What to Do This Weekend

Eat leftovers, take stock.Welcome. Let’s talk about leftovers. It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and while I have been looking forward to spending the day with people I haven’t seen for two years, I was perhaps equally anticipating Leftovers Friday, which is the first day, really, of Leftovers Weekend ...
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A Father-in-Law’s Embrace, Not a Moment Too Soon

She wasn’t who her in-laws expected their daughter to marry. But on the eve of her wedding, her father-in-law made it clear she was family.We stood in the same living room my fiancée sat in as a child watching Saturday morning cartoons. It was the night before our ...
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She Fell for the Art, Then for the Artist

A neighbor introduced Becky Headen to Tony Hernandez’s artwork in 2001. Twelve years later, they had a first date.Rebekah Headen fell in love with Tony Hernandez years before she actually met him. Not only that, it was love at first sight.“Where did you get that beautiful painting?” Ms ...
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After ‘Mist,’ They Saw Things Differently

An evening at Mist Harlem, a former restaurant and bar, propelled Walter Smith-Randolph and LeAnne Armstead’s 12-year friendship into something more.Walter Smith-Randolph said he was interested in LeAnne Armstead from the moment he met her at a 2005 barbecue hosted by Villanova University’s Black Cultural Society.But it was ...
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Swimming Upstream in Heels and Skinny Pants

If I were a salmon, I would die for my child. As a human being, I wish I could have.I can’t stop thinking about salmon. Recently we had salmon spawning season here in Seattle, and I was able to see it for the first time. I am not ...
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The ‘13 Going on 30’ Versace Dress Has Come Full Circle

A perfect storm of internet fashion trends — and Halloween — has resurrected a Y2K-era Versace dress. At least, for now.A funny thing happened on Nov. 8 on the set of “The Voice”: Ariana Grande, the show’s newest coach, came to work in a Versace dress that had ...
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Thanksgiving, This Year vs. Last

Here’s what our readers have planned.Welcome. Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving, and whether you’re celebrating at home, away or not at all, it’s likely that this year’s holiday looks different from last year’s. The vaccine’s changed the options for many of us, opening up possibilities for family gatherings and Friendsgivings. As ...
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YassifyBot and 'Yassification' Memes, Explained

A new Twitter account has amassed a following by sharing highly filtered versions of well-known images.“Girl With a Pearl Earring” in a full face of makeup. The first Queen Elizabeth contoured from her neck ruff up. Severus Snape with jet-black hair extensions. Sasquatch sporting a smoky eye.These are ...
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A South African Shopping Site Where Artisans and Community Meet

At Victoria Yards in Johannesburg, artists, designers and makers of sorbet and spirits draw from their surroundings to create their products.“When I first saw it, it was pretty rough — a bunch of old warehouses, no plants anywhere. It was a dust bowl of grease and oil,” said ...
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How Baby Yoda Got to the Thanksgiving Day Parade

A helium-filled Grogu designed by the toy company Funko will fly above the streets of New York in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.On Thursday, a larger-than-life helium-filled likeness of Grogu, the beloved “Mandalorian” character also known as Baby Yoda and the Child, will make his aerial debut above ...
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Forced Cinderella to Scrub the Stage Floor’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Old Roots Bearing FruitOn a brisk November morning, I found myself climbing a fruit tree in my mother’s backyard in suburban Virginia. My 3-year-old insisted that I pick the last persimmon at 6:30 a.m. My father ...
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Enslaved to a U.S. Founding Father, She Sought Freedom in France

Listen to This ArticleTo hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.Despite its many markers of memory there are some stories about the past that Paris does not tell. I am an African American historian who spends each summer ...
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The Godmother of ‘Plant-Based’ Living

Frances Moore Lappé, the author of “Diet for a Small Planet,” which was published 50 years ago and spurred a movement toward vegetarianism, looks back on her legacy.Frances Moore Lappé’s last hamburger was in 1971, the same year she published “Diet for a Small Planet,” her hugely influential ...
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The Godmother of ‘Plant-Based’ Living

Frances Moore Lappé, the author of “Diet for a Small Planet,” which was published 50 years ago and spurred a movement toward vegetarianism, looks back on her legacy.Frances Moore Lappé’s last hamburger was in 1971, the same year she published “Diet for a Small Planet,” her hugely influential ...
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