“Masks on in the gallery, please,” said a security guard at the Brooklyn Museum. It was last Wednesday night and the museum was celebrating the return of New York Fashion Week with the opening party for “Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams,” a retrospective of the French luxury house. Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior’s artistic director, stood…
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My first impulse, when we began Wine School seven years and 87 columns ago, was to offer an easy, enjoyable alternative to the classes and books that focus on tasting and breaking wine down to its component aromas and flavors. What’s wrong with that method? Nothing, if you are a professional with the goal of…
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It was a sweltering afternoon in August when I first came to Soothr, and I was wishing I’d visited several months earlier. Thai noodle soups are the restaurant’s specialty, and while summers in New York City are not kind to anybody, they are especially harsh if you happen to love noodle soups. When the city…
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On the second Monday in September, upper Fifth Avenue lit up with a blitz of flashbulbs not seen in over two years. The Met Gala — like Broadway, like New York Fashion Week, like the U.S. Open — had returned, and with it the extreme pageantry that it inspires as guests and the designers who…
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Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, can be effective for the treatment of major depression and is just as safe as antidepressant drugs combined with psychotherapy, a large new study concludes. The procedure, once referred to as electroshock therapy, has a controversial and largely unfavorable history. This was partly due to inaccurate portrayals in popular books and…
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The City Girls weren’t playing around this fashion week. The hip-hop duo put their best-dressed feet forward as they trotted around the Big Apple to witness the latest runway fare. For their appearances at the Moschino and LaQuan Smith shows, they opted for seductive outfits with the help of in-demand stylist and self-proclaimed “image architect”…
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Me at LUAR?! I’m not worthy! Truly, that’s how I felt the second my ride pulled up to a remote street in Brooklyn. It was the most “my life is like a movie” I’ve ever felt. I say this because the crowd outside the venue was teeming to get in. There was an immediate energy…
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Over the past three or so years, chile crisps, those ruddy, fiery, oil-based chile condiments that deliver texture as well as heat, have become a pantry staple. Okazu Chili Miso was developed several years ago by Jess Mantell and Fumi Tsukamoto, who sought condiments without additives, and was originally sold in farmers’ markets. With miso…
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As a result, Americans across the political spectrum are relying on pieces of information, like an announcement by Israel’s Ministry of Health in July that the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against symptomatic infection — though not against serious illness — waned over time. Others have trusted their intuition, whether that means taking dangerous livestock…
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