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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The 22-year-old actor documented his audition process for the world to see and became a star along the way.On Monday morning, Axel Webber, a 22-year-old from Cumming, Ga., a town outside Atlanta, posted a TikTok updating his followers on an audition he’d completed the day before on Zoom ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.A Solution in Painter’s TapeMy Argentine American father always says: “If there’s a solution, there’s no problem. If there’s no solution, there’s still no problem.” He didn’t understand why my obsessive-compulsive disorder was telling me I ...
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Annie Hamilton is not the child of anyone famous. She’s not a profitable influencer, self-made YouTuber, or an overnight TikTok celebrity. Still, Ms. Hamilton has become something of a cult figure for a young generation of actors and people who love talented messes. On Twitter, Instagram and Substack, ...
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Tiny plans for 2022.Welcome. I just subscribed to The Times’s 2022 space and astronomy calendar, so I’ll be reminded on April 21 that I might, if I’m lucky, glimpse the Lyrids meteor shower at its peak in the night sky. At a time when most plans for gathering ...
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Perhaps the most surprising thing about Ronald O. Perelman is he’s one billionaire who didn’t get richer during the pandemic.For much of the last three decades, he lived in a townhouse on East 63rd Street that connects to the offices of MacAndrews & Forbes, the holding company where, ...
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The state would be the first to pass legislation setting broad sustainability regulations for the industry.Last September, as New York Fashion Week was taking place for the first time in a year, Kathy Hochul, the new governor, sat front row at the Prabal Gurung show, marking a fresh ...
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The state would be the first to pass legislation setting broad sustainability regulations for the industry.Last September, as New York Fashion Week was taking place for the first time in a year, Kathy Hochul, the new governor, sat front row at the Prabal Gurung show, marking a fresh ...
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This year is anyone’s guess. Here are ours.The first week of January is often marked by reflection and resolutions. But at a time when time itself seems broken, looking back and planning ahead can feel like impossible feats. What happens this year is anyone’s guess right now. So ...
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A relationship is a shared story, even if it’s hard to agree on the details.No one likes to hang out with couples, like us, who bicker. My husband, Erik, and I usually begin our conversations with good intentions.One day last summer I said to him, “What year did ...
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A relationship is a shared story, even if it’s hard to agree on the details.No one likes to hang out with couples, like us, who bicker. My husband, Erik, and I usually begin our conversations with good intentions.One day last summer I said to him, “What year did ...
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Michael Porten and Trish Andersen, both artists, collaborated on a microhouse in 2014. The next year, he helped her build huts in France, during what she calls a summer of love.Michael Porten had been sleeping on a piece of foam inside a Savannah, Ga., parking garage when Trish ...
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We don’t marry one person as much as we marry one version of a person. But accepting the person a partner may become can be more challenging.The party-going partner now prefers chamomile tea on the couch. The lover of wanderlust has started to cling to routine. The big ...
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It was a Hot Vax June quickly becoming a Delta Variant July soon to mutate into whatever August was (who can recall at this point?), and there was Clifton Mooney, a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 camera dangling on a nylon strap from his neck — the only part of ...
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