Today’s celebrities found a way to keep shining in a dark year.For centuries, the stars have been used as a guide, their shimmering specks in the sky leading the way through darkness. They have been imbued with subjective meaning and held up as a mirror for the human ...
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Many traditional event spaces are overbooked next year, leaving some couples to consider unconventional alternatives for hosting their nuptials.In late March, Heather Davis and her then fiancé, Nick Gray, gave a deposit to a nonprofit garden club venue in the Tampa, Fla., area for their Dec. 3 wedding ...
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A reader has several questions about a holiday tradition.Should we participate in the ugly Christmas sweater phenomenon? And why do people even call them “ugly”? When I was growing up in the South, there were just people who wore festive Christmas sweaters and those who didn’t. Now they ...
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Ghislaine Maxwell looked impeccable. That was the point.The prosecution rested on Friday, Dec. 10, in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, who stands accused of helping the deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein recruit, traffic and sexually abuse underage girls. Ms. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty and denied the accusations.Four women ...
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Ghislaine Maxwell looked impeccable. That was the point.The prosecution rested on Friday, Dec. 10, in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, who stands accused of helping the deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein recruit, traffic and sexually abuse underage girls. Ms. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty and denied the accusations.Four women ...
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Shop your closet, feed your fruitcake.Welcome. Here we are, again: holidays in the time of Covid. There are two weeks left in 2021, two weeks in which I hope you’re keeping warm, keeping safe, keeping sane.The Well desk at The Times has been running an occasional series over ...
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The “Scream” actor is on a mission to make people reconsider clowns — including himself.“Bozo is my hero,” David Arquette said on a chilly Sunday morning, as he spray painted a Frisbee-sized red circle on a warehouse brick wall in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. “We want to ...
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As the fraud trial of the Theranos founder draws to a close, could her new courtroom image affect the decision?Some day, the three-month-long Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial will become fodder not just for the pundits of the tech world, or for historians looking back on how we got ...
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For a deaf man used to broken promises, a video message delivers a fresh start.On a gloomy January day, my phone lit up: Will had texted me a video. Something coalesced in my stomach. I knew what the video had captured, but I didn’t quite believe it. In ...
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Geoffrey Bain Hutchinson and Neah Alexandra Morton had a first date five days after matching on a dating app. A mutual chemistry developed even faster.When Neah Alexandra Morton and Geoffrey Bain Hutchinson connected on the dating app Tinder in April 2017, they didn’t wait long — just five ...
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Dr. R Everett Frerichs got Tony Harrelson’s attention when he inadvertently sent him a “super like” on Match.com. They were married 10 months later.Dr. R Everett Frerichs knew he was gay since he was a teenager. But it took decades for him to publicly share that.“I was 60-years-old ...
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When unexpected tragedy, unsatiable hypebeasts and the rapidly growing resale market collide.One late Sunday morning last month, Tia Hall was having breakfast with her girlfriend when a series of alerts popped up on her phone.“When we have website sales, we have this distinct ding on our phone,” said ...
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When unexpected tragedy, unsatiable hypebeasts and the rapidly growing resale market collide.One late Sunday morning last month, Tia Hall was having breakfast with her girlfriend when a series of alerts popped up on her phone.“When we have website sales, we have this distinct ding on our phone,” said ...
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Soon, the days will grow longer.Welcome. The winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere will occur next week, on Dec. 21. Here in New York, there will be just nine hours and 15 minutes of daylight on Tuesday, after which the days will begin to lengthen.Of course, the solstice ...
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