From the Met Gala roster to your lunchtime salad bowl, the tennis champion is suddenly ubiquitous.LOS ANGELES — In today’s world of celebrity branding, captions speak louder than words. But Naomi Osaka’s are decidedly understated.“Keep on keeping on,” the 23-year-old tennis champion posted on Instagram under two on-court ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Ella and VenusThe closest thing my daughter, Ella, could get to a pandemic pet was a Venus flytrap (named Venus). Ella won a scholarship to boarding school and left last August. I lit candles for Venus ...
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The representative from Wyoming embodies a different kind of Republican female power player tradition.In the six days since her defenestration from the leadership ranks of the Republican Party, Liz Cheney — the congresswoman from Wyoming, right-wing Republican, daughter of the former vice president and now leader of the ...
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This week, discover the cultural and societal impact of sneakers, practice your math skills or explore what a net zero climate might look like.Here is a sampling of the week’s events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events are subject to change after ...
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What will happen to the city after the pandemic? Here are five scenarios to ponder.“It’s a ghost town,” former President Donald J. Trump said of New York City last fall during a presidential debate. “It’s dying, everyone’s leaving New York.”He was not the only one who saw all ...
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When the writer and model Paulina Porizkova was asked by Aaron Sorkin to join him at the Oscars for what would be their second real date, she hesitated.The first had gone well. “He’s a great kisser,” Ms. Porizkova, 56, said on a Zoom call from Los Angeles, in ...
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Created as a cryptocurrency parody in 2013, Dogecoin languished for years. Then, in 2021, it went absolutely wild. What have its holders learned?In 2013, two friends who met in a chat room created Dogecoin as a joke. Named after a meme of an expressive dog, it was meant ...
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Created as a cryptocurrency parody in 2013, Dogecoin languished for years. Then, in 2021, it went absolutely wild. What have its holders learned?In 2013, two friends who met in a chat room created Dogecoin as a joke. Named after a meme of an expressive dog, it was meant ...
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Craft projects and gospel choirs.Want to get the At Home newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here.Welcome. After a year of limited socializing, seeing more people in person can be as exhausting as it is exciting. Activities once commonplace — hugging a friend, dining indoors, going to the ...
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Stacey Chen and Nick Cugini first met in high school as members of competing debating teams. In college, they were on the same side.When Nick Cugini received a Facebook friend request from Stacey Chen, he was intrigued, and a little amused.The two, who were then teenagers, had met ...
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A new Netflix show could create the viral fashion trend of summer. Except the clothes play second fiddle to the divadom and drama.It was bound to happen. After the viral trendsetting of the ’60s shifts in “The Queen’s Gambit” and the ’80s puff sleeves of “The Crown,” it ...
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A new Netflix show could create the viral fashion trend of summer. Except the clothes play second fiddle to the divadom and drama.It was bound to happen. After the viral trendsetting of the ’60s shifts in “The Queen’s Gambit” and the ’80s puff sleeves of “The Crown,” it ...
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The model, photographer and activist is a host of “Shine True,” a reality show on transgender young adults.Name: Richie ShazamAge: 30Hometown: Queens, N.Y.Now Lives: In a three-bedroom apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.Claim to Fame: Richie Shazam is a model, photographer, nightlife habitué and the co-host of ...
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At a karaoke competition in 2014, Mary Crowley heard Justin Douds sing “I’m just a bachelor. I’m looking for a partner.” The words rang true three years later.Mary Alexandra Kougeas Crowley perked up her ears when Justin Warren Douds sang “I’m just a bachelor. I’m looking for a ...
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