The federal holiday, celebrated on June 19, is embraced as a nationwide celebration of Black history. Here’s how and where to partake.On June 19, 1865, a Union general informed enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, that they were free — two and half years after the Emancipation Proclamation ...
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It’s called a turbot pot — turbotière, if you’re fancy — and it’s almost certainly not in stock.A low-key weekend with the boys looks a little different when the boys have a combined net worth of $342.5 billion. For starters, it can be safely assumed that most attendees ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Brian ReaAn Arrow to AmsterdamTraveling Berlin solo, I download a dating app to find someone in the famously queer city. Waiting at a cafe, I text: “all black, striped bag, blond head.” Maren embraces me with ...
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After nearly a decade of close friendship, a reader is hurt and mystified by the radio silence from a woman who was in her wedding party just a year ago.My best friend and confidante of nine years has simply vanished from my life. Last year, she stood by ...
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A pair of over-the-top announcers have become social media stars in the United States for their reactions during the N.B.A. finals.Game 1 of this year’s N.B.A. finals had a spectacular finish, with the Indiana Pacers completing a 15-point comeback over the Oklahoma City Thunder to stun the crowd ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube |iHeartRadio‘The best gift you can give your children is your own health and recovery. Do your work.’David Dee Delgado/Getty Images for The New York TimesFor Father’s Day, the Modern Love team asked for your ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube |iHeartRadio‘The best gift you can give your children is your own health and recovery. Do your work.’David Dee Delgado/Getty Images for The New York TimesFor Father’s Day, the Modern Love team asked for your ...
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Outside the O2 Arena in London on Monday evening, the hip-hop superstar Pitbull tore into a bowl of chicken katsu curry. A few feet away, Pitbull fumbled with an iPhone charger. A lone Pitbull checked his watch, and a conga line of Pitbulls rode up an escalator. Two ...
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Ahead of a planned 25th-anniversary tribute during the BET Awards, past hosts of the influential video countdown show reflected on the moments they can’t forget.When Ginuwine set his mind to arriving on a stretcher for a performance of his hit song “Pony,” BET’s “106 & Park” was the ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Brian ReaMisha’s Raspberry SyrupLove tastes like the raspberry syrup Misha handmade the weekend after I was prescribed my first round of antipsychotics. We always went to Michigan to drink, among other things, and I feared that ...
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“Transforming Spaces” is a series about women driving change in sometimes unexpected places.The first time she saw the shipwreck, Rachel Hauck began to cry.It was during rehearsals at the Berkeley Repertory Theater for the premiere in 2022 of “Swept Away,” a jukebox musical based on the songs of ...
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When Makena Brister and Shawn Arnold arrived on Santa Catalina Island just off the coast of Southern California on Saturday afternoon, they had one thing on their minds: the raunchy 2008 comedy “Step Brothers.”The 22-year-olds stepped off their ferry in matching blue button-down shirts and argyle sweater vests, ...
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Maria Grazia Chiuri’ is leaving the house after a final collection. Here’s how she changed Dior.The tenure of Dior’s first female designer, Maria Grazia Chiuri, formally came to an end on Thursday with an announcement that she was leaving the brand after nine years. It had been rumored ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Brian ReaOut of DespairAfter 21 years of marriage, he left me for a much younger woman whom he had been secretly seeing. They moved in together. I remained in our apartment, mostly in despair. We both ...
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