Welcome. Sam’s off for a couple weeks, so I’ll be keeping you company at home for a spell. It’s mid-August, the time of the season when the days start to cool a bit, at least here in the northeast, when those people who love the fall start to anticipate the brisk days, and those who…
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Bar Sardine, a cozy bistro in Manhattan’s West Village, has been Maggie Kennelly’s go-to spot since she moved to New York three years ago. It’s where she introduced her boyfriend to her father for the first time. It’s where she and her friends always went for Sunday brunch, sitting at “the sunny booth” by the…
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What tomato sandwiches were to Harriet the Spy, tuna salad was to me, and I ate it almost every day throughout grade school. Piled on whole-wheat, it was squishy and dependable, seeing me through the ups and downs of every cafeteria drama. Tuna sandwiches are just as comforting to me now, especially during this pandemic.…
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Style Points is a new weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. There’s something truly uncanny about looking at fashion week images right now, a reminder that on the streets of Copenhagen, stylish women were just cavorting in cute ensembles and attending runway shows. I’ve been clicking through the slideshows like everyone…
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New York City on Tuesday released more than 1.46 million coronavirus antibody test results, the largest number to date, providing more evidence of how the virus penetrated deeply into some lower-income communities while passing more lightly across affluent parts of the city. In one ZIP code in Queens, more than 50 percent of people who…
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ImageTropical Storm Isaias doing its thing on in Queens, N.Y. on August 5.Credit…Kathy Willens/Associated Press Even as California has escalating rolling blackouts and Iowa has been blasted with storms, an extremely active hurricane season for the United States is only just beginning. It’s not just the loss of electricity Americans fear from these events. With…
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Though these guides are digital, they borrow from the analog art of zine making. “Zines, you know, it’s a democratic way to share information,” said Barbara Calderón, 32, an intersectional artist and librarian and the founder of Colectiva Cósmica, an art collective that hosts art workshops, publishes zines and organizes within creative communities. “The zine…
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Pasta is an anytime food. Any mood, any season, it’s usually a good idea. But babysitting a bubbling pot of sauce in the summer heat? Not so much. The season’s sun-ripened produce lends itself well to no-cook pasta sauces — fresh, bright and ready in the time it takes to boil pasta. And because the…
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The other day, my colleague Jamal Jordan posted a food photo on Twitter — an upsettingly beautiful skillet of mac and cheese, bubbling away furiously over the white-hot coals of his grill. I had no words at all, just endless heart-eye emojis, and it’s all I’ve wanted to eat since. Jamal told me he chopped…
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When Lamin Ngobeh, a high-school teacher at the Freire Charter School in Wilmington, Del., saw a social media post last month about working remotely in Barbados for 12 months, his interest was piqued. “My school probably won’t open for in-person classes at least until February 2021, and I want to be in a country that’s…
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