Lifestyle

If you haven’t made reservations for New Year’s Eve by now, you’re probably out of time. I nearly wrote “out of luck,” but stopped myself. I’ve always thought people who eat at...

Rail traffic under the English Channel was suddenly interrupted on Thursday after an unexpected walkout by railway workers, stranding passengers and causing travel chaos just days before Christmas.Eurostar, the high-speed passenger train...

There are many moments that, upon a bit of reflection, feel like the demarcation between childhood and adulthood. Maybe it’s when you finally recycled all of those construction paper crafts from elementary...

There’s a lot to love about this time of year — lights everywhere, kids in cute sweaters, never-ending cookies. But one of the best parts of the season is how any dinner,...

The holidays require sparkling wine, there’s no getting around that. But does it need to be Champagne?That’s a particularly good question this year, as Champagne is more expensive than ever. You may...

Philip von Hahn, a 30-year-old tech investor on the Upper East Side, attended a holiday party on Sunday night to take his mind off the recent dissolution of his three-year relationship.“We’ve been...

Their best method for success, it seems, is to communicate via polite, concise email queries rather than phone calls or online chat or web forms. Those customer service email addresses are sometimes...

An Australian court on Wednesday ordered Airbnb to pay a fine of 15 million Australian dollars for misleading customers by not clearly showing that prices for its property rentals were listed in...

A decade ago, Jasmine Rae de Lung, a San Francisco-based cake maker, wanted to test out some new decorating elements. She headed to Clement Street in the Richmond, a neighborhood with several...

Phoebe Cheong and Jude Andam, friends who live on opposite coasts, have recently begun a tradition whenever they see each other.They have tea.On a recent afternoon, Ms. Andam, a makeup artist in...