Paris may conjure up images of the Eiffel Tower, people-watching at cafés, and no-holds-barred shopping sprees on the Champs-Élysées. For Ariana DeBose, leaning into her French fantasy means waking up early and “wandering around a bit aimlessly while listening to Édith Piaf.” And that’s exactly what she did before her pre-show prep for Chanel’s spring/summer…
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At Sushi Yoko in Norcross, Ga., as at Japanese restaurants across the world, each booth has a red-capped bottle of shichimi togarashi, the seven-spice blend that makes food taste spicy, savory, nutty and electric all at once. This combination delivers an exciting interplay of dried red chile, orange peel, sesame seeds (both black and white),…
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Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers, including pharmacists, lab technicians, therapists and housekeepers, went on strike Wednesday morning. Kaiser patients in California, Colorado, Oregon, Virginia and Washington State, where Kaiser health care workers are walking out, will be affected. Kaiser, whose health plans cover nearly 13 million people through a network of hospitals and…
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Pop culture feels a lot like high school homecoming these days, especially with Taylor Swift turning two Kansas City Chiefs games into celebrity moments (and fashion moments, complete with a cherry-red team jacket). Not to mention helping drive a nearly 400…
DetailsFans of soggy weather workouts swear by their benefits. Here’s how to exercise in a drizzle smartly and safely, and maybe even enjoy it.
More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers began a three-day strike Wednesday, a job action that could cause delays for patients — especially in California — in getting medical appointments, lab results and prescriptions. After contract talks failed overnight, the walkout started with a small number of employees in Virginia and the District of…
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If you’re on TikTok (or have a youth in your home that’s on the app), you may have heard of marry me chicken, a dish so delicious it has motivated countless feet-draggers to drop their doubts and pop the question. (You can read Christina Morales’s fun piece on the subject in The New York Times.)…
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Months passed. I ate okonomiyaki: the only thing my stomach could stand the first few weeks of Covid isolation. The only thing to settle my nerves after the uprisings a few months later. And then a version shared among friends, at a long-delayed reunion, on a patio in Oakland. A recipe I cooked during months…
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Like other rewards programs, Blackbird collects basic personal data — name, ZIP code and birth date — as well as the details of each check: what you ordered, special requests, food allergies and the like. “Independent restaurants don’t have the tools to make use of that raw data,” Mr. Leventhal said. “There’s a difference between…
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Three days after Sarah Burton showed her final Alexander McQueen collection at Paris Fashion Week, the brand’s parent company named Seán McGirr, an Irish designer, as her successor. “Alexander McQueen is a house we are passionate about, and we are confident that Seán McGirr will be able to pursue its journey with a new creative…
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