How Parents Can Help Struggling Teens
The psychologist Lisa Damour shares advice on how to connect, what healthy emotions look like and when to step in.
The Chefs Who Have Buenos Aires (Reluctantly) Waiting in Line
If you’re planning to dine out in Buenos Aires, be prepared for an unfamiliar sight: lines. As the city springs back to life, the streets feel almost celebratory, an antidote to the lingering side effects of extended Covid lockdowns. Alfresco tables are packed. Locals who would never have queued up for dinner before the pandemic…
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Adding Sex Appeal to Bourbon, New Brooklyn Ice Cream Parlor and More Food News
Tomeka Lynch Purcell and her husband, Herbert Purcell, entrepreneurs in Charlotte, N.C., decided that the cocktail scene lacked a bourbon appealing to women and to a Black audience. So they set out to fill the gap. Their new straight bourbon is called PurCellos1789, the number referring to the founding date of Mrs. Purcell’s hometown, Winston-Salem,…
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Nurses Are Burned Out. Can Hospitals Change in Time to Keep Them?
Calling It Quits is a series about the current culture of quitting. One morning, in fall 2020, Francesca Camacho drove away from her 12-hour night shift as a critical care nurse at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and tried to merge onto the highway. The day’s work, in her words, was “just very terrible.”…
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Are We All Supposed to Be Wearing Long Gloves Now?
I keep seeing long evening gloves everywhere I turn: on Casey DeSantis, on celebrities on the red carpet. But I think of them as very out of date. Why are they so popular, and are we really expected to be wearing them now? — Cynthia, Havana, Fla. Elbow-length gloves, or opera gloves or evening gloves,…
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A Fraught New Frontier in Telehealth: Ketamine
For Greg Rice, ketamine was transformative. The drug, approved decades ago to sedate patients during surgery, was increasingly being used to treat mental health conditions like his depression. Since his teenage years, Mr. Rice had cycled through a long list of medications. Searching for relief, he sometimes abused his prescriptions and experimented with LSD, psychedelic…
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What Lil Nas X and LaQuan Smith Wore to Fashion Week Parties
New York Fashion Week rolled into town and left behind a sea of empty champagne bottles. Saks kicked things off on Feb. 8 with a cocktail party a few blocks from its Fifth Avenue flagship, hosted by Emma Roberts at the Jazz Club at the Aman New York. Two nights later, Document Journal and Loewe…
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The Celtic Ceremony Becoming Popular Among Polyamorous Couples
In October 2019, just over a year and a half after meeting on Tinder, Amber Fontenot proposed to Ashley McFaul in a corn maze. But it wasn’t legal marriage she was proposing — Ms. Fontenot already had a husband of nine years, Chad Fontenot. Ms. Fontenot, who is polyamorous, was proposing that she and Ms.…
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A Handfasting Ceremony For Two … or Three (or More)
In October 2019, just over a year and a half after meeting on Tinder, Amber Fontenot proposed to Ashley McFaul in a corn maze. But it wasn’t legal marriage she was proposing — Ms. Fontenot already had a husband of nine years, Chad Fontenot. Ms. Fontenot, who is polyamorous, was proposing that she and Ms.…
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Herpes Can Be Devastating but Treatment and Testing Remain Scant
Some men have told her, flat-out, that they would never date someone with herpes, but what bothers her, too, are the ones who say, “I’m so sorry this happened to you.” “I don’t want people to feel sorry for me,” she said. “I wake up every day and I’m fine.” Scientists have worked on herpes…
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