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January 2, 2020
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Our Lives, Under Construction

Unloved and janky, scaffolding is New York City’s other architecture, its Tinker Toy exoskeleton. It has enraged and inspired its residents, while forever altering their behavior […]
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December 18, 2019
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Is Tinsel Canceled?

The polar ice caps are melting before our eyes. Artificial snow will not be de rigueur this year. Even as whales starve because of the plastic […]
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November 16, 2019
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They Love Trash

JOSHUA TREE, Calif. — Soph Nielsen was sewing garbage onto her black T-shirt (a chicken wing, a crushed Bud Light can, a plastic fork) and struggling […]
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October 22, 2019
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Ahoy There, Mommy! Family Sails Around World on YouTube

NEWPORT, R.I. — They met in Ios, Greece: locking eyes across the town square, both in their 20s then. (She had noticed his distinctive mustache.) Elayna […]
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January 2, 2019
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domains: Super-Sorter Marie Kondo Now Has a Reality Show

On Netflix, you can watch other people freak out about “tidying up” for 2019.
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January 31, 2018
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The Real Burning Man

QUARTZSITE, Ariz. — “Road Virus” is a 32-foot-long matte black “skoolie” that is the rolling home and bookstore of Emily Black, 35, a former librarian and […]
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December 14, 2017
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Books of Style: Hygge Gets Heave-Ho as Swedes, Norwegians Join the Fun

Lykke, pronounced loo-kah, like the character in the Suzanne Vega song, is the Danish word for happiness, perhaps that country’s most valuable commodity. (Denmark often sits […]
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November 30, 2017
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Pottery Is the New Pilates, and Macramé Takes Away the Crazy

Advertisement It was a typical evening at Bklyn Clay, an airy, year-old, 24-hour pottery studio in Sunset Park, the Brooklyn neighborhood that is still evolving from […]
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November 22, 2017
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G’night Forever, Little Edie! Grey Gardens Is Empty at Last.

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. — Grey Gardens gave up the last of its ghosts over the weekend. The once-squalid home of the most notorious mother-daughter dyad since […]
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November 10, 2017
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Feminism’s A-List Attends Kate Millett’s Memorial in New York

Advertisement Like so many rousing military celebrations, Kate Millett’s memorial service began with bagpipes. The veterans of second-wave feminism had turned out by the hundreds, foot […]
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