With help from online tutorials, Facebook groups and in-person workshops, home improvement is becoming far more inclusive to people beyond straight men.Kayla Nelson was perched on a ladder in her bedroom installing picture-frame molding in a recent Instagram Reel. The rhythmic guh-gunk of the nail gun she was ...
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Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife is one of Kamala Harris’s most vocal supporters. Their relationship has brought new attention to blended families, but mutual admiration isn’t always a given.A film producer and mother of two in California posted a short message of praise on Monday after Vice President Kamala Harris’s ...
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Wilson Payamps approached Cameron Kirk on behalf of a female friend. Lucky for him, she wasn’t Mr. Kirk’s type.On a night out in July 2017, Wilson Payamps was playing wingman for a friend who thought Cameron Hall Kirk was cute. Their friend groups happened to merge at a ...
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The designer Bella Freud — a great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud — is using her podcast to “learn vicariously all the things I’ve secretly wanted to know” about celebrities.“I haven’t read much of anything,” Bella Freud said when discussing the books written by her great-grandfather Sigmund Freud. “I’ve read ...
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Known for its pop-up stores — and its army of seasonal workers — Spirit Halloween will try its hand at a longer run and a bigger holiday.For many fall enthusiasts, the season’s start is marked by the arrival of autumn leaves and apple picking. For others, it is ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Brian ReaTaking the Bitter With the SweetOn a recent night after I moved out of our home in Moab, my ex and I went to a diner and ordered a mysterious item called the Cinnamon Roll ...
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North Carolina’s second lady helped make her husband’s political foray possible. But her ventures — a day care and a nonprofit — also caused problems.The ad begins in a sunny kitchen. A woman in a dark blue top and a simple gold necklace pours herself a cup of ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube |iHeartRadio“The problem is you can’t hold on to anything. It’s, it’s all letting go …. This life is all a letting go.”Photo Illustration by The New ...
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Why This Rainbow Gel Manicure (With Chrome!) Costs $255
Oct. 9, 2024 Want a manicure that may last up to a month and can be removed in around 15 minutes? Enter soft gel nail extensions. At Vanity Projects, a Lower East Side salon, these nails with this design ...
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Age is the ultimate luxury.We see so few truly old faces in the media, especially old women’s faces.But occasionally, they are celebrated. In October 2023, at the age of 88, Dame Maggie Smith — who died on Sept. 27 — starred in an arresting ad campaign for the ...
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The cookie sandwich brand’s videos — funny, disturbing, fever-dreamlike — rack up tens of millions of views. The secret is lots of lore without much sense, the campaign’s strategists explain.Cassie Fitzwater hadn’t thought about Nutter Butter in years — until she saw the brutal crime scene photos.A post ...
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The October ritual of watching horror movies in the lead-up to Halloween can be exhilarating. Unless, of course, you can’t quite stomach the gory and gruesome, or even the spooky and spine-tingling.This used to be me, until I made a concerted effort to push past my qualms. It ...
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Neither Benjamin Clymer, its founder, nor the Watches of Switzerland Group would disclose terms, but they stressed that coverage would continue to be independent.Hodinkee, the watch enthusiast website based in Manhattan that has helped spread the gospel of mechanical watchmaking since its founding in 2008, has a new ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Brian ReaYearning for TourmalineAs a child, I was given rocks and fossils in jewelry-sized boxes. I’d always hoped for tourmaline, the rainbow stone that generates electrical charge. Right before I moved to a new city, my ...
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