Instagram time is a daily ritual for many people in the design community who find inspiration and just plain entertainment from scrolling through endless vignettes, rooms and gardens. “Instagram is like having a wide-angle lens on culture today. It is a people connector through imagery,” says New York designer Charlotte Moss. She enjoys discovering “what […]

On tour with the age-defying Carol Bailey String Band of Litchfield It’s the middle of a day on a Tuesday, but the Elks Lodge on Route 126 in Gardiner is rocking. The band is playing loud and the fans are into it. A few climb onto chairs to take pictures of the action. Others dance […]

NEW YORK  — A scandal is roiling the world of fancy chocolate: Did two brothers misleadingly sell remelted chocolate and sprout beards to cultivate a hipster appeal? The headlines began after a site called DallasFood.org published a series about Rick and Michael Mast, who have been toasted in food circles for their stylishly wrapped chocolate […]

CLEVELAND – My ex-boyfriend and I broke up almost exactly two years ago, and we’ve spoken only a handful of times since. But I can tell you exactly what he’s watching on Netflix. (“Friday Night Lights,” if you’re curious.) We now live 500 miles apart, but remain tethered to one another by technology, specifically a […]

When did it start? Was it the Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving, when you whipped up your pie filling as Nat King Cole sang “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire . . .” Was it the first week of December, when the containers filled with homemade Chex Mix started arriving at your office? Or maybe it […]

A new study has found that watching yourself eat something unhealthy, like a slice of chocolate cake, can make that food seem less tasty. And that, in turn, might make you eat less. Ata Jami, a marketing professor at the University of Central Florida who studies consumer behavior and decision-making, looked at whether mirrors affected […]

Why we’re so ready to believe that it does The beards said it all, really. Long and well groomed, attached to handsome young faces, they were the beards of men who worked the land. The beards of men who built things with their own hands, which, we all surmised, were callused, but clean. Those beards […]

No matter how high-tech the world becomes, it seems there is always a place for good ol’ Craigslist. Do you need a couch, a boyfriend or a life-size nail-clipper costume? Look no further than the classified advertisements website, which turned 20 years old this year. According to its website, more than 60 million people in […]