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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher“While I am grateful for an ever-deepening pool of queer love stories, watching them in adulthood does not sate the deep thirst for direct experience I felt in my youth.”Brian ReaGarrett Schlichte was exactly twice the age of his ...
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What happens when a beauty brand’s collaborators become too controversial, makeup trends change, and Gen Zers flock to TikTok?The James Charles Palette, from the makeup company Morphe, had it all: 39 eye shadows in glittery pinks and blues, audacious neons and nonshimmery neutrals — and a solid gold ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.“The Best Kind of Smile”Our schedules were opposite: office and restaurant. But then the world shut down, and the dining rooms were closed. When Aiesha would normally be waiting tables, we were riding our bikes through ...
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As she was preparing to release “Crash,” the glossiest album of her career as a solo pop artist, Charli XCX was in the doldrums. In December, the British singer and songwriter landed a high-stakes “Saturday Night Live” performance that would feature two of her friends and collaborators, Caroline ...
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Like record players and VHS tapes, landline phones are being embraced by nostalgic fans as an antidote to an increasingly digital way of life.First came the rhinestone-encrusted rotary. Then the cherry-red lips. After that, the cheeseburger.By last summer, Chanell Karr had amassed a collection of six landline phones ...
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How Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky transformed the meaning of a piece of cotton.In the beginning, it was just a T-shirt: basic, olive green; the kind worn under military fatigues or hauled out from the bottom of a wardrobe for workouts and weekends. Sometimes it was more brown than ...
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If all politics is theater, Representative Tim Ryan is one of its subtler actors. A moderate Democrat from Ohio’s 13th district who has represented the state for nearly two decades, his speeches and debate performances are often described as coming out of central casting. His style choices are ...
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The Institute for Art and Olfaction celebrates a decade of exploring our sense of smell.On a recent evening, masked students sat around stainless-steel tables in the scent lab at the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles’s Chinatown, pipettes at the ready. The LED glow from shelves ...
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Sabeena Ladha is the founder of Deux, a raw cookie dough that is vegan and gluten-free.Name: Sabeena LadhaAge: 32Hometown: Born in Chicago and raised in Euless, Tex.Currently Lives: In a 1920s, three-bedroom house in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles, with her husband, Kabir Jain, and a French ...
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Sabeena Ladha is the founder of Deux, a raw cookie dough that is vegan and gluten-free.Name: Sabeena LadhaAge: 32Hometown: Born in Chicago and raised in Euless, Tex.Currently Lives: In a 1920s, three-bedroom house in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles, with her husband, Kabir Jain, and a French ...
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We had no future together, so why not fall completely in love?We were almost to the bridge over the I-5 freeway in Eugene, Ore., when he said, “How old are you?”“Forty-five.” I had just asked him his age and was shocked to learn he was only 32. Now ...
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They play potential lovers in “The Lost City,” but in real life, Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum share a very different kind of bond: They’re play-date parents.On a lively Zoom call with their “Lost City” co-star Daniel Radcliffe, Bullock and Tatum described what it’s like now that her ...
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A reader is turned off by a local shop’s new gratuity-seeking efforts.I managed to get past my annoyance at the tip jar that appeared one day on the counter of my local coffee shop. (Tipping for what? Pouring coffee? Handing me a muffin?) But apparently that wasn’t enough ...
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LONDON — On a cold, wet day in South London, Campbell Addy, the Ghanaian-British photographer, filmmaker and artist, opened the door to his studio, grinning. He was wearing denim overalls, an exuberant corduroy baker boy cap from Nicholas Daley, an oversize rust-colored scarf and Doc Martens. “This is ...
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