In her latest crime novel, Megan Abbott takes on the contractor-client relationship. In her Queens apartment, she’s avoided renovation altogether.More perhaps than most, Megan Abbott knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men (and women, too). This explains Ms. Abbott’s ability to conjure the perfect bad guy ...
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Since 2008, a South Asian American child has been named a champion at every Scripps National Spelling Bee.Eighth graders aren’t generally known as dictionary aficionados. But Dhroov Bharatia, 12, has a passion for language.“Nothing can express an idea as effectively as a judicious use of words,” he said ...
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Face coverings are coming off, though not for everyone.On a recent Sunday night at Le Bilboquet, a see-and-be-seen restaurant in the Hamptons, well-heeled diners nibbled on $475 tins of Osetra caviar. A handsome man showed off his gold Audemars Piguet watch to his sparkly female companion. A party ...
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‘Summer of Soul,’ butter mochi and dark rosés.Welcome. It’s a holiday weekend in the United States, another milestone, where we might pause and consider where we were one year ago. What’s changed? Take a minute this weekend to consider where you were, what you were feeling, what was ...
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Whitney Jean and Troy Alim II fell in love after meeting at a voter-registration drive in Chicago about five years ago.Troy Alim II didn’t mean to be rude when he interrupted a conversation Whitney Jean was having during a Chicago voter-registration drive in 2016. But when he overheard ...
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Give me a fixer-upper and I’ll turn him into someone desirable — for someone else.I am a man flipper. I meet a man, fix him up and flip him to someone else. Unlike people who flip real estate — buying houses, renovating them and selling them for a ...
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News that several cast members from the franchise applied for and received federal loans during the pandemic left many fans confused.Several contestants from “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” were asked this week to explain to their fans why they applied for government loans during the Covid-19 pandemic.The Bachelor ...
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In Athens and on the island of Paros, a visitor joins other international travelers in search of that idyllic European vacation they’ve been yearning for.The plaster-cast heads of Dionysus were back. The unblinking blue Mati evil eyes and Parthenon refrigerator magnets hung once more outside the souvenir shops ...
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It’s a great time to learn about copyright law!Olivia Rodrigo has been at the top of pop music since nearly the beginning of the year.First there was “Drivers License,” Ms. Rodrigo’s runaway hit single, which inspired a viral TikTok challenge and topped the Billboard Hot 100 list for ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher“This situation — entering the hospital room of my wife’s lover — risked exposing our oddness in a way that unnerved me.”Brian ReaWhat are the boundaries of an open marriage? And what are the boundaries of an open marriage ...
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Your soundtrack for the season.Welcome. On Monday afternoon, the temperature reached a record 117 degrees Fahrenheit in Salem, Ore. The recent heat wave in the Northwest is not “hot enough for ya?” weather or “cool off with a Popsicle” weather. It’s extreme weather — off-the-charts, as the team ...
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His namesake line of purses grew fast last year, in part because of his “End Systemic Racism” tote. Now he can barely keep up with the demand.The comments began on social media, as they usually do.Women who had bought a Brandon Blackwood purse and patiently waited weeks for ...
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The aperitifs arrived as the Capri sun dipped into an orange band across the Gulf of Naples and a couple on the terrace talked about how quiet the island had become. The hotel felt empty, and its barman, in elegant suit and tie, interrupted his revelry about the ...
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RADNOR, Pa.— This affluent 340-year-old township of 31,000 residents on the Main Line has long been a bastion of gentility and geniality. “The Philadelphia Story,” that arch drawing-room comedy starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, was set in Radnor, and its public high school served as the inspiration ...
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