The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.At first, I didn’t recognize the symptoms that we all had in common. Friends mentioned that they were having trouble concentrating. Colleagues reported that even with ...
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This week, tune in to a drag-queen story hour, learn about equity in the cannabis industry with Snoop Dogg or listen to a conversation with the journalist Don Lemon.Here is a sampling of the week’s events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events ...
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Asparagus and books.Want to get the At Home newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here.Welcome. I suggest starting your weekend with this Wesley Morris essay, which surveys the 2021 Oscar nominees and reflects on how the pandemic has changed the way we consume entertainment. He isn’t a fan ...
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Many of us turned to gardening for solace during the pandemic. Now Martha Stewart and Drew Barrymore want to guide us to green thumbs.Last spring, as the world descended into a collective panic, Drew Barrymore planted her first lawn. “I did not think I could do this,” said ...
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George Hahn loves New York. But in 2016, the writer, actor and sartorial pragmatist wrote an essay about how the city — his home for 22 years — had become unsustainable for his creative lifestyle. He decided to move home, to Cleveland, Ohio, where he marveled at his ...
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She opened the first gallery in SoHo and was a part of Chelsea’s initial wave. Now, at 83, the dean of ‘tough art’ will bring in new partners and start a year-round branch in Palm Beach.In her first show at Paula Cooper Gallery in Chelsea, the painter Cecily ...
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Plus, Jerome LaMaar and RoseLee Goldberg on nurturing art in their studios.With the New York charity circuit on hiatus, here is how some philanthropists and society figures are spending their time and resources during the pandemic.Matthew BroderickAge: 59Occupation: actor, singerFavorite Charity: the Actors FundWhere have you been hunkering ...
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Sarah Lockridge-Steckel moved to Memphis to start a nonprofit group. She was part of Kito Lord’s 10-year plan. So Memphis became part of his plan, too.Dr. Kito Akin Obasi Lord likes to say he met Sarah Orcasita Lockridge-Steckel in January 2016 in Barcelona. Not the city in Spain, ...
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As a Pakistani Muslim, I knew that falling for a Hindu Indian would break me. And it did. We started texting during the early months of the pandemic, going back and forth every day for hours. The stay-at-home order created a space for us to get to know ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | StitcherSocial media apologies have become the standard celebrity response to internet outrage. But why do they feel so deeply inadequate? Jenna and Wesley dissect a new spate of public apologies from the last year. And they look to the ...
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Two glistening superstars have decoupled. It’s springtime in New York.Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez at a gala in 2018.Rebecca Smeyne for The New York TimesAfter weeks of rumors and retractions, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez, two of the world’s great New Yorkers, announced on Thursday that they were ...
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Meet Tracii Hutsona. “She can talk anybody into anything,” said her sister. Over decades, authorities say, she did.Tracii Show Hutsona and Derrell Hutsona showed off the expensive cars they drove, the jets they chartered, the celebrity perks they scored and the fancy properties in Southern California they may ...
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Sure, the tax revenue is nice. But ….Even without final data from New York City about how many people remained in the city during the pandemic, an abundance of anecdotal evidence exists about the exodus of its wealthiest residents.At the writer Molly Jong-Fast’s Upper East Side apartment building, ...
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Sigrid Jakob showed up to Green-Wood Cemetery hot on the heels of a recent victory: The deer dung she was cultivating in her apartment had just yielded a particularly exciting specimen of fungi.She’d gathered the dung in a park in the Bronx, she said, and was currently storing ...
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