Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

March 27, 2020

Black Women Learn to Braid While Social Distancing

Niani Barracks usually tends to clients at a salon in Detroit, but now that she must stay indoors because of the coronavirus pandemic, she has instead […]
March 27, 2020

On the Front Lines of a Pandemic, ‘I Love You’ Can Mean ‘Goodbye’

“I love you,” I said to my wife. Then, quietly: “Goodbye.” It was 6 a.m. and I was getting up for work. If I had said […]
March 27, 2020

QVC: Quarantine, Value, Convenience

After Governor Tom Wolf ordered all “non-life-sustaining” businesses in several counties in Pennsylvania to shutter last week — as one of more than a dozen governors […]
March 26, 2020

18 Cookbooks for Comfort

In the age of Google, when practically every recipe imaginable is just a few clicks away, real-life cookbooks are often relegated to a crowded shelf or […]
March 25, 2020

An Army of Sewers, Making Masks for America

They are scrounging for fabric, cutting it up, stitching it together. They are repurposing drapes, dresses, bra straps, shower curtains, even coffee filters. They are building […]
March 25, 2020

Nextdoor Pivots to Neighborliness

“I’m 84 years old, so staying confined to the house for protection,” wrote Marcia Savin, a children’s book author and teacher who lives alone in the […]
March 25, 2020

‘A Week of Snow Days’? Ha! Families Deal With Cabin Fever

Anita Tandon and Sujit Chakravarthy, parents of three young children, ages 3 months to 7 years old, have taken extreme measures to keep order in their […]
March 25, 2020

The Dos and Don’ts of Online Video Meetings

In the age of coronavirus, many of us have transformed overnight from office workers into telecommuters. And we are increasingly relying on videoconferencing apps like Zoom […]
March 24, 2020

Wait … How Do We Live Together?

ImageCredit…The New York Times Hello! This is a conversation about anxiety and uncertainty. But before we dive into that, we’d like to present you with the […]
March 24, 2020

Nashom Wooden, Downtown Denizen, Is Dead at 50

The messages began pinging around Instagram around noon on Monday. Nashom Wooden, an omnipresence on New York’s gay bar and club scene, was dead at 50 […]