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February 3, 2021

June Rose Bellamy, Adventurous Burmese Princess, Dies at 88

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November 23, 2020

Lady Elizabeth Anson, Party Planner to the Royals, Dies at 79

She was born at Windsor, but unlike her royal relatives, she had to make a living and went to work at 19. Cripplingly shy, by her […]
November 3, 2020

Betty Dodson, Women’s Guru of Self-Pleasure, Dies at 91

Betty Dodson, a feminist sexologist and evangelist of self-pleasure who taught generations of women how to masturbate in workshops, books and videos, seeing the do-it-yourself climax […]
April 20, 2020

What It’s Like Self-Isolating in a Studio Apartment

Paris has its garrets; London, its bedsits. In New York, it’s the studio apartment — and its grittier cousin, the tenement railroad flat — that has […]
April 17, 2020

Jimmy Webb, Purveyor of Punk Fashion, Is Dead at 62

Jimmy Webb, the kindly, spindly-legged, leather-vested East Village fixture who was the longtime manager of Trash and Vaudeville, the rock ’n’ roll clothiers that once ruled […]
March 31, 2020

You Show Me Your Décor, I Show You Mine

As Americans dutifully sequestered themselves into their homes last week, enacting their own versions of Emma Donoghue’s novel “Room” (flopping down on Rug, Sofa and Bed, […]
March 11, 2020

The King of D.I.Y. Dwellings

BOLINAS, Calif. — Self-sufficiency is like perfection, said Lloyd Kahn, the guru of guerrilla architecture and dean of all things D.I.Y. “You never quite get there, […]
February 18, 2020

The iPhone at the Deathbed

After Robert Alexander died at 51 during heart surgery in June 2018, after he was taken from the hospital to the facility that would recover the […]
February 18, 2020

The iPhone at the Deathbed

After Robert Alexander died at 51 during heart surgery in June 2018, after he was taken from the hospital to the facility that would recover the […]
January 27, 2020

Mario Buatta Auction Shatters Estimates for Chintz

After 22 hours of bidding on 922 lots, the auction of the late decorator Mario Buatta’s belongings — a giddy assortment of dog paintings, porcelain fruits […]