Visits: 11 Advice on personal pinball machines, the long life of bonsais, homemade curtains and outdoor lamps. This column is part of a series for the Design special section of The New York Times. Readers are invited to send questions …
‘Let’s See You at 21’ Puts Fun Spin on the Unrelenting March of Time
Visits: 21 Hundreds of thousands of Instagram users responded to a recent prompt asking them to post pictures of their younger selves. Photo quality varies. Most of the photos are slightly faded. The hairlines fuller. Some feature braces. Old friends. …
Helen Williams, Top Model in a Segregated Era, Is Dead at 87
Visits: 43 She was one of the most photographed Black models of the 1950s and ’60s, seen mainly in magazines, like Ebony and Jet, aimed at the Black middle class. Swan-necked and with an arched-eyebrow hauteur, Helen Williams was the …
U.S. Sunscreen Is Stuck in the ’90s. Is This a Job for Congress?
Visits: 41 For years, American consumers have had to look abroad if they want the latest in sunscreen innovations. Some, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, think it’s time to revisit F.D.A. approval procedures. After months of prompting, I have finally managed …
According to TikTok, Americans Are Very, Very Thirsty
Visits: 35 Drinking water is impossible to come by in Europe — or so goes a complaint on social media. Well-hydrated Europeans have responded with eye rolls from every corner of the continent. Ashley Warren had been in Albania for …
Redefining the ‘New’ in Lunar New Year
Visits: 67 Hands jostled around a large metal basin, plastic gloves crinkling as they massaged pounds of julienned radish, green onion and a spicy, fragrant paste of red pepper flakes, brined shrimp, ginger and garlic. “This goes so much faster …
The Wife Left, but They’re Still Together
Visits: 20 After a pandemic dip, the number of married couples “living apart together” has started to rise again. And women, in search of their own space, are driving the increase. Jeff and Connie Ordway had been married for 18 …
Dumpster Diving to Shame Stores and Fight Waste
Visits: 21 At the third Duane Reade of the night, Anna Sacks, 31, a dumpster diver who goes by @trashwalker on TikTok, hit the jackpot. Half a dozen clear trash bags sat along Second Avenue not far from her home …
American Rituals
Visits: 18 Abiquiú, New Mexico At the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, a remote abbey beside the Chama River in northern New Mexico, some two dozen Benedictine monks begin their days in darkness. At 3:30 a.m. one Sunday this …
When Does Collaboration Become Collusion?
Visits: 26 In the spring of 2020, during the earliest and darkest months of the coronavirus pandemic, a group of clothing executives and designers began talking — tentatively — about upending some of the global fashion industry’s hidebound practices. Over …