Men of a certain age have long come in and out of fashion. Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, European portraiture immortalized tailored tunics and the older aristocrats who wore them. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, celebrating “breeching,” the practice of putting a boy in pants for the first time, was all the rage. Skip…
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There was a guy named Eddie in my weeklong summer rental share this year who devoted one whole precious vacation day to making mole: hours of frying and dry-toasting and steeping and then wiping up the splatters. The other housemates wandered in and out from the deck or the beach where they’d been, doing a…
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Beauty is an individual notion, and everyone treats it differently. Beauty bloggers come up with more and more trends in makeup every single day. Some of them are very successful, while others cause a mixed reaction from the public. For instance, very unusual and strange trends of wavy eyebrows and brow braids have recently gone…
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For all of its worship of novelty and new faces, New York has an echelon of veteran chefs who have quietly persevered for decades, admired and continually achieving but not making any new headlines. In October, though, several will step back into the spotlight. Top among them is Alfred Portale, who was the chef and…
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At first, Manoella Buffara thought the idea impossible and even “a little bit crazy”: commuting nearly 5,000 miles from southern Brazil to open a restaurant in New York. But after years of trying to persuade the critically acclaimed chef to take the proposal seriously, the American entrepreneurs Michael Satsky and Brian Gefter finally succeeded. Her…
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Video LaKambria Welch said that a wedding venue in Booneville, Miss., would not allow her brother’s wedding to take place there because the venue doesn’t “do gay weddings or mixed race” citing its “Christian beliefs.” The owners of an event hall in northeastern Mississippi apologized on Tuesday for refusing to host a wedding for an…
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Jacquelynn Vance-Pauls, a real-estate lawyer in upstate New York, has a 14-year-old son with autism who was recently kicked out of his private special needs school. Her 9-year-old twins and her high-school senior are also on the verge of being expelled from their public schools. The children did not do anything wrong, nor are they…
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LOS ANGELES — From across the lawn at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Barbie Ferreira, the 22-year-old actor who plays Kat in “Euphoria,” spotted her co-star and “bestie,” Hunter Schafer. The two, who have become inseparable through working on the HBO series about teens navigating drugs and debauchery at a Southern California high school, ran up…
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In Berlin, the bag is everywhere. Hot young dads slip it over one shoulder. Older German women pull knitting from its mouth. This canvas tote is carried by 12-year-olds on field trips, by harried white-collar workers with their laptops, by the homeless and by many, many stylish people. Its design — black Gothic print interrupted…
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New York has become a food-hall town, with perhaps more of these collections of food and dining stalls than in any other city in the country. This season, there will be some showy additions, as operators are increasingly selective as to who gets to set up shop. Doris Huang has filled her shiny cobalt-and-gold food…
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