December 27, 2017

Encounters: Taye Diggs Doesn’t Feel Like Dancing

Advertisement “Come on,” a dance instructor said. “Don’t wait. I could die tomorrow. Move.” The actor Taye Diggs didn’t want to. On a scarf-snapping fall day, […]
December 27, 2017

Make Mine the Burlap Wrap

How excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules dramatically inflate capital costs for transit in New York. Workers in the East Side Access tunnel, […]
December 27, 2017

Modern Love: 10 Ways to Love Better

Remarkable images from 2017, from Donald Trump Jr. to Nicki Minaj to Idris Elba to this one chihuahua. The 62nd International Debutante Ball held at the […]
December 26, 2017

The Avalanche of Rock ‘n’ Roll Death

Andre Calilhanna, like countless kids before him, fell hard for rock ‘n’ roll. It was the early 1980s in suburban Maryland and his parents were Middle-Eastern […]
December 26, 2017

Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson on How They Created ‘Phantom Thread’

Advertisement Daniel Day-Lewis was riffing on the mysteries and curiosities of romantic entanglements — how people can be governed by desires that seem alien even to […]
December 26, 2017

9 New Fashion Brands We Discovered This Year

Advertisement CreditYou Sun Edda Gimnes “If someone had told me all of the things that would happen to me after leaving university just two years ago, […]
December 23, 2017

Who Wants to Buy the Most Expensive House in America?

Advertisement “This isn’t the first time two men have fought over me,” Rene Russo says in “Just Getting Started.” That’s about the funniest line in the […]
December 23, 2017

Unbuttoned: The Daniel Day-Lewis Version of Fantasy Fashion Diva

Advertisement Much has been made in recent weeks of “Phantom Thread,” the Paul Thomas Anderson movie about a 1950s couturier that opens, like a big present […]
December 22, 2017

Glitter Bombs, Past Lives and Ovary Tattoos at Bust’s Craftacular

Advertisement As snow fell on the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn in mid-December, a dozen or so people gathered inside a room at the Brooklyn Expo Center […]
December 22, 2017

On the Runway: Meghan Markle’s Sheer Top Was a Sneaky Statement for a Royal Portrait

Advertisement Meghan Markle, the soon-to-be wife of the man who is soon to be sixth in line to the British throne, set off something of a […]