You don’t come to Versace to wear brown. At least, that’s what its history of bold colors, J.Lo jungle prints, and ’90s black-and-gold power dressing have taught us. The brand is flipping the script for the fall 2021 season, introducing us to a new conversation within the Versace-verse: monogramming. Debuting a new monogram this season,…
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Esca, an influential, seafood-focused Italian restaurant in Manhattan’s theater district, has permanently closed, its executive chef and co-owner, Dave Pasternack, said Friday. Mr. Pasternack said that business was good last fall, when Esca reopened for indoor dining. But when the state banned indoor service in December, he closed the restaurant. He said he couldn’t afford…
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So far about 54 million people in the United States have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, and of those nearly 28 million have been fully vaccinated. At Callen-Lorde and other medical centers that treat many L.G.B.T.Q. patients, health care workers say they have seen a higher demand for the vaccine among…
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After graduating from a Lubavitcher Yeshiva high school in Crown Heights, he attended Brooklyn College, briefly sold mink stoles, and ran a bungalow colony in the Catskills, where he opened a deli. It was after he opened his Manhattan restaurant, he said in one of many versions of the story, that “a Jewish hippie” tipped…
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So far about 54 million people in the United States have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, and of those nearly 28 million have been fully vaccinated. At Callen-Lorde and other medical centers that treat many L.G.B.T.Q. patients, health care workers say they have seen a higher demand for the vaccine among…
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Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. On Wednesday, the temperature was projected to hit roughly 50 degrees in the New York area. My husband and I reacted as though it were going to be 70, and we’d be wearing shorts and drinking gin and tonics. “Let’s have a barbecue!” he suggested. When we actually…
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Scientists in Oregon have spotted a homegrown version of a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus that first surfaced in Britain — but now combined with a mutation that may make the variant less susceptible to vaccines. The researchers have so far found just a single case of this formidable combination, but genetic analysis suggested that…
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He and his fiancée, Carissa Hernandez, left their Manhattan apartment for Charleston, S.C., where his sister, Tracé Conway, is director of operations for the Butcher & Bee restaurant group. He is not sure if he’ll ever move back to New York. He believes this is a perfect time for restaurant leaders to reinvent the industry,…
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Vaccinated, but still uncertain If the uncertainty of 2020 has taught us anything, it’s the unlikelihood that any travel that happens this year will be similar to the “normal” of pre-pandemic times. “Many of my colleagues in the travel industry are looking at the vaccine as a silver bullet to the situation,” said James Ferrara,…
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There is an art to eating swallows: the proper thumb-and-finger pinch to pull off a bite, the almost imperceptible roll of the dough from the palm to the tips of the fingers as it’s lowered into soup to scoop a mouthful. But I am perennially out of practice. I am highly self-conscious about my swallow-rolling…
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