What should I read before I pack my bags? Nii Ayikwei Parkes’s “Tail of the Blue Bird” brings the city to life. This slim novel is set in Accra and Sonokrom, a small village. Kayo, a forensic pathologist working in Accra, has been forced by a high-ranking police officer to investigate a sinister discovery in…
Last spring, Tia Washington, 52, a mother of three in Dublin, Calif., received a stern warning from her doctor: If she didn’t quickly gain control of her high blood pressure, she was likely to end up in the emergency room. He wrote a prescription for blood pressure medication and urged her to see a health…
As a boy in Tennessee, Jared Barnes learned from his great-grandfather to place his lanky tomato seedlings on their sides when he was transplanting them, so they could root in all along their stems. It was one of many gifts of horticultural knowledge that he derived from their time together. But besides getting young Jared…
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday announced a new partnership with more than a dozen state attorneys general to investigate consumer complaints against airlines. The partnership sets up a process for state attorney general’s offices to review complaints from travelers and then pass the baton to the federal Transportation Department, which could take enforcement action…
On Monday evening, T Magazine held its annual party to help kick off the Salone del Mobile design fair in Milan. For the sixth year, guests flocked to Villa Necchi Campiglio, the 1935 Rationalist-style home designed by the Italian architect Piero Portaluppi. But this year, the cause for celebration was twofold: The event also marked…
Every once in a while, restaurateurs in New York become infatuated with the cuisine of some other place. In the 1980s, La Louisiana, K-Paul’s and Acme fed us jambalaya, blackened redfish and other tastes of New Orleans and Cajun Country. Three decades later, Aska, Luksus and Acme (the same space, without the chile-pepper lights and…
The video shows Asa Akira lying on the bed, naked from the hips down, with her legs splayed open. Her hair is thrown into a messy bun. Then she reaches for some lubricant and a long, curved device. “You might want to insert it,” she says, “but that’s not the idea.” The device is a…
Chefs on the Move Margot Combat This marquee drinks expert has arrived in New York to take up residence at the chef Alain Ducasse’s Benoit until June 11, turning the bar into a Cheffe Cocktail pop-up. Margot Lecarpentier — who previously worked in New York bars and whose bar, Combat, in the Belleville neighborhood of…
In 1980, my husband Allan and I hosted our first Passover Seder at our home. There were about eight of us: my husband’s Uncle Henik, who had numbers from Auschwitz on his arm; my Polish in-laws who’d had to flee to the Soviet Union; a few friends; and my daughter, still a toddler, racing around…
[Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés el 29 de enero de 2024] Las fuentes de chocolate con cannabis están presentes en las bodas. Los “budtenders” sirven cócteles con cannabis. Y a medida que aumentan las ventas de comestibles, las marcas de cannabis insisten en la idea de que estos productos pueden ser una alternativa…
