Two days of strobe lights, thumping pop music, fluorescent smiles and shimmering gowns were grinding toward a dramatic conclusion when Sal Malafronte, a hairstylist and pageant industry veteran, began to reveal the 10 semifinalists who had made the cut at the 2025 Miss Maine USA pageant. A crowd of about 300 people had gathered Sunday…
When I met the writer Amy Larocca at a cafe in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn on a recent afternoon, I could not help but notice: She had the glow. Or seemed to. The glow, as Ms. Larocca explains in her new book, “How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure…
We received ours five to seven business days after our Thursday morning meltdown. We had identified our problem — essential information for our household was being shared only in snippets of conversation or haphazard Google calendar invites instead of one central place — and searched for a solution with a monthly installment payment. The Skylight…
As part of “Believing,” The New York Times asked several writers to explore a significant moment in their religious or spiritual lives. Sign up to receive the latest installments of “Believing” in your inbox. I was many weeks into reciting kaddish, the traditional Jewish prayer of mourning, for my father when I realized I did…
As part of “Believing,” The New York Times asked several writers to explore a significant moment in their religious or spiritual lives. Sign up to receive the latest installments of “Believing” in your inbox. I was many weeks into reciting kaddish, the traditional Jewish prayer of mourning, for my father when I realized I did…
“I don’t know if you ever finished ‘Idol,’” Mr. Tesfaye said, with a good-natured smirk, during the conversation at his home in Los Angeles. “I don’t know if you got to the end yet, but I’ll help you out: By the end, our main character, Jocelyn is in a stadium in front of a crowd…
William L. Porter, a car designer who helped create the shapes of some of the most celebrated American vehicles of the late 1960s and early ’70s, died on April 25 at his home in Whitmore Lake, Mich. He was 93. His death was confirmed by his son, Adam, who did not specify a cause. As…
“Backgammon is the cruelest game — so much of it is based on luck,” said Joe Urso, who was one tournament away from earning his grandmaster title, but down a few points in his match on a recent Wednesday night last month. Mr. Urso, 41, and several other backgammon enthusiasts were meeting for the Clinton…
“I threw a Zyn in as he was saying that,” Mr. Robertson said. “I was like, ‘Cool, don’t care.’” He was not persuaded to quit until later that night when he came across a post in the Reddit group from another heavy Zyn user who described similar symptoms. He reached out to the person, and…
The volumes were issued originally by the publishing arm of Comics & Comix, a retailer in Berkeley, and later by Bud Plant, a founder of Comics & Comix. After completing his masterwork, Mr. Katz continued to paint and teach art. Along the way, he published two books on the art of anatomy, two volumes of…
