The Globe and Mail

Very few Canadian bands can sell out a prestigious venue like Carnegie Hall in days, nine months before their concert date.

This year, the Hot Sardines – fronted by Elizabeth Bougerol, their half-French, half-Canadian vocalist – did.

Neste

As the global race to replace fossil fuels gains urgency, Outi Ervasti is building a team of visionaries to find the solutions that will help us all win. A road warrior, a ferocious optimist, and a manager who wants to ‘help people shine like jewels’, she and her team just might change the future as we know it.

The New York Times

An after-school program invites students to build small sailboats from scratch, then test them out on the water.

HemAware

Quinn hung up his skates at 20 because of his bleeding disorder—but he still made it to the NHL.

ASME

STEM education has been a national priority for more than a decade, but have we moved the needle?

Lustgarten Foundation

Scientific research—when seen only from a distance, on television or the news—can appear sterile, antiseptic, formulaic. Goggled workers in white coats wielding pipettes offer us only a tiny glimpse of the creativity it takes to tackle tough challenges like pancreatic cancer. 

ASME

Two billion people struggle to find safe, clean drinking water daily.  It’s an urgent problem, and scientists are developing a wide variety of technologies to solve it.

The New York Times

If there is an easy point of agreement in the emotional upheaval of divorce, it is that endless legal battles can break the bank.

The New York Times

A sudden influx of cash can offer a sense of relief for a young person. But for those grieving a loss or dealing with large sums of money for the first time, it can also feel overwhelming.

The New York Times

They have long been considered unromantic, but prenuptial agreements are being embraced by some couples as a way to protect themselves on their own terms.

Financial Times

The steel column stands in a cavernous training hall in Astoria, Queens, at 35 feet high.

The New York Times

It’s the moment many entrepreneurs hit eventually, no matter how much funding they have raised and burned through, no matter how many 100-hour weeks they and their teams have put in, no matter how brilliant their initial idea.

It’s time to pivot — and it’s the moment many entrepreneurs resist.

The New York Times

IT began with a spontaneous kiss from a man she had met only a few days earlier, in a restaurant in Vence, a small town in the South of France. “It was shocking to me,” recalled Patrice Smith, when the handsome Dutch computer engineer so impetuously bussed her.

The New York Times

When Tchae Measroch leaves work, his hands usually bear a fresh cut or bruise. He works, often on his knees, in a small room crowded with an odd mix of items: a dried-grass hula skirt, a car door, baseball bats, swords and knives of varying length...

Quartz

It happened to us on October 14, 2013 when our accountant called and asked us what the hell we had done. We owed the IRS an additional $6,000. Due immediately.

The New York Times

Maybe it's no surprise that a yellow-brick road winds through the Googleplex. Step onto Google's campus here - with its indoor treehouse, volleyball court, apiaries, heated toilet seats and, yes, Oz-style road - and you might think you've just sailed over the rainbow...

Forbes

I'd never made the journey, all of 30 minutes from my home by car, to a street I'd heard about for years. For anyone living near New York City, Arthur Avenue, in the Bronx, is legendary for...

ZZ Driggs

As you explore the world of furniture and decor across time and space, it’s crucial to know the lingua franca of antiques and vintage furnishings.

ZZ Driggs

It was a black marble egg, tucked into a silver teacup, found in Edinburgh during my 12th summer, spent there with a friend. I bought it for my mother, my first antique purchase.

The New York Times

The footwear designer talks about the traveling exhibition “The Art of Shoes,” where he goes for inspiration and his favorite creations.

House Beautiful

A Jersey Shore house ravaged by Hurricane Sandy is reborn with nautical flair and shipshape élan, thanks to hometown boy Joe Lucas. 

The New York Times

A scorched red corset.

Half of a dog’s skull.

A 19th-century clay pipe.

A mastodon.

Once you start digging — whether excavating long-populated urban land for a commercial project or tearing down the walls of a house — you never know what you’ll find. 

The New York Times

For Monika Zych and Sandy McGill, becoming car designers for BMW started with Matchbox toy cars, racing the tiny replicas around the living room as little girls...

JWM Magazine

Remember the opening shot from "Downton Abbey": a pair of gloved hands carefully measuring every setting's placement? While few of us have a full complement...

Today's urban designers are loving this rough, raw, down-to-earth aesthetic. Peek inside New York's hottest rustic, modern industrial restaurants, hotels and stores.

Smithsonian

Elbows out, adrenaline pumping, they line up by the thousands, aquiver with the thrill of the chase. Their focus is absolute, their aim impeccable, their arms powerful...

Elm Street (National Magazine Award)
A Personal Primer on what not to say to that recently divorced friend: We women know what the odds are, but we whistle down the aisle anyway, resplendent in our hope and pearls. And then some of us get divorced. I survived this the way most people do, by...

Salon

If the growing prospect of President Trump scares the shit out of you, Canada might be looking like a nice cozy bolthole right about now. But its not just...

Arnold Ventures

In Byzantine world of FDA regulation, a physician is on a mission to push for patient safety and transparency.

Arnold Ventures

As multiple segments of the industry consolidate, private equity is playing an ever larger and more influential role, often with little regulatory oversight.

The New York Times

Winner of honorable mention for the 2023 ASJA award: The Arlenes: Articles That Make a Difference

Some have regrets over unfinished business. For others, the end of an unhappy and complicated relationship just comes as a relief.

The American Prospect

The Canadian system, also called Medicare, guarantees coverage to every resident north of the U.S. border.

The New York Times

It can show gentleness and compassion or carelessness and incompetence.

Livestrong

He'd always been a suit-and-tie guy, working 25 years for Citibank in Chicago. And he'd just landed a $50 million account for them when Dwight Nawls was called into a meeting — and was out of a job. It was 2009, a tough year for a mid-life African American man to be unemployed. He decided to go into business on his own, but "things fell apart." By December 2016, he was homeless, rebounded, and in August 2017 was homeless again.

The New York Times

Grand Central Terminal may be synonymous with noise and haste. But as I recently discovered, it can be a lot quieter than a hospital bed.

The New York Times

I first had physical therapy at 27, after I slipped on an icy Montreal sidewalk and tore the ligaments in my left ankle. I had it again at 42 and 43, after surgery on my right and left knees, and most recently I’ve had it on both shoulders.

The New York Times

When my friend’s husband recently headed out for a five-mile run with his 2-year-old Border terrier, Angus, with plenty of water and a collapsible bowl in tow, he never expected he’d end up at an animal hospital.

The New York Times

He had taken a few hard hits as a quarterback for the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League.

But when his American Airlines flight on Jan. 25 from Miami to Milan, a Boeing 767 carrying 192 passengers, blew sideways, Jordan Case thought that was it.

The New York Times

In this time of our confinement, fans of period clothing are having a lot of fun on social media.

The New York Times

Radio programming from around the world is available on the internet or through apps.

The Wall Street Journal

The New York Times

Jennifer Diaz first stepped onto the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House at 11, as an extra in “I Pagliacci” and “La Bohème.” For the next three years, it became her second home, as she regularly visited her father, who is still the Met’s night crew manager after more than three decades.

Next Avenue

French and Spanish may have initially brought us together, but growing affection binds us deeper each week.

The Globe and Mail

We live in an era where the world’s richest people move through their lives in ways the rest of us can barely imagine: owning multiple homes, flying on private jets, wearing enormous jewels. It’s an era closer to the Gilded Age as any previous.

The New York Times

A freelance writer took a sales job at a clothing store out of desperation.  Two years later, she's still there. 

NBC News

The way people are reacting to their FaceApp photos — with shock, and even disgust — says a lot about how we think about the inevitable human process.

USA Today

Like Phoebe Prince, the 15-year-old Irish teen  who recently committed suicide after being bullied by her new classmates in South Hadley, Mass., I arrived as a nervous outsider. Mine was a middle-class Toronto high school; like hers, most of my new classmates had attended grade school and middle school together.

The New York Times

I MOVED into my apartment, in a six-story red-brick building in Tarrytown, N.Y., with the intention of moving up and out within a few years.

I was half-right — after a brief, miserable marriage, my husband left and I stayed behind.

Harvard Business Review

Elbows out, adrenaline pumping, they line up by the thousands, aquiver with the thrill of the chase. Their focus is absolute, their aim impeccable, their arms powerful...

Marie Claire

I love to get jewelry for my birthday. I treasure the pearl-and-diamond earrings I once received as a gift from Jose, my husband. But this year, he offered no small velvet box. Instead, my birthday gift was an eight-day, silent, Buddhist vegetarian retreat. I was more than a little shocked...