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☆ 6 Podcasts About Mysterious Disappearances
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Emma Dibdin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Cleo was never seen again, and the rest of her family has since come to believe that she was murdered as she tried to hitchhike home. Missing.”The arrival of “Serial” in the fall of 2014 set off an explosion of podcasts based on cold cases, many of them of questionable quality. But in September of 2016, days ahead of the podcast’s premiere, his killer was finally arrested — a twist that didn’t change the content much. Despite an exhaustive search and nationwide media attention, the plane was never found; two months later the men were declared dead. Despite the lack of concrete answers in this decades-old case, the story’s wild twists and its general atmosphere of Watergate-era political unease are compelling.

Persons: Cleo Nicotine, Cleo, Connie Walker, “, Cleo ”, ”, Jacob Wetterling, Madeleine Baran, Marion, Sally’s, John List, suburbanite, Hale Boggs, Nick Begich Organizations: Peabody, Representatives, World Trade Locations: Saskatchewan, United States, Minnesota, London, Australia, Europe, New Jersey, Colorado, Louisiana, Alaska, Manhattan

☆ The One Tool You Need to Make Your Lawn Look Superb This Fall
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Sal Vaglica | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

LAWN AND ORDER The head of the Ryobi 40-volt HP Brushless 15-inch Carbon Fiber Attachment Capable String Trimmer Kit can be swapped out with several other types of tools, making it an extremely capable gardening companion. Illustration: Fernando CabeloIF YOU BELIEVE a once-over with a mower on Saturday is all the maintenance a front lawn needs, you might be an average American suburbanite. When pro landscapers dragoon your neighbor’s turf, mowing is just part of the plan. It’s all the other things—string trimming around fence and mailbox posts, edging next to sidewalks, blowing clippings off the driveway—that elevate a green lawn into the envy of the neighborhood. Those actions can create a mantle of striped emerald so manicured you feel unfit walking on it, like your grandma’s freshly vacuumed carpet.

Persons: Fernando Cabelo Organizations: YOU

☆ All Aboard the Most Extravagant Fashion Cruise
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 1964, John Cheever published a short story called “The Swimmer” in which a seemingly happy suburbanite endeavors to swim his way home across New York’s Westchester County, by going from one backyard pool to the next in an odyssey that reveals the truth of his world. It’s a scenario that sprang to mind during the last cruise (or resort) season, a monthlong series of extravaganzas in far-flung destinations that came to an end last week. It was not hard to imagine fashionistas hieing their way from show to show to show before finally returning home. They could have started in Los Angeles with Chanel on May 9, moved on to Seoul with Gucci, on to Mexico City for Dior, then to northern Italy for Louis Vuitton (which had confusingly held a separate pre-fall show in Seoul just a few weeks before) and Alberta Ferretti, ending in Rio de Janeiro on June 1 with Carolina Herrera. Many of them may have been treated to their trips by the brands themselves (The New York Times does not accept press trips, so yours truly watches the shows on the computer), caravanning around the globe as if the pandemic was a speck in the rearview mirror.

Persons: John Cheever, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Alberta Ferretti, Carolina Herrera, speck Organizations: Gucci, Mexico City, Dior, Louis, Alberta, New York Times Locations: New, Westchester County, Los Angeles, Seoul, Mexico, Italy, Rio de Janeiro

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