Maybe a dive bar doesn’t need decades of Winston smoke and spilled Budweiser long necks to feel like the real thing. Despite its just-born status and celebrity lineage (Justin Theroux, a partner, snapped party photos at its opening this month), Ray’s Bar has just the right mix of cheap paneling, cheap beer and cheap thrills…
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On a cold and damp Iowa evening last October, I sat in a tent and thought about Abraham Lincoln. More precisely, I thought about Lincoln signing a minor piece of legislation deeding the Yosemite Valley to the state of California. It happened in 1864, while the Civil War raged. It is important because of just…
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Even since Meghan Markle was first spotted wearing Mother jeans at the 2017 Invictus Games, the brand has barely been able to keep their denim in stock. Just a week after she wore the brand, the company saw a 1,000 percent increase in site traffic and at one point in time, the waitlist for said…
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When the thought of having to run—even for just five minutes—pops into your mind, what sort of feelings does it conjure up? Excitement? Dread? Not-a-chance in hell vibes? If you’re in the latter camp, Nike understands and is offering the Joyride Run Flyknit as a tool to help alleviate your running anxiety. Nike Joyride Flyknit…
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This summer, I made a commitment to myself to be outside as much as possible: riding a bike when I could take the subway, sitting on my fire escape when I could be on the couch, and forcing my friends to eat off paper plates while we awkwardly sit on grass or sand when we…
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In a world where good things happen to me, I’d have a Park Avenue apartment with a spare bedroom exclusively for shoe storage. But c’est la vie—that’s not the world we live in. Instead, I maximize my tiny closet by relying on pieces that can pull double duty for work and play, like a bra…
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Good morning. It would take you a long time to find someone dumber at business than me. But rotisserie chickens seem like a pretty good play, I think, at least if you could find good birds to spin and the right wood-burning stove on which to spin them. Salt, pepper, a secret basting sauce, maybe…
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Pfizer agreed on Monday to combine its off-patent drugs division, which controls treatments like the statin Lipitor, with the pharmaceutical company Mylan, creating a potential powerhouse in the business of medicines without patent protections. The transaction comes as falling prices increase pressure on generic drugmakers, a development that has been mostly overlooked in the United…
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In this series for T, the author Reggie Nadelson revisits New York institutions that have defined cool for decades, from time-honored restaurants to unsung dives. You have to get to Jing Fong for the dim sum brunch as soon as the restaurant opens at 9:30 on Saturday morning. An hour later there will be a…
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Lyme disease is on the rise. The 30,000 cases reported annually to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by state health departments represent only a fraction of the cases diagnosed and treated around the country. About half the cases occur in people under the age of 21, and boys from 5 to 9 years…
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