Samiyyah Ali wasn’t sure how Krystal Ramseur felt about her until Ms. Ramseur made her the equivalent of a comedic mixtape.When Krystal Alyssia Ramseur asked Samiyyah Rasheedah Ali in August 2020 if she wanted to work together to create a virtual improv show about two queer Black women, ...
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We had compromised in our marriages, denied parts of ourselves, often felt lonely, but who didn’t? Weren’t we happy enough?I was sitting at DK Donuts in Boise, Idaho, on a dreary November day, talking by phone to my therapist in London, where my husband was, and where I ...
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Andrew MacRae fell for Kaitlin Green at the annual desert arts festival, but Ms. Green kept her distance until members of their camp met virtually when Covid-19 hit.Andrew Joseph MacRae picked up a last-minute ticket to the Burning Man arts gathering in Black Rock City, Nev., in August ...
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Jennifer Kizza and Field Brown felt an immediate connection during their first phone conversation two years ago. “I knew that day, romantic or not, Field was going to be in my life for the rest of my life,” she said.Jennifer Frances Namuli Kizza was feeling tired after work ...
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The “Vanderpump Rules” star talks about filming the season finale with her ex Tom Sandoval and what she won’t do next season.After a few uncertain years, the Bravo reality series “Vanderpump Rules” seems to have been given a new lease on life.Over the last two months, the news ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.More than 30 Minutes TogetherWindows down, music blasting as we drive over the mountains that divide the Sonoma and Napa valleys. My sister and I have memorized these mountains, as we’ve been making this commute between ...
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Credit the show’s star and creator, Jason Sudeikis, a real-life sneakerhead who owns about 250 pairs.There’s a reason that Ted Lasso, the fictional, sunny, mustachioed American hired to manage an English football club in the Apple TV+ series of the same name, is a sneakerhead.“It was rooted in ...
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Richie Shazam, a model and downtown artist, has made an explosive book of self-portraits.For Richie Shazam, becoming a Bollywood princess was not a manifestation. It was a realization.The model, photographer and director thinks that the term “manifestation” has become a buzzword that removes accountability, she explained in Ludlow ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.More than 30 Minutes TogetherWindows down, music blasting as we drive over the mountains that divide the Sonoma and Napa valleys. My sister and I have memorized these mountains, as we’ve been making this commute between ...
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Somerville, Mass., has passed laws granting rights to people in polyamorous relationships — and it’s just getting started.Jace Knight had heard about Somerville, Mass., while working on a Ph.D. at the University of Alabama in 2020.The small city had recently passed a law granting domestic partnership rights, like ...
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Modern legal spectacles are now must-see entertainment — and the inspiration for a growing (if not niche) type of merchandise.When Jessica Clary visited Los Angeles as a teenager with her mother in 1995, the attraction they were most excited to see was not the Hollywood sign or Rodeo ...
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Art of Craft is a series about specialists whose work rises to the level of art.The textile artist Bisa Butler was working in her studio in Jersey City, N.J., one day when her husband, John Butler, a D.J., played the song “The World Is Yours” by the hip-hop ...
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CHICAGO — Moments before 10 a.m., a security guard thanked the crowd for being cooperative.When the clock struck the hour, it became clear why: The doors of the Marriott Chicago O’Hare conference center opened, and hundreds of attendees, a majority of whom were over the age of 60, ...
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Online, practically every famous woman is “mother,” a term with deep ties to the L.G.B.T.Q. ballroom community.To many people on the internet, the actress Toni Collette is known simply as “mother.”Ms. Collette has played more than her share of mothers throughout her career: a matriarch with dissociative identity ...
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