Has our modern era dimmed the appeal of making out with a stranger, or are people still eager to participate in the New Year’s Eve tradition?The idea behind exchanging a kiss at midnight on New Year’s Eve is rooted in a simple superstition: The way you ring in ...
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An evening of people-watching is complicated by a stranger asking the question no one wants to hear.On a muggy July evening, my aunt Shannon and I commenced our decades-old ritual of eating ice cream and people-watching in a New York City park.We started the tradition over gelato in ...
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I have a confession to make. It took me an embarrassing number of years working at The New York Times, in Times Square, before someone finally helped me realize that the neighborhood’s name wasn’t a coincidence.A crew checks the lights on the New Year’s Eve ball on Dec ...
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After a rebellious youth and years spent on an unpublished novel, Arielle Angel, the editor of Jewish Currents, has carved out a role for herself as someone who questions entrenched ideas.On a nippy morning, Arielle Angel and her fellow editors at Jewish Currents, a small but influential journal ...
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In a seasonal slowdown in top sales in Manhattan in December, there were still lofty prices, but many fell below what the sellers were asking.The supertall Central Park Tower, the latest addition to Billionaires’ Row by Extell Development, has seen a lot of sales activity in its first ...
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Lauren Hobbs and Neal Thomas Yakopin were in sync from the moment Mr. Yakopin became the drummer for her country duo, the Hobbs Sisters. But it took Mr. Yakopin a beat to ask her out.There was a time when having three sisters didn’t work in Neal Thomas Yakopin’s ...
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I kept saying to my friends: “I have no idea why he likes me.”Two summers ago, in June, I rang in my 27th birthday by getting so drunk in Napa, Calif., that I gave my Uber driver my phone number. A few months later, in September, my college ...
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Those who were born in late December are often met with well-meaning pity when they tell people their birth date. Isn’t it hard, they’re asked, to have your special day get lost in a marathon of major holidays?The short answer is, often, yes. (Disclaimer: This story was written ...
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Here are some of our favorite ways that couples who wed in 2022 said, “Will you marry me?”Couples who married in 2022 have had some of their most formative years together during the pandemic, and many have said they developed a strong bond during the time they spent ...
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It was movie night at the Museum of Arts & Design in Manhattan, and the costume designer Machine Dazzle was ready for his entrance.The selection was the 1980 roller-disco fantasy “Xanadu,” and he had draped his 6-foot-5 frame in a shiny take on Olivia Newton-John’s purple Grecian goddess ...
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Here, a Goldilocks-style search for the perfect pair of tall boots.I have successfully resisted knee-high boots for years. I rode out the last cycle when they were in fashion, about 15 years ago, when everybody was tucking their skinny jeans into them. I knew that look wasn’t for ...
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Here, a Goldilocks-style search for the perfect pair of tall boots.I have successfully resisted knee-high boots for years. I rode out the last cycle when they were in fashion, about 15 years ago, when everybody was tucking their skinny jeans into them. I knew that look wasn’t for ...
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You’re no doubt familiar with the feeling of walking into a New Year’s Eve party and confronting a very particular temporal melancholy: the sensation that you and everyone there are doomed to repeat such an arbitrary occasion for the rest of our lives. My parents had their own ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.A Memory Mea Culpa“Your favorite New Year’s Eve ever?” I asked my husband of 10 years. I was recalling our early-romance giddy-tipsy stroll up the Champs-Élysées, champagne and kisses shared between us — but I was ...
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