Not long ago, 40 was considered over the hill in sports. But we are increasingly seeing athletes, like the skier Lindsey Vonn, 40, and the climber Chris Sharma, 43, staging midlife comebacks. Peak performance is still within reach for the rest of us, too. Just look at Ken Rideout, a father of four from Nashville…
The birth certificate may read New Jersey, but the origin story of Karl-Anthony Towns, the seven-foot star for the New York Knicks, extends to New York City. Growing up in nearby Piscataway, N.J., Mr. Towns and his parents would routinely make the 37-mile commute to the city to experience parks, museums, New York Yankees games,…
Rexburg, Idaho, may be one of the more unexpected places to find a world-class slice of New York-style pizza. The windswept city, home to B.Y.U.-Idaho, is a three-hour drive from the nearest major airport and 2,200 miles from Manhattan. But from its electric oven, Righteous Slice is serving pizza that would not be out of…
Can Paxlovid treat long Covid? A new report suggests it might help some patients, but which patients might benefit remains unclear. The report, published Monday in the journal Communications Medicine, describes the cases of 13 long Covid patients who took extended courses of the antiviral drug. Results were decidedly mixed: Nine patients reported some improvement,…
What do these pieces mean to you? These are very emotional to me. I’m struggling to explain what it means to be trans, and then to be welcomed home. It’s just a welcoming. I feel warm, I feel welcomed by the women in my family. I transitioned after my mother passed. Neither one of my…
Dear readers, When a friend forwarded some fresh ridiculous news about billionaires recently — you might have heard it’s a gangbusters time to be one — I scoffed the scoff of the comfortably righteous. Boo, hiss, the filthy feckless rich! Let them eat crypto, or whatever. My reading preferences, though, tend to look a lot…
It wasn’t long after celebrities started arriving on the red carpet at the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday that one of the night’s biggest fashion trends came into focus: metallics. Those who wore them included Zendaya, who went with a coppery orange Louis Vuitton gown; Angelina Jolie, who chose a silvery Alexander McQueen…
If you were ever put off by particularly old, fibrous kale leaves in a salad — the eternal chewing, the unpleasant dank green flavor — it’s hard to imagine that boiling the leaves and blitzing them with fried garlic, olive oil and Parmesan completely transforms them into a silky, luxurious sauce. OK, I’m sort of…
On Saturday, the United States of America’s clothier in chief met its commander in chief, as Ralph Lauren became the first fashion designer to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Dressed in a tweed blazer, a knit necktie and squishy dark sneakers, Mr. Lauren, 85, was described in an introduction as “classic yet creative, timeless…
When we started brainstorming the topic for our annual challenge, we reached a consensus pretty quickly that it should be about ultraprocessed foods. In the last five years, there has been an explosion of scientific research on ultraprocessed foods and their links to certain health problems. Now many of us are looking at what we…
