Thaw the turkey, gas up the car.Welcome. It’s the weekend before Thanksgiving, and for some of us, that means it’s a weekend of preparation. If you’re expecting company, you might be cooking or cleaning. You might be stuffing a turkey or stuffing two years of work-from-home detritus into ...
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Jodi Rodgers, who helps people with autism navigate the world of dating on the Netflix show “Love on the Spectrum,” has some lessons for all of us.When the producers of the Netflix show “Love on the Spectrum” first asked Jodi Rodgers to join, she turned them down. A ...
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For Kelsey Reynolds and Kamah Asha Wilson, a “lesbian-queer, interracial, Christian couple,” marriage was an opportunity to embrace tradition on their terms.Kelsey Reynolds and Kamah Asha Wilson call themselves “hopeful romantics.”“We are a lesbian-queer, interracial, progressively Christian couple in the Deep South, from conservative families. The intersectional and ...
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When you’re used to the roller-coaster emotions of bad relationships, it can be hard to believe in anything else.David said that he knew I was interested because of my body language. I had turned to face him on the small wooden bench, tucking my feet under me and ...
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Die-hards and confused pedestrians alike vied for a first look at Gucci and Balenciaga’s “hacker” project. On Monday, several customers stepped into the Balenciaga store on Madison Avenue thinking they were walking into Gucci. Their mistake was understandable: The front window appeared to have been spray-painted with the ...
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Die-hards and confused pedestrians alike vied for a first look at Gucci and Balenciaga’s “hacker” project. On Monday, several customers stepped into the Balenciaga store on Madison Avenue thinking they were walking into Gucci. Their mistake was understandable: The front window appeared to have been spray-painted with the ...
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Drive and cry.Welcome. Did you see Taylor Swift perform “All Too Well” on “Saturday Night Live” last weekend? Even if you don’t count yourself a “Swiftie,” it’s worth 10 minutes of your time.On Friday, Swift released “Red (Taylor’s Version),” a rerecording of her 2012 album, “Red,” on which ...
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Maybe it’s the rats. Or the smell. Or the bad rap from veterinarians, pet lovers and newspapers. Whatever the reason, it seems more and more New York dog owners no longer think the city’s public dog runs are a good place for their pups to play.“It’s unruly. Dogs ...
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A new book examines how Black civil rights leaders, jazzmen, artists and writers rewrote the sartorial codes of a largely white elite.It is a rare event when a volume comes along that skews our understandings of fashion as effectively as “Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style,” which will ...
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Trading buzzwords, talking circularity and grappling with the role of clothes in the climate crisis.The first time fashion got anywhere near an official United Nations climate conference like the one just held in Glasgow was in 2009. That was COP15 (COP stands for “conference of the parties”), and ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Delayed DeliveranceTicket stubs, foreign coins. Life’s ephemera tossed into a box. After my husband, Kevin, died of cancer at 49, I packed it away on a shelf, unopened. Now, a decade later, it was time to ...
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The Tony Award-winning actor Daisy Eagan and her husband Keith Bloom, who are in an open relationship, share how they designed a marriage that works for them.Because marriage is an ever-evolving experience, we constantly shift, change and, in some cases, start over. In It’s No Secret, couples share ...
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How facial muscle paralysis insinuated itself into our emotional and creative lives.Last spring, Botox rolled out a series of ads directed by the filmmaker Errol Morris. Styled like very short documentary films, the ads featured Botox users — a widower, a single mother, a drag performer — telling ...
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How facial muscle paralysis insinuated itself into our emotional and creative lives.Last spring, Botox rolled out a series of ads directed by the filmmaker Errol Morris. Styled like very short documentary films, the ads featured Botox users — a widower, a single mother, a drag performer — telling ...
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