For a window into the soul of a city, take a stroll along the waterfront: Think of the Seine walkways in Paris, the Copacabana promenade in Rio or the Charles River Esplanade in Boston. Or the nearly 14-mile palm-fringed ribbon called La Rambla, in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. One of the longest sidewalks in…
Shae Watson, left, and Kat Randolph were going to see an exhibition about the choreographer Alvin Ailey at the Whitney Museum when I saw them on Little West 12th Street in Manhattan’s meatpacking district on a Sunday afternoon in January. I was captivated by the layered outfits they had assembled, which had distinct sensibilities and…
Wow, things have really gotten out of proportion. Inflation is everywhere. That’s often how life seems in the morning. On Monday evening, at the New York Public Library, Marc Jacobs simply gave some shape to the situation and put it on the runway. In the third of what might be called his show series of…
Extra nights in cushy hotel suites, free premium air travel and even stays on private islands. Loyalty points and frequent flier miles, when strategically collected, can fund trips well beyond a traveler’s usual expectations and budget. But it isn’t easy to get these deals. Luckily for us, there’s an entire universe of experts who share…
It would have been understandable — even natural — if the attendees of Sunday night’s Grammy Awards had decided to go subdued. If they had opted to appear toned down and quietly respectful of the trauma still being visited on Los Angeles in the wake of the wild fires, in simple black suits and equally…
With the new Trump administration there seems to be a general trend toward old-fashioned gender stereotypes and dress, which seems to me like a frustratingly restrictive version of how a “woman” looks. Is there a way to use clothes to rebel against this unspoken dress code, even in a fairly conservative work environment? — Renee,…
Minimalist fashion was pushed to an extreme at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night. Bianca Censori, the wife of the rapper and designer formerly known as Kanye West, appeared in a look so pared-back that many people wondered if her ensemble could be considered indecent exposure. Though Ms. Censori arrived at the awards in a…
A United Airlines flight from Houston to New York was evacuated on Sunday morning because of flames coming from an engine, video shows. Flight 1382 was about to depart George Bush Intercontinental Airport for LaGuardia Airport just after 8:30 a.m. when the crew “received an indication about one engine and halted the takeoff while still…
A worker at Chicago O’Hare International Airport was critically injured on Saturday after a vehicle that tows aircraft and a plane collided, causing the vehicle to flip over, officials said. The collision took place about 7:35 p.m. local time, when an Air Wisconsin jet that was approaching a gate struck the vehicle, which is also…
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Sunday morning that its primary system for sending real-time safety alerts to pilots was operational again after being down for several hours. “The NOTAM system is online and operational,” the F.A.A. said in a statement, referring to the notification system. “There were no operational impacts in the National Airspace…