How Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky transformed the meaning of a piece of cotton.In the beginning, it was just a T-shirt: basic, olive green; the kind worn under military fatigues or hauled out from the bottom of a wardrobe for workouts and weekends. Sometimes it was more brown than ...
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If all politics is theater, Representative Tim Ryan is one of its subtler actors. A moderate Democrat from Ohio’s 13th district who has represented the state for nearly two decades, his speeches and debate performances are often described as coming out of central casting. His style choices are ...
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The Institute for Art and Olfaction celebrates a decade of exploring our sense of smell.On a recent evening, masked students sat around stainless-steel tables in the scent lab at the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles’s Chinatown, pipettes at the ready. The LED glow from shelves ...
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Sabeena Ladha is the founder of Deux, a raw cookie dough that is vegan and gluten-free.Name: Sabeena LadhaAge: 32Hometown: Born in Chicago and raised in Euless, Tex.Currently Lives: In a 1920s, three-bedroom house in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles, with her husband, Kabir Jain, and a French ...
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Sabeena Ladha is the founder of Deux, a raw cookie dough that is vegan and gluten-free.Name: Sabeena LadhaAge: 32Hometown: Born in Chicago and raised in Euless, Tex.Currently Lives: In a 1920s, three-bedroom house in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles, with her husband, Kabir Jain, and a French ...
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We had no future together, so why not fall completely in love?We were almost to the bridge over the I-5 freeway in Eugene, Ore., when he said, “How old are you?”“Forty-five.” I had just asked him his age and was shocked to learn he was only 32. Now ...
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They play potential lovers in “The Lost City,” but in real life, Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum share a very different kind of bond: They’re play-date parents.On a lively Zoom call with their “Lost City” co-star Daniel Radcliffe, Bullock and Tatum described what it’s like now that her ...
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A reader is turned off by a local shop’s new gratuity-seeking efforts.I managed to get past my annoyance at the tip jar that appeared one day on the counter of my local coffee shop. (Tipping for what? Pouring coffee? Handing me a muffin?) But apparently that wasn’t enough ...
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LONDON — On a cold, wet day in South London, Campbell Addy, the Ghanaian-British photographer, filmmaker and artist, opened the door to his studio, grinning. He was wearing denim overalls, an exuberant corduroy baker boy cap from Nicholas Daley, an oversize rust-colored scarf and Doc Martens. “This is ...
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Her idiosyncratic and fiercely independent magazine chronicled Downtown Manhattan in the 1980s, a combustible mix of art, music and fashion.Annie Flanders, the ardent, russet-haired founding editor of Details magazine, the proudly independent chronicle of Downtown Manhattan in the 1980s, died on March 10 at an assisted living facility ...
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According to the English psychiatrist Sue Stuart-Smith, it was no accident that we had a run on seeds at the beginning of the pandemic.We sow a first flat of seeds; we gently rake debris from a bed to make way for a winter aconite or snowdrop to poke ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.A Mother’s PowerMy 3-year-old bellows from his crib: “I want to hug ma-ah-ah-mom!” It’s 5 a.m., so I let his plea grow to full throttle before I give him a hug and set him on the ...
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Creative professionals have been cut off from Western clients and from the products and services they use to make, market and get paid for their work.In a call from his car on Sunday, a photographer from Moscow explained why he was driving to Tbilisi, Georgia, having left his ...
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Five ways to soothe a mind overstimulated by anxiety, stress and streams of information.Coronavirus cases are receding across the United States, and face masks are coming off. Little green shoots are finally poking through the earth, signaling the arrival of warmer weather. The pandemic has not been declared ...
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