“Always expect reversals.”Welcome. Back in the spring, when we changed the name of this newsletter from “At Home” to “At Home and Away,” we did so expecting that our plans for the foreseeable future would involve continual tinkering. The Time Spent At Home to Time Spent Away ratio ...
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A genre of content that recasts the holiday antihero as a sex symbol has grown from niche into a new kind of Christmastime ritual.Three years ago, Alex Drastal uploaded photos of himself dressed as the Grinch to social media. Mr. Drastal is covered in green fur, the look ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Our Rescue GameThe year our father left, I’d thrash around on my big sister’s shaggy blue carpet at bedtime, pretending I’d fallen overboard. Melanie would hoist me into the lower bunk, singing as I dozed off ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Our Rescue GameThe year our father left, I’d thrash around on my big sister’s shaggy blue carpet at bedtime, pretending I’d fallen overboard. Melanie would hoist me into the lower bunk, singing as I dozed off ...
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Demna Gvasalia and I meet in the metaverse, in a glassed-in conference room in an unnamed city. Though the buildings suggest Singapore by way of the Jetsons.“This is kind of trippy,” said the avatar otherwise known as the creative director of Balenciaga, upon materializing in the room. “What ...
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The Westchester house where the Tony-winning actor lives is ideally sized for family reunions — and for spending time alone.“The Color Purple” house — that’s how the actor LaChanze refers to her five-bedroom home in lower Westchester County, N.Y. This has nothing to do with the exterior (it’s ...
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“It’s Never Too Late” is a series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms.When taking the stage outside of New York, the stand-up comedian Shaun Eli Breidbart will often start off with a joke: “Hi, I’m Shaun Eli and ...
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The Netflix show was derided for, among other things, an unrealistic approach to French dressing. What can viewers expect this season?After “Emily in Paris” arrived on Netflix last fall, the series — about a young American marketing wiz stumbling through life in a new city — was derided ...
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A child of Hollywood, she wrote of the sensuous pleasures of Los Angeles, and sampled them enthusiastically.Eve Babitz, the voluptuous bard of Los Angeles, who wrote with sharp wit and a connoisseur’s enthusiasm of its outsize characters and sensuous pleasures — from taquitos to LSD — and found ...
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If you managed to stay up late, you probably already knew: The very first moments of 2021 arrived with weird vibes. New York’s traditional New Year’s Eve celebration was uncharacteristically muted. No sloppy kissing crowds jammed into Times Square, no messy bar crawls through the streets.As the year ...
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Today’s celebrities found a way to keep shining in a dark year.For centuries, the stars have been used as a guide, their shimmering specks in the sky leading the way through darkness. They have been imbued with subjective meaning and held up as a mirror for the human ...
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Many traditional event spaces are overbooked next year, leaving some couples to consider unconventional alternatives for hosting their nuptials.In late March, Heather Davis and her then fiancé, Nick Gray, gave a deposit to a nonprofit garden club venue in the Tampa, Fla., area for their Dec. 3 wedding ...
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A reader has several questions about a holiday tradition.Should we participate in the ugly Christmas sweater phenomenon? And why do people even call them “ugly”? When I was growing up in the South, there were just people who wore festive Christmas sweaters and those who didn’t. Now they ...
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Ghislaine Maxwell looked impeccable. That was the point.The prosecution rested on Friday, Dec. 10, in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, who stands accused of helping the deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein recruit, traffic and sexually abuse underage girls. Ms. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty and denied the accusations.Four women ...
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