In the early days of the pandemic, Andy and Luana Longworth hatched a plan with 18 of their closest friends: Faced with the prospect of social isolation, they would all move in...
Read moreIn September, a 10-second TikTok kicked off weeks of debate. A wobbly camera stared down the center aisle of an airplane. A short story appeared, overlaid in white text: “I was seated...
Read moreYan Fu deserves some of the credit for the marathon sea swimmer Leslie Abigail Hamilton’s groundbreaking lap around Staten Island this summer.Mr. Fu did not jump in for the 14-and-a-half hour, 37-mile...
Read moreSome of my favorite Japanese restaurants are bars. Of course, there are the izakayas scattered around the city, where eating and drinking are as inseparable as sushi and rice. But there are...
Read moreOne of the many things I adore about my friends is that we will text each other, apropos of nothing and with zero pleasantries, about what we’re eating at any moment.“I just...
Read moreOn a visit five years ago to the Delhi factory of the fashion house Seema Gujral, Aisha Rawji fell in love with a swatch of white net fabric adorned with embroidery, pearls...
Read moreThe paper Covid vaccination cards were, for a time, a mainstay of American wallets — pulled out before bouncers, inspected at airport desks and shared with pride on social media accounts.But the...
Read moreQuick noodle soup for a long dayBy The New York Times CookingNoodles are fun and soup is soothing, which makes this somen noodle soup with bok choy and mushrooms from Sue Li...
Read moreHave you ever zoned out?Maybe you have experienced highway hypnosis, with no recollection of having driven from Point A to Point B. Or maybe you have zero memory of something you just...
Read moreFew grapes have traveled so jagged an up-and-down journey as zinfandel. It has oscillated wildly in both style and popularity.Twenty years ago, at the height of California’s embrace of powerfully fruity, potently...
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