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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There’s now a thriving cottage industry for content that re-examines the recent past through a contemporary critical lens. Is that a good thing?Time is an abstract and collectively imaginary concept, and often our brains must latch onto contemporary metaphors to fathom its churn. So I will say, with ...
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“I want to bring all the parts of myself,” Riz Ahmed said of wearing Prada’s version of the traditional garment at the premiere of his new movie.“A kurta by any other name is just as dope,” the British-Pakistani actor-musician Riz Ahmed said last week, speaking from his home ...
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Institutions who share the Greek names of Covid-19’s “variants of concern” have been getting a bit more attention lately. A few have even leaned into the connection.It’s a strange time to work for Omicron Granite & Tile in Ohio. Or the Omicron Family Restaurant in Wisconsin. Or to ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.A Poem in My PocketWalking home, I stopped before a poet for hire and told him I’d had eggs retrieved from my ovaries to create a child I’ll never meet. I expected him to be shocked, ...
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Jonathan Anderson, the designer who made the original sweater, explains how it happened and what's next.The love affair between fashion and NFTs shows no sign of abating. The latest nonfungible token to get everyone tingling with excitement: a perfect 3-D digital replica of the patchwork JW Anderson cardigan ...
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