Visits: 38 For parents trying to figure out how to talk to their children about racism, film can be a useful tool for generating empathy. But many family-friendly movies with diverse casts are told from a white perspective, for a …
How to Date During a Pandemic
Visits: 29 Dating is a complicated and often clumsy dance even in the best of times. Add in mask-wearing directives, social distancing and fear of a highly contagious virus for which there is no cure, and you get… well, an …
How Can We Be of Service?
Visits: 25 Welcome. Here’s all any of us have been talking about these days on our calls and video calls, on Slack, in texts and in emails sent too early in the morning or way too late at night: What …
How Everclear Became a Pandemic Favorite
Visits: 48 You know 190-proof Everclear by reputation. The bartender’s equivalent of jet fuel, this high-octane neutral grain spirit is more than twice the strength of standard vodka, and is illegal in 11 states. It’s been mythologized by generations of …
Summer Is Bursting the Quarantine Bubble
Visits: 43 The first weekend in June, Cyré Olivia Coleman, 29, a student in Randolph, Mass., did something that even a month earlier would have felt like a far-fetched dream: took a family vacation. Since March Ms. Coleman hadn’t left …
Meanwhile, Some People Are Stress-Shopping Diamond Bracelets
Visits: 42 The coronavirus quarantine has prompted boredom, impatience and aggravation. But it has clearly not dampened rich buyers’ love for jewelry … at least not judging from the success of recent online jewelry auctions. Some of these buyers may …
How to Celebrate Your Graduation
Visits: 42 It’s graduation season — and, understandably, parents, friends, classmates and the graduates themselves are at a loss for how to celebrate. For the 3.7 million expected to graduate high school this year, streaming a commencement address by a …
This Is Not the End of Fashion
Visits: 58 Image History and human nature prove we will dress up again. What that looks like is the real question. June 4, 2020 Top, from left: the Dior New Look from 1947; hemlines and cloches from the flapper era. …
How to Sing a Digital Duet
Visits: 43 People love singing together at the best of times, and perhaps even more at the worst of times. For example, currently gaining traction on Instagram are the trans-Atlantic Lockdown Duets videos that pair Broadway and West End performers. …
How to Turn Vegetables Into a Tie-Dye Pattern
Visits: 43 DESIGNER D.I.Y. SERIES Image Credit…Charlie Engman In the latest installment of our Designer D.I.Y. at Home series, Hillary Taymour, the creative director of Collina Strada, offers a creative use for excess beets. May 27, 2020 At a time …