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The Best Way to Drop an Egg
How the shell cracks in an exercise known as the egg drop challenge turned out to be more complicated than science teachers have been telling students for many years.
Why Marcella Hazan Is Still Teaching Us How to Cook Italian
In the 1980s, an assistant at Glamour took her romantic life to the next level with the aid of two lemons and a chicken. At the suggestion of one of the magazine’s editors, who was more or less following a recipe she’d found in an Italian cookbook …
MAGA Beauty Is Built to Go Viral
A few weeks ago, a South Carolina woman wearing stilettos and raw-edged jeans got into an expletive-laced shouting match with a man in the aisle of a beauty store. This fracas went viral on multiple social media platforms, which would be totally …
A Troubled Homeland Embodied in a Bag of Chickpeas
“I started exploring it as a kind of landscape,” the Lebanese-born designer Jessy Slim said of the ravaged surfaces of her legume creations.
‘Five Models in Ruins, 1981’ Review: Disastrous Dress-Up
Caitlin Saylor Stephens’s new play imagines a fashion shoot with the gowns Princess Diana rejected for her recent wedding. The models are not amused.
Melissa Toogood Named New Director of Juilliard’s Dance Division
A member of Merce Cunningham’s final company, Toogood brings to the job years of experience as a dancer and educator.
Wildfires, and an Unlikely Romance, Light Up a Lost Paradise
In Franziska Gänsler’s novel, “Eternal Summer,” a tenuous bond forms between strangers stranded in a hotel as the world burns.
‘Shark Tank’ Star Barbara Corcoran Is Selling Her Dream Penthouse
Her nickname now is “The Queen of New York Real Estate,” but Barbara Corcoran was still on a pauper’s budget the day she saw the penthouse that would become her home. It was 1992, and Ms. Corcoran, the founder of Corcoran Realty, was pinching pennies …
An Actress of Many Passions, Now Making History in ‘Wicked’
The last time Lencia Kebede lived in New York, in 2015, she was a 21-year-old college intern at the United Nations, taking and translating notes for the ambassador from Guatemala, who was working on an anti-poverty initiative. What a difference a …