Where do broken hearts go on Valentine’s Day? Or any day for that matter? While romantics across the city were presumably holding hands over small bistro tables at overpriced restaurants or seated inside theaters in their best outfits, more than 150 people took refuge at an AllInOne Collective ...
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You’ll meet his bloodshot, menacing gaze in any number of neighborhoods in New York, his mouth stretched into an open, hungry grin, his tentacle-like limbs ready to envelop you. On Mott Street in Chinatown, he is lashed to display racks in front of shops selling New York City-themed ...
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Lisa Smartt, a writer, and Kevin Gleeson, a former graphic artist for the N.Y.P.D. and Keith Richards tribute guitarist, found harmony — and within four months, marriage — in each other.In May 2022, Kevin Patrick Gleeson upended his life. He was in the process of dissolving his marriage ...
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In my South Asian community, where ending a marriage is relatively uncommon, the answer seemed to be yes.My husband, in-laws and parents had all gathered in my parents’ formal living room in Dallas that evening for a kind of intervention, hoping they could talk me out of ending ...
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The weirdest, wildest and most wearable moments from the fall 2023 shows.Hundreds of runway shows will have taken place in New York, London, Milan and Paris by the end of those four cities’ consecutive fashion weeks — or fashion month. Even for the most clothes-obsessed, that’s a lot ...
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At New York Fashion Week, it was clear that the sartorial signifiers of wealth and status were changing.Ten o’clock in the morning in the middle of New York Fashion Week, and assorted ladies in cocktail finery and well-heeled pumps were filing politely into a ballroom in the Plaza ...
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For better or worse, Raquel Welch was the rare star who maintained her bombshell status, well into her old age.What does it mean to be a human symbol, of sex or anything else? The death of Raquel Welch at 82 invites us to think about what happens to ...
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Thom Browne offers a new theory of American fashion.There is currently a class about the designer Thom Browne being taught not, as one might expect, at Parsons or the Fashion Institute of Technology or even Central Saint Martins, but at the University of Notre Dame. And not by ...
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A reader who overheard a neighbor shouting cruelties at her young son wonders whether, and how, to intervene.I live in a small apartment building where you can easily hear what’s going on in other people’s apartments from the hallway. I was leaving recently and heard my neighbor yelling ...
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Rule No. 1: “You don’t have to just have a plain-Jane green plant.” But here’s what you do have to do — to find the right plant and maintain it.If only these houseplants could talk.It’s easy to imagine they’d be screaming their indignation at the wintertime perches we’ve ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.My Van Halen ValentineVan Halen’s “Hot for Teacher” played in my mind whenever I saw my son’s dashing drama teacher. I was a single mother, invisible in the crowd of parents after every school play. One ...
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In an unusual midseason, single-owner auction at Christie’s on March 9, Adam Lindemann is purging some of his prizes.The traditional reasons for an auction are death, divorce or debt. Adam Lindemann currently qualifies for none of these, but he’s selling anyway.It is considered verboten for collectors to sell ...
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Linden Lazarus has spent most of his teen years selling timepieces. Now, he has employees to help out.When Linden Lazarus founded the vintage watch business Oliver and Clarke in late 2018, he set up operations in a location that made it easy for him to work online late ...
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Watchmaking traces its origins to 16th century Europe. And one category of watches present through much of that history — in a discreet, custom-order kind of way — still is being made by several luxury watch brands: timepieces with dials or cases depicting sex.They are “for the most ...
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