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☆ ‘Let’s Call Her Patty’ Review: Unseen Depths of an Uptown Matriarch
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Naveen Kumar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Patty’s maternal relationships with Cecile and Sammy are the play’s sources of conflict (Patty’s offstage husband, Hal, we’re told, is “fine”). The matriarch is little more than an amalgam of stereotypes; that there is truth to them is hardly a revelation. But the play does little to question or disrupt the preconceived notions it assumes New York audiences will have about “an Upper West Side lady” like Patty. If this is a character study, Patty’s pungent, messy center is largely withheld from view. Unfortunately, Cecile is kept at arm’s length from a story in which she seems to have the most compelling inner life.

Persons: Cecile, Sammy, Hal, we’re, Patty, she’s, “, Perlman, Margot Bordelon, Goldman’s Cecile Locations: York

☆ Yoko Ono and the Dakota
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Anna Kodé | More About Anna Kodé | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But for the last 50 years, there was a constant — Yoko Ono lived in the Dakota. She stayed even after that tragic December day in 1980 when John Lennon was fatally shot right outside the building. Ms. Ono’s presence sustained the mystique of the Dakota — already well known as a coveted quarters for celebrities and artists when she and Mr. Lennon moved into the Upper West Side apartment complex in 1973. To the distaste of some other residents, the couple at one point owned five units at the Dakota, which — in addition to being their primary residence — they used as a guest home, a storage space and a studio for Ms. Ono. The living space and studio alone had a combined square-footage of nearly 6,000 square feet, New York magazine reported in 1996.

Persons: Duane Reades, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Lennon, Ono Organizations: New York, New, Dakota Locations: New York City, Dakota, New York

☆ How 'Birkin Bandit' George Mickum Infiltrated NYC Society
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Kate Taylor | Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +52 min

"He would know people's weaknesses and what they wanted and somehow always have something to offer," a former close friend said. Another close friend said Mickum once gave her a $1,000 loan "within minutes" when she needed it because of a credit-card crisis. He never "let the truth get in the way of a good story," a former close friend said. Hermès bags, like the Birkin and the Kelly, have always been symbols of unattainable luxury. There wasn't even a dust bag; Mickum claimed his mom's assistant would drop it off later.

Persons: George Mickum strode, Carlyle, Patty Hearst, He'd, Mickum, Birkin, swilling, Patty's, Gillian Hearst, Mr, George Mickum, Gillian Hearst's, George, Sally Painter, who'd, Peter Davis, Jackie O, Barbara Walters, Alessia Fendi, influencer Hannah Stella, Nick Hissom, Steve Wynn, Hearst, they'd, Prince Charles, Anna Delvey, Patty Hearst's, Rumor, he'd, wasn't, Met Breuer, Peter Poopat, George Santos, Trinity, Elisabeth Thieriot, Thieriot, Hermes, —, Painter, Paul Mickum, George Mickum III, Sally, Painter's, Poopat, PJ Pascual, Patrick McMullan, Ramona Singer, Lauren Lawrence, Lawrence, Van Cleef, Nicole Salmasi, Trudy, Mike Vitelli, Eric Schmidt, Schmidt, Eric, R, Couri Hay, They're, Astor, William Randolph Hearst, Orson Welles, Kane, Gillian's, Bill Clinton, Patty, Bernard Shaw, Gillian, Lydia —, Shaw, Maxim, Lydia, Kane we're, Christian Simonds, Pierre, Krista Corl, Dee Dee, Scott Buccheit, Naeem Delbridge, Pascual, who's, We're, buttering, Simonds, Matthew Kehoe, England, — Hearst, Delbridge, Hearst's, Mario Glen Coco, Hearsts, Astrid Stawiarz, Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Justin Timberlake, Joe Lewis, Buccheit, Mary McCarthy, Lillian Hellman, Mickum's, Christie Grimm, Steve, Kameron Ramirez, Hissom, Ramirez, Nick, Hunt, Damien Hirst, Douglas Elliman, Harry Winston, David Fiszel, invitees, Fiszel, Darian, Winston, Martha Stewart's, Mendel minks, Vacheron Constantin, Tao, Melinda French Gates, Shawn Mendes, Bill, Hillary Clinton, Neiman Marcus, Damien Hirst's, Damien, weren't, Kelly, Alexis Clarbour, Clarbour, Paul Wharton, you've, Wharton, Sean Zanni, Michael Coste, Hannah Stella, Coste's, Stella, Scott Fitzgerald, Coste, Goodman, Courroies Birkin, didn't, Aman, Cartier, Mickum's bluster, skeptically, satchel, Clarbour's, He's, We've, Sider, Philippe, Buccheit texted Pascual, he's, Hay, Café Carlyle, Alexander Hankin, Burisma, Hunter Biden, Mickum hasn't, There's, They've, Amy X, Wang, King Charles, Tracey Amon, Amon, GEORGE MICKUM Organizations: Hearst, Blue, Potomac, Hamptons, East, Met, University of Delaware, Southampton Bathing Corporation, Fields School, Georgetown Law, DC, Town &, New York Daily News, The New York Times, Google, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Cosmopolitan, Symbionese Liberation Army, Hearst Corporation, Vogue, Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering, Stockbridge Golf, New, Tiger, Tottenham, Douglas, Martha Stewart's Hamptons, Mickum, Projects, Madison, Getty, Antibes, Nike, Rue du Faubourg Saint, Couture, US, UN, New Yorkers, Avenue Couture, Hermès, Republican, Justice Department, Blue Star, Town, New York Times Magazine Locations: Bemelmans, Clinton, York, Palm, New, London, Manhattan, Dalton, Bay, Windsor Castle, Haute, Washington , DC, New York, Baccarat, The, San Francisco, Wilton , Connecticut, Side, Wyntoon, California, Buccheit, woodsy Stockbridge , Massachusetts, Stockbridge, Bahamas, Albany, Nobu, Martha, Peking, Paris, Istanbul, St, Georgetown, China, Italy, Hermès, Amalfi Coast, du, Midtown, brunch, Rue, Central Park, Mickum, Turkey, La, Café, Ukrainian, Ukraine

☆ In ‘The Horror of Dolores Roach,’ the Empanadas Are to Die For
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Erik Piepenburg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It does the same for cannibalism, though there was nothing like that on the schedule as far as I knew. But we had all day to talk about eating people. First, empanadas. I drooled a little watching Machado and Mark take bites of the face-sized empanadas, which were perfectly golden brown, bubbly in the right spots and oozy, not greasy. They were tasty, Machado said, but she was partial to the chicken-and-cheese pastelillos, fried turnovers similar to empanadas, that her Puerto Rican mother used to make.

Persons: Justina Machado, Aaron Mark, Dolores Roach, ”, Mark, Machado, carne, Jane, Virgin Organizations: Broadway Locations: Washington Heights, Manhattan, Empanadas, Puerto Rican

☆ A day in the life of Erin Lichy, the new 'Real Housewives of New York City' cast member whose day job is selling and flipping luxury real estate
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She is also a cast mate on the rebooted "Real Housewives of New York City," premiering July 16. Her two jobs play off each other: One day Lichy might sell a dated $5 million condo on the Upper West Side. While Lichy works with sellers to maximize their profit when listing a property, she's dabbled in flipping properties, too. Lichy earned her real-estate license at 19 years old and received a master's degree in sustainable development from New York University. Five of the new 'Real Housewives of New York City' cast members with Lichy at right.

Persons: Erin Lichy, Douglas Elliman's Eklund Gomes, —, Lichy, she's, hasn't, It's, Tesla, Abraham, Abraham Lichy, Levi, Layla, Elijah, Eklund Gomes, Homegirl, She's, it's, Le Cuona, We've, Erin Lichy She'll Organizations: Housewives, New, Service, Douglas Elliman's Eklund Gomes Team, New York University, New York City, NBC Locations: New York City, New, New York, Tribeca, Manhattan, Barry's, Flatiron, Tribeca ., romaine, Ubers, Brasserie

☆ Inside the Shed’s Sonic Sphere
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Zachary Woolfe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The xx remix did nicely separate the bass, coming up palpably but not too heavily out of the bottom of the sphere, from the voices around and above. For all the souped-up spiffiness of the Sonic Sphere, the programming on Saturday felt like a retread of artists who were more interesting when Alex Poots, the Shed’s artistic director, presented them during his stint at the Park Avenue Armory uptown. Levit, the following year, played Bach as part of an ornate concentration exercise orchestrated by Marina Abramovic. Both of them on Saturday were under 40 minutes, but I found myself getting antsy well before time was up. Perhaps the audiences at Burning Man, the techno-hippie hedonist bonanza in the Nevada desert where a Sonic Sphere was built last year, were more engrossed, experiencing it on harder drugs than the Coke Zero I’d had with dinner.

Persons: Mari ”, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Alex Poots, Bach, Marina Abramovic Organizations: Armory, Perelman Performing Arts Center Locations: Levit, Nevada

Brigid Berlin, a fixture of the downtown art world in the ’60s and ’70s, will be forever associated with Andy Warhol — the Factory superstar played Duchess, a version of herself as a lesbian drug dealer, in Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s 1966 film “Chelsea Girls” — but three years after her death in 2020, a new exhibition considers Berlin’s art in its own right. “Brigid really was an innovator when you think of the way she used persona as a medium,” says Alison M. Gingeras, who has curated “Brigid Berlin: The Heaviest,” at New York’s Vito Schnabel Gallery, which examines the artist’s life, from her tony uptown upbringing to her secluded later life, with the wild times in between. “For too long she has been pushed into the footnotes.” In a room that features the same wallpaper as Berlin’s Murray Hill apartment, visitors can peruse photos and letters from her childhood. “Brigid Berlin: The Heaviest,” is on view through Aug. 18, vitoschnabel.com. Stay HereA Hygge Homestay in Seoul

Persons: Brigid Berlin, Andy Warhol, Warhol, Paul Morrissey’s, “ Brigid, ”, Alison M, Gingeras, New York’s Vito Schnabel, tony, Murray, Honey Berlin, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, “ Brigid Berlin Organizations: Factory, Chelsea Girls ”, Max’s, “ Locations: New, Max’s Kansas City, Seoul

☆ DMs From New York City
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Dodai Stewart | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Dodai Stewart Dodai Stewart Dodai Stewart DMs From New York CityNew York City can be a study in overstimulation. Dodai Stewart Dodai Stewart Dodai StewartI am sure you have seen them. In a city that shouts and blares, these are little whispers, with voices as varied and distinctive as New Yorkers themselves. Dodai Stewart Dodai Stewart Dodai StewartSometimes it’s hard to comprehend what a city really is, beyond densely stacked gleaming towers and throngs of faceless, busy strangers. New York is just a bunch of people, and they want to talk.

Persons: Dodai Stewart Dodai Stewart Dodai Stewart Organizations: New York City New, New Yorkers Locations: New York City, New York City New York City, overstimulation, New York, New, Brooklyn Heights, Manhattan

☆ Sterling K. Brown Is on His Best Behavior, Just in Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Kathryn Shattuck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

4Cocoa ButterBeing African American, something happens when you don’t moisturize your skin. Because the alternative for someone with a deeper shade of soul is you look like you’ve been walking around kicking flour. 5Esther PerelMy wife and I have been married 17 years, and we’ve known each other since we were 18. is continuing to develop, and we don’t know if we’re making ourselves extinct to any potential sentient being, Brown is on his best behavior. 8‘Fat Ham’You’re taking the story of Hamlet, you’re putting it in a backyard barbecue in the South with a young, queer, Black male protagonist.

Persons: Esther Perel, Esther, we’ve, Alexa, ”, Brown, ” Toni Morrison, You’re, you’re, it’s, ” Audra McDonald, Renée Elise Goldsberry, “ Hamilton Organizations: Being, Britannica, Alexa, Broadway Locations: “

☆ What Greta Lee, Lizzy Caplan and Spike Lee Wore to Party This Week
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Emma Grillo | Sadiba Hasan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Monday night, luminaries of music and film, dressed in ruffles, sequins and tulle, gathered in Harlem at the Apollo Theater and in SoHo for a Tribeca Film Festival dinner. Uptown, the Apollo hosted its annual Spring Benefit, where musicians and philanthropists celebrated the theater’s 90th year and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Sean Combs accepted awards. The event included performances by Wyclef Jean; Stout; Gladys Knight, and MC Lyte, who were supported by Ray Chew, the music director for the event, and his band. Downtown, on Spring Street, Chanel hosted the 16th annual Tribeca Festival Artists dinner at Balthazar, which honored women artists who contributed original artwork to the festival’s filmmakers. The crowd included Robert De Niro, Lizzy Caplan, Tracee Ellis Ross, Brendan Fraser, Katie Holmes and Sofia Coppola.

Persons: Kareem Abdul, Jabbar, Sean Combs, Wyclef Jean, Stout, Gladys Knight, MC Lyte, Ray Chew, Derrick Jones, ”, DJ Kool, Chanel, Balthazar, Robert De Niro, Lizzy Caplan, Tracee Ellis Ross, Brendan Fraser, Katie Holmes, Sofia Coppola Organizations: Apollo, Tribeca, Downtown Locations: Harlem, SoHo

☆ Twitter hit with $250 million lawsuit from music publishers over alleged copyright infringement
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Washington CNN —Music publishers sued Twitter for more than $250 million in damages on Wednesday, alleging that the social media platform “breeds massive copyright infringement that harms music creators.”The lawsuit alleges that for years, Twitter has allowed users of its platform to share copyrighted songs without a license. Twitter’s alleged permissiveness around users sharing copyrighted songs, combined with the social network’s promotion of tweets with copyrighted music, has unlawfully helped fuel the company’s growth, according to the National Music Publishers’ Association, whose members include Universal, Sony and Warner Music Group. “Providing free, unlicensed music gives the Twitter platform an unfair advantage over competing platforms, such as TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and others.”Twitter’s competitors, the music publishers said, all pay licensing fees to rightsholders for the ability to use the copyrighted music. The lawsuit cites the sweeping layoffs under Musk’s ownership that have eliminated entire teams at Twitter. It also highlights Musk’s own views on copyright, including a screenshot of two of his tweets from prior to the acquisition.

Persons: Elon Musk, Twitter’s, Mariah Carey’s, Mark Ronson’s, ”, Bruno Mars, Snapchat, Twitter didn’t, ” Musk Organizations: Washington CNN — Music, Twitter, Elon, National Music Publishers ’ Association, Universal, Sony, Warner Music Group, Facebook, YouTube, Copyright, Federal Trade Commission, Court, Middle, Middle District of Locations: Funk, Middle District, Middle District of Tennessee

☆ Starbucks Is Under Scrutiny Over Removal of Pride Decorations
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Remy Tumin | Amanda Holpuch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A union representing hundreds of Starbucks stores said this week that workers in 21 states were told by their managers not to decorate for Pride Month, the annual L.G.B.T.Q. celebration, a claim that the company said represented “outlier” decisions by local leaders that did not reflect corporate policy. In Manhattan, no Pride decorations could be seen at several Starbucks stores in Chelsea and Greenwich Village, including the one just a block from the Stonewall Inn, a landmark of gay culture and history. One partner, as Starbucks refers to employees, was told by a manager that hanging a rainbow flag might make customers uncomfortable. Others said they were told that if they hung a Pride flag the store could be asked to show equal representation for others, including the Proud Boys, the far-right hate group.

Organizations: Pride Month, Greenwich, Stonewall, Pride Locations: New York City, Manhattan, Chelsea, Wisconsin , Ohio, Virginia

☆ As the Tonys Head Uptown, Step Inside the United Palace ‘Dream World’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Darryn King | Gioncarlo Valentine | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Nearly eight miles north of Times Square, the United Palace in Washington Heights is a dazzling remnant of a golden age of cinema. On Sunday, it will provide the backdrop for Broadway’s biggest night. This former Loew’s “Wonder Theater,” at Broadway between 175th and 176th Streets, is beguiling, if mysterious. Its landmark exterior — where pigeons make themselves at home among terra-cotta ziggurats and pilasters — is said to have been influenced by Egyptian, Aztec or Mayan design, or perhaps the architecture of the 16th- to 18th-century Mughal Empire.

Persons: ” Organizations: Times, Broadway, 176th Locations: Washington Heights

☆ Inside the Wall Street internship: A 21-year-old investment-banking intern walked us through a 75-hour work week churning out pitch decks, partying in Brooklyn, and digging into ice cream at the offic
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

From late-night ice cream parties to cramming on their final project, here's a look. 8 P.M.: Back to the office to work on some slides for an upcoming public offering for a client. Afterward, I continue working on my final project. I ordered Sweetgreen while I kept plugging away on my final project. Just focusing on my final project this morning; it's due this weekend.

Persons: We're, it's, Sweetgreen, I'm, Goldman Sachs, Van, interning, Morgan Stanley, He's, Goldman Organizations: Wall, Marriott Marquis, Princeton Locations: New York, Bryant Park, Brooklyn, New York City, We're

☆ Heading Uptown With $250,000 and Some Hope. Could They Afford a Co-op?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Debra Kamin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Ms. Smith, a television lighting designer, and Mr. Estep, a theater props manager, were renting a three-bedroom townhouse with a terrace in Borough Park, Brooklyn. But their rent, at $1,850 a month, was well below market rate, and Ms. Smith, 40, and Mr. Estep, 43, couldn’t bring themselves to leave. The time had come to fulfill those wedding vows. “We needed somewhere that felt like home,” Mr. Estep said. Email: thehunt@nytimes.com]“It couldn’t be a bunch of compartmentalized rooms,” Mr. Estep said.

Persons: Dante Olivia Smith, John Estep, Smith, Estep, couldn’t, “, ” Mr, —, Mr, Ms, ” Allison Deutsch, ” Ms, Deutsch Organizations: Borough Park , Brooklyn ., Oxford Property Group Locations: Borough Park , Brooklyn, New York City, Midtown Manhattan, Harlem, Kingsbridge, Bronx

☆ Whitney Museum Sells Breuer Building to Sotheby’s for About $100 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Robin Pogrebin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The deal — which Sotheby’s and the Whitney refused to confirm in response to queries from The Times in April — finally resolves the fate of the Breuer building, which has hung in the balance since the Whitney moved down to the meatpacking district in 2015. Would the Whitney ultimately take back the building and operate uptown as well as downtown? Would the Breuer building end up as some wealthy person’s private residence or a fancy retail store? What was the Whitney without Breuer? But Lauder ultimately became a convert to the new location and it was named for him: the Leonard A. Lauder Building.

Persons: Parke, —, Breuer, Whitney, Leonard A, Lauder, ” Lauder, “ Organizations: Whitney, Times, Hudson Yards Locations: Madison, meatpacking, Manhattan

☆ Opinion: Harry Belafonte lived in – and transformed – two worlds
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Opinion Gene Seymour | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Gene Seymour Jeremy Freeman/CNNBut history, as it often does, had other ideas for Belafonte, who died April 25 at 96, having lived a long, full life as both entertainer and activist. The times he lived in paved a smoother way for him than the one faced by his mentor and hero Paul Robeson. On the other hand, there was, relatively speaking, only so much Belafonte could do on the entertainment side. Here, as elsewhere in Belafonte’s life, the activism and the entertainment sides of his public life worked in tandem to buttress, offset and enhance the other. Join us on Twitter and FacebookAnd in a gratifying sense, the push-pull of history’s demands worked in Belafonte’s favor as a screen actor.

☆ Harry Belafonte, who mixed music, acting, and activism, dies at 96
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Bill Trott | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Belafonte was born in New York City's borough of Manhattan but spent his early childhood in his family's native Jamaica. A few weeks before the launch, Belafonte told Rolling Stone magazine that singing was a way for him to express injustices in the world. "We were instructed to never capitulate, to never yield, to always resist oppression," Belafonte told Yes! "The Navy came as a place of relief for me," Belafonte told Yes! Belafonte was the first Black performer to win a major Emmy in 1960 with his appearance on a television variety special.

☆ Riding with the woman in charge of America’s last muscle car
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

I could take a ride in what will soon be America’s last gasoline-powered muscle car with the woman who’s in charge of getting it into production and onto the street. Courtesy FordTransou and others at Ford will tell you there is an electric Mustang, the Mustang Mach-E SUV. As we took off, there was a burst of speed and throaty V8 engine noise as we blasted down Manhattan’s 10th Avenue. First, it’s the only actual car Ford currently sells in the United States. About 40% of V8 Mustang buyers get a manual transmission, she said, going for that truly classic driving experience.

☆ They Had $350,000 and a Dream to Live Together. Could They Make It in Manhattan?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

For 30 years, Ms. Denlinger rented a sunny fifth-floor walk-up in Manhattan Valley. Ms. Ladin, 62 — the first openly transgender professor at Yeshiva University, where she taught English — suffers from myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. “I had not done any real estate hunting for 30 years,” Ms. Denlinger said. To find her Manhattan Valley apartment, “I got a Village Voice, looked in the ads, called up the landlord and made an appointment. “We needed two rooms that could be really separate, where one was not a bathroom or a kitchen,” Ms. Ladin said.

☆ We moved to North Carolina but are about to leave because the salaries aren't high enough and the diversity we value ended at the city limits
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

They opted to rent in Charlotte, North Carolina, because of the affordability and diversity. North Carolina isn't as affordable as it seemsCielo: We bought our house in California in 2018 for $432,000. We decided to rent in North Carolina because when we were looking into housing, it was getting expensive. Everyone we spoke to says that that's an issue with the entire south, not just North Carolina. Did you move to North Carolina recently?

☆ Sister's Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center celebrates 23 years in Harlem
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSister's Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center celebrates 23 years in HarlemSister's Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center in Harlem, founded by Janifer Wilson, has been a staple in the community for 23 years. Wilson's hope was to create a shared space within the community where people could buy books and share stories.

Dinnall, 51, is a train conductor for the New York City subway system — the heartbeat that keeps the city running. Natasha Dinnall, 51, is a NYC subway conductor and earns $86,000 per year. Here's how Dinnall earns $86,000 a year as a subway conductor in NYC. She took her first job with the agency as a property protection agent and later became a station agent, conductor, train operator, and finally a conductor again. Mickey Todiwala | CNBC Make ItEmployees must go through "extensive training" to become a conductor, Dinnall says.

☆ 36 Hours in New Orleans
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Richard Fausset | Richard Fausset Is A New York Times National Correspondent Who Grew Up In New Orleans. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Grab a biscuit UptownThe six-mile commercial corridor of Magazine Street is a glorious mish-mash of retail shops, art galleries and good places to eat, with surprises on nearly every block. For breakfast Uptown, stop in for a flaky cheddar-and-chive biscuit ($4.75) at La Boulangerie , a New Orleans take on a classic French bakery with a happy thrum on Saturday mornings. arts underground. Shawarma On The Go , inside a Jetgo gas station, is notable for its Lebanese iced tea with pine nuts. Crunchy, cold, aromatic and savory-sweet, the drink is a local spin on a traditional Lebanese drink called jallab.

☆ Hate your commute? It might actually be good for your mental health, scientists say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The commute is often seen as a chore, but the pandemic showed it can be good for your mental health. You need protected time to mentally switch gears after work to prevent burnout, two experts said. This happens on two fronts, the researchers said: psychological detachment and psychological recovery. In an unpublished study, the researchers asked 80 university employees to discuss situations when they were able to mentally switch off. Remote workers, who don't tend to have a commute, can also learn to switch off by creating a fake commute for themselves.

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