Opening Ceremony Fashion: Best and WorstVanessa FriedmanWatching the Olympics from New YorkJames Hill for The New York TimesThe parade of nations in the Winter Olympics is really the parade of puffers. Unlike the Summer Games, cold weather means less room for fashion. Still, some countries tried their best ...
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At a dinner during the Cannes Film Festival in July, Renate Reinsve found herself so nervous in the company of famous actors that she spent the evening chatting with their bodyguards instead. When a photographer who had been taking pictures of Timothée Chalamet appeared near the group, she ...
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A daily reminder of mortality can be more gift than burden.Six weeks after we married, my husband got a phone call from his mother, and we rushed to the hospital. His aunt Lona lay in the intensive care unit after a bad headache at breakfast turned out to ...
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Edgar Alonzo wanted to settle down and raise children when he met Beatriz Rivera, who was in the midst of a divorce and already had a grown child.Edgar Alonzo was moving in for a cheek-to-cheek moment with Beatriz Rivera when he got his first indication that they weren’t ...
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A homage to a predigital era has popped up, as a crowdsourced art project that lives, paradoxically, on Instagram. To Matthew Atkatz, the college snapshots he kept in shoe boxes in his closet for years raised a koan-like question: “If they are sitting in a box,” Mr. Atkatz, ...
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A homage to a predigital era has popped up, as a crowdsourced art project that lives, paradoxically, on Instagram. To Matthew Atkatz, the college snapshots he kept in shoe boxes in his closet for years raised a koan-like question: “If they are sitting in a box,” Mr. Atkatz, ...
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Retailers, keen to cash in on a Hallmark holiday, have been selling pink plastic trees and oversized conversation hearts to adorn them. Now they’re popping up on crafty corners of the internet.Sandra Di Carlo Valdez looked at her Christmas tree in January and felt a wave of sadness ...
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The “Crime Junkie” co-host, who oversees a network of popular podcasts, has a new show coming, aimed at heating up the “coldest of cases.”Late last month, Ashley Flowers, 33, the producer of more than a dozen true crime podcasts, was racing between her home and her office in ...
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A new Hulu series starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan is a picaresque romp through the history of the stolen sex tape that changed pop culture.Back when 1995 was young, Pamela Anderson and her new husband, Tommy Lee, the drummer for the flashy metal combo Mötley Crüe, were ...
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On March 9, join David Leonhardt for a live-streamed edition of the newsletter as we explore what Omicron signals about the state of the pandemic, and watch Modern Love editors share their favorite reader-submitted Tiny Love Stories. Live Event The Morning at Night Wednesday, March 9 7 p.m ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.The Mystery of His Words“I love you, sweetheart. I’ll never forget you.” For years, I puzzled over my grandfather’s last words to my grandmother. He wasn’t a religious man, and it was he who was dying ...
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LOS ANGELES — Of course the fireplace is lit at Jennifer Lopez’s house. It’s a rainy day just a week before Christmas, and her Spanish-style Bel-Air estate is decorated as you would expect: pine garland strewn around the mantle, orange roses on the coffee table, a professionally trimmed ...
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In his latest works, the artist Troy Lamarr Chew II has embedded references to the Bart Simpson, the Shopping Cart and many other familiar moves.Last year, Troy Lamarr Chew II spent countless hours in the studio. If he weren’t an artist, though, he might be a linguist, a ...
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Commonly used to describe that extra something added to almost anything, the slang term has a centuries-long history.When you fluff up pillows on your well-worn sofa, or turn your shirt sleeves up just-so, or sprinkle some spices over your morning eggs, you may be engaging in the art ...
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