Washington Square Park is known for its lively atmosphere and eclectic characters. That was no different on Wednesday morning, when hundreds of Muslims filled the park to attend a morning prayer gathering for Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. People celebrate Eid by getting dressed to the…
A fire erupted at the American artist Ellen Gallagher’s studio in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 2004. None of her paintings were damaged — she’d been installing them in a show in New York at the time — but she was left without a work space for some time. “I’d been making these massive Plasticine resin…
In Hawaii, shops that serve shave ice, domes of pillowy-soft ice slivers doused in colorful syrups, vie for ubiquity with other local staples like poke places or lei stands. And you can count on waiting in line: Part of a shave ice shop’s charm is the scramble of people — surfers, construction workers, tourists —…
After her second child was born, Chelsea Becker took an unpaid, yearlong leave from her full-time job as a flight attendant. After watching a video on TikTok, she found a side hustle: training artificial intelligence models for a website called Data Annotation Tech. For a few hours every day, Ms. Becker, 33, who lives in…
Hello, everyone! Mia here, back from some time in Japan and filling in for Melissa Clark (who herself is back next week). What I ate: plush pickled plums the size of walnuts and thick, downy slabs of shokupan slathered with anko. Tuna in all degrees of fattiness, tender pieces of conger eel encased in impossibly…
The 160-year-old Arizona abortion ban that was upheld on Tuesday by the state’s highest court was among a wave of anti-abortion laws propelled by some historical twists and turns that might seem surprising. For decades after the United States became a nation, abortion was legal until fetal movement could be felt, usually well into the…
After her second child was born, Chelsea Becker took an unpaid, yearlong leave from her full-time job as a flight attendant. After watching a video on TikTok, she found a side hustle: training artificial intelligence models for a website called Data Annotation Tech. For a few hours every day, Ms. Becker, 33, who lives in…
Have topiary (and eclipse glasses), will travel. Ken Selody, of Atlock Farm, put out the word in January: He had researched the path of totality of this week’s solar eclipse and considered optimal viewing possibilities. In early April, he planned to be Texas-bound. “If I drove my van full of topiary through Tennessee, Arkansas and…
Along with warmer weather and more daylight, spring brings an explosion of pollen, which can make exercising outdoors an itchy, sniffly challenge. What’s worse, pollen season has gotten longer and more intense in recent years, thanks to climate change. While anyone who spends time outdoors will be exposed to their area’s particular allergens, exercisers often…
The good news: Inflation in the United States is cooling — hovering around 3 percent — way down from a peak of around 9 percent in 2022. But reaching the ideal rate — 2 percent annually — is like a marathon, the last few miles are the toughest. In the meantime, we’re all paying more…
