At some point in your thirties, an 8pm reservation starts to feel late. Not scandalously late, just late enough that you’re already calculating: dinner until ten, home by eleven, and the next morning arriving a little too soon. I still want to go out. I like a restaurant with energy, a proper meal and a […]
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On Orchard Street, Gelato Messina and Studio Jeremyville turn a sundae into a reason to linger. Gelato Messina is one of Australia’s most celebrated dessert brands. Founded in Sydney in 2002, it now has more than 38 stores across Australia and Asia. This month it marks its North American debut. Softville, on Orchard Street, is […]
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Fashion Week, a cocktail-inspired fragrance preview, a Greek opening on Long Island, and a first look at the Lower East Side’s newest dessert destination. September in New York comes with a full calendar. Fashion Week brings its own itinerary, but there are also restaurant openings, neighborhood traditions, and reasons to stop and take in the […]
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A long weekend can disappear surprisingly quickly. By the time we decide what to do with it, Friday evening has been lost to indecision, Saturday to errands and Monday has already begun to feel like the night before work. Three days technically passed, but somehow none of them felt particularly different from an ordinary weekend […]
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July in New York has a particular quiet to it — half the city seems to be on a plane to somewhere in Europe or already installed in the Hamptons, and the pace shows it. Fewer openings, fewer must-attend nights, more room to actually notice what’s still happening for those of us sticking around. That […]
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Where did sports or a shared live event take you this year? I’d love to hear about it. Somewhere over the past several weeks, I became a data point. I flew to Toronto twice — once for Croatia’s group-stage match against Panama, and again for the Round of 32 against Portugal. I drove from New […]
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