For most of the year, I go full-on savory when roasting a chicken. The more garlic, mustard, chiles and lemon I can stuff into the cavity and rub under the skin, the happier I’ll be. Around the Jewish holidays, though, my preferences take a sugary turn. Once Rosh Hashana leaps into view, honeyed visions edge…
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No one is having a better week than Rihanna. She shut down NYFW with a super private Savage x Fenty show (streaming on Amazon later this month) and less than 24 hours later, hosted her fifth annual Diamond Ball benefitting the Clara Lionel Foundation. So what do you wear when the red carpet queen herself…
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Good morning. I’ll tell you what I’m going to do this weekend. I’m going to read Tejal Rao’s new column about making Japanese curry in The New York Times Magazine. I’m going to read it, like, four or five times so I get some sense of the technique, and then I’m going to make her…
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LONDON — One of the most feted designers here this week — someone whose work has been admired by the Duchess of Cambridge — will not, actually, participate in London Fashion Week. Yet it is possible the slinky 1920s gowns, cloche hats and tiaras created or sourced by Anna Mary Scott Robbins, the costume designer…
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One of the last things I did before leaving the home we had made together was pull the five-foot portrait of our faces out of the closet. What is one supposed to do with oversized portraiture in the event of adversity? The picture was a gift, bestowed by network executives when we became the first…
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No matter your music taste, heading to a concert means you’re in for two things: 1.) feeling deliriously happy and 2.) waking up to a camera roll full of concert clips that will mean nothing to you in two days. The only thing that could make it better? Perfecting the concert lewk—something that’s comfortable enough…
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Dear Tripped Up, On a recent family vacation to Cartagena, Colombia, we showed up for a one-night stay at a hotel that exists only on the internet. My son had a dislocated shoulder from a mountain-biking accident earlier in the day, his pain meds were wearing off and it was New Year’s Eve. I booked…
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Even as a young girl growing up in St. Charles, Mo., Loren Voss had a strong interest in politics and public service, and she wasn’t afraid to speak up for causes she believed in. “She’s into the rights of humans and animals,” said Debbie Voss, her mother. “When she was young, we used to go…
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For my 16th birthday in 1985, when all 12 of my older siblings had left home, my father made me a tape of himself performing two songs. The first was an old standard which he sang and played on the piano he and my mother had purchased 40 years earlier, even before buying a bed.…
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Nearly two years ago, the New York City Council celebrated when it passed a far-reaching ban on conversion therapy, a discredited practice to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. On Thursday, Corey Johnson, the Council speaker, who is gay, said the Council would act swiftly to repeal the ban. The move is a…
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