Can Vaccinated People Go to the Gym?
Experts offer guidance on indoor fitness classes and more.
Overlooked No More: Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Who Battled Prejudice in Medicine
Her house, at 67 Joy Street, now has a plaque honoring her and is a stop on the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail. From that house, Crumpler treated mostly women and children, regardless of their ability to pay. Her book, dedicated to nurses and mothers, is seen as a precursor to “What to Expect When You’re…
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It’s Hard to Search for a Therapist of Color. These Websites Want to Change That.
Other organizations go a step further and help patients set up therapy appointments. The nonprofit Black Men Heal, for example, offers up to eight free online counseling sessions. About 70 percent of clients choose to pay for additional sessions, said the executive director, Tasnim Sulaiman, a psychotherapist in private practice in the Philadelphia area who…
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No-Bake Desserts for Blazing Summer Days
No celebratory meal is complete without dessert, but, on blisteringly hot days, the mere thought of turning on the oven can make you wilt. (If you’re lucky enough to have central air, or don’t mind the heat, here are some summer fruit pies for you. Bake on!) These 16 no-bake recipes are for those sweltering…
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Anthony Bourdain ‘Roadrunner’ Documentary Seeks to Understand His Death, Career and Struggles
Around that time, Mr. Bourdain wrote to his friend, the artist David Choe: “David, this is a crazy thing to ask, but I’m curious,” describing his life with an expletive, “You’re successful, and I’m successful, and I’m wondering: Are you happy?” In the film, the email is read in Mr. Bourdain’s voice, which was created…
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Ford and Mellon Foundations Expand Initiative for Disabled Artists
The Disability Futures initiative, a fellowship established by the Ford and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations last fall to support disabled artists, is expanding. The foundations announced on Friday that they will commit an additional $5 million to support the initiative through 2025, which will include support for two more cohorts of 20 fellows. The fellowship,…
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A Momentous Crush Goes the Distance
“We fell in love with Vermont,” she said, and at first they saw each other every two or three weeks, but when she got a car, they took turns driving each weekend. In 2016, after each graduated, she cum laude, they got an apartment together on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Mr. Lakhanpal, now…
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An Arepa Recipe You Won’t Soon Forget
In Colombia, where the food stylist Mariana Velásquez grew up, every region has its own variety of arepas. Some have more than one. Bogotá, Ms. Velásquez notes in her new cookbook, “Colombiana,” has at least 72 variations all by itself. “From the sweet yuca arepas of Cesar to the anís arepas of Magangué, from the…
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The Year of Purchasing and Purging
For more than 13 years, the molds that Roland Mesnier used to fashion frozen desserts for heads of state, celebrities and the first family of the United States sat in his basement. After Mr. Mesnier retired as the White House pastry chef in 2004, he began taking his roughly 300 dessert molds to his home…
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A Fashion Show That Pretty Much Was a Work of Art
The Venice Biennale has long been a magnet for the fashion flock, a place to trawl for art and ideas the way it once shopped for buttons and trim in the garment districts of the world; to perhaps engineer the Next Big Art/Fashion collaboration, a mutually beneficial back-scratching arrangement of marketing and commerce that has…
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