The splashiest book debut of the summer was first served on a cocktail napkin. Author T.J. Newman, then a flight attendant for Virgin America, was working the L.A.–to–New York redeye in 2017 when she ...

It started at William Wayne, that wonderful throwback interiors store with locations on University Place and Lexington Avenue. I was early for a meeting at nearby East Pole and went in to look for a ...

Danya Sherman had an unsettling experience studying abroad in Spain in 2016. A friend, another international student, spiked her drink. She doesn’t say much about what happened next, except that “the ...

It’s Friday night and you’re at your favorite dive bar, standing alone. Someone hands you a vodka tonic. Before taking a sip, you pause. Is this safe? You reach for a napkin, and tilt your glass to ...

Does a statement written on a cocktail napkin constitute an enforceable contract? That’s one question at the heart of a civil trial that kicked off Wednesday in Anchorage Superior Court, between two ...