The stately 1788 home in South Carolina had expansive rooms and a walled garden. But it needed a lot of work — and that would take time and money.For years, Julie and Rowan Taylor dreamed of what it would be like to live in Charleston, S.C.“We first came ...
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When artistic license collides with reality, which one wins?The fractious Gucci family, whose internecine power struggles famously helped it lose the company Guccio Gucci founded in 1921, has finally found common cause once again.The reason for the family’s reunification: “House of Gucci,” the 24-carat camp drama framed in ...
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Dissecting the visual aspects of the violent video circulated by Representative Paul Gosar.In October, a video depicting the murder of a United States congresswoman made a brief, explosive Twitter debut. The 90-second clip, created by Representative Paul Gosar, Republican of Arizona, was a doctored anime depicting Mr. Gosar ...
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En un mundo de caos pandémico, conflictos políticos y catástrofes climáticas, algunos aspirantes a padres ven el futuro demasiado sombrío como para ampliar la familia.Antes de casarse con su esposo, Kiersten Little lo consideraba un padre ideal. “Siempre vivimos con la mentalidad de casarnos y tener hijos”, relató ...
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Move over, “Friends.” Turn off “The Office.” The new comforting media is streamers.Among the legions of young people who spend their days watching content creators on Twitch and YouTube, a new honorific is on the rise: the comfort creator.The term is used by fans to describe the video ...
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His expansive approach to design inspired comparisons to artists including Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons. For him, clothes were totems of identity.Virgil Abloh, the barrier-breaking Black designer whose ascent to the heights of the traditional luxury industry changed what was possible in fashion, died on Sunday in Chicago ...
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He gave up a dance career to create a crossover, and now classic, hit film in 1971 that had both gay and straight audiences, and celebrities, lining up to see it.One New York night in the early 1970s, a dancer and budding filmmaker named Wakefield Poole went to ...
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Eat leftovers, take stock.Welcome. Let’s talk about leftovers. It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and while I have been looking forward to spending the day with people I haven’t seen for two years, I was perhaps equally anticipating Leftovers Friday, which is the first day, really, of Leftovers Weekend ...
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She wasn’t who her in-laws expected their daughter to marry. But on the eve of her wedding, her father-in-law made it clear she was family.We stood in the same living room my fiancée sat in as a child watching Saturday morning cartoons. It was the night before our ...
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A neighbor introduced Becky Headen to Tony Hernandez’s artwork in 2001. Twelve years later, they had a first date.Rebekah Headen fell in love with Tony Hernandez years before she actually met him. Not only that, it was love at first sight.“Where did you get that beautiful painting?” Ms ...
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An evening at Mist Harlem, a former restaurant and bar, propelled Walter Smith-Randolph and LeAnne Armstead’s 12-year friendship into something more.Walter Smith-Randolph said he was interested in LeAnne Armstead from the moment he met her at a 2005 barbecue hosted by Villanova University’s Black Cultural Society.But it was ...
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If I were a salmon, I would die for my child. As a human being, I wish I could have.I can’t stop thinking about salmon. Recently we had salmon spawning season here in Seattle, and I was able to see it for the first time. I am not ...
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A perfect storm of internet fashion trends — and Halloween — has resurrected a Y2K-era Versace dress. At least, for now.A funny thing happened on Nov. 8 on the set of “The Voice”: Ariana Grande, the show’s newest coach, came to work in a Versace dress that had ...
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Here’s what our readers have planned.Welcome. Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving, and whether you’re celebrating at home, away or not at all, it’s likely that this year’s holiday looks different from last year’s. The vaccine’s changed the options for many of us, opening up possibilities for family gatherings and Friendsgivings. As ...
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