Three sea gulls, including a chick, were possibly the first beings on earth to learn that a new pope had been elected on Thursday. Minutes before white smoke bellowed out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel — a sign that the conclave had ended with a winner — the birds flew in and perched…
Tia Zakher, a 22-year-old woman known on TikTok for a skin care routine that involves doing nothing to her skin — not even washing it — would like you to know she is fine. And that, as of five days ago, she has started using water to clean her face, she said on Friday during…
Stephen Mo Hanan, a vibrant performer who sang arias and other music as a busker in San Francisco before playing Kevin Kline’s lieutenant in the acclaimed 1981 Broadway production of “The Pirates of Penzance” and three felines in the original Broadway cast of “Cats,” died on April 3 at his home in Manhattan. He was…
Stacy London wants you to wear whatever you want. Ms. London, a fashion expert and entrepreneur, is best known for the show “What Not to Wear,” which she co-hosted with Clinton Kelly on TLC for over a decade. But as she’s changed, so have her views toward style: She no longer wants people to adhere…
Do you care where a diamond comes from? Historically, consumers didn’t have a choice. Natural diamonds were formed billions of years ago, deep beneath the earth’s surface, and were then thrust hundreds of kilometers to its crust by volcanic eruptions before eventually being extracted from mines in South Africa, Russia and elsewhere. Companies like De…
When discussing the history of women’s hats in the United States, the designer and author Steven Stolman was reminded of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company,” in which Joanne wryly asks, “Does anyone still wear a hat?” Hats come and go in women’s fashion, but there is one place you can always find them. Mr. Stolman is well…
So, she said: “I took sort of a back seat, willingly, because I could. But I didn’t realize what I was really doing.” Conners kept working on her own, turning to trusted collaborators and friends for intellectual stimulation. Matthew Specktor, a writer and longtime friend of Conners, used words like “forceful” to describe her. When…
There’s no universally accepted “waiting period” after a breakup that magically absolves everyone from various people’s expectations. But keep in mind that Alice’s reaction isn’t really about “the rules of dating etiquette” or who’s technically allowed to love whom and when. It’s about grief: the grief of losing a partner, a close friend and a…
It was a Thursday night in early May, and Durga Chew-Bose was crossing Sixth Avenue with a serious expression. She was leaving the IFC Center, a movie theater in Greenwich Village where, when she lived in New York, she had gone to see art house films with a crew of other writers and artists she…
Mr. McNally brings a sense of racy fun to his restaurants, offering a free glass of Champagne to solo diners at Balthazar, for instance. This can sometimes complicate matters for the staff, as when he announced in 2023 that he would provide free lasagna to customers at Morandi on Sundays after 5 p.m. for a…
