The beloved red-sauce restaurant in New York’s Chinatown has served its last clams casino. “It’s hard, but we’re leaving while we’re still on top,” Derek Forlini said.As word spread about the closing of Forlini’s, an old Italian restaurant in Chinatown that became a haunt for fashionistas, artists and ...
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The actress and Emmy Award-winning producer talks about what it was like being the interviewer, for a change.The actress Laverne Cox, who is known for her roles on “Orange Is the New Black” and “Inventing Anna,” has become a familiar face on Hollywood red carpets. But this season, ...
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The actress and Emmy Award-winning producer talks about what it was like being the interviewer, for a change.The actress Laverne Cox, who is known for her roles on “Orange Is the New Black” and “Inventing Anna,” has become a familiar face on Hollywood red carpets. But this season, ...
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Sixteen couples from across the country were married onstage during a three-day rock festival in Oklahoma City, and five others renewed their vows.By the time the last drum kit was pounded and the final tattooed singer strutted off the stage at Honeymoon Rock Fest in Oklahoma City, 16 ...
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When the last thing you share is your pharmacy rewards account.When my father came home to New Rochelle from his job in Manhattan, he was usually tired and grouchy. But on some days, inside his beaten-up briefcase, nestled among yellow pads, would be large bags of candy, usually ...
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Chrystina Crown and Nathanael Thompson, who met on Hinge more than two years ago, bonded over a commitment to become foster parents.Soon after Chrystina Moritz Crown and Nathanael Robert Thompson met on the dating app Hinge in December 2019, she invited him to go on a road trip ...
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When the right to control your own body and the right to dress how you like intersect.Ever since she announced her pregnancy in late January via Instagram and an artfully staged paparazzi shot of her and her partner ASAP Rocky strolling beneath the Riverside Drive viaduct, Rihanna’s maternity ...
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The singer wanted a new kind of backup dancer. Along the way, she ended up making a new kind of TV show.Lizzo would have rather just hired her dancers through an agency. But, as she says on the first episode of her new show that premiered on Amazon ...
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For this devoted group of cruise fanatics, most of them retirees, the aim is to almost never touch dry land. “We were really homesick for our second home,” says one.On a Wednesday morning in March, Rita Deitchman, 74, was wearing a Royal Caribbean diamond necklace, earrings and bracelets, ...
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Every 20 years, New York collects vital information about birds. And gardeners have an important role to play.I am chasing weeds, crawling around in the cool, moist earth, in pursuit of thuggish green rosettes of garlic mustard. Not 20 feet away, another kind of chase is on, as ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.She Chose Another RoadI have a drawer full of magic. Serums, powders, creams, all promising to reverse time. Every day it takes me a bit longer to look how I think I should. My daughter, now ...
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By the time the body of the stone dealer was discovered in his Upper West Side apartment, it had been decomposing for several weeks. The summer of 1969 was a scorcher, and the smell was so repellent that city officials ordered the building’s superintendent, Stanley, to dispose of ...
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In a cavernous studio on a wind farm in Forest Grove, Ore., about halfway between Portland and the Tillamook State Forest, Julian Gaines, an artist born and raised in Chicago, is creating a body of work devoted to Black American life.He starts his workday at 9 a.m. and ...
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In a cavernous studio on a wind farm in Forest Grove, Ore., about halfway between Portland and the Tillamook State Forest, Julian Gaines, an artist born and raised in Chicago, is creating a body of work devoted to Black American life.He starts his workday at 9 a.m. and ...
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