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Measure everything I’ve been a subscriber long enough (30+ years) to notice from the letters submitted that I’m now observing the comments from a younger generation of readers, despite the comments therein often being repeats of old themes. The price of seniority, I suppose. I’ve also been around this hobby long enough to recall some of the many hi-fi magazines that are no longer with us: Audio, Stereo Review, High Fidelity, Listener—and to have a notion as to why some of these failed. Some I sorely miss; others not. Now that we’re largely down to the “big two,” I think it’s time for Stereophile to focus on the core of its merits: measurements. The other guys appear to use only one technical tool, a thesaurus, as they pen their reviews and recommendations. Stereophile, in…

ESTRELAS MICHELIN 1/VILA JOYA O Vila Joya é uma das maiores jóias gastronómicas do Algarve. Vale a pena a experiência memorável que se vive neste restaurante com duas estrelas Michelin e que conta aos comandos com o mestre Dieter Koschina, de talento ilimitado. Diariamente, é criado um menu com produtos frescos da estação e um nível de execução técnica que deixa qualquer um sem palavras, saboreando cada minuto pela sapidez e criatividade em cada prato, pensado até ao mínimo detalhe. Situado mesmo em frente ao mar, com um serviço de excelência e uma harmonização vínica perfeita, este é um lugar encantatório que não se pode perder numa incursão ao sul. Ao jantar, a opção é o Signature Menu, com pratos pelo preço de 215 euros. O segundo restaurante, mais recente, com propostas mais…

José João Santos, diretor de conteúdos da EV-Essência do Vinho, tem a paixão da escrita, da reportagem, da formação e da prova. É ainda autor do podcast "Vinho, Palavra a Palavra". Qual lanterna que vai à frente, desde os anos 80 do século passado que o Alentejo tem iluminado muitas outras regiões do país, com tudo o que de bom e de menos positivo isso possa ter implicado. Generalizando, e todos sabemos que as generalizações são questionáveis, o Alentejo trouxe contemporaneidade aos vinhos portugueses sob diferentes prismas. Os vinhos de fruta evidente e prontidão de consumo, os vinhos com perceção de barrica mas preservação de fruta, os vinhos de apelo imediato e de conquista de novos públicos, os vinhos de combinação de castas portuguesas e internacionais foram dados a conhecer ao consumidor…

How do I grow beautiful hydrangeas year after year? —Michelle Cannon, Red Hook, N.Y. Adored for their fluffy pom-pom flowers, these plants are nature’s cheerleaders, typically thriving throughout Zones 4 to 9. But the various types require unique care for lasting impact. To ensure that yours explode with beauty every summer, heed the advice of Ryan McEnaney, communications manager at Bailey’s Nursery, in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a spokesperson for ‘Endless Summer’ hydrangeas, on snipping, soaking, and feeding them. 1. Know Your Variety Most hydrangeas fall into one of three categories: panicle (cone-shaped, like those shown), smooth (large and snowball-like), or bigleaf (bigger leaves—you guessed it—in tighter globes or more open, lacy petals). The first two bloom on new growth; the last erupts on both new and old (i.e., the prior year’s branches). 2. Prune…

In a remote tribal village in Dumarthar in the state of Jharkhand, Sapan Patralekh, the headmaster of a middle school, has come up with an innovative teaching method in a region plagued by poor connectivity. He has converted the walls of adjacent houses into blackboards, allowing 300 students to continue learning while maintaining social distance. In crowded cities, traditional mom-and-pop convenience stores and pharmacies have begun to provide contactless home delivery. Startups such as Near. Store are rolling out plug-and-play solutions to digitize traditional neighborhood convenience stores, allowing them to accept orders and payments online for groceries, medicine, and healthcare essentials, as well as making offline inventory digitally searchable by customers who live within walking or biking distance. OkCredit is using digitization to send collection notifications to customers who have delayed…

Whenever there is a notable resurgence of shoulder pads in fashion—as we have seen in several instances these past few seasons, from the Balenciaga and Saint Laurent shows last March to the Givenchy and Balmain collections at Paris Fashion Week in October—tribute must be paid to the enduring legacy of Dynasty. The ’80s prime time soap opera, in the hands of its legendary costume designer, the late Nolan Miller, epitomized everything that era stood for: decadence, wealth, and glamour. It also gave us the style icon Alexis Carrington (the role that turned Joan Collins into a Golden Globe–winning star). As Dynasty’s resident villain, she gave rise to a new breed of woman: powerful, power-hungry, and armed with a fabulous wardrobe so she could dress the part. (Miller never repeated a look…

JERED.KORFHAGE@FOURWHEELER.COM DIESEL LUBE Hot Shot’s Secret now offers LX4 Lubricity Extreme diesel fuel and gasoline lubricant. LX4 Lubricity Extreme is said to improve lubricity up to two times better than the leading top competitive brand by providing an increase in diesel fuel lubricity up to 56 percent. Developed for use in either low-lubricity ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuel or gasoline, LX4 Lubricity Extreme is said to prevent unnecessary wear and scarring of key components inside the fuel system—particularly the injectors, fuel pump, and upper cylinders. For any vehicle utilizing ULSD low-lubricity fuel, especially GM Duramax owners as well as semitrucks and farm equipment, LX4 is said to restore the fuel’s lubricity, exceeding the Engine Manufacturers Association’s recommendation for fuel lubrication. INFO: Hot Shot’s Secret, 800/341-6516, hotshotsecret.com COOLER CONSOLE Tired of rooting through the cooler…

FACE CARE SERUM „The Ritual of Namaste Bakuchiol Natural Booster“ von Rituals Was GLAMOUR-Leser:innen überzeugt: Der Blick in den Spiegel. Die Haut wirkt super-ausgeglichen und fühlt sich echt geschmeidig an. Und Bakuchiol punktet als pflanzlicher Retinol-Ersatz. DAY CARE „Ausgleichendes Tagesfluid“ von Dr. Hauschka Was GLAMOUR-Leser:innen überzeugt: Die perfekte Hilfe für Mischhaut. Die Wangen sind trocken, die T-Zone glänzt, aber dieses Fluid bringt alles ins Gleichgewicht. NIGHT CARE „Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Multi-Recovery Complex“ von Estée Lauder Was GLAMOUR-Leser:innen überzeugt: Schönere Haut im Schlaf. Das Serum steigert die natürliche Kollagen-Produktion. Morgens strahlt der Teint. ÖL „Öl Essence“ von Frei Öl Was GLAMOUR-Leser:innen überzeugt: Endlich ein Öl, das null klebt und schnell einzieht. Und es schützt durch einen Anti-Blue-Light-Effekt vor Hautalterung. AUGEN „Advanced Génifique Yeux“ von Lancôme Was GLAMOUR-Leser:innen überzeugt: Die Mixtur. Diese Augencreme ist mit einem Komplex aus sieben prä- und probiotischen Extrakten angereichert und super-sanft. MASKE „Calendula Petal-Infused Calming Mask“ von Kiehl’s Was…

“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don’t.”JOSHUA BECKER MAKE IT HAPPEN! If you feel stuck in a rut with work, relationships or even just your motivation levels, a vision board is a great way to kick-start new beginnings. Start with a large A3 piece of card or paper, and gather any photos, magazines or books you‘re happy to cut up. What does your ideal life look like? Start to piece it together – pictures of your dream home office, you when you’re most happy and confident, an advert for a job you'd love to do… anything that captures your imagination. Display it somewhere visible, or keep it next to your bed to look at regularly. As you visualise the life you want,…

GIVEN THAT heart disease is the number-one cause of death of adults in the U.S., it’s surprising, even alarming, how little people know about it. The condition kills more women each year than all cancers, including breast cancer, combined—a fact 68 percent of Americans don’t know, according to a recent Cleveland Clinic survey. About one in 16 White, Black, and Hispanic women over age 20 has it. We’re also fuzzy on preventing it: In the same survey, only 20 percent of respondents thought you should start getting your cholesterol tested in your 20s (true), while 58 percent said that popping an aspirin every day can help protect you (false). There are things you can do to fend it off, though, and they don’t involve a pill. Most incidences of cardiovascular disease—which…

Podríamos no escribir estas líneas y, en vez de eso, poner aquí bien grande la descripción que cinceló Ernest Hemingway, para qué nada más si tienes a Hemingway, en su libro Muerte en la tarde (1932): “Madrid, en cualquier caso, es un lugar extraño. No creo que a nadie le guste mucho la primera vez que lo visita. No tiene el aspecto que uno espera que vaya a tener España. No es pintoresco. Y, sin embargo, cuando la conoces, descubres que es la más española de todas las ciudades, la mejor para vivir, con la mejor gente y el mejor clima. Mientras otras ciudades representan a la perfección la provincia donde se encuentran, es decir, son andaluzas, catalanas, vascas o aragonesas, solo en Madrid logras destilar la esencia. Ahí es…

Khao Yai, a two-and-a-half hour drive north-east of Bangkok, was once seen as little more than a gateway to Thailand’s oldest and third-largest national park; a quick rest stop to fuel up on spicy som tam before four-wheel-drive safaris and rainforest treks in an 800-square-mile Eden of rushing rivers and waterfalls, shared with roaming elephants, gibbons and Asian black bears. But now a clutch of resorts is offering a reason to linger. First among them is the InterContinental Khao Yai Resort, where superstar hotel designer Bill Bensley has helped to turn a former swathe of fallow farmland into a manicured jungle of baobabs and gnarled trees dripping with ferns and tillandsia. Railcar-like rooms, spread over a trio of gingerbread-trimmed lakeside guesthouses, nod to the late 19th-century Pak Chong railway station…

The Toyota Tacoma is a great platform for an off-road rig. It is reliable, safe, capable, comfortable, durable, and aftermarket support for these trucks abounds. Many owners want to add a little lift, add larger tires, tune the suspension, and outfit their Tacos for whatever the trail may offer. Still, adding tires much larger or wider than stock can open up a can of worms when it comes to the front tires rubbing the inner fender-wells and even the rear of the front fenders. Trimming those items is something that happens with tons of 4x4s all around the world, but with the second- and third-generation Tacoma the stout and safe forward cab mounts can often get in the way. Luckily, there is a solution to get a bit more clearance from…

WHEN YOU HIT THE SACK only to find yourself awake again just a few hours later, pondering the meaning of it all, you may feel alone in the universe. But the truth is you have plenty of company. Occasional, short-term insomnia was estimated to affect an eye-opening 30 to 50 percent of the world before 2020, aka the Year That Stole Everyone’s Sleep. By July, according to a report in NeurologyToday, experts around the country were talking about “Covid-somnia,” a dramatic increase in sleep disorders spurred by the upheaval of the pandemic. Fortunately, there are simple ways to reduce that deficit and get some shut-eye. 1 WARM UP, THEN COOL DOWN Those lucky people who nod off effortlessly have something in common: “Their body temperature naturally drops a tiny bit just before…

CUT BIAS STRIPS Strips for curved appliqué pieces and binding curved edges should be cut on the bias (diagonally across the grain of a woven fabric), which runs at a 45° angle to the selvage, because it has the most stretch. To cut bias strips, begin with a fabric square or rectangle; if necessary, square up the left edge with an acrylic ruler. Make a cut at a 45° angle to the left edge (Bias Strip Diagram). Handle the diagonal edges carefully to avoid distorting the bias. To cut a strip, measure the desired width from the 45° cut edge; cut parallel to the edge. Cut enough strips to total the length needed. MAKE AND USE TEMPLATES MAKE TEMPLATES A template is a pattern made from extra-sturdy material so you can trace around it many…

The other day, Johnny Knoxville came across a relic from his past buried in a drawer at home. “I found a packet of those things at the house,” he said. “What do you call it? I can’t remember what they were called.” He paused, searching for the word. ¶ Eventually, he found it. “Yeah, the catheter,” he said. “They’re pretty sizable—about the width of a No. 2 pencil.” ¶ This sort of thing now happens to Knoxville—run-ins with the random detritus of an extraordinary career. “You’ll find arm casts, things like that,” he said. “Bunch of gauze in this drawer. Arm cast over there.” A pair of extra-long prop testicles, from his film Bad Grandpa, are mounted like a work of art in his home office. The catheters are remnants of…

“BACTERIA IN YOUR GUT PRODUCE ABOUT 90 PERCENT OF THE SEROTONIN IN YOUR BODY — THE SAME HAPPY HORMONE THAT REGULATES YOUR MOODS.” Fielding the volley of work messages became a Sisyphean task. “There’s always the overriding fear that I’m not going to come out of it, that I’m always going to feel this way,” Peters says. “That probably is the scariest thing.” Peters, 50, had read about mood probiotics, gut bacterial strains marketed to help with depression and anxiety, but never felt like they were for him. “I was very skeptical,” he says. When his wife, who was battling panic attacks, tried mood probiotics and saw her episodes diminish, he began to reconsider. After his depression symptoms returned last summer, and the Prozac he’d tried in the past had lost its…

There’s a pernicious procedure called civil asset forfeiture that Congress should have banned years ago. Using it, the government can seize your house, your car and your cash, even when you’ve done nothing wrong—i.e., you haven’t been charged with, much less convicted of, a crime. And this happens more often than you think. Since Congress hasn’t taken care of this, the Supreme Court should unambiguously rule that the process is utterly unconstitutional. Officers can just declare that they suspect the property in question was used in the commission of a crime or was obtained illegally, and they don’t have to prove their suspicions before seizing it. That’s right—no charges have to be filed. Then, incredibly, you must prove your property is clean. Recovering the assets seized from you is a laborious and expensive…

Classical Furnishings FORGED METAL LIGHTING, CURVY WOVEN CHAIRS, AND EVEN A CONCRETE FAUX TABLECLOTH TURN SUNNY ESCAPES INTO ELEGANTLY APPOINTED SALONS. WICKER’S GILDED MOMENT Architect Horace Trumbauer’s conservatory at The Elms in Newport, Rhode Island, (1901) married château-inspired grandeur with humble woven seating. Meanwhile a consortium of French statues mingles along the walls like a cadre of nymphs floating among the palms. A DREAMY CHAISE Lazy garden naps stretch right through to spring in Charlotte Moss’s East Hampton, New York, sitting room, where a pair of French jardinieres oversees a Louis XV chaise covered in her Moroccan-inspired Digby S Tent pattern for Brunschwig & Fils. Grand Urns, Pots, and Statuary FOR GALLERIES THAT MIRROR THE SIZE AND WONDER OF THE FOREST, SCALED-UP TERRA-COTTA, COPPER, AND STONE FORMS MAKE FOR AN INTRIGUING CAST OF CHARACTERS. LANDMARK SKYLIGHT Filtering chromatic light…

Can the majesty of place spur a creative awakening? How Southern-born author FRANCES SCHULTZ stepped into the scenery of California’s Santa Ynez Valley and unlocked a portal to painting, purpose, and We never know what shores are rippled by the pebbles we drop. Fourteen years ago, I said yes to a blind date in New York and wound up in California. Some pebble. Never in my wildest any-thing did I think I would live in California. On the few occasions I had visited, though, I’d get off the plane and into that warm, buttery Los Angeles light or that cool San Francisco sea breeze and I’d think, Man, all these people don’t live here for no reason. So many come from somewhere else, and now I’m one of them. California is the…

STACKING THE DECK The yacht’s name, Halekai, means “home on the sea,” an ethos Fulk took to heart in ensuring the design felt both personal and deftly functional. The claret and saffron striped hull was inspired by the palette developed for the interior. Subtle hints of gold dot the loungey, cushion-clad sundeck, “one of the great places to gather,” says Fulk. “Everyone wants to pile on.” A breezy yucca-print fabric by Holly Hunt evokes the feeling of a tranquil, floating island; the subdued neutral scheme allows the open ocean to take the stage. Pillow fabric, Christopher Farr Cloth A SUNSET TOAST Fulk wanted to create a convivial bar “to celebrate its rituals: the cocktail hour, the morning coffee.” Deep pink leather-trimmed barstools (fabric, Jessica Zoe Cobb) electrify the teak and white lacquer interior,…

Perched high behind the dunes in Baker’s Bay, Bahamas, a grande dame overlooks the Abaco Sea. The classical coralina stone–clad house is new to the island scene, but in some ways she has been brewing for centuries. With a sandy-linen facade and a loggia in the Tuscan order, she conjures visions of fabled estates throughout the archipelago and the Caribbean (Nassau’s 19th-century neoclassical governor general’s home, Oscar de la Renta’s Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic, to name a few). And like those and others that rose up before her, she comes with a name, Windsong, and a story. It began when the effervescent Bahamas-based decorator Amanda Lindroth received a call from an old friend, a bachelor she had met in his Duke undergrad days. He went on to buy a…

A Herdade da Calada tem acompanhado a história recente dos vinhos do Alentejo com passo seguro. A propriedade remonta a 1854 e os primeiros proprietários foram os descendentes do Duque de Lencastre. Atravessa todo o séc. XX, passando por melhoramentos e diferentes donos. Mas é na viragem do último milénio que começa a produção de vinho como a conhecemos. É construída a adega e os vinhos são assinados por Paulo Laureano, referência na enologia nacional. Depois, em 2007, a herdade é comprada pelo casal Penauille, Jean-Claude e Maria - ele francês, ela portuguesa. É também nesse ano que a enologia passa para Eduardo Cardeal. Maria Penauille, ou simplesmente D. Maria, recebe-nos e acompanha-nos na visita. Gosta do campo e da sua herdade. “Não é o Chateau de Versailles, mas é uma…

A genre that has been around for over a century, reportage is the act of capturing ‘happenings’ as they unfold in front of you. Because it’s a way to tell a story, those who are in the know love lenses that offer context to the shot, so you’ll see plenty of 35mm and 50mm optics pop up on our list – staples of greats such as Robert Capa and Sir Don McCullin. Photographers who trade in this style, such as photojournalists, wedding photographers and even documentarians will also often favour prime glass that gives a good mix of sharpness, discretion and wide apertures to deal with any potential dark and dingy locations. These are our ten favourite reportage optics. RF 50mm f/1.2L USM £2329 THIS 50MM IS DESIGNED FOR Canon’s EOS R mirrorless…

ES CALÓ ( FORMENTERA ) CASA PACHA En la última apertura hotelera de la isla, la panorámica es cristalina, el ritmo es pausado y la cocina rinde homenaje a la tradición pitiusa. Sentirás que te han abierto la puerta del paraíso. Camí es Arenals, km 11, tel. 871 00 51 01. Precio medio: 70 €. BARCELONA SALVAJE Después de arrasar en Miami, Madrid, Bogotá y Panamá, el rompedor concepto Salvaje llega a la Ciudad Condal dispuesto a revolucionarla con sus exóticos shows en directo, platos de cocina fusión y cócteles cargados de emoción. Enric Granados, 86, tel. 932 37 69 53. Precio medio: 60 €. JáVEA CHOLA GASTRO En un ambiente con personalidad viajera, las hermanas Gavilánez mezclan sus raíces latinas con su espíritu de chicas trotamundos. Para ello utilizan la mejor materia prima local, y por eso su causa…

¿TU PISO ES PEQUEÑO O GRANDE? • Estancias pequeñas Si lo que quieres es conseguir amplitud, el blanco es un gran aliado. También los colores fríos y claros, como el gris o el azul, que 'retroceden' las paredes. • Estancias grandes Invitan a pintar con colores intensos, como un verde oscuro. Para aligerar el ambiente, pinta una o dos paredes, el resto de un tono más claro. LA CLAVE. Para ganar amplitud, elige el mismo blanco o gris suave para el sofá y las paredes. Añade calidez con detalles en tonos tierra. ¿ENTRA MUCHA O POCA LUZ? • Habitaciones oscuras Necesitan colores luminosos que refuercen la luz. Los colores fríos y suaves, como un azul claro o un turquesa, dan mucha frescura. También puedes elegir un gris relajado o un beige. • Habitaciones luminosas El blanco…

THE ADDRESSES ALGARVE Casa Um, cerca de Tavi- ra, es una masía tradicional muy de ahora, muy de diseño. Casa Dois ocupa un antiguo almacén de pescado del puerto de Olhão, a cuya ría se asoma desde la azotea. Y Casa Trôis, la residencia de un rico comerciante de Faro. Las tres (en el futuro serán más) conforman The Addresses, una nueva marca que combina estancias en casas privadas con algo que contar -y un diseño meditado- con los servicios de un hotel y consejos personalizados de viaje. LO + Deja que Mario, el recepcionista, te organice el plan (theaddresses.com). ANGAMA SAFARI CAMP MASAI MARA Steve y Nicky Fitzgerald, propietarios del lodge Angama Mara, querían ofrecer a sus huéspedes la oportunidad de adentrarse más en la sabana, de experimentar un safari de verdad,…

Situada en un enclave privilegiado, donde el río Guadalquivir abraza al océano Atlántico frente al Parque Nacional de Doñana, Sanlúcar de Barrameda se alza como uno de los destinos top del momento. Puerta del Nuevo Mundo, de aquí partió y aquí regresó hace 500 años la expedición de Magallanes y Elcano que culminó con la vuelta al mundo, lo que convirtió a la ciudad en el centro del planeta. Su pasado glorioso se traduce en un rico patrimonio artístico y cultural, que salpica la localidad con palacios nobiliarios, casas señoriales, iglesias y conventos barrocos y exuberantes jardines de especies exóticas. El casco antiguo, en el barrio Alto, alberga la iglesia de Nuestra Señora de O, de estilo mudéjar, adosada al palacio Ducal de Medina Sidonia (también conocido como palacio de…

Where was the last place you travelled to? “I went to Ortigia in Sicily over the summer, which was really beautiful. It was my first time there. I’m food obsessed, so I did a lot of research on where to eat, and found some gorgeous places, but I also think there’s a real romanticism in just stumbling across a really nice local restaurant. Ortigia was brilliant for that – you could walk out of the hotel and immediately find delicious arancini. And I discovered an amazing fish restaurant right on the water; one evening, there were a couple of locals just playing the most beautiful music while we ate. I loved exploring the churches and cathedrals too, seeing the art inside and appreciating the architecture.” Where in the world are you happiest? “Every year…

What are portal axles and why are they so cool? That’s a great question, and one we get asked often. So, here’s a look at what makes portal axles so darn cool for off-roading. Simply put, portal axles use a series of gears and a housing mounted on each axle end or control arms next to the wheel to increase ground clearance under the axle. The design raises the centerline of the axle and axletubes or control arms, raises the differential relative to the wheel mounting surface, and pushes the wheels down relative to the differential and axletubes or control arms. It’s like free ground clearance at what is usually the vehicle’s lowest point. And, as you know from spending time on the trail, the lowest fixed point on your vehicle…

Liya Kebede Founder and creative director of Lemlem, model, and actress New York City and Paris In a Lemlem dress, you can’t help but float through summer. Whisper-light and awash in happy, sun-drenched colors, each one is hand-woven on wooden looms by African artisans, following centuries-old traditions. The brand’s founder is Ethiopian model and maternal-health advocate Liya Kebede, who rose to fame in the early aughts as the face of Tom Ford’s Gucci and the first Black spokesmodel for Estée Lauder. On a trip to her hometown of Addis Ababa around that time, she noticed a distressing drop in the demand for traditional garments, and got busy. “Weaving is a craft that has been passed through generations and holds deep cultural significance,” says Kebede, who set her mind to preserving the art,…

With a background in music and electronics, combined with a somewhat entrepreneurial tendency, Howard Alexander Dumble (who later asked to be known as Alexander) had a future in amplifier design that was almost preordained. Growing up in Bakersfield, California, Dumble sold homemade transistor radios to his school friends and built a 200-watt PA system for the local junior baseball team. As an epicentre of progressive rock and electric guitar development, California – particularly Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area – was driven by local bands including Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, The Byrds, Little Feat and Santana. After leaving school, Dumble was introduced to the luthier Semie Moseley in Santa Cruz, who was looking for someone to design an amplifier to complement his Mosrite guitar range. Dumble built 10…

1 Four-legged friends “Cuddling your pet works wonders. There is nothing I love more than snuggling up with my dog. It’s why pets are used in hospices to make people feel happy. Dogs are known as grief whisperers.“ Lisa Butcher, energy healer and therapist, lisabutcher.co.uk 2 Raise your heart rate “Endorphins are your body’s way of reacting to stress and pain. They’re also released during exercise – the best example of this would be the idea of a ‘runner’s high’. As a result, exercise has many far-reaching positive effects not solely associated with improvements in strength, posture and overall health and fitness. Reducing stress, improving self-esteem, boosting your mood and energy levels, and improving sleep are all added benefits of exercise and the endorphins it releases. Given the top priority for most of us is feeling…

MATERIALS FINISHED QUILT: 72¾×84½" Yardages and cutting instructions are based on 42" of usable fabric width. To plan this quilt in a different colorway, use the Coloring Diagram on Pattern Sheet 2. ▫ 4¾ yards total assorted prints (star units, A rows) ▫ 4⅛ yards solid white (A and B rows, binding) ▫ 5¼ yards backing fabric ▫ 81×93" batting Get the Look of Vintage Feed Sacks Re-create Touch the Stars with 1930s reproduction prints. CUT FABRICS Cut pieces in the following order. Patterns are on Pattern Sheet 2. To make templates of patterns, see Make and Use Templates, page 100. Be sure to transfer the dots to templates and fabric pieces. The dots are matching points used when setting in seams. The maker of this vintage quilt made many of the star units with just two fabrics. To do this…

BRAD PITT TRIES to remember his dreams. He keeps pen and paper on his bedside table and records everything he can recall when he wakes up in the morning. “I’ve found that to be really helpful,” he says. “I’m curious what’s going on in there when I’m not at the helm.” He tells me this one recent afternoon in the brightness of his living room, at his Craftsman home in the Hollywood Hills. For a long while, his sleep had been haunted by a particularly persistent and violent dream—the particulars of which he later describes for me in an email exchange. He writes: For a solid four or five years there, the most predominant dream I would experience would be getting jumped and stabbed. It would always be at night, in…

THERE’S A LINGUISTIC HABIT I’M HEARING a dozen times a day, and now so will you. Someone is telling a first-person story, talking about something that’s happened to them or they’ve witnessed. The action begins: I opened the door; I picked up the phone; I turned right. But then, when the story gets dramatic, the narrator is no longer the protagonist. You are. I opened the door, and you could see everyone running. I picked up the phone, and you could hear him laughing. I turned right, and you saw smoke in the distance. It is an unconscious sleight of hand, a conversational do-si-do we don’t do on purpose: We sprint away from first person and slide right into second. Survivors of school shootings tell their stories: “I ran out of the classroom,…

Look anywhere and you’ll find music. Without a single exception, every culture produces some form of it; like language, it’s a universal trait in our species, and over the millennia it has bloomed into a diverse and stunning global symphony. Yet music’s origin remains one of the great secrets of human history. The oldest known instruments are 42,000-year-old bone flutes discovered in caves in Germany. Vocal music surely predates these, but the problem, according to University of Amsterdam musicologist Henkjan Honing, “is that music doesn’t fossilize and our brains don’t fossilize.” With little hard evidence, scientists still debate what evolutionary purpose music serves. And because its purpose is obscure enough to warrant debate, some skeptics question whether it serves any purpose at all. Charles Darwin thought it did. In music, he found…

It’s been a year like no other, and we aren’t talking about the pandemic. There were rapid-fire public offerings, surging cryptocurrencies and skyrocketing stock prices. The number of billionaires simply exploded. Forbes found an unprecedented 2,755 around the world—660 more than a year ago. A staggering 86% are richer than they were then. Altogether they’re worth $13.1 trillion, up from $8 trillion in 2020; their average net worth is $4.7 billion, $900 million more than last year. The U.S. still has the most billionaires, with 724, followed by Greater China with 698. We used stock prices and exchange rates from March 5, 2021, to calculate net worths. For the full list of the world’s billionaires and our methodology, please visit forbes.com/billionaires. 1. Jeff Bezos $177 BIL ⬆ • SOURCE: AMAZON AGE: 57 •…

This autumn, forget about the chill factor. Our fall forecast: radiant, luminous, and dazzling days ahead. IT WAS, FOR A TIME, THE MOST GLAMOROUS CHICKEN COOP IN THE WORLD. Tucked off a lazy, leafy road a few miles from downtown Dallas, the stone-and-slate house where decorator Michelle Nussbaumer and her Swiss-born businessman husband, Bernard, have lived for more than 30 years at first appears a haven of symmetry and calm. Then you open the double front doors, and this gracious dwelling dissolves into a high-energy hub of color, pattern, and activity. Everywhere there are bonny pinks and reds, along with watery blues and lush greens. There is a bedroom with an orange ceiling that would put an Hermès box to shame. Then, whoosh. A trio of Great Danes scampers by. Another…

“There’s a playfulness to the game room. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, but at the same time, feels elegant.” —DESIGNER ASHLEY WHITTAKER YOU PROBABLY WOULDN’T EXPECT one of the most memorable and defining spaces of an august, 1930s neo-Georgian mansion in Connecticut to be a game room. Yet, if you ask designer Ashley Whittaker to name her favorite spaces in the Greenwich residence she decorated for longtime clients, her list starts with the intimate yet spirited spot that speaks to casually stylish good times. “There’s a playfulness to the space,” says Whittaker, noting the cozy, wool-clad banquette, chic brass drinks tables, and antique Russian cabinet with dominoes, cards, and much-used board games. “It doesn’t take itself too seriously, but at the same time, feels elegant.” The sense of balance encapsulates her…

Uma das mais talentosas e diversificadas enólogas da sua geração, Joana Pinhão ascendeu a um nível técnico impressionante num curto período de tempo, absorvendo e replicando todo o conhecimento adquirido na vasta experiência que já acumula. Com efeito, esta ribatejana de origem, que cursou agronomia no ISA, com posterior especialização em viticultura e enologia, já contabiliza passagens pelo Douro, Tejo e, mais recentemente, Trásos-Montes e Alentejo. Sem, claro, esquecer a preciosa colaboração para os vinhos Vale dos Ares, em Monção, propriedade da família do marido, Miguel Queimado. Em todo este percurso, Joana foi chamando a atenção pela consistência do trabalho desenvolvido, quer nos diversos locais por onde passou, seja nos projetos em nome próprio: no Douro, o Somnium, com o colega de curso e amigo Rui Lopes, focado na expressão…

AP picture of the week Smailholm Light Show by James Elliot Sony A7, 50mm f/1.8 lens, 1/5sec at f/5.6, ISO 400 James, a 28-year-old from the Scottish Borders, took up photography two years ago. ‘I was lucky enough to be invited along to Smailholm Tower in Scotland to photograph the light show created by Andy McGregor to celebrate 250 years of Sir Walter Scott,’ he tells us. ‘It was amazing to witness and photograph in person. To learn more about Sir Walter Scott or watch the light show, visit walterscott250.com.’ Instagram: @james.e_photo. Angela by Miguel Oliviera Nikon Z 50, Nikkor 85mm f/1.8G AF-S, 1/125sec at f/2.8, ISO 500 ‘Me and a fellow photographer and friend Angela have a routine of going out for photo walks around London every time we can’, says Miguel, a Portuguese photographer…

Entre Viseu e Tondela, na aldeia do Farminhão, um jovem casal de ascendência gaulesa adquiriu e fixou-se na Quinta da Roda da Quintã, onde produz os vinhos recentemente lançados sob a designação Vizinho Vinhateiro. Quem diria que, por trás destes vinhos, há um conceito com séculos de história, que nos remete para a Alsácia? Charlotte Hugel, parte da 13ª geração da família que se fixou na Alsácia - onde produz os seus celebérrimos vinhos desde 1639 - veio para o Dão na companhia do marido, o enólogo Paul Chevreux, que conheceu em Portugal, quando ambos trabalhavam nas caves Graham’s. Na Quinta da Roda da Quintã, localizada na aldeia de Farminhão, próxima de Viseu, instalou-se recentemente um jovem e discreto casal de origem francesa, com vista a perseguir o seu sonho de produzir…

Llegar a O Grove (Pontevedra) es como entrar en un pequeño paraíso en el que desde el primer momento te sientes bienvenido. Es un lugar cuya magia te envuelve los cinco sentidos: con el suave y constante bramido del mar de fondo, un microclima privilegiado, los colores y olores de la naturaleza salvaje abrazándote y una oferta gastronómica más que prometedora, se convierte indudablemente en el destino atemporal perfecto adonde ir a perderse o, por qué no, a encontrarse. Así lo hizo en su momento Javier Olleros, alma mater de Culler de Pau: el primer restaurante galardonado con dos estrellas Michelin en Galicia. Desembarcamos justo dos días antes de su reapertura: llevan ocho meses cerrados siguiendo las normativas sanitarias impuestas por la pandemia. Situado en la aldea de Reboredo, se trata…

KAYMANTA Kaymanta lanza su nuevo servicio Stain Blockers que sella las fibras naturales de las alfombras para protegerlas de las manchas. www.kaymanta.com SAXUN, DE VANGUARDIA El vanguardista sistema de protección solar vertical Wind Screen de Saxun mejora el confort térmico y visual de los ambientes interiores, a la vez que reduce el gasto energético. www.saxun.com LO NUEVO DE ORAC DECOR Orac Decor presenta dos nuevas colecciones cápsula de paneles 3D: Modern y Classic. En total son 7 nuevos productos en Duropolymer® diseñados para complementar modelos ya existentes. www.oracdecor.com HAVERLAND TE REFRESCA Los enfriadores portátiles de Haverland serán tus mejores aliados para luchar contra el calor. No requieren instalación, tienen un bajo consumo y no utilizan gas refrigerante. Además, tienen función antimosquitos. www.haverland.com VELAS DE BAOBAB La nueva colección Vezo de velas perfumadas de Baobab se inspira en una tribu…

I grew up in Charleston and Miami and Tampa. My idea of beauty was a giant orange and yellow grass-hopper with pastel wings that I saw when I was a little girl. I chased my cousin Artie around with it! When I moved to New York and became a model, I didn’t know anything about the industry. I got a job modeling for Christian Dior for $50 a week. Once I started working, I made myself an athlete. I uncrossed my eyes. (Dick Avedon used to look up at me from behind his camera and ask, “Are they straight yet?”) I jumped around. I worked hard. But by 1972, there weren’t many of us models left. All the big girls like Veruschka, Twiggy, and Jean Shrimpton had basically split. I wish…

Recommendation Engines, by Michael Schrage, MIT Press, 2020 I don’t set much store by the endless stream of recommendations offered by Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, and most other online businesses. Occasionally, a book, flick, or song pops up that delights me, but most of the suggestions I get either miss the mark or appear suspiciously advantageous to recommendation engine operators and their advertisers. Michael Schrage, visiting fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Initiative on the Digital Economy and s+b contributor, awakens us to the potential of delightful discovery in his latest book, Recommendation Engines. “Recommendation inspires innovation: that serendipitous suggestion — that surprise — not only changes how you see the world, it transforms how you see — and understand — yourself. Successful recommenders promote discovery of the world and one’s self,”…

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, meaningful work was already high on the management agenda. Employees were exhorted to find their “calling”; leaders, their “why”; organizations, their “true north.” There were good reasons for this: Studies have shown that high levels of meaning and purpose lead to improved engagement, productivity, and innovation.1 But the pandemic has raised the stakes even higher. It has caused many of us to pause and reevaluate the role work plays in our lives and what truly matters to us. Employers who can’t offer meaningful work risk demotivating or losing valued employees — the very people needed to drive organizational growth and renewal. Faced with this challenge, managers may be tempted to amplify internal messaging around corporate purpose. While purpose beyond profit is vital for a host of environmental, social,…

How to Survive: Self-Reliance in Extreme Circumstances, by John Hudson, Countryman Press, 2021 If you think meetings are bad, try getting lost in remotest Australia and rigging up floats from aircraft parts to ride down a crocodile-infested river to safety. Or staying alive in the jungles of Southeast Asia for three and a half years while enemy troops endeavor to hunt you down. The most compelling parts of How to Survive: Self-Reliance in Extreme Circumstances are about just such astonishing feats of stamina and ingenuity, the sort of resourcefulness that has enabled humans to withstand adverse conditions for remarkable periods of time. Salvador Alvarenga, for example, the world’s longest documented survivor at sea, “spent 438 days drifting across the Pacific Ocean when his fishing trip from Mexico went wrong in 2012.” Yet the takeaways…

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ELLEGOURMET Tendencias A TODO GAS El clásico Fiat 500 se transforma en un frigorífico de bebidas para darle un toque retro a tus fiestas en el jardín. Las cervezas estarán bien frías, los invitados alucinados y todo irá sobre ruedas (shop.smeg.es, 11.000 €). ENTRE PARRAS La evasión perfecta se encuentra en el Alentejo portugués.Además de ofrecer habitaciones de ensueño, el Relais & Châteaux Herdade da Malhadinha Nova suma experiencias gourmet irrepetibles entre viñedos. Los picnics son puro hedonismo (malhadinhanova.pt). FROZEN CHEESE Comté, Queixo do País, Olavidia, Stilton e Idiazabal ahora también son nombres de helados. Sorprende a tus invitados con esta nueva selección de sabores de Formaje ideal para crear la tabla de quesos más singular y refrescante (formaje.com, 14,95 €). ANFITRIONA DELUXE La última alianza para recibir en casa con estilo surge de la amistad que tienen…

AMONG ROLEX’S 2022 releases, the uncontested headline grabber was the southpaw, crown-at-nine GMT-Master II with the black-and-green bezel—the Sprite or Riddler, if you’re into nicknames. Moving the crown to the opposite side of the dial, which makes it more comfortable for wearing on the left wrist, delivered the sort of stunt Rolex that geeks love, and offered a chance for obsessives to post pictures of other left-handed Rolexes of the past. As a seasonal trophy watch it’s a slam dunk, but my curiosity was instead piqued by a reissue that was defined by more subtle modifications. I’ve been thinking about the relaunch of a historic and perplexing Rolex—the Air-King. The latest Air-King is an homage to the golden age of aviation during the 1930s, according to Rolex, with large numbers and…

The resulting mural greets visitors to the Mazmanian Lab today. A vaguely psychedelic, 40-foot-long, tube-shaped colon that’s pink, purple and red snakes down the hallway. In a panel next to it, fluorescent yellow and green bacteria explode out of a deeply inflamed section of the intestinal tract, like radioactive lava from outer space. The mural is modest compared with what the scientist has been working on since. Over the last decade or so, Mazmanian has been a leading proponent of the idea that the flora of the human digestive tract has a far more powerful effect on the human body and mind than we thought — a scientific effort that earned him a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant” in 2012. Since then, Mazmanian and a small but growing cadre of fellow…

No group has benefited from the white-hot market more than the 20 richest Americans. Eight of them are now worth $100 billion or more, up from just two a year ago and none in 2017. One boasts a fortune of more than $200 billion. The combined net worth of this elite echelon is up an unprecedented $500 billion over the last year, to $1.8 trillion—a figure greater than the GDP of Canada. Admission to the top 20 now requires a fortune of $36 billion, the most ever, to qualify. 1. JEFF BEZOS $201 billion SELF-MADE SCORE: SOURCE: Amazon AGE: 57 RESIDENCE: Seattle, WA PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Bezos stepped down as CEO of Amazon in July—and promptly launched himself into space, spending ten minutes outside the atmosphere aboard his company Blue Origin’s first manned spaceflight. His net worth also reached…

THE FIRST TIME I WALKED IN, I felt at home, as if I was always meant to decorate this house. I love old houses—I grew up in one built in the 1830s, which is old, but not as old as the Nelson-Galt House, circa 1695. I pinch myself that this is where my husband and I get to live for two years, thanks to the incredible opportunity to serve as the WILLIAMSBURG Designer in Residence. Being invited, and trusted, to reimagine and decorate one of the nation’s oldest frame homes is truly the coolest project I’ve ever been part of, especially because it’s been a family affair. I grew up not far from here in Martinsville, Virginia. My 87-year-old father apprenticed at Williamsburg just before college and once built me a…

Conversation’s Regal Return “THIS IS A CELEBRATION of the dining room,” says New York–based designer Corey Damen Jenkins. “In here, it’s all about putting down the cell phone and enjoying great, memorable conversations.” He feted the resurgence by charting tented rooms from Napoleon I through Mario Buatta, then adding his own “Cirque du Soleil meets Met Gala couture” spin with almost 240 yards of sapphire-toned fabric (tented by French Finish). Along with being an acoustic win for lively dinner parties, “the canopy is the wow factor,” says the designer, who opted for two round quartz tables for more intimate gatherings—or, of course, afternoon study hall. A Wondrous Welcome IN THE HANDS of a Dallas landscape designer with a cool command of architecture and a classics-leaning interior designer, an escalating continuum escorts visitors from…