The Harlem house had been empty for eight years when in 2010 James Fenton, the British poet, and Darryl Pinckney, the African American cultural critic and author, decided to rescue it. They had seen the place mainly by flashlight, because the windows (there are more than 50) were ...
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Warming, feel-good colors like chocolate milk, gingerbread and sable will be big in 2022, stylists say.In the last few months, Hailey Bieber, Billie Eilish, Florence Pugh, Dove Cameron and Gigi Hadid, among other celebs, have taken their manes deeper and darker. On TikTok, blond hair was declared “cheugy,” ...
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A tabletop game set in a dystopian universe has found a new legion of fans during the pandemic.Looks like it’s time to break out the games again. Though, if you’re one of thousands of people around the world who play Warhammer, you probably never put it away in ...
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Heather Sten for The New York TimesFalling in LoveWith Everyone We SawLooking back at a year of pictures from the Styles Desk.Elizabeth Bristow, Eve Lyons and Kim Kardashian, left, and Kendall Jenner at the Met Gala.Landon Nordeman for The New York Times“After taking this picture, I asked Kim ...
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What we watched, read, listened to and cooked this year.Welcome. When my streaming music service of choice fed me its annual report of my most-listened-to songs from the past year, many were by the pianist Hania Rani. I was unfamiliar with Rani’s work until one of my colleagues, ...
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Emilia Gonzalez, a nurse, and Joseph McCloud postponed a 2020 wedding because of her work on the frontline. He then entered a contest on Instagram that turned their luck around.Joseph McCloud said he has so much love and respect for Emilia Gonzalez, a nurse he met six years ...
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A holiday story about passion and other adhesives (featuring an ugly Christmas sweater).I was working backstage at a production of “The Nutcracker” that was being performed at the Tacoma, Wash., school where my daughter attends kindergarten. Since the company was using the school’s theater, they extended an invitation ...
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Privacy organizations acknowledge that the elf isn’t the biggest security threat, but they say that he teaches children the wrong lessons about accepting surveillance.As spies go, he is undeniably adorable.The Elf on a Shelf, a rapidly growing phenomenon based on a 2004 book by Carol Aebersold and Chanda ...
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Maybe not, but thanks to vaccines and practice, some people are getting better at isolation.“We just didn’t know how to quarantine back then,” said Shannon Tremaine, who lives in Brooklyn, of the first time she had to spend weeks by herself.That was back in February, after her boyfriend ...
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Before Charli D’Amelio became the most popular creator on TikTok — she currently has 132 million followers — she danced on the competitive contemporary-dance circuit in the Northeast, the sorts of theatrical styles you might know from “So You Think You Can Dance?” Once she began posting to ...
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The icons and fashions of the fin de siecle are objects of fascination for those who didn’t experience them the first time around. Here’s what they say about why.When Tora Northman, 23, scrolls through Instagram, as she does multiple times a day, she often sees a picture of ...
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Drawn by cheaper tickets and a sense of glamour, New Yorkers in their 20s and 30s are making their way to the Met this season, many of them for the first time.After Midtown was officially deemed cool again and espresso martinis made a comeback, it was only a ...
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The icons and fashions of the fin de siecle are objects of fascination for those who didn’t experience them the first time around. Here’s what they say about why.When Tora Northman, 23, scrolls through Instagram, as she does multiple times a day, she often sees a picture of ...
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“Always expect reversals.”Welcome. Back in the spring, when we changed the name of this newsletter from “At Home” to “At Home and Away,” we did so expecting that our plans for the foreseeable future would involve continual tinkering. The Time Spent At Home to Time Spent Away ratio ...
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