A new Netflix show could create the viral fashion trend of summer. Except the clothes play second fiddle to the divadom and drama.It was bound to happen. After the viral trendsetting of the ’60s shifts in “The Queen’s Gambit” and the ’80s puff sleeves of “The Crown,” it ...
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A new Netflix show could create the viral fashion trend of summer. Except the clothes play second fiddle to the divadom and drama.It was bound to happen. After the viral trendsetting of the ’60s shifts in “The Queen’s Gambit” and the ’80s puff sleeves of “The Crown,” it ...
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The model, photographer and activist is a host of “Shine True,” a reality show on transgender young adults.Name: Richie ShazamAge: 30Hometown: Queens, N.Y.Now Lives: In a three-bedroom apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.Claim to Fame: Richie Shazam is a model, photographer, nightlife habitué and the co-host of ...
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At a karaoke competition in 2014, Mary Crowley heard Justin Douds sing “I’m just a bachelor. I’m looking for a partner.” The words rang true three years later.Mary Alexandra Kougeas Crowley perked up her ears when Justin Warren Douds sang “I’m just a bachelor. I’m looking for a ...
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When I was young and new in town, my next-door neighbor became my friend and protector.The bear chased us. Then we chased the bear.I was 7. Brent, 9. The bear’s age, unknown.The two of us, behind my house, running from the bear, then at it. That we chose ...
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On her sixth album, “Daddy’s Home,” the singer and songwriter Annie Clark turns her world-building and role-playing briefly inward.In the middle of St. Vincent’s last album, the sleek and slinky “Masseduction” from 2017, there is an uncharacteristically sparse piano ballad called “Happy Birthday, Johnny.” Unlike a lot of ...
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Making things — masks, quilts, ceramics, mandalas — was a practical and sometimes political response to the moment.Necessity is the mother of invention, and at the start of the pandemic, the thing everyone needed was masks. To help keep people safe, an army of home sewers banded together ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher‘The idea of marriage was embarrassing. But it wasn’t that I wanted to be single and free. I just wanted to appear that way.’Brian ReaSeven years into a serious relationship, Jake Maynard got a text from his mother: “Gramma ...
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There’s proof all around us.Welcome. I’m ready for the living room to be the living room again, and not the living/working/exercising/languishing room it’s been for the past 14 months. We’ve been demanding a lot of our rooms during the pandemic, stretching them to accommodate activities usually assigned to ...
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Just because the fully vaccinated can remove their masks outdoors doesn’t mean they’re ready to let go of them fully.Walking around New York City these days, one might not guess that it’s been a little over two weeks since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced more ...
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To watch LaTasha Barnes dance is to watch historical distance collapse.If you want to understand the connections between jazz dance and its progeny you could read a book or take a course. But how much more efficient and fun just to watch LaTasha Barnes do her thing.Barnes is ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.The Last BiscuitBefore the city pool in Johnson City, Tenn., got drained at summer’s end, dogs could take a swim for five bucks. Sporting his green life jacket, Barney leapt in as if he weren’t tired, ...
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Our complicated relationship with social media might be simpler than it feels. Just remember how it started.It’s a testament to the power of the biggest social platforms that many common complaints about them sound contradictory.They’re accelerators for extremism that simultaneously uphold suffocating consensus. They’re wastes of attention and ...
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With Europe’s vaccine campaign stymied, the Madrid-based author, along with his husband and children, boarded a plane for the U.S. “The act of taking matters into one’s own hands,” he writes, “can feel daunting.”If Covid-19 has taught us anything, it’s to expect the unexpected. Outcomes that seem assured ...
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