Louis Oliver Gropp, a steady shepherd of shelter magazines through decades of turmoil as editor in chief of House & Garden, Elle Décor and House Beautiful, died on Oct. 17 at his home in Greenport, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 88. His daughter Lauren Gropp Lowry announced the death. No cause was given. In…
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Ms. Acharia emphasized how South Asians have made a “mark in so many different fields,” which was reflected in the range of firsts in attendance: Vanita Gupta, the first Indian American to serve as associate attorney general; Jessel Taank, the first Indian woman cast on “The Real Housewives of New York City”; and Nina Davuluri,…
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Ms. Acharia emphasized how South Asians have made a “mark in so many different fields,” which was reflected in the range of firsts in attendance: Vanita Gupta, the first Indian American to serve as associate attorney general; Jessel Taank, the first Indian woman cast on “The Real Housewives of New York City”; and Nina Davuluri,…
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No one does Halloween quite like Heidi Klum. Since 2000, the supermodel has been throwing yearly Halloween parties where celebs gather to mingle and have fun. Just as exciting as her annual bashes, however, are the truly over-the-top costumes she dreams up. Each year, Klum arrives in a costume more elaborate and incredible than the…
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Tieghan Gerard was busy lighting pumpkin spice-scented candles when I arrived at her sunlit studio last month. After more than a year of negotiations with the representatives who guard her schedule and her image, she’d agreed to cook two recipes I’d chosen from the thousands on her immensely popular recipe site, Half Baked Harvest. Small,…
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Why It Matters: A disease with a toll that is difficult to imagine. An estimated 100,000 people in the United States have sickle cell disease, most of whom have African ancestry. Sickle cell shortens lives, injures organs and bones and causes episodes of searing pain that can repeatedly send patients to emergency rooms, or lead…
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A year ago, the Food and Drug Administration announced new regulations allowing the sale of over-the-counter hearing aids and setting standards for their safety and effectiveness. That step — which was supposed to take three years but required five — portended cheaper, high-quality hearing aids that people with mild to moderate hearing loss could buy…
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Chile crisp or crunch has become as ubiquitous in the kitchen as peanuts on a bar. Depending on whose jar you’re opening, there are slight variations. A new one that’s densely packed with soybeans, fava beans, yellow split peas and pumpkin seeds doubles down on the crunch factor. The fire component is moderate. It’s from…
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With Halloween jumping out at us tomorrow, and Thanksgiving waiting around the corner, the season is sporting its brightest colors. The trees are rubicund with turning leaves; the farmers’ market ruddy with apples and pumpkins; the impulse rack in the supermarket checkout line ablaze with beckoning bags of candy corn. What better match for this…
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Robert Irwin, who died last week in San Diego, at 95, had one of the most restless, inquiring minds of any artist I have ever known. As the story goes, in 1966 he stepped back from one of his very ethereal, so-called abstract “dot paintings” — composed of small dots of near-complementary colors — and…
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