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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Though Margo Price has long seen herself as a counterculturalist — especially within Nashville’s country scene — she has been spending the pandemic like many people: stuck at home and patiently waiting for it to be over.“It’s kind of like the rug’s been pulled out from under me,” ...
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I kept telling myself not to believe in him. And yet, believe I did. It started with a Facebook message from a boy I had known peripherally in elementary school lunchrooms, passing through the halls of our high school, and — the main event — seventh grade dance ...
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On her third album, the Chicago-based songwriter offers melody, mystery and prized imperfections.Nina Ferraro, the songwriter who records as Bonzie, had been working since 2018 on her third album, “Reincarnation.” It would be the continuation of a fully independent career that has consistently yielded richly melodic and mysterious ...
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Pilgrims have been coming to Switzerland’s Einsiedeln Abbey since shortly after St. Meinrad, the Martyr of Hospitality, retreated to the secluded “Dark Forest” in a valley between Lake Zurich and Lake Lucerne to establish a hermitage around 835.I visited the abbey in October 2019 at the start of ...
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Looking ahead, with mixed emotions.Want to get the At Home newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here.Welcome. I received a letter recently from Karen Mencotti in Ona, W.Va.:I’m overwhelmed with guilt admitting this, but I’m thoroughly enjoying being home for months on end. Not the fear and tragedy ...
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