Category Lifestyle

Restaurant Review: Blanca Is Not for Beginners

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. The day before your dinner at Blanca, you…

Looking at Art with Peter Schjeldahl

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Cézanne doesn’t cut it.” When I heard Peter utter this sentence at a dinner party, I knew I was in over my head. Peter, at these dinners, where no one was…

Swimming with My Daughters

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I went swimming with my two daughters when they were both expecting babies. The three of us had gone away for the weekend, and were staying at a hotel in Port…

The Beautiful Rawness of Steve Albini

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This past Tuesday, May 7th, the engineer, producer, and musician Steve Albini died, of a heart attack, at his home in Chicago, where he has run a recording studio, Electrical Audio,…

Stormy Daniels’s American Dream

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Donald Trump seemed to be in an impish mood, on Thursday morning, as he walked into his criminal trial in lower Manhattan. He wore a light-blue shirt and a cerulean tie…

Summer Culture Preview

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Shauna LyonGoings On editor You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Much of the…

Barry Blitt’s “Class of 2024”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the wake of student demonstrations against Israel’s devastation of Gaza that have swept across colleges this year, some institutions of higher education have decided to cancel or amend their graduation…

A TikTok Ban Won’t Fix Social Media

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On April 24th, after years of talks about a TikTok ban, President Joe Biden committed to remaking the platform’s existence in the United States. A foreign-aid package that he signed into…