Lifestyle

Christmas is this weekend, and people around the world who celebrate are preparing in all sorts of ways. For many Arab families outside the Middle East, that means stuffing a heady mixture...

It was a gloomy, rainy 40-degree evening, but on a blue carpet inside the French Consulate General on the Upper East Side before a special screening of Season 3 of “Emily in...

You've been paying for gym memberships, but you didn't lose any weight despite paying for them? Are you having trouble finishing your everyday tasks? Do you feel embarrassed about your extra weight? ...

LOS ANGELES — The “Throwing Fits” holiday party, toasting the popular podcast that ridicules and reveres men’s fashion equally, began just after 5 p.m. last Thursday, when Lawrence Schlossman and James Harris,...

We had an all-encompassing view of Rio de Janeiro and its surroundings: Sugarloaf Mountain, the Christ the Redeemer statue, Copacabana Beach. Architectural novelties like the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum and the Metropolitan...

Behind an unmarked door at Wenwen, a homey Taiwanese restaurant in Brooklyn, a discothèque awaits: Speakers pump out pop songs in Mandarin, Cantonese and Taiwanese. Strobe lights dance across the walls. A...

What literary pilgrimage destinations would you recommend?Sir Walter Scott has his own fantastically ornate monument on Princes Street: It looks like a mini cathedral. You can climb it, for a small fee,...

Entrepreneurs, as a result, have seen a business opportunity in creating an advocacy and visibility movement for menopause. Alisa Volkman, 49, who has twice greeted new phases of her life with an...

My Unwritten ChapterBefore she died at 42, my wife suggested I marry her colleague, Sandee. “There are chapters yet unwritten in your life,” she said. Sitting shiva shortly before Hanukkah, I first...

Some people know how they’re going to spend their New Year’s Eve well before Dec. 31. Then there are those who wait until the last minute, fretting over where to go and...