In what may be either the best or worst six and a half minutes of your day, Aeon presents a dizzying compilation of newsreel footage from 1929 and 1930 highlighting the high-steel construction of the 1,047-foot-tall Chrysler Building in Midtown. Among the film's more

Ready to up your quarantine culinary game, or cook up a ding-dong-ditch Mother's Day feast to drop on Mom's doorstep? Since you’ve surely mastered banana bread by now, the much-beloved Brooklyn Kitchen has taken its cooking classes online to help you take things to

Wendy Lubovich is not just one of our favorite writers, she's one of our favorite people — and a Corcoran neighbor in Southampton. Her new book, 111 Places in the Hamptons That You Must Not Miss — the followup to her excellent 111 Museums

There are those who love the books, and there are those who prefer the movies. But fans of the Harry Potter series have just had those arguments made moot. Author J.K. Rowling and her assembled corporate entities are offering Harry Potter and the

When you don’t have to commute, your mornings are less rushed. What better thing to do than to dwell on the deep literary importance of your breakfast? While Chaucer ate no Cheerios, a host of other literary luminaries have served up

Any similarities to the humble Chia Pet are purely coincidental; the Terraplanter is serious science. Made of porous terracotta and filled with water, this tapering vessel — its inventors call the shape a "parametric design" — features a finely textured cross-hatch surface that's grippy

Always wanted to write a book but don't know how to start filling those blank pages? NPR's well-loved self-help podcast, Life Kit, polled a few writers who've done it and assembled a straightforward list of six suggestions to help you manage your time, think

It's safe to say that if you use a camera and aren't Annie Leibovitz, you'd like to shoot better portraits. On Thursday at 4, Leica will present a master class in people photography with famed celebrity and advertising shooter Mark Mann. Part of the camera

Guitarist Robert Fripp, frontman for the progressive rock group King Crimson since its founding in 1968, was excited to be kicking off a 25-date tour with The Zappa Band this summer. The COVID crisis changed those plans. So Fripp found