For bargain hunters everywhere, our grand event of the year is here: Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There comes a time where you can score numerous must-have fashion and beauty brands at unbelievable discounts, all just in time for holidays. While some stores already dropped their sales ahead of Black Friday, Amazon leads the pack…
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Jennifer Algoo It’s been said once or twice that good things come to those who wait. So if you’ve been holding out until the end of November in the name of Black Friday sales to finally buy a winter coat, now is your moment. From blanket-like puffers to French-feeling, fitted wool wrap coats to oversized…
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Old Roots Bearing Fruit On a brisk November morning, I found myself climbing a fruit tree in my mother’s backyard in suburban Virginia. My 3-year-old insisted that I pick the last persimmon at 6:30 a.m. My father planted that tree two decades ago because the persimmons reminded him of the home he left behind in…
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MONTREAL — In June, when Rami Atallah, the chief executive of SSENSE, learned that the online retailer he founded had received an investment that valued the company at $4.1 billion, he kept his cool. There were no uncorked bottles or public victory laps. His daily grind of consecutive Zoom meetings continued, unperturbed. Never mind that…
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Headliner El Pingüino This Spanish seafood bar and restaurant draws on the talent involved in the Greenpoint spots Alameda (closed as a result of Covid) and Troost (still open). The chef Nick Padilla, the bar director Mike Zorma and a third partner, John Ortiz, set up their new venture with a dining counter, some tables…
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All good New Yorkers know that Lower Manhattan would lose a piece of its identity if Chinese businesses disappeared from Chinatown. In Little Italy, when the Italian Americans moved away, real estate brokers scrubbed one part of the area of its ethnic identity by renaming it NoLIta. If this tactic is successful a few blocks…
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FRANKENMUTH, Mich. — No matter the season, every all-you-can-eat dinner here draws from the palette of Thanksgiving: creamy drifts of mashed potatoes, golden swirls of buttered egg noodles, army-green forests of thoroughly cooked broccoli and garnet puddles of cranberry sauce. For more than a century, this city in Central Michigan has made its reputation on…
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Coronavirus cases in children in the United States have risen by 32 percent from about two weeks ago, a spike that comes as the country rushes to inoculate children ahead of the winter holiday season, pediatricians said. More than 140,000 children tested positive for the coronavirus between Nov. 11 and Nov. 18, up from 107,000…
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Saks Fifth Avenue brings the holiday cheer each year with an impressive array of holiday windows at its iconic storefront on 5th Avenue and 49th Street. This year, in the spirit of giving back, the luxury retailer is launching a partnership with the Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance to provide better educational and societal opportunities…
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This year: He is driving to Trevor City, Mich., a resort town on Grand Traverse Bay, to perform at a private Thanksgiving event for several families at a resort there, and resurrect his skills at making pilgrims out of balloons. “I feel like I’m in the ‘Twilight Zone,’” he said, noting that it’s been so…
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