The young stars of the HBO skate comedy discuss how pandemic-era New York shaped the new season. “Our show grows with us and changes with our world,” Ajani Russell said.On a recent morning at Golconda Skate Park, beneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the stars of ...
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Jamila Ross and Akino West met as culinary students. They communicated through their love for food. A little therapy helped, too.Jamila Ross and Akino West both work in the food and hospitality business, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end.When the pair, who had dated off and ...
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Victoria Hogan has married thousands of couples in Las Vegas, and after meeting Stephen Fetterusso, got to experience her own wedding.It was the classic tale with a twist: Victoria Hogan was always the officiant, never the bride.The 35-year-old owner of a Las Vegas-based pop-up wedding company, Flora Pop, ...
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Nicole Nelson and Kyle Kriewall attended several activities together with friends, but it would be months before a romance developed.A cabin weekend, in February 2018, with perhaps a bit of hockey, some snowmobiling and football, and definitely with a big fire in the middle of Lake 26, in ...
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As they got to know each other better, Emily Capilouto and Dr. James Harb realized they had more similarities than differences.On paper, Emily Capilouto and Dr. James Harb didn’t seem to have much in common when they connected through the dating app Bumble in 2018 and agreed to ...
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Dating as a transgender woman, in my experience, meant low expectations and casual sex. Then I met Jack.My bio on Grindr read: “Be trans friendly. Send face to chat.”It was difficult to be on a gay hookup app as a trans woman. Most men in my feed desired ...
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As throngs of residents watched, the stars of the movie, set in Washington Heights, walked a sunny yellow carpet outside the United Palace.At the Plaza de las Americas in Washington Heights, fruit and vegetable vendors usually sell produce until dusk. But on Wednesday, it was transformed into a ...
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LOS ANGELES — Amanda Kloots is not surprised that she’s famous.You don’t move to New York from Ohio at 18, go to countless thanks-but-no-thanks auditions, dust yourself off again and again, or practice tap dance nightly on your small apartment bathroom floor in case a spot in the ...
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Saundra Pelletier is marketing a new form of birth control to women wary of hormones.SAN DIEGO — If you’re a woman aged 18 to 34, you may have seen a Phexxi ad during a commercial break on Hulu. Or you could have come across the product — a ...
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How “Ships of the Northern Fleet,” a crowdsourced sci-fi project, navigated from TikTok all the way to the convention circuit.In early April, the cast and crew of “Ships of the Northern Fleet” were reminiscing at a virtual convention.Catie Osborn, who played the fan favorite Annie, recalled the time ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher“I had always pitied the desperate fools targeted by those ads. Now it seemed the desperate fool was me.”Brian Rea“Love life not working out? Health problems? Everything going wrong?”Amisha Patel used to be skeptical of astrological services that offered ...
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There’s no need to rush.Welcome. You must read Priya Krishna’s story about M.R.E.s, shelf-stable “Meals, Ready-to-Eat” created for the U.S. military but popular with civilians during the pandemic. M.R.E. enthusiasts buy the rations online and taste-test their decades-old meats-in-pouches on YouTube and TikTok. Priya visited a Massachusetts lab ...
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The annual event, which has dropped “film” from its name, began after 9/11, as part of New York City’s comeback. Can it stage an encore this month?Paula Weinstein can’t remember the last movie she watched in a theater.“Oh, golly,” Weinstein, the chief content officer of Tribeca Enterprises and ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Ready to Hug MeOrphaned at 13, I thought about how I would never again play basketball with my father or talk about crushes on girls with my mother. But even then, living with my grandparents, I ...
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