Since queer characters are today put at the center of many more stories than they used to be, it’s probably no surprise that most of the attempts to revive the Gay Best Friend are period pieces — including “And Just Like That … ,” which, for all of its contemporary inclusiveness (there are nonwhite and…
IN THE 1960S and ’70s, clearing out and refinishing a downtown loft was a rite of passage for New York artists, who were drawn by cheap rent and ample studio space to the postindustrial buildings of SoHo and TriBeCa. Today, of course, those same addresses are luxury real estate, but the loft hasn’t lost its…
On San Andres, a small Colombian island in an archipelago off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, counting the blues in the famous “Sea of Seven Colors” is on every visitor’s to-do list. It’s a midday activity done en route as you cruise among the cays, or keys, dotting San Andres’s eastern side: low-lying (mostly) uninhabited…
Good morning. I’m embracing nostalgia today, luxuriating in memories of a Brooklyn I never experienced, even though I’m borough-raised. Imagine egg creams at the soda fountain, a long trip on the rattan seats of an old-timey subway car, then the mechanical horse races at Coney Island and a visit to Ebinger’s afterward, for blackout cake….
If I were a vegetable, I would hire cabbage’s brand manager. Cabbage has spent an eternity as the workhorse of the stir-fry and the braise, the quiet companion to endless duck legs and pulled pork sandwiches. It never complained, even when boiled with corned beef or shoved into a crock for months. But today, a…
Nunhead Green | £795,000 ($1.01 million) A semi-attached, renovated two-bedroom, one-bath Victorian cottage with a contemporary interior and front and rear gardens. This updated house, with a traditional Victorian exterior and contemporary interior, is on a quiet street in Southeast London’s Nunhead Green Conservation Area, close to a small village area with a new community…
Bonnie McIlvaine has lived in three homes in San Diego County, all on the very same spot. The first was an unheated concrete-block house she bought in 1973 for $32,000. A newly divorced schoolteacher, Ms. McIlvaine wanted a break from urban living. She found herself in a small, hilly town with stretches of undeveloped brushland…
Famous couples who marry, divorce and then remarry their former spouses are often fodder for tabloid headlines. Think of the actors Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, who were married to each other twice — first for a decade beginning in 1964, and then again in 1975 before they divorced the next year. Elon Musk and…
Now and then during an election cycle, a Republican pundit becomes something of a hero to Democrats. Peggy Noonan, a conservative Wall Street Journal columnist and former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, filled that role in the months leading up the 2008 election, after she had pilloried the second…
I respect leeks. They stand firm and tall above their allium kin, their jade-green tops proudly poking out from your grocery bag. They make you work for them, with all that careful washing to rinse the sand and grit from between their layers. (They’re also, as far as I know, the only vegetable to be…
