The composer assumed the role of “D.J. Webz” for the after-party following the reopening of “The Phantom of the Opera.”It was the reopening night of “The Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway, and Andrew Lloyd Webber was D.J.-ing the after-party.From a booth built earlier that day on 44th ...
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The sky was streaked with purple when I boarded the early-morning train from Bangkok to the Nakhon Chai Si District in central Thailand. For the entire hourlong ride, a monk sat quietly in front of me, smiling, gusts of wind swirling the orange robes over his tattoos.We disembarked ...
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The Polo Bar reopens in Manhattan, and the 82-year-old designer has no plans to slow down.On the deck of his home in Montauk, N.Y., over the sound of crashing waves — a vigorous white noise, more roaring than soothing — Ralph Lauren said he was glad to be ...
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The Polo Bar reopens in Manhattan, and the 82-year-old designer has no plans to slow down.On the deck of his home in Montauk, N.Y., over the sound of crashing waves — a vigorous white noise, more roaring than soothing — Ralph Lauren said he was glad to be ...
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VASHON, Wash. — Within minutes of meeting Amanda Knox for the first time, she planted her newborn daughter into my arms. Yes, Amanda Knox has a baby. A baby that she has been keeping a secret for months, worried that photographers would show up at her door, worried ...
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Ashley Chiang and Dr. Roy Xiao met on the first day of freshmen orientation at Princeton, but their relationship didn’t take off until sophomore year.Ashley Chiang planned to go to medical school after college, and was even accepted into an early-admissions program during her sophomore year at Princeton.But ...
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Gillian Stoss and Zach Lent dated for 16 years — more than half of their lives — before taking their relationship to the next level.Gillian Stoss first spotted Zach Lent 16 years ago at a basketball championship. The team from her elementary school, St. Brendan Parish School in ...
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Gabi Conti’s romantic losing streak was broken when she met Daren Johnson — and gave him a much-needed attitude adjustment.If Gabi Conti learned anything from the exercise in extreme dating she undertook as a writer for Cosmopolitan magazine in 2019, it was to cut through the pleasantries. So ...
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He wanted to get really serious really fast, which felt good until it didn’t.When my Hinge match said on our first date that he wanted a serious relationship, a house with a fence, and children soon, I thought, “Maybe I should introduce him to Zerrin.” She, my dear ...
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He wanted to get really serious really fast, which felt good until it didn’t.When my Hinge match said on our first date that he wanted a serious relationship, a house with a fence, and children soon, I thought, “Maybe I should introduce him to Zerrin.” She, my dear ...
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In 1952, a 28-year-old secretary attended a traditional handicrafts exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Inspired especially by the hand-printed fabrics she encountered there, the young woman returned home and told her husband that she had never seen anything like them in stores, and wanted ...
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Millions of people are checking TikTok posts about a pug as a horoscope of sorts to see what kind of day they will have based on whether the dog rises or stays in bed.On Monday, Noodle, a 13-year-old pug, sleepily rose from his bed.That meant one thing: It ...
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Sometimes a dress is just a dress. Sometimes it’s a strategy.Senator Kyrsten Sinema may have been in Europe recently on a fund-raising trip and out of reach of the activists who have dogged her footsteps, frustrated with her obstruction of President Biden’s social spending bill. But despite the ...
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Knobkerry was a shop and gallery where Ornette Coleman hung out and Janis Joplin shopped. It is the subject of a new book and related exhibition.It was back in 2017 that Svetlana Kitto, a Columbia University-trained oral historian who writes frequently about art, was researching a catalog for ...
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