Lifestyle

If you want to gauge the effect of a planting design, try letting a 5-year-old loose around it. Then watch his body language.Chances are, the local insects will confirm the child’s findings,...

The most sweltering part of summer is the time to reach for the coolest of cool produce — the cucumber, of course.Long prized for their thirst-quenching, sweat-stanching properties, cucumbers are a hot-weather...

First there was LOL (“laugh out loud”), an acronym that first appeared in the 1980s and became the reigning shorthand online for what people found funny. Then came ROFL (“rolling on the...

In the wake of Covid, travel insurance sales have spiked with the rebound in travel as people seek to protect their investments against flight delays and cancellations, extreme weather events and the...

Here’s another crowd-pleaser of a recipe starring something yellow: Millie Peartree’s Southern fried corn, which cooks up glossy and fragrant, dotted with bits of roasted red pepper and crisp nuggets of bacon....

I spent a few thousand dollars on cosmetic medical treatments — Botox and fillers — at a spa. The injections were performed by the dermatologist who owns the facility. I am frightened...

There are watch pendants and watch brooches and watch rings, but Rihanna apparently had a different idea: a watch choker.So the Barbadian singer, actress and businesswoman turned to Jacob Arabo of Jacob...

In blistering 100-degree heat one recent afternoon at Valley State Prison in California’s Central Valley, inmates crowded around small windows in a prison yard to pick up their daily doses of buprenorphine,...

What books or authors should I bring along with me?If you only have room for slim books in your suitcase, bring the poets, who connect our past and present through the sound...

Pizza in New York is a lot like certain calculus problems (or that one scene in “Mean Girls”): The limit does not exist. We will never reach peak pizza, barring some pizza-related...