A diet app helped me shed my extra Covid pounds — and reminded me that I’m still the same old me.
A Garden Is Planned for the Obama Presidential Center
The Obama Presidential Center, opening on the South Side of Chicago in 2025, has announced plans for a fruit and vegetable garden, a nod to the former first lady Michelle Obama’s focus on healthy eating. But its name honors another “trailblazer and humanitarian” who amplified “her husband’s agenda,” Eleanor Roosevelt, said Valerie Jarrett, the chief…
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Gun Deaths Surged During the Pandemic’s First Year, the C.D.C. Reports
“We have two things together: the trauma of the past two years, and the mental health crisis that came out of this pandemic,” Mayor Eric M. Garcetti of Los Angeles said earlier this year at an event to discuss crime. “Those things have caused us to see more violence.” Christopher Herrmann, an assistant professor in…
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Celebrity Chef Mario Batali Acquitted of Sexual Misconduct
Only two witnesses testified during the trial, both for the prosecution. Ms. Tene, 32, who works in the software industry, spent most of the first day on the stand, describing her encounter with Mr. Batali late one evening at Towne Stove and Spirits, a bar in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston that has since…
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BeReal Photo-Sharing App Is the Right Kind of Boring
If social platforms can be said to have had good old days, it’s when people were still signing up to see if their friends were there, and to figure out why — those early moments when their potential was felt but not yet described. That’s what’s happening now on BeReal, a new platform where people…
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Reader Questions: Graduation Dinners, Kid-Friendly Spots and Top-Tier Salads
It’s reader questions time again! This month I’m responding to emails that may at first seem specific to their senders, but will surely apply to a good share of Where to Eat readers, including where to take a crew with lots of dietary restrictions and how to introduce a 10-year-old to the world of New…
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Ana Bar & Eatery, Offering Prepared Foods, Opens in Hudson Yards
Headliner Ana Bar & Eatery A crowd-pleasing self-service buffet of hot and cold dishes, with an emphasis on vegetable preparations to eat in or take away, is the centerpiece for this casual new dining area on the second level of the Hudson Yards Shops building. Replacing the Citarella market, it sells mostly prepared foods and…
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Discovered Pleasure’
Making it Official (Again) “OK girls, here’s the scoop,” my mother texted. “Dad and I are getting married.” Fifty-two years after their wedding, 27 years after their divorce, and 18 years after he moved back in, they were making it official (again). She insisted there be no fuss. My sister and I insisted fuss was…
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How Are Abortion Restrictions Affecting Medical Training? Tell Us.
With at least 22 states poised to drastically limit or end abortion procedures if Roe v. Wade is overturned, how will the training of doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants be affected? If you are a student or educator in a profession licensed to perform abortions, including dilation and curettage, or D. and C., we…
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All the Best Fashion Campaigns of Pre-Fall 2022
Juergen Teller In case you need a refresher, pre-fall is an in-between season tiding customers over until the major fall season arrives. But just because it’s not one of the bigger seasons doesn’t mean brands aren’t bringing their A-game. For Loewe’s pre-fall campaign, creative director Jonathan Anderson assembled a motley crew of Sir Anthony Hopkins,…
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