Pumpkin spice latte season, cuffing season, 12-foot Home Depot skeleton season — October has many an alias. But in my house, it’s borscht season. Growing up, my enjoyment of borscht was reserved to one day a year — Christmas, when my mom made a batch fit to feed a football team using the largest pot…
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When Nora Helmer slammed the door on her husband, leaving her marriage with a bang in A Doll’s House, it was the sound heard round the world. And it continues to be: Look at Jessica Chastain’s Tony-nominated turn in the Broadway revival this year. The distance between an 1879 Henrik Ibsen play and a fashion…
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The pickers began to arrive at 7 a.m. at the home of Greg and Emily Ernst in Geyserville, Calif., to help harvest their half-acre zinfandel vineyard before the October day reached its 95-degree high. These are not professionals. They are family and friends for whom helping the Ernsts is an annual social highlight. The Ernsts,…
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There isn’t too much we can add to the happy conversations swirling around this fire chicken, a recipe by Maangchi adapted by Sam Sifton. Her YouTube video for cheese buldak has been viewed over nine million times, and Sam’s adaptation on New York Times Cooking boasts over 3,000 reviews and has five stars. It’s a…
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On a rainy Saturday evening in late September, 175 guests gathered at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, focused on something other than the 21,000-pound model of a blue whale suspended over their heads. They came, some with timepieces on both wrists, to attend RollieFest, an invitation-only event for watch collectors…
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Although the SAG-AFTRA strike rages on, there is one project Emmy-nominated actress Camila Morrone can talk about: her newly minted partnership with fine jewelry brand Brilliant Earth. The announcement comes just as Brilliant Earth launches its latest collection, Sol. In its 18 years, Brilliant Earth has never had a brand ambassador before—nor has Morrone ever…
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When Taylor Klein, an engineering student, receives a message from a friend advising her to open a link, she’s cautious. Eventually she clicks, and finds herself staring back at herself. Taylor’s face has been stolen to make a deepfake video, which was posted with her personal information on a pornography site. The documentary “Another Body”…
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Horlogerie Arvaud has been a fixture along the Rue du Cherche-Midi, in the Sixth Arrondissement of Paris, since Yohanna Arvaud’s grandfather opened the clock and watch repair shop in 1962. And Ms. Arvaud, 44, who now heads the company, can be found there most business days, except two mornings a week (usually Tuesdays and Wednesdays).…
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Like Playing a Violin At onetime, making a watch meant doing it by hand, because there was no other way. Today, C.N.C. (computer numerical control) machines have taken over a lot of the work that previously was painstakingly done by hand, but a hand finish remains the mark of high watchmaking — and it is…
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