Adam Iscoe

As protests against Trump’s immigration raids spread nationwide, a crowd gathered in lower Manhattan—complete with bullhorns, balloons, and a toy doughnut to bait the cops.

The popular wedding website helps d.j.s, caterers, and florists find spouses-to-be. Some venders say they’re finding something else.

This year’s figurative lumps of coal include a “Star Wars” tree ornament, a knockoff Yeti tumbler, faulty training wheels, a mango-tangerine candle, and Finger-Ease Guitar String Lubricant.

From the daily newsletter: Adam Iscoe on getting a table. Plus: right-wing reporters at the border; Trump’s Cabinet picks in Washington; and Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan impersonation.

The trial over the death of Jordan Neely, which made Penny a right-wing cause célèbre, became a flash point in the debate over crime and vigilantism in big cities.

Air Company, a startup that has used water and carbon dioxide to make vodka and to power automobiles, taste-tests its product and discusses getting Elon Musk’s business.

The ninety-one-year-old singer might outsmoke Snoop Dogg, but for lunch he’ll stick to bacon-and-tomato sandwiches.

The first-time Hollywood actor, who co-stars with Colman Domingo, visits his old stomping grounds in Mount Vernon.

“We’re having a little issue with the batteries this morning,” Beatrice Cordiano, an Italian scientist aboard the craft, said on the day of departure. Energy Observer was to travel up the East River, through Long Island Sound toward Massachusetts, and across the Atlantic, in the direction of the French coast; her more than sixty-two-thousand-mile journey would return to where it began, in 2017, in Saint-Malo. “It’s a problem that we usually do not have,” Cordiano said of the batteries. Just abou…

Matt Meeker, a serial entrepreneur (in 2002, he co-founded Meetup, the network of offline hobbyists), saw a problem in need of a solution. Earlier this year he started up Bark Air, which markets itself as “a 100% totally real airline for dogs.” The Thursday before Memorial Day weekend, several four-legged passengers checked in at a Signature Aviation terminal at Westchester County Airport, for Bark Air’s inaugural flight—a six-hour trip to Los Angeles, aboard a chartered Gulfstream V (a “G-five,…