Spirit Airlines was once a potent force in the U.S. aviation industry. Its demise will reveal how strong that influence had been in recent years when air travel had already begun moving away from the low-fare model that Spirit pioneered. The airline’s shutdown on Saturday after years of financial troubles resulted in the loss of…
Arms soaring, curls flopping, baton flashing, the celebrated conductor Gustavo Dudamel commanded the stage for around 90 minutes on Tuesday night inside David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center for the New York Philharmonic’s annual spring gala. “For me, it’s an honor, it’s a privilege, it’s a pleasure,” he said in the hall’s Grand Promenade after…
What does Britain’s royal couple bring to a potluck? On Thursday, King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived at a block party in Front Royal, Va., with coronation quiche (a spinach, broad bean and tarragon quiche created for the king), some Victoria sponge (known in country as the queen of cakes) and honey from the…
For many New Yorkers, popping from the Financial District midday to Harlem in the afternoon to an evening out in Midtown would be a lot. When you’re British royalty making your first trip to the United States as heads of state, it’s protocol. King Charles III and Queen Camilla capped their whirlwind trip to New…
King Charles III of Britain fed chickens in Harlem. His wife, Queen Camilla, visited with Winnie-the-Pooh at the New York Public Library. In the morning, the royal couple laid a bouquet at the Sept. 11 memorial, and by evening, they were hobnobbing with the city’s cultural and artistic elite at Rockefeller Center. After a day…
Hours before greeting King Charles III in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was asked about the royal visit during a news conference in the Bronx. The mayor quickly distanced himself, saying that he would be attending a ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum “alongside a number of other elected officials” and that…
The Queen of England, Camilla, stopped by the New York Public Library on Wednesday to pay a special visit to a small, carefully preserved stuffed animal that the library’s president and chief executive, Anthony Marx, called “the world’s most famous teddy bear.” That would be Winnie-the-Pooh, a toy bought from Harrods department store in the…
About 150 people gathered in Manhattan on a recent evening for the debut of Steak Zine, a special issue of the food-focused literary journal Cake Zine. The cover, designed to resemble a perfectly marbled cut of beef, was red meat for the people in the crowd, who had paid $20 apiece to pack into Funny…
