Maybe it’s the rats. Or the smell. Or the bad rap from veterinarians, pet lovers and newspapers. Whatever the reason, it seems more and more New York dog owners no longer think the city’s public dog runs are a good place for their pups to play.“It’s unruly. Dogs ...
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A new book examines how Black civil rights leaders, jazzmen, artists and writers rewrote the sartorial codes of a largely white elite.It is a rare event when a volume comes along that skews our understandings of fashion as effectively as “Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style,” which will ...
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Trading buzzwords, talking circularity and grappling with the role of clothes in the climate crisis.The first time fashion got anywhere near an official United Nations climate conference like the one just held in Glasgow was in 2009. That was COP15 (COP stands for “conference of the parties”), and ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Delayed DeliveranceTicket stubs, foreign coins. Life’s ephemera tossed into a box. After my husband, Kevin, died of cancer at 49, I packed it away on a shelf, unopened. Now, a decade later, it was time to ...
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The Tony Award-winning actor Daisy Eagan and her husband Keith Bloom, who are in an open relationship, share how they designed a marriage that works for them.Because marriage is an ever-evolving experience, we constantly shift, change and, in some cases, start over. In It’s No Secret, couples share ...
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How facial muscle paralysis insinuated itself into our emotional and creative lives.Last spring, Botox rolled out a series of ads directed by the filmmaker Errol Morris. Styled like very short documentary films, the ads featured Botox users — a widower, a single mother, a drag performer — telling ...
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How facial muscle paralysis insinuated itself into our emotional and creative lives.Last spring, Botox rolled out a series of ads directed by the filmmaker Errol Morris. Styled like very short documentary films, the ads featured Botox users — a widower, a single mother, a drag performer — telling ...
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LOS ANGELES — Sam Asghari is a nascent actor and erstwhile personal trainer. But this highly polite, handsome and friendly 27-year-old is better known to millions as the fiancé of a 39-year-old woman who was, for years, the biggest pop star in the world, control over whose personal ...
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The Rodarte designers on creating costumes for the sequel to the animated film “Sing.”What should an animated elephant, anthropomorphized as a shy teenage girl with a crush on an ice-cream vendor, wear onstage while she performs Aretha Franklin’s “I Say a Little Prayer” in front of said vendor?This ...
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A reader asks for guidance on finding glamorous loungewear.Around Christmas and New Year’s, my husband and I enjoy watching films from the 1930s and ’40s. I always admire the women’s glamorous loungewear, especially Myrna Loy as Nora Charles in the “Thin Man” movies. But every place I look ...
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Watch “Passing,” plan for Thanksgiving.Welcome. The first week after daylight saving time ends is always a bit disorienting, isn’t it? Days feel abbreviated, it’s always dinnertime again.This weekend, the shorter days will start to feel more comfortable. Settle in. Try one of the new black-and-white films that our ...
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A few homeowners across the country are trying to find out, by experimenting with new (and old) construction techniques.When a massive wildfire swept through Paradise, Calif., three years ago this week, it killed 85 people and destroyed more than 13,000 homes. The wood chalet-style cabin where Mike and ...
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After a second divorce, Petra Schaefer had committed to 100 dates, with someone different each time. Then she met Bruce Hunsaker.A methodical approach to dating, an open-mindedness about baseball and a mutual appreciation for a wager. These were a few of the elements that led Petra Schaefer and ...
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Dr. Sarah Santucci and Kevin Zhang met in 2013 at Princeton. She had impressed him with her knowledge of plants.Dr. Sarah Santucci and Kevin Zhang have always shared a love of plants.The pair met when Dr. Santucci stopped by the table for Mr. Zhang’s botany club at Princeton ...
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