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Alcohol-free fragrances: towards more hedonistic perfumes?

After hair products and makeup, skinification is also getting to the perfume category, blurring the boundaries with skincare. In line with this trend, perfume companies are working hard to develop new technologies for alcohol-free, water-soluble fragrances. This innovation with multiple…

Nicolas Cage Is Still Evolving

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The wobbly distinction between reality and artifice fascinates Nicolas Cage. The first time we encountered each other was in 2001, during the making of “Adaptation”—a film based on Charlie Kaufman’s struggle…

Ira Glass Hears It All

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It can be easy to take the greatness of “This American Life,” the weekly public-radio show and podcast hosted by Ira Glass, for granted. The show, which Glass co-founded in 1995…

Rashida Jones Wonders What Makes Us Human

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For someone who used to ride a school bus with Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Rashida Jones is remarkably earthbound. Growing up in Los Angeles, the daughter of the “Mod Squad”…

The Knotty Death of the Necktie

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Not long ago, on a Times podcast, Paul Krugman breezily announced (and if we can’t trust Paul Krugman in a breezy mood, whom can we trust?) that, though it’s hard to…