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The FlynnStoned Cannabis Company, a dispensary in Syracuse, N.Y., is the size of a large clothing store. Its wooden front doors have iron handles with finials in the shape of cannabis leaves. Inside, nuggets of cannabis flower, infused candies and vaporizers are laid out in glass cases spread over two stories. A lounge under a … Read more
Melissa Samuel is a specialty nail artist behind the brand Finesse Your Claws, which she runs from her private studio in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. Ms. Samuel, 41, designs bespoke 3-D nail sets for a closed client roster that has included the singer SZA, the rapper Lil Yachty and the singer Justine Skye. (And … Read more
Columbia University’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, stepped down on Friday, one week after the university accepted a roster of demands from the Trump administration. The university immediately named Claire Shipman, the co-chair of its board of trustees, as its acting president. The Trump administration moved this month to cancel about $400 million in grants and … Read more
Jean Rice, who for decades scratched out a living, nickel by nickel, picking up deposit cans in New York while becoming a well-respected advocate for the homeless, died on March 12 in Queens. He was 85. The cause of his death, in a hospital, was heart disease, said Lillie Mae John, his cousin. Since 2020, … Read more
Being the front-runner in a race for mayor of New York City often comes with exceptional scrutiny. But few have presented their opponents with quite as many targets as former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. In the weeks since Mr. Cuomo joined a crowded Democratic primary field and immediately catapulted to its front, a group of … Read more
The Museum of Modern Art’s next director will be Christophe Cherix, who was appointed chief curator of drawings and prints at the New York museum in 2013. He takes over after the three-decade tenure of Glenn Lowry. Cherix’s appointment was announced to the museum’s staff on Friday in a letter written by the museum’s chair, … Read more
Just Stop Oil, the British environmental activist group known for attention-grabbing protests — including throwing tomato soup at famous artworks and spraying orange powder on Stonehenge — said it was ending such actions after a final protest in London next month. The group said on Thursday that it had achieved its primary goal of preventing … Read more
Scott Rudin, the powerful producer who was exiled from Broadway and Hollywood four years ago after allegations of bullying led to widespread denunciations and even protesters in the streets, has been quietly preparing to return to show business. After what he called “a decent amount of therapy,” apologies to many people and a period of … Read more
Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at a tiny sign of spring in the Hudson River. We’ll also get details on why the Trump administration’s budget-cutting may force a do-over of the state budget. In the spring, Tina Walsh’s fancy lightly turns to something that’s neither romantic nor particularly poetic: phytoplankton in the Hudson … Read more
On the Lower East Side of Manhattan this month, two men spray-painted a red swastika on a parked Tesla Cybertruck. In the borough’s meatpacking district, six people sat on the floor of a Tesla showroom and refused to leave, chanting “Elon Musk is unelected, democracy must be protected” before being arrested. In Albany, lawmakers called … Read more