Lawyers for the disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes said this week that she would be unable to afford to pay $250 each month to victims of her failed blood-testing start-up, Theranos, after leaving prison. Ms. Holmes, 39, began an 11-year, three-month prison sentence in Texas in May after she was found guilty last year of four…
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LONDON — Sailing enthusiasts in Falmouth and Dartmouth, off England’s southwestern coast, will have had a visual — and nostalgic — treat this week, in the form of a new classic yacht regatta that is running across the English Channel to France. The inaugural Richard Mille Cup, which began Sunday and runs through June 25,…
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As someone who’s been keeping up with the Kardashians since middle school, there’s nothing I love more than being in on a family secret—and sharing it with readers like yourself. So here’s a little news straight from Khloé’s team: Good American has a new swimwear collab with Body Glove, and it’s so, so good. The…
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There is a food-related bit on the Hulu series “Only Murders in the Building” that I think of often. It begins in the show’s second episode: At an apartment-lobby memorial for a deceased neighbor, the debt-stricken Oliver Putnam, played by the incomparable Martin Short, rushes to a table of free goodies. “You know, this is…
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Celeste Yim, supervising writer and comedian known for their work on Saturday Night Live (e.g. “Trend Forecasters” with Bowen Yang and Aidy Bryant): “My favorite accessory for Pride Month is a lanyard to hold my keys. The lanyard is the perfect successor to the carabiner. People with social power wear lanyards: CEOs with corporate badges,…
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In 1988, a 65-year-old man’s heart stopped at home. His wife and son didn’t know CPR, so in desperation they grabbed a toilet plunger to get his heart going until an ambulance showed up. Later, after the man recovered at San Francisco General Hospital, his son gave the doctors there some advice: Put toilet plungers…
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In a heady swirl of bright white silk and lace, the young ladies of the Cotillion Society of Detroit Educational Foundation are presented as debutantes. The Society’s annual ball is the culmination of eight months of etiquette lessons, leadership workshops, community service projects and cultural events. As the girls take to the dance floor, they…
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GENEVA — At IWC Schaffhausen’s booth at the Watches and Wonders fair in the convention center here this spring, Maurice Moitroux, IWC’s associate director of brand marketing, gestured toward a large, clunky, beige device sitting atop a counter near the entrance. “It looks like a microwave, but it’s actually a computer,” he said. Intended to…
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Its 20 different complications, divided on two dial faces, include grande and petite sonnerie, a minute-repeater and an instantaneous perpetual calendar. “I am not technical. I read what they say about the watch, and I recognize that it is fantastic and what it can do — but I am not a watchmaker — I bought…
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ALBUQUERQUE — Someday, Andrew Thomas plans to have a silver watch cuff custom-made in memory of his father. It won’t be an exact reproduction of the one his father wore, he said, but it will reflect the same traditional Diné (Navajo) style, perhaps with nugget turquoise, a touch of coral and some silver appliqué work.…
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