Few parents would describe the smells emanating from their adolescent children as redolent of sandalwood. But one of the distinct components of teenage body odor is a compound that evokes that warm, woody fragrance, according to a small new study, which compared the scents of adolescents to those of infants and toddlers. Unfortunately, that’s just…
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Let’s clear up a few things. Heidi Agan is not Catherine, Princess of Wales. She has never met Catherine, formerly known as Kate Middleton. She has never been contacted by Kensington Palace, nor is she secretly working with the royal family as part of a cover-up devised to hide the princess from public view. Ms.…
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This is Tejal, filling in for Tanya — hello! I’ve missed you! I just got back from parental leave, which means that I’m now strategizing and scheming about what I’m going to eat each day with a sweet, sticky, roly-poly 6-month-old baby. You could say I’m eating a more salted version of whatever she’s eating.…
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Before he died last year, Roland Griffiths was arguably the world’s most famous psychedelics researcher. Since 2006, his work has suggested that psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, can induce mystical experiences, and that those experiences, in turn, can help treat anxiety, depression, addiction and the terror of death. Dr. Griffiths and his colleagues at Johns…
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By Kate Maxwell “They’re movable pieces of art,” says Budapest-born, London-based decorator Gergei Erdei of his new collection of hand-painted folding pinewood screens. Part of his Objects of Desires series, the six designs include trompe l’oeil columns, wing-footed mythological figures and interlinked geometric shapes. Erdei found inspiration for his pieces, which are over seven feet…
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Granted, I was born and raised in California, but I will always consider the roast chicken from Zuni Café, in San Francisco, to be the platonic ideal of a Fancy Chicken Dinner. So my Zuni senses were tingling when I saw Melissa Clark’s new recipe for herby skillet chicken with greens. It hits all the…
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In “Challengers,” Zendaya plays a tennis star named Tashi Duncan. Her clothes are central to her identity; the character is sponsored by Adidas and costumed in sporty-and-rich outfits by the designer Jonathan Anderson. “She’ll have a fashion line,” one of Tashi’s suitors predicts to another in the trailer. “She is going to turn her whole…
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“I hope you don’t mind — I’ll have a coterie of boys coming in all night,” Alan Cumming joked as he sidled into a banquette at an Upper West Side wine bar last week. A director had messaged him on Instagram, hoping to get Mr. Cumming to act in his short film, and they’d agreed…
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\\As a trillion-dollar global industry, fashion is hardly the magic factory sometimes depicted in the press. Yet it does produce wizards. One such is the Belgian designer Dries Van Noten, whose announcement this week that he would be hanging up his smock and retiring after 40 years at his namesake label occasioned an outpouring of…
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The Montana Club, a celebrated bar, dining room and gathering place in Helena that was founded by frontier movers and shakers in 1885 — four years before Montana became a state — will close its doors after one final toast on March 29. The club, which also holds a notable place in Black history, has…
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