Before Covid-19, the city was packed with visitors. Now efforts to rein in the expected post-pandemic crowds are ramping up, but not without controversy.When international travel came to a halt last year, Amsterdam — like cities everywhere — was drained of tourists almost overnight. The effect, according to ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Our Seder, a Year Later“Why is this night different from all the others?” Last Passover, there were more ways than usual. My father was hospitalized with low oxygen. My mother and sister, also sick, spent the ...
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The rapper’s new single, video and sneaker were merely the prelude to a brilliantly orchestrated main event: a virtuosic performance on Twitter.One after another, they came with venom for Lil Nas X. The basketball star Nick Young. The governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem. The rapper Joyner Lucas ...
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For many couples who had scaled-down, virtual ceremonies, this year is all about the second celebration — an in-person reception with family and friends.If 2020 was the year of the Zoom wedding, 2021 promises to be a year of after-parties.Covid-era newlyweds who pared down their guest lists and ...
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Copycatting has social media consequences. After the BeyHive and the Rihanna Navy — the Telfar tribe?For decades product plagiarism has been seen as the price of success in the fashion world: Make a hit bag or a viral dress and someone (sometimes many someones) will unabashedly rip it ...
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Screen-fatigued parents have been considering an education option that once seemed possible only for those in rarefied circles.Boarding school had never been in the cards for Landon Moore. In December, he was a senior at Bloomington High School in Illinois; he had always assumed that his father, the ...
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As a follow-up to its “Jesus Shoes,” the company MSCHF will sell 666 pairs of “Satan Shoes” in collaboration with the rapper Lil Nas X.Some workplaces encourage employees to donate blood as an act of charity. But six workers at MSCHF, a quirky company based in Brooklyn that’s ...
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Looking for signs of a return to normal? Sitting back to enjoy a live-music performance might be a good place to start.The performing arts have endured a year like no other, but the decimation of touring and in-person shows has in no way squelched music fans’ love of ...
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Have you been “zombie eating” during the pandemic? If you put down your phone or turn off the TV, you might enjoy your food a bit more.If you have found yourself over the past year increasingly eating dinner in front of the TV, or scrolling endlessly through your ...
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This week, tune in to a Buddhist ritual chant, learn about botanical art or make a new cocktail.Here is a sampling of the week’s events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events are subject to change after publication.MondayDraw along with the writer and ...
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Books, drinks, white noise.Want to get the At Home newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here.Welcome. I was chatting with a colleague yesterday about how loose our relationship to time has become over the past year. Last summer still feels weirdly recent; things that happened in November may ...
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A documentary from Soleil Moon Frye, star of “Punky Brewster,” and a reunion of “The Real World” remind us that Gen X didn’t curate themselves for mass consumption.Sometimes I remember the clunky devices of my youth — the boxy Polaroid cameras, the bricklike car phones, the shrill answering ...
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Unbridled and untamed, celebrities are doing whatever they want.It’s been a year since Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, announced they had tested positive for the coronavirus — the first sign, in the celebrity world, anyway, that the pandemic was really happening. Thankfully, the couple recovered. (They ...
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