“A stressful experience when we thought we would have to sleep on a bench in Central Park,” said Erica, from the United States. And María, from Argentina, made it seem like the number was probably greater than seven. “The people in charge, who I believe were government employees, told us that travelers frequently appeared looking…
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Shortly after John Mayer started performing with Dead & Company, the current iteration of the rock band the Grateful Dead that features some of its surviving members, fans began sending him T-shirts. “These really thoughtful packages,” he recalled recently, “like welcoming me to the neighborhood.” The Grateful Dead has a rich history of bootleg merchandise…
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In 1980, Mr. Holmes and his wife, Liza, a lawyer, settled in Tenafly, N.J. They had a snug house they loved in a nice community that was within quick reach of the city. But when the couple’s 10-year-old daughter, Wendy, died suddenly from an undiagnosed brain tumor in 1986, “we couldn’t stay there,” he said.…
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Robin Feldman, an expert on pharmaceutical intellectual property at the University of California Hastings College of Law, said the conflict over psychedelics reflects the larger problems of a patent system that saddles Americans with some of the highest prescription drug prices in the world. “It’s not pretty when you look under the hood,” she said.…
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We all had our fun with mini skirts as everyone strutted out wearing their best micro-minis, but nothing beats a maxi skirt to grab someone’s full attention. As we transition our wardrobes to fully embrace the fall season, I begin to remember the main reasons why maxi skirts are supreme: They’re seasonless, versatile, and a…
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Some restaurant owners go into the business with an implicit idea of giving their neighbors a deeper view of where they’re from. This was a major inspiration for Basir Ghiasi, who came to New York from Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, and his son Mohamed, who began plans to open an Afghan restaurant in Brooklyn last year after…
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“I haven’t given you anything particularly Indian today,” Ms. Jaffrey said, warming a chicken biryani in her kitchen in Hillsdale, New York, the small town upstate where she and her husband, the violinist Sanford Allen, live most of the year when not at their Manhattan apartment. They purchased the property, which is decorated with artwork…
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Danielle Deadwyler’s eyes are an instrument that she can play with precise control. In HBO Max’s postapocalyptic drama “Station Eleven,” they stare into your soul as Deadwyler’s graphic novelist character, Miranda, soaks in the world around her. In Netflix’s all-Black western “The Harder They Fall,” they’re the last thing a baddie sees before he’s killed…
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If any building in New York City could house a spacious food hall, it’s the Starrett-Lehigh Building. The Olly Olly Market, opening Wednesday, eats up 17,000 square feet on the ground floor of that blocklong 1931 International-style structure in Chelsea. Assembling and running the food hall is the responsibility of a Chicago hospitality company, 16”…
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