How to Test Your Strength in 30 Seconds
You need more than strength to age well — you also need power. Here’s how to measure how much you have.
Enchiladas Verdes, But Make It Beans
A skillet dinner of spicy beans is a speedy winter staple at my house. Whether cumin-scented and chili-adjacent, or zapped with red pepper flakes, loads of garlic and olive oil, it’s a weeknight go-to when work runs long and evenings are short. Is there anything easier or more satisfying on a cold January night? Actually,…
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Fashion Has Become Extreme Again
The hottest topic in fashion circles recently? How runway looks have become more over-the-top than ever before. Think: Duran Lantink’s inflatable denim, Marni’s 3-D flowers, Christian Cowan’s giant fur balls, Schiaparelli’s skirt flanked by a supersized lobster, Rick Owens’ pronounced shoulders and sky-high capes that billowed in the wind (ditto for Mugler’s airy displays of…
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See What Stylish Men Are Wearing in Milan and Paris at Fashion Week
Style Outside The men’s fashion weeks in Milan and Paris offered a look at how originals dress. Share full article By Simbarashe Cha Simbarashe Cha wrote the text and made these photographs and videos for Style Outside, a visual column that explores street style around the world. Jan. 22, 2024, 8:00 a.m. ET card:1 of…
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Why Statement Sleeves Are Everywhere
It’s imprinted in the minds of generations of girls: the scene in Anne of Green Gables where the redheaded heroine revels in receiving a fashionable puff-sleeved dress. Anne would be thrilled with the state of style in 2023, from the swooping silhouettes of Kika Vargas’ voluminous dresses to Cecilie Bahnsen’s and Simone Rocha’s pumped-up sleeves…
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How Worcester Polytechnic Institute Weathered a Spate of Suicides
The first death happened before the academic year began. In July 2021, an undergraduate student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute was reported dead. The administration sent a notice out over email, with the familiar, thoroughly vetted phrasing and appended resources. Katherine Foo, an assistant professor in the department of integrative and global studies, felt especially crushed…
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Can I Wear My Vintage Concert Tees to Work?
I’d like to wear my treasure trove of vintage concert T-shirts to the office. I have been collecting them for years, and some of them are rare and striking. But can I? How do I style them without looking ridiculous? — Jen, Seattle The vintage T-shirt sector — especially the vintage concert T-shirt sector —…
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24 Breakfast Recipes
I didn’t grow up in a breakfast household — not in any traditional sense, anyway. It was both a requirement and an afterthought: a stop at the gas station for some packaged muffins or the Cuban bakery for a ham croqueta in a roll, often eaten in my dad’s car on the way to school.…
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Poet Crystal Wilkinson Explores Black Appalachia Cooking in Her New Book
When Crystal Wilkinson wants to summon her kitchen ghosts, she retrieves a fuchsia-hued dress from her closet and hangs it in the doorway. The sturdy, double-hemmed garment invites her grandmother Christine, who sewed it by hand and wore it often before she died in 1994, to join her. The dress acts as “a literal and…
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Austria’s Schnapps Distilleries Tempt Winter Tourists and Skiers
When winter arrives in western Austria and the sun disappears all too quickly behind the snow-capped Alps, you can stand in bare orchards and still taste the sun-ripened fruit that the trees once bore — just sip a glass of schnapps. For centuries, farmers in the Tyrol region have mashed, fermented and distilled apples, plums,…
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