I’m back! Thank you to Becky Hughes for covering for me while I was out sick. For this month’s reader questions, we have a reader who wants to know where to grab an early dinner with a large group before a concert at Madison Square Garden; someone in search of affordable, slurpworthy oysters; and visitors…
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Christian Vierig Leather pants are the not-so-well-kept secret of cool people worldwide. If you’ve ever struggled with the headache of not knowing what to wear—when comfy leggings are too casual, hard pants are too uncomfortable, and a cute dress is just not in the cards—leather pants are the secret weapon that you simply must have…
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My Sisters, Alongside Me When my O.C.D. emerged in third grade, my two older sisters suffered alongside me. We shared a bedroom at our home near Milan. Every night, they waited as I turned the light on and off 38 times. When we drove, I needed to count every light pole. After hours of counting…
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Headliner Maialino (vicino) Danny Meyer had success in relocating his Union Square Cafe. Now he’s moving another spot: his ode to Rome, Maialino. Formerly in the Gramercy Park Hotel, the restaurant closed at the beginning of the pandemic. He is now reopening it nearby (vicino means just that) in what were his Caffe Marchio and…
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‘I’m literally as basic as people think I am.’ In 2019, Ms. Covington woke up one day in August and discovered she had become a Twitter meme. “Hot Girl Summer is coming to an end, get ready for Christian Girl Autumn,” Isabella Markel tweeted, from a now-suspended account, referring to the song by Megan Thee…
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Noma, the celebrated Copenhagen restaurant led by the chef René Redzepi, will uproot itself again next spring, opening in Kyoto for a 10-week residency. Housed at the Ace Hotel, near the 700-year-old Nishiki food market, Noma Kyoto will be open four days a week from March 15 through May 20 for lunch and dinner. Reservations…
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Any medical procedure on the outer genitals carries some risk to sexual function. But so can other pelvic surgeries, including hysterectomies and surgeries to remove ovarian cysts or endometriosis tissue, in part because the clitoris is so interconnected with the nerve supply in that region. To understand the risks of pelvic surgery and protect your…
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At the physical, Maxwell stared at her doctor in disbelief. She always thought that eating disorders were for skinny people. “I laughed,” she says. “I don’t use language like this any longer, but I told her she was crazy. I told her, ‘No, I have a self-control problem.’” For centuries, the eating disorder that would…
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Back in 2009, while he was still training to become an architect, Daniel Toole listened intently as a friend’s parents mused about building a modern house next to their traditional home in Seattle. The couple, Liliane and Michael Flacco, had an extra-wide lot and used much of it for a large garden. But after raising…
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The only patients deemed more difficult than insistent patients like Sal were his opposites: patients so overwhelmed that they stopped wanting to pay any attention to their illnesses at all. They are well known to every doctor: a dialysis patient, gray from uremia, eyes glazed over when asked why she missed her last session; a…
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