Good morning. We had a fine day on the water last weekend, fishing for critters on the flats north and west of Big Coppitt Key in southernmost Florida. Dinner was going to be early, with a movie, sleep and another trip in the morning. I made bulgogi on the grill next to the orchids, underneath…
“This building was a late 19th-century millinery. From 1996 to 2021, it housed an Arts and Crafts-era furniture showroom. We moved in in August of 2022. My dream for Young Space was that it could be a bit like Black Mountain College [the groundbreaking liberal arts college in North Carolina that operated between 1933 and…
Restaurants are bustling and dining rooms are buzzing. If you want a reservation at the newest and hottest places, you are out of luck unless you know somebody. On the surface it seems that restaurants have safely emerged from the despairing depths of the Covid pandemic and the throbbing hangover that followed. Yet one key…
Most of us can remember receiving an unsatisfying apology. A friend of mine recently got a text message after a Bumble date stood her up: “Sry,” it read. (“He didn’t even spell out the whole word,” she told me.) When my kid was in preschool, an email arrived in my inbox. “Sorry your daughter was…
Love it or hate it, Valentine’s Day is hard to escape. It’s the one day of the year when all of Instagram is deluged with proud displays of affection and shops are filled with people buying last-minute gifts. And there was no shortage of pink and red roses, hearts and chocolates in Manhattan, where residents…
Over the last few years, the general assumption has been that a Covid infection — or vaccination — is likely to buy you a few months of protection. But any time we get a new variant that is especially adept at evading the immune system, like JN.1, that assumption gets thrown into question. JN.1 currently…
My wife, Meredith, and I were having dinner at a place we’d been wanting to try since it opened. The Brooklyn restaurant, self-described as a “Jew–ish” bistro, was as cozy and familiar as I’d hoped. The delicacies — latkes topped with slices of smoked sable, a gin martini washed in pickle brine — appealed to…
I’m facing a bit of a predicament: This summer one of my best friends is leaving the U.S. Navy and embarking on a world tour as a civilian. My hope is to join him, along with some other friends from college, on the Spanish leg. More specifically, a trip to San Sebastián in Basque Country….
CooperSurgical, a major medical supply company, is facing a wave of lawsuits from patients who claim that one of its products destroyed embryos created with in vitro fertilization. Fertility clinics across the world used the product, a nutrient-rich liquid that helps fertilized eggs develop into embryos. This week federal regulators made public that the company…
The texts start rolling in around the last week of January. “I hope the girls are getting their prescribed four sumos a day.” “Two sumos down before 1 p.m.” “And now I’m eating a sumo!!!” My friends and I approach peak sumo orange season with thunderous enthusiasm, and for good reason: The arrival of the…
