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August 6, 2016

Why Self-Help Guru James Altucher Only Owns 15 Things

It was around 10 a.m. on a sun-drenched summer morning, and James Altucher, perhaps the world’s least likely success guru, was packing his worldly possessions, about […]
August 6, 2016

Night Out: A Birthday Party With ‘2 Dope Queens’ and One Jon Stewart

Night Out By JACOB BERNSTEIN Last Thursday at the Bell House in Gowanus, Brooklyn — as Hillary Clinton accepted her party’s presidential nomination at the Democratic […]
August 6, 2016

Future Tense: The Spouse in the Next Room

Future Tense By TEDDY WAYNE Megan Hustad, an author who runs an editorial consultancy in New York, had worked from home for about a decade, relishing […]
August 6, 2016

8 Olympians Who’ve Got Social Media Game

Over 11,000 athletes have spent much of their lives preparing for the Rio 2016 Olympics, which begin with tonight’s opening ceremony. Somehow, between training, competing, eating […]
August 6, 2016

Cultural Studies: Hillary Clinton’s Hand-to-Heart Gesture: How Did It Start?

When Hillary Clinton told her audience at a rally in Las Vegas on Thursday “Here’s what I believe,” she punctuated those words with not just a […]
August 5, 2016

August in New York: Newcomer to the Old Ball Game

It’s not Cooperstown. But the people who come upon, or seek out, the baseball cards in a dimly lighted corridor of the American Wing at the […]
August 4, 2016

Social Q’s: Is It O.K. to Date a Supervisor Who Isn’t My Direct Boss?

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES I went to dinner with a supervisor from work, unsure what his intentions were. After dinner, he was direct: He is […]
August 4, 2016

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Trades His T Square for a Netflix Role

A few years ago, things weren’t going so well for Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Even with an architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley, he found […]
August 3, 2016

The Bedazzling of the American Gymnast

So it begins: the flag-waving excitement, the thumb-chewing anticipation, the blinding sparkle. The Olympics. Wait … hang on. The sparkle? Indeed. Because if Simone Biles — […]
August 3, 2016

On the Runway: Calvin Klein Names Its First Chief Creative Officer

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY Calvin Klein named its first chief creative officer on Tuesday as the fashion industry’s extraordinary game of musical chairs at the […]