The Upper East Side Gets a Face-lift
Illustration: by Naomi Otsu
Thanks to dropping rents and the arrival of some younger residents, the UES’s reputation as a sleepy restaurant desert is changing. Take Hoexters, a ta...
Inside the Episode: Bonus Video for ‘Shane and Sally’ Episode 7
The final episode of Shane and Sally ties up whatever loose ends are capable of being tied. But as Karen and Rob discuss in this closing interview, not all the questions have been answered. They ret...
Fighting a Syphilis Surge in Houston
Like so many of Dr. Irene Stafford’s impoverished and unhoused patients, the twentysomething woman showed up, in labor, at the Houston hospital having received no formal prenatal care. Stafford, a m...
I Biked 165 Miles Behind the Pine Curtain of East Texas
On a damp March morning, I strapped bags full of camping gear to the frame of my gravel bike and joined about 250 cyclists for the fourth annual East Texas Showdown, one of the state’s biggest and l...