It’s just a plant — but one that takes me back to the traumatic adolescence I tried so hard to escape.I didn’t want the staghorn fern, but the thought of owning one made my husband, Tom, so happy. On the way to our friend’s house to pick it ...
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Caroline Vazzana and David Lopes met as college students. Nine years later, they had a fashion-filled wedding befitting of a style influencer.When Caroline Vazzana and David Lopes met on a double date, which they only agreed to as favors to friends, they couldn’t have imagined they would one ...
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At the Brooklyn Museum, a tribute to fashion’s showman who built temples out of curves and proved clothing had metamorphic properties.Manfred Thierry Mugler, the boundary-pushing French couturier whose glamazons and fembots helped define fashion in the 1980s and ’90s and who died earlier this year, famously hated retrospectives ...
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Watching his oncologist onscreen, I finally saw our lives more fully.It was not until shortly after my husband, Josh, died in the summer of 2021 that I learned his oncologist, Dr. Gabriel Sara, was starring in a film opposite the legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve.I was at the ...
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Here are five opulent options on the market this year.A new column for people whose fantasy life involves a lot of shopping.Every holiday season I buy multiple Advent calendars. I’m not so moved by counting down to Christmas as I am excited by the idea of getting a ...
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Heartbreak and technical difficulties abounded as fans clamored to buy tickets for the pop star’s first tour since 2018.Sarah Pontillo’s mother let her skip school to buy Taylor Swift tickets.The plan was for Ms. Pontillo, who is a high school junior, to attend her first two classes on ...
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MinChan Kim, 18, is the pilot to watch when the Drone Racing League returns to NBC Sports this weekend.The pilots took turns speeding their drones through a neon-colored course, zooming around sharp turns and diving into gates at speeds of up to 90 miles per hour like turbocharged ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music“My search for a donor stalled because I didn’t have a good feeling about any of them. When I finally told Rex about my plan to become a mother, he said, ‘I can help you with ...
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Before the women became fashion designer and muse, they connected over relationships of a different sort.“We would talk about cute boys,” Christian Joy said of her early conversations with a young Karen Orzolek, the frontwoman of the rock band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who is now known simply ...
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When her parents receive a windfall after a lifetime of economical living, a reader tries to steer them toward financial restraint — and away from a private jet.My father is celebrating his 60th birthday next month. He and my mother are teachers; they live modestly. But he came ...
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A little knowledge of botany can be helpful, even if you’re an amateur gardener. Here are a few things you should know about what happens in the fall.What’s going on out there — and why? Some version of that is the perennial question on any inquisitive gardener’s mind.Fall ...
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Performers like Dua Lipa and Rosalía are peppering their tours with dance moves and gestures that can seem specifically engineered to go viral. In some cases, they are.By the time Dua Lipa announced that there would be a Latin American leg of her “Future Nostalgia” tour, Will Laura ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Forever IntertwinedMy first friends were my cousins and siblings. After eating early family dinners, we spent many Sunday evenings sprawled across our grandparents’ bed. We lay sated, entranced by the television, our limbs crossing limbs, our ...
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In this digital age, a handwritten note may seem like a relic. But etiquette experts say they can be more powerful than ever.These days, checking your mailbox can be a disheartening experience. You shuffle past catalogs and bills, riffling through political fliers and advertising postcards addressed to “Resident.” ...
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