Is There a Cure for IBS? What to Know About Treatment
Here’s what experts do (and don’t) know about this perplexing condition.
A Traveler’s Guide to Tipping in a Changed World
Not long into the pandemic, Americans were eager to tip their front-line-working baristas and servers. But now that tip fatigue has set in — driven by the proliferation of payment tablets that suggest tipping for everything from a sandwich at a grab-and-go counter to an ultrasound — consumers are often bewildered by when and how…
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Can Africa Get Close to Vaccine Independence? Here’s What It Will Take.
Just 3 percent of all Covid-19 vaccine doses delivered in 2021 went to Africa, home to a fifth of the world’s population, according to the World Health Organization. In the vast debacle of global vaccine inequity, it was Africa that was left furthest behind as the pandemic raged, and that had the least leverage to…
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A Tasting to Benefit the American Indian College Fund
Traditional and inventive dishes will be prepared by five Indigenous chefs for New York City Eatss, a benefit and tasting to support the American Indian College Fund, on May 2. The chefs are Ben Jacobs (Osage Nation), Andrea Murdoch (Andes region, from Venezuela), Bradley Dry (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), Sherry Pocknett (Mashpee Wampanoag Nation), and…
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Coachella’s Best, Weirdest and Most Woodstockian Looks
Zendaya, because she surprised everyone during Labrinth’s set on weekend two. And because of the way her lace-up over-the-knee black dominatrix boots put a spike in her sweet pink slip dress. This rose has thorns. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Coachella
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50 Thoughtful Golf Gifts for Men That Are Sure to Go the Distance
We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. Best Overall Gift Titleist Pro V1 Golf Balls Best Overall Gift Titleist Pro V1 Golf Balls For a foolproof, failsafe gifting option, these Titleist golfballs are the go-to of any golfing aficionado worth their salt. Best Slide Reef Mulligan…
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She Redefined Trauma. Then Trauma Redefined Her.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In the fall of 1994, the psychiatrist Dr. Judith Herman was at the height of her influence. Her book “Trauma and Recovery,” published two years earlier, had been hailed in The New York Times as “one of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud.” Her research on sexual abuse…
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Put a Pound Cake in Your Freezer
My colleague Genevieve Ko and I have much overlap in our culinary tastes, like a predilection for dark meat chicken on the bone and a taste for bourbon cocktails. Her excellent column in this week’s New York Times touches on another subject dear to my heart, as she makes the case for filling your freezer…
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On His Podcast ‘Wine and Hip Hop,’ Jermaine Stone Aims to Bridge Cultures
Jermaine Stone’s first exposure to wine occurred by happenstance, when he took a job in the warehouse of Zachys, the Westchester wine retailer and auction house, to put himself through college. An aspiring rapper from the Wakefield section of the Bronx, Mr. Stone, now 38, rose rapidly in wine, forging a career as a fine-wine…
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Mix and Match Your Spring Style Looks
Wardrobe foundations are the key to easy daily dressing. Mix-and-match is an artful magic that blends style and ingenuity. When you pair items in unexpected ways, each well-loved piece can feel fresh with every wear. And the start of spring is a natural time to refresh your routine. Why not start from the ground up…
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