For more than a year, Dr. Andrew Wollowitz has mostly been cloistered inside his home in Mamaroneck, N.Y. As chief of emergency medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, Dr. Wollowitz, 63, was eager to help treat patients when the coronavirus began raging through the city last spring. But a cancer treatment in 2019…
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The couches were nice, and the Orange County home where Ms. Ellman picked them up was even nicer. Ms. Ellman ended up really liking Ms. Hutsona, who volunteered to deliver the couches to her home later that evening. But Ms. Hutsona had a tale of woe: Her family’s new Malibu apartment had mold! Ms. Ellman,…
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It’s not every day you turn 100, and in Gucci’s case, they’re not horsing around. In celebration of its centennial, the brand is rolling out projects throughout the year, and despite it only being April, we’ve clocked all the headlines: It started with a partnership with The North Face that sold out internationally; Then there…
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A Modern Five-Bedroom House in Sintra, Portugal $3.6 MILLION (3 MILLION EUROS) This contemporary villa sits on nearly three acres in the tourist-friendly town of Sintra, about three miles from Portugal’s southwestern coastline and about 25 miles west of Lisbon. Built in 2008 from concrete and glass, the approximately 10,700-square-foot house has five bedrooms and…
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President Biden’s $400 billion proposal to improve long-term care for older adults and those with disabilities was received as either a long overdue expansion of the social safety net or an example of misguided government overreach. Republicans ridiculed including elder care in a program dedicated to infrastructure. Others derided it as a gift to the…
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Brianne Day makes a wide array of wines from the Willamette and Applegate Valleys in southern Oregon. Along with the usual pinot noirs and chardonnays, she also uses unexpected varieties and makes creative blends that are always a treat to try. When the pandemic struck in March 2020, she feared the worst, as her Day…
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The coronavirus disrupted much of the bridal fashion industry, driving down sales and forcing designers to showcase their collections virtually instead of in person. But through it all, Jackson Wiederhoeft kept extra busy and productive. The 27-year-old designer, who got his start at Thom Browne and released his first collection in 2019, has a passion…
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After a pause last year because of the pandemic, the Michelin Guides for restaurants in several cities in the United States are up and running again. The venerable French company announced Thursday that starting next week, it would begin revealing the stars and other ratings for restaurants in Washington D.C., Chicago and New York. The…
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The trend is not confined to Levi’s, which lays claim to inventing the blue jean in 1873. Madewell, the popular retail chain owned by J. Crew Group, has also been seeing enthusiasm around looser fit jeans and balloon pants, even among skinny jean acolytes, which is viewed as a turning point for the fit. Today…
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‘We’re Not Tourists’ Invariably, there are going to be complaints about the return of those who bring an end to all of that. Cheryl Dunn, 63, a photographer and documentary filmmaker, described the Lower East Side as having been transformed by a sense of community. “You go in a shop and people have time to…
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