Name: Eva Tolkin Age: 30 Hometown: Toronto Now Lives: A one-bedroom garden apartment in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Claim to Fame: A former backup singer for Solange Knowles and Lykke Li, Ms. Tolkin is a nascent pop star and fashion plate who evokes early Madonna and the effervescent melodies of Robyn. Like those pop…
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George Motz is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker, author and television host. For the past 12 years, Mr. Motz, who is sometimes referred to as “America’s hamburger expert,” has also been the director of the Food Film Festival, a four-day multisensory event during which participants eat the same food they’re watching on the big screen. This…
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ROME — One unseasonably warm recent October morning, a steady stream of Roman high school students clad in the uniform of teenagers around the world — T-shirts over leggings or jeans — moseyed through the ground floor of the grand Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, the onetime monument to Mussolini’s dreams and now the Fendi headquarters.…
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On a moody August morning in British Columbia, two humpback whales swam beside the floating Great Bear Lodge, exciting guests who watched them feeding and lunging out of the water for fish. Posted to Instagram, the video of the exuberant wildlife encounter went viral and the lodge’s following grew from 600 to nearly 50,000. Booking…
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Q. I rarely take pharmaceutical medicines but when I must, I always seem to have side effects. Are some people just more sensitive to medicines in general? A. Yes. Some people are more sensitive to medications. In 1978, a pharmacologist who was part of a research team in London took a test dose of the…
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I was at work when my phone lit up with a Facebook notification. Someone had tagged me in a link to a newspaper article from my hometown: “Woman, child in serious condition after Highway 212 crash.” I clicked and then winced as I took in a photo of an icy Montana highway, a pickup with…
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Don’t freak out, but cargo pants are back. But before you run for the hills, hear our plea: These are not the pants you idolized during your late ’90s, early ’00s pop punk phase. No, these are ones that can be worn by grown ups who staunchly believe ties do not go with Hanes tank…
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One of the sobering facts about cancer treatment is that it often begins when it is already too late: Studies show that an alarming number of treatable cancers are diagnosed in the advanced stages of disease. That has long bothered Dr. Sam Gambhir, a top cancer researcher at Stanford University who lost his teenage son…
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For years, Cheick Cisse was just one in a throng of cabdrivers congregating in the morning’s smallest, darkest hours at Ivoire, a bare-bones canteen in Harlem devoted to the food of Ivory Coast, the country where he was born. Then, in 2006, the owners of Ivoire, cabdrivers themselves, decided to move on. Mr. Cisse took…
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Interactive pop-up installations dedicated to food are springing up in locations across the country, and many even travel, making stops in multiple cities. Appealing to young and old, locals and tourists, these photogenic exhibitions flood Instagram feeds with movie set-worthy backdrops, and encourage you to eat, take pictures, and share with your friends. Sweet experiences…
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