When it comes to fiction, humor is serious business. If tragedy appeals to the emotions, wit appeals to the mind. “You have to know where the funny is,” the writer Sheila Heti says, “and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.” Humor is a bulwark against complacency and conformity, mediocrity and predictability….
Outdoor Voices, an athletic apparel company, is closing all its stores on Sunday, according to four employees at four different stores who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the news. In an internal Slack message reviewed by The New York Times, some employees were notified on Wednesday that “Outdoor Voices is…
Restaurant pop-ups, by their very nature, are ephemeral and hard to pin down. But they can also be destinations for some of New York’s most creative and inspired dining as the chefs that run them aren’t bogged down by the minutiae that plague brick-and-mortar restaurants. Sometimes, pop-ups become popular, permanent restaurants, as in the cases…
Sydell L. Miller, a self-made beauty mogul who went from the stay-at-home wife of a Cleveland salon owner to a Palm Beach mansion so immense that it was said to take an hour to walk through all of its rooms, died on Feb. 25 at her home in Cleveland. She was 86. Her daughter Stacie…
Restaurant pop-ups, by their very nature, are ephemeral and hard to pin down. But they can also be destinations for some of New York’s most creative and inspired dining as the chefs that run them aren’t bogged down by the minutiae that plague brick-and-mortar restaurants. Sometimes, pop-ups become popular, permanent restaurants, as in the cases…
I was really rooting for TikTok. In 2020, when the Trump administration first tried to force TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app or risk having it shut down, I argued that banning TikTok in the United States would do more harm than good. Why? Partly because TikTok seemed like a convenient scapegoat for…
Alexa Valavicius is 28, single and off dating apps since 2021. How come? She quit Hinge and Bumble, the only two platforms she was on, when she realized that getting a good read on people was difficult based on their profiles. “I’m someone who is very attracted to someone’s energy, and it’s very hard to…
In Taiwan, the government is racing to do what no country or even company has been able to: build an alternative to Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX. Starlink has allowed militaries, power plants and medical workers to maintain crucial online connections when primary infrastructure has failed in emergencies,…
In a very particular corner of Portland, Ore., there is a dive bar whose vending machine dispenses tarot cards and a dessert joint with a white-water kayak in its bathroom. On a nearby block, for vaguely environmental reasons, a dozen goats used to roam free. The goats are gone now, replaced by an apartment complex…
Facing a possible ban in the United States, TikTok has scrambled to deploy perhaps its most powerful weapon: its creators. The hugely popular video service began recruiting dozens of creators at the end of last week, asking them to travel to Washington to fight a bill being debated in Congress. Under the proposal, TikTok’s Chinese…
