A born New Yorker who lives not far from the Met Cloisters in Upper Manhattan, Mr. Eckstein started with a hit list of 150 museums that was eventually whittled to the 75 that appear in the book. He spent a little over a year visiting the institutions to photograph and sketch them and collect stories…
Lesa Walton suffered for years with rheumatoid arthritis. “It was awful,” said Ms. Walton, 57, who lives in Wenatchee, Wash. “I kept getting sicker and sicker.” She also had high blood pressure, and she was obese. Doctors told her to diet and exercise, which she did, to no avail. Then she found a doctor who…
Before the Olympics even begin, there is always heartbreak. And June may be the hardest month of all. Caitlin Clark, the ascendant star of women’s basketball, just found out that she won’t be going to Paris. So did Bill May, whose hopes of becoming the first man to compete at the Olympics in the sport…
[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora] En los últimos tres años, un nuevo tipo de fármaco contra el alzhéimer, el primero que trata una de las causas fundamentales de la enfermedad, ha desencadenado una montaña rusa de esperanzas y decepciones. Pero aunque los llamados anticuerpos antiamiloides tuvieron un comienzo difícil, muchos pacientes y sus…
For most buyers, mortgages are the cornerstone of purchasing a home. Sometimes a second mortgage is necessary, too, to cover the down payment, for instance. But what happens if that second mortgage seems to have been forgiven but actually still exists? Introducing: the “zombie mortgage.” These aren’t creatures from the underworld, but mortgages that homeowners…
The U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, announced on Monday that he would push for a warning label on social media sites that says the platforms can harm the mental health of young people. When she heard the news, Jean Twenge, a research psychologist who has spent years warning about the risks of social media,…
When guests arrived at the Mouki Mou store in Athens at 6 p.m. on the last weekend in May, they grabbed cool glasses of Greek rosé before retreating into the concrete-clad boutique. Its founder, Maria Lemos, who grew up in Greece, opened the shop in the city’s historic center, Plaka, in 2023, ten years after…
When the chef Lerone Mullin opened the Jerk Grill, his fast-casual restaurant in Redlands, Calif., in 2021, customers told him they loved his Caribbean classics, like brown stew chicken, and his Caribbean-Mexican mash-ups, like a jerk chicken burrito. But they asked for one addition. “Everybody just wanted oxtail,” he said, adding, “I didn’t even know…
It’s set to be another scorching summer, with extreme and prolonged heat waves forecast across many parts of the United States and Europe. The stifling conditions could impact millions of travelers and wreak havoc on vacations at some of the world’s most popular tourist destinations. Multiple heat-related deaths among tourists have been reported in Greece…
A move across the Atlantic Ocean into the arms of nearly two dozen housemates was not what Ishan Abeysekera had envisioned for himself. But that’s his life now, and he’s embraced it. “I basically went from nearly living on my own for the first time in my adult life in London to basically living with…
