Tag: Quarantine (Life and Culture)

A Hybrid-Work Challenge: Monitoring Attendance

“We would have more of a policy following up with people on why they weren’t showing up,” she…

The Upside of a Lockdown

This article is part of our latest Design special report, about new creative pathways shaped by the pandemic.The…

Breaking Up With Peloton

Easy access also means easy interruption.At the beginning of the pandemic, Paige Van Otten, a stay-at-home mother in…

Ambient Music Isn’t a Backdrop. It’s an Invitation to Suspend Time.

Ambient music has always contained a kind of subterranean knowing. The British musician and critic David Toop, who…

Coachella Kicks Off a High-Stakes, Still Uncertain Concert Season

Berkeley Reinhold, a lawyer who represents artists and major concert promoters, said that insurance covering artists who can’t…

K.O.A. Goes After the Luxury Market

The other take is our property Terramor in Bar Harbor, Maine. We saw people looking for unique ways…

196 Sailings and Counting: The ‘Cult Cruisers’ Are Back on the Ships

“We really were homesick for our second home,” Ms. Muller said, pausing to order her dinner without glancing…

Japan Still Closed to Most Travelers, Despite Asia Reopening

In a recent essay, novelist and Kyoto native Keiichiro Kashiwagi wrote that his fellow Kyotoites had longed bemoaned…

Endless Summer Fridays

On a warm Friday afternoon in March, around 2 p.m., the West Village in Manhattan was bustling with…

How Europe’s Tourism Industry Has Been Affected By War in Ukraine

Bernabò Bocca, the president of the Italian hotel association Federalberghi, said he was most concerned over energy costs,…

Hot Springs in the U.S.: Medicinal, Perhaps. Relaxing? Definitely.

Looking to hot springs hop, perhaps with some spa services on the side? Visit a bona fide hot…

Returns to the Office Raise Mental Health Challenges

“I’ve had a lot more employees reach out to me due to their anxiety, often saying they can’t…