Ragers on the beach. Art galleries on Main Street. Reservations disappearing. Who remembers the pandemic?It was 4 p.m. last Friday and a 30-something New Yorker who’d just flown into the East Hampton airport was seated on a bench outside the terminal, typing into his laptop, a pair of ...
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Summer’s here.Welcome. At Home was born in March 2020, as part of The Times’s effort to help readers lead full and cultured lives at home during the coronavirus pandemic. We replaced the Travel section in the Sunday newspaper with an At Home section and launched this newsletter, hoping ...
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Before the contractor can get started on demolishing my kitchen, I have to clear out the things I don’t need. But everyone needs a melon scooper, right?Of all the random objects residing in my kitchen drawers, the truffle shaver is probably the most absurd. I’ve cooked with fresh ...
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Danielle Lavey and Drew Feldman met in April 2020 through a Facebook group for Jewish singles. A few months later an astrologer in Israel confirmed their compatibility.With so little to do in April 2020, Danielle Lavey and Drew Feldman quickly learned they had easy banter. That was enough ...
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Emily Arnold and Youssef Ait-Khouya met while riding camels in Morocco.On the morning of April 24, Emily Arnold and Youssef Ait-Khouya walked over the dunes at Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park outside Kanab, Utah, chose a spot to get married and began accessorizing it. They laid down ...
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One of Guccio Gucci’s great-granddaughters went public with alleged wrongdoing, and now her younger sister is involved too.For the last few months, scenes from Lake Como in Italy, where Ridley Scott is filming of “The House of Gucci,” the movie about the murder-for-hire of Maurizio Gucci by his ...
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Rihanna has been seen leaving Giorgio Baldi in Los Angeles almost weekly. Fans have noticed.The scenic coasts of Northern Tuscany and Southern California are separated by approximately 6,000 miles; one runs along the Tyrrhenian Sea and the other, the Pacific Ocean.And yet guests at Il Ristorante di Giorgio ...
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Shaun Ross is fond of flouting public perceptions.In 2013, he appeared in the music video for Beyoncé’s “Pretty Hurts,” playing an imperious beauty pageant instructor who browbeats the pop diva as being too curvy. “I’m probably the only person in her life who has ever been told to ...
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And for more than two decades, her daughter has been taking it out.In the back of my closet is a small cardboard chest with brass handles and latches that has followed me to every new address; it’s the first thing I find a place for as the moving ...
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Mainstream publishers are fully embracing queer love stories, our columnist writes: “I would call it an embarrassment of riches but what it really is, of course, is pride.”Time was I could have covered every queer romance novel put out by mainstream publishers and still have had room to ...
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Colman Domingo — actor, playwright, dramaturge, producer, professor and the fella who showed up to this year’s Oscars in a hot pink sequined Versace suit — is likely best known for his character of Victor on television’s “Fear the Walking Dead.” He’s also brought a sensitive soulfulness to ...
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With “Cruella” and other recent projects, the Oscar winner is drawn to playing an antiheroine: “There’s something so freeing about it,” she says.Sure, Emma Stone can give you yearning. But isn’t it more fun to do a little scheming instead?Since her Oscar win four years ago for the ...
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The new Disney movie is the latest in a long line of Hollywood films that demonizes the industry. Why?There is a scene, about halfway through “Cruella,” the new Disney origin story for the “101 Dalmatians” baddie, in which the Baroness, a fashion designer diva played by Emma Thompson, ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | StitcherAs her mind veered between visions of life and death, she turned to her only source of solace — prayer — and in doing so, came to a decision: The baby’s life had to be saved.Brian ReaKadine Christie’s birth ...
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