Cashier ConnectionI pull up to the neon-lit drive-through past midnight. The young cashier inside the fluorescent box calls me “honey,” as if we weren’t around the same age. “Hospital?” she asks. I...
Read moreAlexandra Cunningham Cameron, the contemporary design curator at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, pointed to “High-Tech,” the 1978 book by Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin, as an inspiration for her own homes...
Read moreWhen Kirk Ferguson asked Sara Story to design the interiors of his new house in Austin, Texas, his request was unlike any she had heard before.“He wanted something like an opium den,”...
Read moreThis article is part of our Design special section about new interpretations of antique design styles.Scroll through Erick J. Espinoza’s Instagram feed, and you might think you’ve traveled back in time to...
Read moreWhen moving couples who aren’t breaking up, there are always ways to get a sense of their usual dynamic, said Sven Wechsler, owner of Sven Moving. One person may show his true...
Read moreI have always enjoyed wearing vintage clothing and used to love going to flea markets, picking up items and saying: “My grandmother wore that,” or “My mother had those.” Then it happened:...
Read more“Imagine a hallucinogenic state fair,” the reporter Rick Marin wrote about Burning Man in The New York Times in 2000.The article described an environment of countercultural revelry, where hippies and Silicon Valley...
Read moreA tight-knit community of young-adult writers who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has yielded smashes like “Twilight.” But religious doctrine can clash with creative freedoms.
Read moreOdds are the world of capital-F fashion never gave a moment’s thought to Jimmy Buffett, the bard of Margaritaville, who died on Friday at 76. Yet the truth is the undisputed king...
Read moreEarly afternoon, late summer. Humid, 83 degrees. The cicadas were whirring outside.I closed my laptop, got up from the desk in my home office and went to the bedroom. I lay down...
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