New York City officials on Tuesday are expected to start enforcing strict new regulations that limit residents’ ability to rent out homes through platforms like Airbnb. The move is expected to lead to the removal of thousands of listings from the platforms. It is the latest and potentially most consequential development in the yearslong feud…
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There is a type of New York bistro that people like because it reminds them of other New York bistros. Some of the older examples of this type were built in imitation of actual places in the real France, but some of the younger ones didn’t go that far away for inspiration. They just looked…
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It’s been an exceptional year for film so far—and it isn’t even over yet. The SAG-AFTRA strike continues steadily on, as executives and the fierce union continue to work toward a compromise in the first combined actors and writers’ strike since 1960. Despite the unusual circumstances, the annual Venice Film Festival is happening, with certain…
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Cashier Connection I pull up to the neon-lit drive-through past midnight. The young cashier inside the fluorescent box calls me “honey,” as if we weren’t around the same age. “Hospital?” she asks. I blink — convinced that all women are psychic. “Your bracelet!” she says, pointing to my wrist. “Three hours to see someone for…
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Headliner MisiPasta “My dream project for 25 years,” is how Missy Robbins described the latest addition to Lilia and Misi, the Brooklyn places she owns with Sean Feeney. “I always intended to open a store,” she added, referring to an outlet for her fresh pastas, jarred vegetables and other products. She introduced the packaged goods…
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BonBon, the Swedish candy emporium with hundreds of choices, introduced itself to New York on the Lower East Side, then followed with a store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is now opening an elaborately decorated shop on the Upper East Side. Its three partners, all natives of Sweden, are introducing their own line, a first, of…
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Hello, weeknight fans! This is Krysten, stepping in for Emily. Is this your first day back from vacation? You’re not alone. Here in New York, the last weeks of August feel so desolate that I half-expect a tumbleweed to cross my path. Then, come early September, everyone is back from their summery reveries, ready to…
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It’s fashion month! The news may be full of Trump indictments, extreme weather and war, but the shows stop for almost no crisis (pandemics excepted). For anyone in need of a moment of escape or some inspiration to gird yourself for the day, they may, in fact, represent an increasingly important pressure valve. There’s a…
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These were supposed to be boom times for Pederson’s Natural Farms. In the days this spring after the Supreme Court upheld a California law banning the sale of certain pork products made from pigs raised in small gestation pens, the phones were ringing off the hook at Pederson’s headquarters in Hamilton, Texas. California grocery stores…
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Edward Berthelot The same fashion coup de foudre that most girls of her generation felt upon seeing Kate Moss or Alexa Chung struck Jenny Walton when she first watched Roman Holiday. That swirling full skirt Audrey Hepburn wore while careening around the Eternal City imprinted on a teenage Walton to such a degree that she…
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