What to Do This Weekend

Social awkwardness and trick-or-treating.Welcome. In yet another example of how the pandemic has transformed social life, I present a story in which people are using fake Covid exposure as an excuse for canceling dates, skipping weddings and taking extended vacations from work (don’t try that on your employer; ...
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Here Are Some Halloween Costumes for Children with Special Needs

Seven families share their stories of putting together the perfect Halloween costumes for children with special needs.Just five years ago, Jessica Bondi and Brian Steinberg couldn’t find a Halloween costume to accommodate their son Ben’s disability. Ben has cerebral palsy and has used a wheelchair since he was ...
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Halloween Costumes for Kids With Special Needs

Seven families share their stories of putting together the perfect Halloween costumes for children with special needs.Just five years ago, Jessica Bondi and Brian Steinberg couldn’t find a Halloween costume to accommodate their son Ben’s disability. Ben has cerebral palsy and has used a wheelchair since he was ...
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She Fell in Love With Craftsmanship

The handbag designer Sonia Ahmimou credits trips to Morocco and help from mentors for her recent triumph: Winning the Andam prize for accessories.PARIS — In July, just before she competed for the 50,000-euro Andam accessories prize, Sonia Ahmimou said she was sick to her stomach. She still is ...
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Apple’s Most Back-Ordered New Product Is Not What You Expect

It’s a $19 cloth.OAKLAND, Calif — Apple this month unveiled an array of new gadgets: more powerful MacBook laptop computers, AirPod wireless headphones with longer battery life and HomePod Mini speakers in three more colors.But a different and unheralded Apple release is garnering so much interest that it ...
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It Was ‘I Love You’ (Twice) at First Sight

After matching on the dating app Tinder, Randy James wasted no time telling Ashley Finigan how he felt about her when they met face to face.On their first date in October 2014, Randy James told Ashley Finigan he loved her. Twice.“Usually, I would have bolted,” said Ms. Finigan, ...
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A Stranger Looked Like My Twin. That Was Just the Beginning.

How a family secret was unraveled by 23andMe.I was asleep when my identity exploded. One Friday morning in 2019, I awoke in Brooklyn to an email from a guy in Florida that read: “23andMe says you’re my half sister. I’m very confused. Can you please call me?”As I ...
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Do I Have Plans This Saturday? I’ve, Uh, Been Exposed to Covid.

Feeling overwhelmed at the prospect of socializing, some are going with a lie very few will argue with: Covid exposure.Last winter Trysta Barwig was burned out.She was overwhelmed by her job as a program manager and she was traveling too often for work from her home in Atlanta ...
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How the Memphis Design Movement Made a Comeback

This article is part of our latest Design special report, about creative people finding fresh ways to interpret ideas from the past.To call an armchair or a bookcase “revolutionary” might seem like a stretch, but for the design world, the original show of the Memphis design movement was ...
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Design Books That Mine the Exotic

Five new titles burrow into design’s past to reveal a universe that is ‘both perfumed and colorful.’This article is part of our latest Design special report, about creative people finding fresh ways to interpret ideas from the past.Excavating deeply into design history, and the ways the past is ...
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Here Comes Halloween

And with it, Halloween traditions.Welcome. Outside my Brooklyn building, a life-size witch dangles an alarmingly lifelike orange tabby by one foot over a bubbling cauldron. Enter the building and a skeleton dressed as a butler stands by the elevator, proffering a bowl of mini Kit Kats. You’ll tiptoe ...
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8 Black Women Who Are Mayors in Some of the U.S.'s Biggest Cities

When Kim Janey failed in September to qualify for the mayoral runoff election in Boston, effectively ending her time as the city’s top leader, her political rivals rejoiced and her supporters were dismayed. But her loss affected one group in particular: the collective of seven other Black women ...
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What to Do This Weekend

‘Dune’ and ‘The French Dispatch’Welcome. Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptation of “Dune,” based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel, is in theaters and on HBO Max this weekend. Will fans love it? Manohla Dargis calls it “a starry, sumptuous take on the novel’s first half.” Others have tried to ...
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Russia Reopens the Last Czar’s Palace, a Century After His Execution

The last home of Nicholas II has been restored and opened to the public as a museum outside of St. Petersburg.ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Maria Ryadova recalled being in a dusty room inside the Alexander Palace, hopping from one floor beam to another and peering into the dark ...
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