New York Times – Page 36

Rev. Roxy is serious about marriages and helping make them work

August 28, 2020 at 12:11 p.m.

The Rev. Roxanne Birchfield, 36, a minister of the Evangelical Church Alliance and the founder and owner of Married By Rev. Roxy, an officiating and premarital counseling service in Brooklyn,...

Fabrics with powerful stories to tell

August 28, 2020 at 11:31 a.m.

It took Sonia Gomes most of her life to realize that she had always been an artist. As a young girl growing up in Caetanópolis, a small town once known...

This neighborhood contains multitudes

August 28, 2020 at 9:41 a.m.

With a population of around 180,000 people speaking some 167 languages, or so locals like to point out, Jackson Heights in north-central Queens, although barely half the size of Central...

For David Hallberg, a swan song in pictures

August 28, 2020 at 9:30 a.m.

It was to have been a final tour, David Hallberg's swan song as a dancer, before he takes up the position of director of the Australian Ballet in January.

The suffragists fought to redefine femininity. The debate isn’t over.

August 27, 2020 at 3:45 p.m.

The idea that a woman's perceived capabilities are inextricably tied to her role as selfless caregiver is one that played a key role in the decadeslong struggle for women's right...

Mr. Smith went to Washington … With dimmers

August 27, 2020 at 3:38 p.m.

I was reading Michael Smith's chronicle of designing the Obama White House, feeling serene, marinating in a luxurious world of wine-colored swatches and embossed mohair velvet and carpet border details...

Where the produce includes pepperoni: The pizza farm

August 27, 2020 at 3:32 p.m.

Trace the route of the Mississippi River down from Minneapolis and along the Wisconsin-Iowa border. In the last two decades, dozens of farms in this region have built wood-fired ovens,...

US flood strategy shifts to ‘unavoidable’ relocation of entire neighborhoods

August 27, 2020 at 10:44 a.m.

This month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency detailed a new program, worth an initial $500 million, with billions more to come, designed to pay for large-scale relocation nationwide. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/climate/flooding-relocation-managed-retreat.html

‘2020 can go to hell’: The story behind the viral fire photo that said it all

August 27, 2020 at 10:09 a.m.

In the sprawling destruction of California's wildfires, one photo became an instant icon for 2020's miseries: On a hillside roaring with flames stood a sign that asked visitors to a...

Meet the National Parks’ ‘Ranger of the Lost Art’

August 26, 2020 at 12:18 p.m.

Doug Leen, 74, has made it his life's work to track down as many original WPA national park posters as he can, after they were scattered across the country for...

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