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I HAVE ONE SIBLING, A BROTHER NAMED DONNY. Because he’s seven years older, our childhood worlds rarely overlapped. When he was a high school senior, preoccupied with girls and Guns N’ Roses, I was in the fourth grade, building Lego pirate ships and mastering Super Mario Bros. 2. I was the good student; I liked school and got mostly A’s. Donny was the music guy, the fashion guy, the car guy. He drove an orange ’74 MG. The one time he helped me with homework, I was sixteen and reading The Great Gatsby. My American Lit teacher had assigned us a short paper on a Jazz Age–related topic of our choosing. The topic Donny suggested: the martini. You might say I was Donny’s student. He taught me to drive stick. Made me…

I KNEW I’D RELIED on the same weeknight supper rotation for too long when my then 6-year-old turned to me mid-bite—a look of mild disgust in his eyes—and said, “Mommy, I’m done eating pasta.” He paused, then added: “Forever.” How did I get to a place where one of the most popular and plainest dishes gets cut from my child’s “approved foods” list? My interest in cooking has always ebbed and flowed; I go through bursts of intense weekend meal prep and weeknight pot stirring, followed by longer stretches of improvising with peanut-butter sandwiches, cereal, scrambled eggs, and takeout. My home-chef instincts were at an all-time high when my older son started solids. I made fruit and vegetable purees, combined them in distinct flavor profiles, froze them into cubes, and created a meal…

HOW-TO Leaf Candlestick SUPPLIES Template (download at marthastewart.com/leaftemplate)Copper-foil sheet, 36 gaugeStylus or blunt pencilMetal shearsCopper wire, 24 gaugeCandlestick and candle 1. Lay template on copper sheet, and trace outline of leaves with stylus, fitting as many small and medium-size leaves as possible. Holding shears steady, move copper around to cut out shapes. Make sure to keep stems long. 2. Unfurl a piece of copper wire long enough to fit all the leaves, and place first stem at the beginning. Fold wire back ¼ inch to fasten, then tightly wrap metal around wire. Slightly overlap next leaf, and continue, alternating sizes, until all leaves are attached. Cut wire and drape garland around candle base. THE DETAILS: St. Louis Crafts Art Metal foil sheets, 36 gauge, $17 for 12; and copper wire, 24 gauge, $4 for 100 feet,…

TIPS AND TRICKS TO HELP YOU TRAVEL SMARTER “IN RETROSPECT,” says Melany Robinson, “the pricing was too good to be true.” Robinson, a hospitality publicist and seasoned traveler who lives in Birmingham, Alabama, was surfing Craigslist in the summer of 2020, looking for a ski-season rental in Park City, Utah. She came across a five-bedroom, five-bath chalet with panoramic views, a wood-burning fireplace, and an outdoor deck complete with a hot tub. It looked perfect for her family and was available for her dates in February and March of this year. Robinson e-mailed the contact listed and quickly heard back from someone calling himself Thomas. Using public records, she matched that name with the property’s deed holder and began discussing rental terms. Thomas promptly answered all her questions, and, in July, she…

IT WAS THE EARLY DAYS of the pandemic when Lauren Malloy’s father, a Vermont physician, called his daughter in California to urge her and her husband, Keith, to stock up on supplies. “Like any loving dad, he was worried about us,” says Lauren, who had just given birth to the couple’s third child, Clay. “I said, ‘Dad, remember where we live? We’re better prepared than most!’” Indeed, the Malloys, who call four acres in bucolic Santa Barbara County home, were already remarkably self-sufficient. They had a cow (and therefore fresh milk on tap), chickens (for eggs and the occasional roaster), pigs (more meat), and a vegetable garden teeming with kale, cabbages, herbs, and much more. And in the kitchen, Lauren even had a soon-to-be-coveted quarantine staple: a trusty sourdough starter. “If…

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at the beginning of 2021, analysts predicted we’d be ending the year with a period of exuberance, glamour and frivolity akin to the last century’s Roaring Twenties. Those post-war years were defined by hedonism, pleasure and a keenness to celebrate life. Youth culture demanded new experiences, and the combination of women’s right to vote, the flourishing Jazz Age and technological advances certainly provided them. It marked the arrival of the independent, liberated flapper girls and the modern cosmetic industry as a new means of self-expression. Whether we’re on the verge of such a moment continues to be debated, but there is certainly optimism to be found in beauty’s current mood. Having pared back our make-up routines for the past year, this season’s collections are bright and bold, inspiring a painterly approach. Driven…

AR & VR AUGMENTED JOB TRAINING Magic Leap 2 Magic Leap sees a big future for augmented reality (AR) in workplaces. With this new headset, which can overlay 3D images and text on a user’s surroundings, the company is focused on employers in health care, manufacturing, retail, and other sectors. Home-improvement giant Lowe’s has begun outfitting workers with Magic Leap 2 so they can see what a store shelf should look like and then tweak displays. Manufacturers are using it to speed up training of technicians on factory floors. Fifty percent smaller than its predecessor, the headset offers a wider field of view and crisper image resolution. New “dynamic dimming” technology blocks distracting light to create an immersive work environment. Magic Leap’s open developer platform lets its customers create custom AR solutions to…

IT’S A SPRING EVENING IN ARKANSAS, AND JOANNA Brandt just closed down her boutique. She and her son Dylan, a 15-year-old with a thatch of floppy blond hair, are tired. It’s not the pandemic; Joanna has actually enjoyed remote-schooling her two kids. And it’s not the management of Dylan’s weekly hormone-therapy treatments, injections he has learned to administer himself over the past eight months. No, it’s that they—like most of the U.S.’s transgender community and its advocates—are tired because in recent months, Arkansas and a growing number of other states have been stripping trans youth like Dylan of their rights. “The one thing that is helping me become who I want to be and has made me as happy as I am and as confident as I am—they’re taking that…

“I’M A TOUCHER AND FLIRTER, AND I DON’T CARE who you are,” says Maggie Duckworth. “I will talk to a log.” Before the arrival of COVID-19, Duckworth had a pretty sweet life. An events coordinator for a waste-management company in Chattanooga, Tenn., she traveled frequently for work and for fun. She had a large group of friends, a loving family she could visit in Atlanta and a cool apartment all to herself. In December 2019, Duckworth, 43, was on a date when she snapped her Achilles’ heel. She was told to keep off her foot and had to be confined to her home while it healed. Just as she was ready to go out again, the pandemic hit. (However long the stay-at-home restrictions have been for you, they have been about…

A POLITICIZED RIFT IN THE AMERICAN Catholic Church has widened in June, as U.S. bishops voted to draft instructions to the faithful on who should receive Communion—with an eye toward dissuading high-profile Catholics who support abortion policies and gay rights, like Joe Biden, from presenting themselves for the ritual. According to a church official, many bishops had been concerned about the confusion such an apparent conflict could otherwise cause among Catholics. Biden regularly attends Mass and takes Communion at St. Joseph on the Brandywine near his home in Wilmington, Del., and at Holy Trinity in Georgetown, two miles from the White House. He has long turned to his faith for solace, close friends say—in particular during times of trial or personal tragedy. But how the President practices is “personal,” White House…

LIFE IS A JOURNEY. In the past few weeks, my journey took an unexpected path but one that has taught me so much and helped me grow. I learned a couple of key lessons. Lesson one: you can never please everyone. The world is as divided now as I can remember in my short 23 years. Issues that are so obvious to me at face value, like wearing a mask in a pandemic or kneeling to show support for antiracism, are ferociously contested. I mean, wow. So, when I said I needed to miss French Open press conferences to take care of myself mentally, I should have been prepared for what unfolded. Lesson two was perhaps more enriching. It has become apparent to me that literally everyone either suffers from issues related…

Michael Ashton, who styles himself “Inflation Guy” on Twitter, has been preparing for this moment for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, he was a derivatives trader at Barclays Capital in New York when he was tapped to build a business around inflation swaps, contracts that let traders bet on a rise in consumer prices. Ashton says he was a “good enough” trader—the real job was to build a market by being “an evangelist for the product.” He became one even though, until recently, he expected inflation to be low and stable. Correctly so: In recent years, the U.S. consumer price index has often grown by less than 2% annually. Ashton says his measured outlook irritated his bosses at Barclays, who viewed it as an impediment to drumming up business.…

Greg Bunnell has played fantasy football since he was a teenager. So when Indiana legalized sports betting two years ago, the 39-year-old project manager seamlessly switched from plotting his next player transfer to setting himself up to bet—all within the FanDuel app. Bunnell, who says he plans to wager as much as $100 a weekend, is one of a record 45 million Americans expected to legally bet on professional football this season, a 36% increase from last year. Thirty states are set to allow such wagering by the Super Bowl’s coin toss in February, following a U.S. Supreme Court decision three years ago to strike down a federal ban on sports betting. FanDuel Group Inc. has emerged as the top business in this new market, nabbing a 42% share of U.S.…

Before police Sergeant Alice White assigns officers to work off duty at the East Lake Street Target store in South Minneapolis, they get what Target calls values training. Included are specific instructions for greeting customers with a smile and a friendly hello. It’s an unusual script for Minneapolis cops, who are known for adopting a more intimidating posture. That’s certainly been the case at some Targets. But in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 by a Minneapolis policeman, Target Corp. is trying to recalibrate. The 127,000-square-foot store on East Lake Street sits about 2 miles from the corner where Floyd was killed, and it was among the first buildings ransacked after the murder sparked an uprising across Minneapolis. The scene that night is etched in the…

The French like to say they are ungovernable, invoking Charles de Gaulle’s exasperated (and likely apocryphal) comment about the difficulty of managing a country with 246 different cheeses. Emmanuel Macron, too, has called the French obstinately opposed to change. Both presidents, former and current, might appear to be right given the images of the Bordeaux City Hall gate that was torched on March 23 or the cancellation of King Charles III’s visit over worries about violent protests coinciding with his stay in Paris. In truth, the French aren’t more averse to change than most. But when they contest a particular policy such as Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64, opponents have only one way to really make a difference, which is to head to the streets. And unfortunately, one…

Horacio Gutierrez made his name in U.S. corporate law two decades ago defending Microsoft Corp. against charges of anticompetitive behavior in the first major antitrust case of the internet age. As the tech industry is once again dominated by talk of monopolies, Gutierrez, now Spotify Technology SA’s chief legal officer, has switched sides. For the past five years he’s led Spotify’s campaign against Apple Inc., one of a series of antitrust actions with the potential to make an even greater impact than the Microsoft litigation. While the shift in public opinion about the tech industry in recent years has been stunning by any measure, the change in the perception of Apple may be the most improbable. When Gutierrez started accusing the company of anticompetitive behavior in 2016, many public officials had…

Although Switzerland reigns supreme in watchmaking, that hasn’t always been the case. “In the 17th and 18th centuries, pretty much every concept that you find in a modern Swiss watch was developed primarily in England,” says watchmaker Robert Loomes, chairman of the British Horological Institute. Even the Swiss lever escapement—which makes the ticking sound in mechanical watches and clocks—isn’t Swiss: It was created in London around 1750 by Thomas Mudge. “There were some extraordinary watchmakers who rivaled the likes of Patek Philippe,” Loomes says. “Firms like Players of Coventry made the most extraordinary, complicated, beautiful, and expensive watches.” So what happened to British watchmaking? World War I and II. Timepiece makers joined the army, and many studios were bombed during the Blitz. “When those workshops were destroyed in the Second World War, very…

When Kenya opened the Olkaria power plant four decades ago, it was considered more research project than commercial venture. Located in Hell’s Gate National Park, a barren zone of volcanic rock permeated by sulfurous gases and populated mostly by warthogs and zebras, the facility generated electricity using steam rising from deep in the ground. The untested and costly geothermal technology was at best experimental, with the first unit expected to supply power for perhaps 10,000 homes. Today, Olkaria generates more than 50 times that, and the technology is on track to become the backbone of the country’s electricity grid. “Our strategy going forward is geothermal,” says Rebecca Miano, chief executive officer of the state-owned Kenya Electricity Generating Co., or KenGen. For decades, Kenya and surrounding countries focused on hydroelectric power and…

1 Luminosas AL CAER LA NOCHE O AL EMPEZAR EL DÍA. CAMBIAMOS LAS LUCES BLANCAS POR UNA COMBINACIÓN FLEXIBLE, REGULADA Y CÁLIDA EN TODA LA ESTANCIA. FAMILIARES Acostumbrados a analizar los rituales de sus clientes para ofrecerles soluciones personalizadas al máximo, el estudio valenciano PSD recomienda iluminar de forma ambiental en lugar de añadir puntos directos de luz. Para el estudio de interiorismo The Room Studio, “las cocinas deben ser vividas y emocionales y con una puesta en escena lumínica de integración total”. Con una mirada más íntima, las nuevas propuestas de Doimo Cucine, como los muebles bajos Aspen o la barra Tecnolam Noce Cannella, también se suman a esta tendencia de buscar la calidez. DOIMOCUCINE.COM/ES STUDIO-PSD.COM THEROOM-STUDIO.COM 2 coIoridas LA GAMA TONAL ABANDONA LOS NEUTROS Y REBOSA VIDA CON COLORES INTENSOS, APASIONADOS Y ECOLÓGICOS. ATREVIDAS Nada…

It’s Crunch Time If presentation is what it takes to get kids psyched about vegetables, then this idea is a game changer (so to speak). After all, carrots are much cooler when they’re pulled from a Jenga-like tower rather than fished out of a baggie. Celery and carrots (we used orange and yellow varieties of the latter) are a natural choice, but you can level up the competition with parsnips, large radishes, or jicama. Just cut the veggies into equal-size blocks and trim their curved sides so they lie flat—you’ll need 30 to build a ten-story tower. Pro tip from Rachel Faucett, generator of this idea (and others in The Handmade Charlotte Playbook): Cut more than you think you’ll need. As kids pull sticks, they’re likely to nibble along the way…

IF YOU’VE been feeling as if the world is on fire, you’re right. It was, literally, for a while: As if a pandemic, a recession, a racial reckoning, and a contentious election weren’t enough, 7.7 million acres of land and thousands of homes burned in the wildfires that swallowed the West. We’ve lost so much in the last year. Loved ones. Time. Sanity. And jobs. Last year, my friends and colleagues, suddenly separated from their lives at work, joked that they missed wearing heels and pants that weren’t sweats. But beneath the jokes was something else: grief. “Grief is loss of your present, of your perceived future,” says Rebecca Soffer, cofounder of the Modern Loss community. “You feel untethered.” Working women have been gravely impacted by the events of the last year—more…

Jessica de Ruiter„Ein Kind stellt alles Gewohnte auf den Kopf – mit dem Renovieren sollte man da eigentlich lieber etwas warten.“ Jed Lind„Wenige gute Dinge – das macht einen gelungenen Raum aus.“ Die Männer tragen hier, in den Hügeln von Silver Lake, wilde Bärte, die Frauen sehen ein bisschen aus wie Françoise Hardy oder Miranda July. Man fotografiert nach wie vor Avocado-Toast auf handgefertigten Keramiktellern und bringt die Kinder morgens zu Fuß in die Schule. Die Gentrifizierung hat eingeschlagen im Osten von Los Angeles, und doch ist das entspannte Viertel Meilen entfernt von McMansion-Supersize-Konsum und dem gefälligen Bling des Hollywood-Nightlife. „Wir mögen den Abstand vom Wahnsinn der Stadt“, sagt Jessica de Ruiter, „und wir haben hier interessante Nachbarn. Man fühlt sich miteinander verbunden, was auch für unsere Tochter James schön ist.“ Gemeinsam…

THE MOOD ANYTHING GOES ONCE THE SUN IS OUT, SO HAVE FUN CLASHING PRINTS AND MAXING OUT ON YOUR ACCESSORIES THE KEY PIECE A GLITTERING JEWEL-TONED TOP ADDS AN ELEMENT OF GLAM TO POOLSIDE PATTERNS THE KEY PIECE YOU CAN’T GO WRONG WITH A ROOMY BASKET BAG – ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES DIPPED IN WARM SUNSET SHADES THE ACCENTS TAKE A MORE-IS-MORE APPROACH TO YOUR LAYERING BY STACKING ACID-BRIGHT COLOURS AND UPBEAT PATTERNS THE STAPLE THEY’RE NOT JUST FOR FESTIVAL SEASON – PATTERNED BUCKET HATS LOOK JUST AS GOOD ON THE BEACH THE PALETTTE THE SHADES OF SUMMER? A PALETTE OF JUICY CITRUS TONES – ZESTY ORANGE, BOLD GRAPEFRUIT, THE LIST GOES ON THE KEY PIECE WORN OVER A BIKINI, AN ORNATE CROP TOP TAKES YOU FROM SUN-WORSHIP TO SUNDOWNERS IN A MATTER OF SECONDS THE TIP LEAVE MINIMALISM ON THE SHORE AND GO BOLD…

BOO GEORGE The Irish photographer began snapping at a very young age, after his father gifted him a camera. He cut his teeth spending nine months in the North Sea, taking pictures of fisherman and won ‘The Shot’, a global photography talent search in 2013, after which he turned his lens on innumerable celebrities such as Emma Watson and Sienna Miller. This month, he shoots Keira Knightley for his first Bazaar UK cover. What does family mean to you? ‘I love them all, my mother and wife especially. I speak on the phone to my mum every day; wife not so much…’ The one piece of advice you would give your children ‘Work hard, play harder, but save for a rainy day.’ You know it’s summer when… ‘you launch the boat for dropping lobster…

This year, our annual list of best Inventions includes more innovations in sustainability than ever before. Among them is SCC55, a material that significantly enhances silicon-lithium battery performance. It’s made by Group14, whose CEO, Rick Luebbe (below), spoke about boosting green ingenuity with Barun Singh, CTO of TIME CO2, a new platform to help businesses get to net zero. Read more on time.com Singh: Group14 is slated to make batteries for Porsche EVs, and you just got a $100 million grant from the Department of Energy, but many products don’t get that far. What do we need to do to support the green-innovation ecosystem? Luebbe: The struggle is getting from idea to commercialization. There are two chasms. One: you need to have data to get first seed investments, and you need funding…

EXPERTS PREDICTED, FROM THE START, THAT THE pandemic would end with a whimper, not a bang. That is, COVID-19 won’t so much disappear as fade into the background, becoming like the many other common infectious diseases that sicken people, but also can be controlled with vaccines and drugs. “This can become a livable pathogen where it’s there, it circulates, you’re going to hear on the evening news about outbreaks in a dorm or a movie theater, but people go about their normal lives,” former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb predicted in an April 2020 interview with TIME. For a while, it felt like the U.S. was closing in on that point. Highly effective vaccines made their way into millions of arms. The U.S. Centers for Disease…

VACCINATED AMERICANS WILL BE ABLE TO visit Europe this summer, after E.U. leaders agreed to open the bloc’s borders to foreign tourists on May 18. Although the E.U. hasn’t set an exact date for the reopening, the news is a boon for the air-travel industry, which suffered plunging revenues due to COVID-19 restrictions. Bookings for highly lucrative transatlantic routes have surged, and executives are enthusiastically touting the concept of “revenge travel,” predicting passengers will fly more than usual in 2021 to make up for months of being grounded. But revenge on the virus comes at a cost for the climate. The pandemic succeeded at something policymakers and campaigners have been powerless to do: ending decades of almost uninterrupted rapid growth in aviation’s carbon dioxide emissions, which fell by a record 48%…

EVER SINCE THE DEADLY COLLAPSE OF A CONDO tower in Surfside, Fla., residents of Miami’s waterfront have found themselves looking up more often. Cracks in garage ceilings, corroded rebar in concrete columns and signs of saltwater seepage after bad weather—not uncommon features of older seaside buildings in this part of the state—are being viewed with new and wary eyes. They’ve been documented on social media, distributed on group chats and shared in unnerved emails to building managers and inspectors. The June 24 collapse of the 13-story Champlain Towers South building, just north of Miami Beach, has not only left 46 people confirmed dead and more than 94 still missing as of July 7. It has also shaken Miami residents who had grown used to natural disasters and regular warnings that they…

After the May through November rush of wedding season, December arrives like a sigh at Cornman Farms, a private event center in southeast Michigan. Snow kisses the rooflines of a cheerful red barn and stately 1834 farmhouse, trimmed in white lights and puffing wood smoke. A flock of geese mills about the naked trees, and a few horses graze nearby. Even in the winter pause, though, Cornman’s founder and executive chef Kieron Hales keeps busy. Preparing for catered holiday parties, he bustles around the kitchen in suspenders, a bow tie hanging loose around his neck. As he dresses a plate with supple leeks and extra-crispy potatoes, he stops to hand over a spoonful of whatever’s on his stovetop for a taste. “You know how they say, ‘Kill people with kindness?’” he…

Since she got her learner’s permit at age 16, Clarise King-Green had driven just about every vehicle imaginable: cars, vans, minibuses, box trucks. But like most women in transportation, she’d never gotten behind the wheel of a freight truck. That changed last summer when the Philadelphia resident, 50, enrolled in a state-sponsored program that helps aspiring drivers pay for commercial-trucking school, where tuition costs as much as $7,000 for a multiweek course. It’s a line of work she’d briefly considered decades ago, but finding someone to care for her young daughters during nights spent on the road put her off. Now that they’re older, King-Green decided it was time. “People that know me well say driving is in my blood, so it wasn’t intimidating. It was exciting, really,” she says about her…

General Electric Co. for decades was known as much for producing elite managers as it was for the lightbulbs, power equipment, and home appliances that wore its logo over the years. When leaders departed—often for the top job at other large companies—GE could tap its deep bench of executives honed at its famed management training institute, which former Chief Executive Officer Jack Welch once called the “greatest people factory in the world.” The company’s jargon-filled training program, taught at its Crotonville, N.Y., campus on the Hudson River, was even parodied in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock by Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin, back when GE controlled the network. For generations of recruiters, experienced GE leaders were some of the most sought-after executives anywhere, with alums going on to helm a who’s…

Chorizo-and-Mustard-Greens Tacos 1 tablespoon thinly sliced garlic (from 2 cloves)3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided1 bunch mustard greens, stemmed and roughly chopped (6 cups)Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper12 ounces Mexican chorizo, casings removed½ cup finely chopped white onion, divided¼ cup finely chopped fresh cilantro stems, plus ¼ cup chopped leaves¼ cup salsa verde, such as Frontera, plus more for serving12 6-inch corn tortillasSour cream and sliced pickled jalapeños, for serving 1. In a large skillet, cook garlic in 1 tablespoon oil over medium-high heat until sizzling. Add greens; season with salt and cook until just wilted. Transfer to a plate. Add remaining 2 tablespoons oil, chorizo, ¼ cup onion, and cilantro stems to skillet; season with salt and pepper. Cook, breaking up chorizo with the back of a spoon, until cooked…

Street Cred Make your birthday kid’s eyes light up even before they see what’s inside the box. Start by packaging the gift in solid-colored paper. Then crisscross two strips of black chalkboard tape or duct tape around the present to make it look like two intersecting roads. Draw lanes with a white-paint pen, and pop a car or two on top (keep them in place with a bit of heavy-duty double-sided tape). Now you’ve got something wheely cool for the younger set. / IF YOU ASK ME / “How young is too young—and how old is too old—to trick-or-treat?”Three parents, no wrong answers “Too old? Easy. Thirteen. Thirteen-year-olds can dress up. Celebrate. Have a little backyard party. But when I see a teenager dressed up next to a 6-year-old at my door, both asking…

IN 2013, WHEN I WAS A REPORTER FOR THE magazine Ad Age, I had occasion to interview David Granger, who at the time was three quarters of the way into his nineteen-year tenure as Esquire’s editor in chief. He characterized the feature stories on which Esquire built its reputation—deeply reported, vibrantly written, wholly immersive—as “big acts of storytelling.” The phrase has stuck with me, and today I use it frequently when talking about Esquire articles, past and present, because big acts of storytelling have been part of the magazine since its inception. Our first issue, published in September 1933, opened with a page called “Backstage with Esquire,” our take on the contributors’ page. The column contained a note about big-act storyteller Ernest Hemingway’s contribution: “For those of you who have waistlines,…

1. Peter Jackson • $580 mil The Lord of the Rings director became a billionaire in November when he sold part of his visual-effects firm, Weta Digital, to Unity Software for $1.6 billion, about 40% of it in cash. 2. Bruce Springsteen • $435 mil (See story, page 15.) 3. Jay-Z • $340 mil The hip-hop mogul cashed out stakes in music streamer Tidal and the Armand de Brignac champagne brand. 4. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson • $270 mil About 25% of his earnings came from starring roles in films like Jungle Cruise and Red Notice; most of the rest came from his buzzy tequila brand, Teremana. 5. Kanye West • $235 mil He earns most of his money from a multiyear deal to design Yeezy sneakers for Adidas. A jacket and hoodie designed for the Gap arrived last…

‘IT’S A REFRESHING REMINDER THAT love is possible,’ says Nabhaan Rizwan of The Last Letter from Your Lover, his first major leading role. Adapted from Jojo Moyes’ novel, it follows two stories in different eras: a heady 1960s French Riviera romance, and an innocent affair in contemporary London. Rizwan plays Rory, a newspaper archivist who, along with journalist Ellie – played by Felicity Jones – finds a cache of heartaching letters sent between two lovers in the 1960s (Big Little Lies’ Shailene Woodley and Fantastic Beasts’ Callum Turner). Though decades apart, their stories slowly become entwined. ‘Previously, when I’ve watched this genre, it’s perpetuated archaic gender roles and [that] takes me out of the film. It’s a distraction,’ says 24-year-old Rizwan. ‘But this script was different.’ Yes, there’s the obligatory (and…

’I’ve always been incredibly drawn to family businesses,’ says Gigi Ettedgui. It’s no wonder – she herself was born into one of the most influential families in fashion. Her mother Isabel is the creative director and owner of the British lifestyle brand Connolly, and her late father was the designer and retailer Joseph Ettedgui, known for introducing brands including Kenzo and Yohji Yamamoto to the UK, as well as championing young British talent such as Margaret Howell and Alexander McQueen. ‘One of my earliest memories is sitting on the floor of Azzedine Alaïa’s atelier, playing with tin toy cars he had given me, when I was about five years old,’ says Gigi, who was a regular visitor to designer showrooms as a child. ‘Azzedine was doing a fitting, and I…

DAS PROJEKT Standort Medemblik, Nordholland Bewohner Kim Wiebring und Richard Pronk Bauweise denkmalgeschützter Klinkerbau Baujahr 1650 Umbau 2020 Umbauzeit 6 Monate Wohnfläche ca. 150 m2 plus Souterrain Grundstück ca. 150 m2 BAUEN & UMBAUEN SPECIAL Am Hafen von Medemblik stehen die Häuser mit den typisch holländischen Treppengiebeln Backe an Backe, jedes nur so breit wie ein Zimmer. Die Fassade von Kim Wiebring und Richard Pronk misst gerade mal 4,10 Meter, dafür ist das Haus aber fast 14 Meter tief. Vorn steht es direkt an der Straße, hinten liegt ein schmaler Garten. „Wir wohnten in der Nähe und wollten gar nicht umziehen“, erzählt Kim, „aber als dieses Kleinod auf den Markt kam, konnten wir nicht widerstehen – und haben es keine Sekunde bereut.“ Das Paar hat das 370 Jahre alte Gebäude restauriert und auf den heutigen Stand gebracht – mit viel Enthusiasmus. „Wir…

When I first call Sherry Pocknett, she’s on her way out the door—headed to forage for mushrooms. But the Mashpee Wampanoag chef and longtime caterer invites me up to her restaurant, Sly Fox Den Too, in Charlestown, R.I., which specializes in East Coast Indigenous cuisine. There, in a little red house right by Narragansett Indian tribal lands, she cooks lunch—crisping duck skin like a potato chip—and explains that the sunflower oil she’s using to prepare our meal can also be rubbed on your hair and skin to keep you looking youthful. Pocknett, 62, is a member of the tribe best known for feeding the Pilgrims. Her restaurant—named for her fisherman father and Native American rights advocate Chief Sly Fox—is her own way of using her people’s knowledge to feed Americans today.…

Use technology to hold polluters accountable By Ma Jun THE GLOBALIZATION OF MANUFACturing has transformed some of the world’s poorest nations to unprecedented levels of economic prosperity. But the resulting increase in poorly controlled emissions and eco-degradation has caused unsustainable levels of local air and water pollution, destabilizing the climate and threatening biodiversity. Just as the vast development of technology hastened this cycle of boom and doom, it can also help break it. Automated environmental monitoring, electronic reporting and web-based disclosure systems now available in the digital age create the possibility of new levels of accountability for environmental performance. Technology allows the public to scrutinize factory pollution problems, governments to make more efficient enforcement efforts and companies to hold their supply chains to account. To check pressing industrial pollution, for example, corporations in…

In the wake of the counteroffensive that reclaimed vast swaths of Ukraine from Russian forces, teams of local technicians and engineers quietly arrived. Wearing helmets and bulletproof vests amid the ongoing shelling, often escorted by Ukrainian troops to avoid land mines, the workers barely waited to see the last of the retreating Russian soldiers before beginning to repair the damaged base stations and fiber-optic cables that left hundreds of towns and villages cut off from the outside world. Ukraine’s dogged efforts to restore internet and mobile connection underscore the urgency with which government officials view the communications blackout in previously occupied areas. “The first thing the Russians do when they occupy these territories is cut off the networks,” says Stas Prybytko, head of mobile broadband development in Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital…

The differences begin to fade a bit as one drives down Texas Highway 4, between the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio Grande, toward one of the southernmost points in the U.S., where Musk is preparing to launch the world’s largest rocket. Gleaming spacecraft—some retired from duty, others still in production—rise stories above the sparse terrain. His company is gobbling up local housing and encouraging employees to move there. “Creating the city of Starbase, Texas,” Musk announced on Twitter earlier this year, to the evident surprise of the residents of Boca Chica, where his facility is located. (A county official noted that “Sending a tweet does not make it so,” and that a petition must first be filed.) For nearly a century, TIME has named a Person of the Year—the individual…

A smattering of places, mainly across the Asia-Pacific region, have achieved stunning victories in the battle against Covid-19, effectively wiping it out within their borders. Now they face a fresh test: rejoining the rest of the world, which is still awash in the pathogen. In some ways, the success of “Covid Zero” strategies is becoming a straitjacket. As financial and travel hubs such as New York and London return to business as usual—tolerating hundreds of daily cases while vaccinations gather pace—counterparts in Asia like Singapore and Hong Kong risk being left behind as they maintain stringent border controls and tighten other curbs in response to single-digit flareups. China, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand have suffered fewer deaths during the entire pandemic than many countries—even highly vaccinated ones—currently log in a matter of…

The future of Huarong Asset Management Co., a troubled Chinese financial conglomerate, may be determined by a man who believes that allowing more state-owned companies to default is just what the country needs: Vice Premier Liu He. While Huarong insists it’s healthy enough to repay its debts, markets have been pricing in the risk of default since the company missed a March 31 deadline to report 2020 earnings. Another portent: In January, Huarong’s former chairman, Lai Xiaomin, was executed on charges that he’d accumulated a fortune in bribes during his years at the helm. Under Lai, the company moved beyond its original mandate of helping banks dispose of bad debt, raising billions of dollars from offshore bondholders and expanding into everything from trust companies to securities trading and illiquid investments. At…

Earlier this year a curious sneaker popped up on Nike Inc.’s website. Instead of lying flat on the ground, the shoe has a band that squeezes it so its sole bends in the middle, creating an unusually large opening for a person’s foot. Just slide your toes down into the gap and press down with your heel, and the band contracts to close the shoe into its proper shape and hold the foot firmly in place. This is the Go FlyEase, a breakthrough in Nike’s attempts to make a sneaker that’s effortless to put on and take off. Removing the shoe is a little more complicated than putting it on—wearers use a hand or the other foot to engage a built-in kickstand—but the band system makes a big difference for many…

One of the first things Laura Miele did when she became chief studios officer of Electronic Arts Inc. three years ago was to gather 19 video game influencers in a conference room. “What do you want me to hear? Lay it on me,” she recalls asking them. “One guy sitting at the corner of the table, he just said, ‘I don’t understand why you don’t give players what they’re asking for.’ ” It’s something many gamers have wondered about EA for years. The $40 billion company, one of the biggest in gaming, is responsible for Battlefield, Madden NFL, and other megahit franchises. But many gamers have long seen EA as a necessary evil, resenting the direction in which it took some games and bristling at its aggressive attempts to extract money…

On the day before one of the biggest margin calls in history, Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing joined an urgent meeting with a not-unfamiliar message: There was a problem, and billions of dollars were at stake. But as executives on the late March call briefed him on the bank’s exposure to Bill Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management, it wasn’t all bad news. Risk managers had been concerned by Archegos’s growth for some time and were collecting more collateral on its highly leveraged market bets. The bank’s traders stood ready to quickly offload the slumping assets. Archegos’s fall in the following days slammed rivals with more than $10 billion in losses. But Deutsche Bank walked away without a scratch, reporting its highest profit in seven years. The escape added to a…

Zillow Group Inc. is best known for the addictive real estate listings that keep people browsing the internet all night, checking out interior shots of homes for sale or the estimated prices of their own houses or the ones down the street. But Chief Executive Officer Rich Barton has staked his company’s future on the idea that its software can also ease a critical pain point for U.S. homeowners: the time it takes to sell. In recent years, Zillow has essentially dived into the house-flipping business, offering to quickly take properties off sellers’ hands. And in the process it’s helping pull Wall Street even deeper into the $2 trillion U.S. housing market. In August, Zillow raised $450 million from a bond backed by homes it’s bought but not yet sold. The…

With virtual life increasingly indistinguishable from everyday reality, it makes sense: Just as the price of dog-inspired cryptocurrencies Dogecoin and Shiba Inu coin have exploded, so has demand for—what else?—living, breathing shiba inus. While Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency created from a meme back in 2013 using the image of a shiba inu, enjoyed a burst of popularity this summer, it was recently overtaken in market value by the slightly less creatively named Shiba Inu coin. In classic crypto style, it sounds like a joke but is immensely valuable, with investors pushing up its price almost 800% in the past month, even though a coin still costs a tiny fraction of a cent. At the same time, shiba inu breeders across the U.S. say they’re seeing more business than ever since cryptocurrency trading brought…

In the 1960s, Walt Disney had a dream: He’d turn a San Francisco-size swath of swampland and orange groves in central Florida into a version of utopia where childhood fantasies could spring to life. The Magic Kingdom opened on Oct. 1, 1971—50 years ago last week—beginning a fairy tale that’s panned out just as intended. Over the decades, Walt Disney World has lured millions of pilgrims to a place where dreams come true, not just for visitors but for employees, too. In fact, there are no fans more devout than the people working at Disney’s four theme parks. Called “cast members,” they are ambassadors of happiness who delight in perpetuating a mythology that never breaks the fourth wall of the Cinderella Castle. In their minds, Tinkerbell is real, there are actual…