When my ex injured his brain in a fall and thought we were still together, I had to fill in the gaps.I used to receive messages like this from my ex-boyfriend: “Did we have a joke about flamingos?” And: “How did I get the scar on my hand?” ...
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A new generation of fashion boys is using the app to teach one another about clothes — how to make them, what designers matter and how to put together looks.For a stretch late last year into the early months of this year, the most withering style assessments available ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher“Alex’s ability to simply be unaware of the judgment of others has always been intoxicating. Except when it’s embarrassing.”Brian ReaIt was the Great American Eclipse of 2017 — the first total solar eclipse to cross the entire continental United ...
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At the movies.Welcome. At a 7:15 p.m. screening of “Zola” at a Brooklyn movie theater on Sunday, there was at least one empty seat between each party. Masks were worn in the cinema’s lobby but quickly dispensed with once people had taken their seats. Otherwise, things were — ...
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Instead of walking down the aisle, the father of the bride escorted his daughter to her new husband in a road trip to Texas, forging a new, special bond.I packed my bags for a trip I never expected to take, to a place I never imagined I’d visit.Three ...
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A new version of the teen drama arrives Thursday on HBO Max, still glamorous but also reflective of changed attitudes toward wealth and privilege.On a sultry June morning, a small battalion of camera operators, production assistants, and hair and makeup pros descended on a subway entrance on the ...
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The opening-night ceremony included a five-minute standing ovation for the Adam Driver-Marion Cotillard musical “Annette.”CANNES, France — Maggie Gyllenhaal’s eyes widened. It had been 15 months since the actress was last in a movie theater, a pandemic-era streak she broke Tuesday night at the splashy Cannes Film Festival ...
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After nine years at Dalton, why was Justine Ang Fonte suddenly being pilloried by parents?Sex education is a sensitive subject. But during nine years at the prestigious Dalton School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, seven of which she spent as the director of health and wellness, ...
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After nine years at Dalton, why was Justine Ang Fonte suddenly being pilloried by parents?Sex education is a sensitive subject. But during nine years at the prestigious Dalton School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, seven of which she spent as the director of health and wellness, ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.How to Fix a BoobooOne night in the bath, my 3-year-old accidentally stabbed me in the face with a toy unicorn. Shocked, I yelled out, causing him to cry. I hastily wrapped him in his favorite ...
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“It’s Never Too Late” is a new series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms.Vijaya Srivastava’s first 68 years had been resolutely land-based. She walked the Berkeley Hills in the San Francisco Bay Area, spent time with her young ...
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In her latest crime novel, Megan Abbott takes on the contractor-client relationship. In her Queens apartment, she’s avoided renovation altogether.More perhaps than most, Megan Abbott knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men (and women, too). This explains Ms. Abbott’s ability to conjure the perfect bad guy ...
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Since 2008, a South Asian American child has been named a champion at every Scripps National Spelling Bee.Eighth graders aren’t generally known as dictionary aficionados. But Dhroov Bharatia, 12, has a passion for language.“Nothing can express an idea as effectively as a judicious use of words,” he said ...
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Face coverings are coming off, though not for everyone.On a recent Sunday night at Le Bilboquet, a see-and-be-seen restaurant in the Hamptons, well-heeled diners nibbled on $475 tins of Osetra caviar. A handsome man showed off his gold Audemars Piguet watch to his sparkly female companion. A party ...
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