Marianne Williamson was invoking Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy and Thoreau, barefoot in a brownstone in Brooklyn. “If everything you’re doing is making everybody happy, you’re not doing the right stuff yet,” she said to a room of about 30 people.That September day, Ms. Williamson, the author, spiritual teacher and erstwhile ...
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Why does this image keep resurfacing on social media?On the first Tuesday of the year, the author and political activist Don Winslow tweeted a photograph of an avid reader’s dream library. Bathed in the buttery glow of three table lamps, almost every surface of the room is covered ...
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Young fans are messaging social media creators and entrepreneurs seeking experience. But the terms of the arrangements can vary widely.In September 2020, a newly minted TikTok influencer named Audrey Peters secured her first brand partnership. An account called @Overheard asked her to recite snippets of outrageous conversation on ...
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Why does this image keep resurfacing on social media?On the first Tuesday of the year, the author and political activist Don Winslow tweeted a photograph of an avid reader’s dream library. Bathed in the buttery glow of three table lamps, almost every surface of the room is covered ...
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He’s best friends with Andy Cohen and Sarah Jessica Parker, is married to super agent Bryan Lourd, and fancies himself a liquor mogul.WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Bruce B. Bozzi has always been one of the chosen ones, a Ken doll who runs with other Ken dolls. They’re smart, ...
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He’s best friends with Andy Cohen and Sarah Jessica Parker, is married to super agent Bryan Lourd, and fancies himself a liquor mogul.WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Bruce B. Bozzi has always been one of the chosen ones, a Ken doll who runs with other Ken dolls. They’re smart, ...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned Americans to avoid travel on cruise ships. But the tour operator insists that its health protocols are safe enough.As the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to surge onboard cruise ships, forcing several cruise lines to cancel and postpone ...
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Mac and cheese and SAG Award nominees.Welcome. The question is not if it is a good weekend for making mac and cheese, but rather which mac and cheese recipe from this assortment of 11 to make. I’m leaning toward Lesley Enston’s Trinidadian macaroni pie, but Ali Slagle’s 25-minute ...
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When the end of a marriage means living on separate floors of the same house.When my ex-husband’s girlfriend stepped out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel, beads of water dripping from her brown hair, she ran into me, the ex-wife, dashing from the bedroom they often share ...
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The former talk show host Ricki Lake and Ross Burningham wed in an intimate backyard celebration in Malibu, Calif.Ricki Lake said she doesn’t care if she sounds “hippy-dippy woo-woo.” The actor, documentary filmmaker and former talk show host credits her second husband, Christian Evans, with leading her to ...
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A lot of women who once avoided contouring because of its unnatural, made-for-Instagram effect, are now gravitating toward it.A simple scroll on TikTok reveals that contouring is back from the dead.It is back after a backlash against the sculpted, drawn-on look often associated with the early 2000s. (Remember ...
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A lot of women who once avoided contouring because of its unnatural, made-for-Instagram effect, are now gravitating toward it.A simple scroll on TikTok reveals that contouring is back from the dead.It is back after a backlash against the sculpted, drawn-on look often associated with the early 2000s. (Remember ...
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Alex Ebert, the lead troubadour of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, flips to the B side of his career: philosopher.“No matter what any rock star tells you, they’re all conscious of the cult of personality,” Alex Ebert said, looking like a tenured musicology professor with his tan ...
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Hopes and goals for 2022.Welcome. On the last day of last year, I asked what, if anything, you were looking forward to in 2022. Since then, I’ve been thinking of Anne Shirley’s optimistic query in “Anne of Green Gables”: “Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is ...
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