For decades the New York theater world paid homage to J. Smith-Cameron, a veteran stage actress who has often been compared to Carole Lombard for her precise timing and comic verve. When she wasn’t doing Molière or Shakespeare, she was impressing critics and her fellow actors with her ...
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A critical-care nurse wanted to build a house in Los Angeles for ‘just one person.’ Finding the perfect lot wasn’t easy.Mark Arnold had owned a few different homes in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, but none of them fulfilled a dream he had harbored since childhood. “I always ...
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Ilson Goncalves, who runs a popular Brazilian restaurant in New Jersey, never thought he would have a meaningful relationship — until he met Yasar Sakman on a summer vacation in Turkey.At the height of the pandemic, Ilson Leir Goncalves was winning a reputation around Montclair, N.J., as a ...
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And the ensuing beauty, tragedy and pain has been exquisite.Years later, I still told the undergraduate students in my research methods class the story of my first date with Corey to help them remember the concept of regression to the mean — how something that is extreme on ...
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And the ensuing beauty, tragedy and pain has been exquisite.Years later, I still told the undergraduate students in my research methods class the story of my first date with Corey to help them remember the concept of regression to the mean — how something that is extreme on ...
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Jennifer Walters and Clark Palicka met as Air Force pilots. Eventually, the stresses of military life caused them to cut off contact for a while.The first time Jennifer Nicole Walters spoke with John Clark Palicka was over the phone, it was in preparation for a training mission scheduled ...
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Edging out Miss USA, Ms. Malaret — who was also the first winner from the Caribbean — brokered her fame to become a television host and magazine editor back home.Marisol Malaret, who in 1970 overcame a difficult childhood to become the first woman from Puerto Rico, and from ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music“From an early age, I understood that as her youngest child of four, and the only one to endure a life-threatening condition, she and I would ...
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In the fall of 2020, Ilan Zechory stepped down as president of Genius, the annotation site he founded with two friends from Yale. After more than a decade at the start-up, he could have been forgiven for taking a break.Now Mr. Zechory is hard at work again, though ...
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The former creative director of the Italian label shared what his future holds, what brought him to Seoul and the celebrity Oscar gown that was his “cherry on top.”SEOUL — When the news emerged on Tuesday that Jeremy Scott had stepped down as the creative director of the ...
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The cast of “Succession” reacted to the news at a party celebrating Season 4.Hours before the cast of the HBO drama “Succession” gathered for the premiere of its fourth and final season, the news broke: Rupert Murdoch, 92, the chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Pearls of WisdomEvery birthday, my Filipino grandmother gave me pearls: necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings. Always tissue-wrapped and labeled with her fine handwriting. Pearls are what she believed a woman should be: polished, elegant. When I was ...
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When two artists bought the vacant building, it was ‘grim and creepy.’ Now it’s not only a home — it’s a communal arts space.A few years after Demi Raven and Janet Galore were introduced by a mutual friend and fell in love, they starting looking for a home ...
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When two artists bought the vacant building, it was ‘grim and creepy.’ Now it’s not only a home — it’s a communal arts space.A few years after Demi Raven and Janet Galore were introduced by a mutual friend and fell in love, they starting looking for a home ...
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