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For that peaceful sinking feeling. Photo: Marcus McDonald In this article Best overall Best down Best down duvet Best bamboo Best dual-temperature More comforters and duvets we like We at the Strategist treasure our luxurious sheets , but, in truth, the comforter is the workhorse of the bed. The comforter offers you cozy shelter through cold nights. A bad one can feel meager, clammy, or oppressive, while a great one can make it feel hard to get out of bed. To help you find the perfect one, we spoke to interior designers, hospitality professionals, and a couple of Strategist staffers about what they actually use in their projects, hotels, and homes. (While the terms duvet and comforter are often used interchangeably, they technically mean different things: A comforter doesn’t require a cover, but a duvet does. We’ve included both here.) Below, you’ll find down-filled (and down-alternative) options, plus versions with bamboo … [Read more...] about The 10 Very Best Comforters

BEIJING — If you’ve ever wondered what class of person you are, move to China and find out. Starting Nov. 1, the government will begin sorting foreigners into three categories: A, B and C. It is part of a new nationwide work permit system that aims to build an innovation-driven economy by “encouraging the top, controlling the middle and limiting the bottom” of foreigners in China, the state news media reported. “It aims to better serve overseas talent coming to work in China,” said Zhang Jianguo , the leader of the State Administration of Foreign Experts, which will run the system that is to go nationwide on April 1 after being tested in nine cities or provinces, including Beijing and Shanghai. The planned change is creating a buzz among foreigners working here who are keen to know: How will the government classify me? According to the most recent official figures, in the 2010 census , about 200,000 foreigners worked legally in China and an additional 400,000 were family … [Read more...] about Hoping to Work in China? If You’re a Class C Foreigner, It May Be Tough

Senator Elizabeth Warren has come calling as recently as April. Kamala Harris, the first-term senator of California, has made repeated visits, starting as early as her third month in office. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is also no stranger to the big-money donor world of New York; he was here in April — his third such visit in three months. It will be months before Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris, Ms. Warren or most potential presidential aspirants will barnstorm across the farmlands of Iowa, dig into a low-country boil in South Carolina or field questions at a town-hall meeting in New Hampshire. But with American presidential races requiring an ever-dizzying amount of money, an early, behind-the-scenes 2020 contest is already taking place: the New York money primary. Over passed appetizers, intimate dinners and private board room meet-and-greets, a parade of nationally ambitious Democrats have been cycling through the offices and living rooms of the Manhattan money set. … [Read more...] about The First 2020 Race Is Underway: Scrambling for New York Donors

Earlier this spring, a party raged on the third floor of Showfields , an experiential retail store in Manhattan. To get there guests rode in an elevator lined with gold tinsel and a mirror. On the third floor were about 20 masked people, dressed in neon shirts and sparkly pants, grooving on roller skates , some of which lit up as they moved. Under a disco ball, a D.J. played hip-hop while skaters spun in circles and got lost in the music. “Oh, my gosh, it was great,” said Lionel Laurent, 45, a skating instructor who before the pandemic made money by performing in Times Square. “Clubs are not open, so we are doing this.” Roller-skating is in vogue these days, but longtime New Yorkers have seen it all before; during the second half of the 20th century, skaters would dance all day in city parks and party all night in New York’s multitude of indoor rinks. “The Roxy, it was fabulous, especially in the ’80s,” said Bob Nichols, 74, of Manhattan, a retired film editor, … [Read more...] about New Yorkers Are Crazy About Roller-Skating (Again)

Correction Appended NEW ORLEANS, April 31 — The first weekend of the 37th annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival ended with a rendition of "When the Saints Go Marching In." When the familiar chorus arrived, the white handkerchiefs New Orleanians seem to keep handy on all occasions were waved high. Yet it wasn't the jaunty, clichéd jazz version. Bruce Springsteen played "Saints" as nothing less than a hymn, and he sang a rarely noticed final verse: "Some say this world of trouble is the only world we'll ever see/But I'm waiting for that morning when the new world is revealed." It was the fitting wrap-up for a weekend that found hope, and solace, in the continuity of tradition. Jazzfest, as everyone calls it, is itself a tradition after nearly four decades, and like Mardi Gras, it is not only a tourist magnet but a defining event for the city. "It's bigger than just the music," said George Wein, the chief executive of Festival Productions and the executive producer of … [Read more...] about New Orleans Jazzfest: A Weekend of Reunion and Rebirth

New York Magazine admitted this week that mass immigration to the United States is, in fact, “bad for housing prices” for Americans looking for affordable single-family homes. The admission from the left-wing publication comes as years of research has shown that the nation’s admission of more than a million legal immigrants annually, in addition to millions of illegal aliens, helps send housing prices surging for working- and middle-class Americans. “Yet one key sector in which immigrants drive higher demand is housing. People need homes,” New York Magazine writer Eric Levitz admitted . Rather than decreasing overall immigration levels, as most Americans want, Levitz argues that despite mass immigration being “bad for housing prices,” the U.S. ought to make mass immigration “work” by enriching real estate developers with a dismantling of local zoning laws and rapid construction of multi-family complexes in single-family neighborhoods. WATCH: Fmr. Obama Acting ICE … [Read more...] about New York Magazine Admits Mass Immigration Is ‘Bad for Housing Prices’