On the night of April 17, a crowd of 20- and 30-somethings, many of them queer, packed into Georgia Room, a Georgia O’Keeffe-inspired nightclub at the Freehand Hotel in Manhattan. They were there to drink and dance, but they hadn’t paid $25 each to grind or freestyle. They ...
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While hundreds of thousands are expected to arrive in London ahead of the crowning of King Charles III, others are making plans to get out of town.Robin Higgins Horwitz knew she wanted to be in London for the coronation of King Charles III, even before the event was ...
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A tale of two Manhattan media bashes. One was a star-studded, made-for-TV event. The other was attended by journalists who have been put through the digital wringer.On Thursday, a week after BuzzFeed closed its Pulitzer Prize-winning news division and laid off 15 percent of its staff, Jonah Peretti, ...
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President Biden, who gets out of town most weekends, will attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday evening.WASHINGTON — The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is an annual celebration of the importance of the First Amendment. And, you know, Chrissy Teigen might show up.On Saturday night, ...
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Seemingly flirtatious moments between the two stars have fueled speculation about their relationship. But we’ve seen this all before.Rumors of a possible romance between the actors Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell swirled online this week after a series of seemingly flirtatious moments catapulted them into the spotlight. The ...
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And a moment of joy from TikTokRachel Stern for The New York TimesHi! I’m Madison and this is the first edition of It Happened Online.It’ll be quick. It’ll be fun. It’ll make you the most internet-savvy member of your group chat. (Probably!) I got my verified Twitter check ...
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A charismatic viral video star who stands just over three feet tall has become the most beloved man in the U.F.C. universe — even though he doesn’t actually fight.At an N.B.A. game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks on March 17, Hasbulla Magomedov got the ...
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A charismatic viral video star who stands just over three feet tall has become the most beloved man in the U.F.C. universe — even though he doesn’t actually fight.At an N.B.A. game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks on March 17, Hasbulla Magomedov got the ...
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Jhanaë Bonnick and Patrick McDonnell, who both worked in theater, connected on a dating app just before the pandemic began. They grew closer virtually with the help of “36 Questions.”For three weeks after they matched on Hinge in February 2020, Jhanaë K-C Bonnick and Patrick Sean McDonnell tried ...
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When my aunt died by suicide at 39, I blamed myself. Strange as it sounds, I needed David Schwimmer to help me heal.I had been having a conversation in my head with David Schwimmer, who played Ross on the TV show “Friends,” for more than 10 years. When ...
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After matching on Hinge, Nick Matcheck and Lori Hu waited three months before meeting in person. By then, they had already decided to live together in Wisconsin.Nicholas Brandon Matcheck arrived with a single red rose the first time he met Chunyu Hu face to face in June 2020 ...
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On Tuesday night, a procession of writers, editors and publishing-industry veterans stepped past the lions outside the New York Public Library’s main branch on Fifth Avenue as they made their way to a dinner celebrating the acquisition of the archives of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne.The vast ...
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Her new book, “You Could Make This Place Beautiful,” is an exploration of what happened to her marriage after she became a well-known poet.The American poet and writer Maggie Smith exudes a beatific warmth, so it seemed apt — a felicitous pairing of author and venue — that ...
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Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue and global editorial director of Condé Nast, has been the maestro of every Met Gala since 1999. But this time, it’s personal.Not just because the exhibition the party honors is devoted to the work of the much celebrated designer Karl Lagerfeld, who ...
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