How Gen Z Made Crosswords Their Own

30-Across: “___ and dry food (categories I will now be using to describe human food. Oh, so suddenly it’s weird?)” 31-Across: “TikTok videos of ‘Family Guy’ clips accompanied by Subway Surfers gameplay, e.g.” 26-Down: “Lili ___, one of the first trans women to receive gender-affirming surgery” Who’s this “I” cracking jokes about WET food in…

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How to Throw a Dinner Party

The Elaborate Menu A Little Dinner Theater By Tanya Sichynsky April 15, 2024 An act of altruism. An act of service. An act of love. Cooking for others has been called many things, but it is always an act. “What is a party if not a private performance?” wrote Ruth Reichl in 1985, in the…

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Sky High Farm Takes Fashion Upstate

There are certain things the fashion industry will always love: The young and beautiful. Art and money. Nostalgia. A comeback. From time to time, it also loves to throw itself behind a cause. By those metrics, Dan Colen is giving fashion a lot to love right now. A blue-chip artist represented by the mega-gallery Gagosian,…

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How to Cook Frozen Shrimp

My cousins and I used to dare one another to touch the shrimp, their 10 legs dancing, their antennae waving. At the Chinese seafood restaurants near us in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California, the servers would bring our orders, still alive, to the table for approval before taking them into the kitchen. In…

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A Beloved Copenhagen Cafe Gets Serious About Dinner

When the Danish chef Frederik Bille Brahe took over Apollo Bar & Kantine in 2017, it was an unassuming museum cafe where a person might grab a quick sandwich after seeing one of the contemporary art exhibitions at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, set within the same grand 17th-century complex in central Copenhagen. “Very quickly,” said the…

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The Fever Dream of Landing an Apartment

Felicia Russo says her friends tell her she seems calm. But she says she’s freaking out on the inside: Her housing search is keeping her up at night. Also part of the problem: Lately, she finds herself sleeping in a toddler bed. For six years, Ms. Russo, 40, lived on the first floor of a…

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