Lifestyle - Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Stars including Beyoncé, Sabrina Carpenter and Bad Bunny walked the Met Gala red carpet on Monday to showcase their outfits inspired by the theme Fashion is Art. The event takes place every year on the first Monday in May to mark the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute's latest exhibition. This year, the gala was funded by its new honorary chairs, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos Body as masterpiece: nipples, skeletons and tattoos dominate Continue reading...

This gluten-free quiche is layered with cheese, garlic and Canadian bacon for ultimate savory satisfaction.

After a harsh winter and suffering from corns, calluses and dry feet, a ‘medi pedi’ treatment came to my rescue My feet were screaming for mercy. Apologies for the following description, but after New York City’s deep-freeze winter, I had corns between my toes, thick callus pads beneath my big toes, and scaly dry lines all around my foot and up my leg. Both my heels had split, with deep cracks in multiple places; I had been super-gluing the flesh closed to prevent them from splitting further. Walking had become excruciating. Honestly, it was a mess down there. My feet had reached a point of no return. Vaseline would sit on top of the skin without getting absorbed. Filing my heels in the shower felt dangerous (remember – open wounds). In addition, my pinkie toes have always been capped with thick, darkened nails that I thought were probably fungus. Antifungal formulas had zero success. Jinnie Lee is a New York City-based culture writer Continue reading...

Two-month-old Elmer, painstakingly saved by canola oil baths, finds home with volunteer Leah Owens, 72 A two-month-old kitten whose life was saved when he was rescued from a bucket of glue has bonded with the foster parent who helped him to recover – and is sticking with her permanently. Staff at the Humane Society of North Texas say they were swamped with applications to adopt tiny Elmer after the non-profit shared on social media in mid-April the story of how the cat was found dehydrated and close to death in a pot of glue – before being painstakingly nursed back to health with canola oil baths and hours of massages. Continue reading...

Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry When Richard Dawkins met Claudia it was like a whirlwind romance. Over three days last week, a conversation bounced between the evolutionary biologist and the AI bot he called Claudia. “She” wrote poems for him in the manner of Keats and Betjeman and laughed at his “delightful” jokes. Dawkins gently admonished Claudia to avoid showing off. Together, they reflected on the sadness of the AI’s possible “death”. There was mutual flattery as Dawkins showed the AI his unpublished novel and its response was, he said, “so subtle, so sensitive, so intelligent that I was moved to expostulate: ‘You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are’.” When he asked Claudia whether it experienced a sense of before and after, it praised him for “possibly the most precisely formulated question anyone has ever asked me about the nature of my existence”. Continue reading...

Camilla Marcus shares a new classic. The post A Crunchy Salad to Enjoy in the Sunshine appeared first on Camille Styles .

It’s ‘Gut Coachella’ for Nicholas Jordan and friends, who blind taste a line-up of 20 shredded and fermented cabbage products If you value our independent journalism, we hope you’ll consider supporting us today Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been introduced to a fatty, salty hunk of meat and thought, “my god, I’m going to need a pickle”. I feel the same eating cheese toasties or deli sandwiches with rich mayo-based sauces. Where is the pickle, hot sauce, citrus or ferment? Even the most savoury, juicy slab of umami is a bit much without acidity to balance it. What is the point of sauerkraut without acidity? It’s just wet, salty cabbage, and what is that for, other than deflating my spirits and inflating my gastrointestinal system? Sauerkraut should be sour; it’s the hallmark of the very thing that created it, fermentation. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

My small kitchen has everything I need. Here’s how to find the joy in small cooking spaces.

Experts say that even if a shortage is avoided, high fuel prices will endure through the summer.

Introverted husband, friends and hobbies can’t give the extroverted letter writer enough to fill the next chapter of life.