New York, ‘Gossip Girl’ Loves You, Again

A new version of the teen drama arrives Thursday on HBO Max, still glamorous but also reflective of changed attitudes toward wealth and privilege.On a sultry June morning, a small battalion of camera operators, production assistants, and hair and makeup pros descended on a subway entrance on the ...
Read More
/

The Cannes Film Festival Is Back, Lavish and Maskless (Despite the Rules)

The opening-night ceremony included a five-minute standing ovation for the Adam Driver-Marion Cotillard musical “Annette.”CANNES, France — Maggie Gyllenhaal’s eyes widened. It had been 15 months since the actress was last in a movie theater, a pandemic-era streak she broke Tuesday night at the splashy Cannes Film Festival ...
Read More
/

A Private-School Sex Educator Defends Her Methods

After nine years at Dalton, why was Justine Ang Fonte suddenly being pilloried by parents?Sex education is a sensitive subject. But during nine years at the prestigious Dalton School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, seven of which she spent as the director of health and wellness, ...
Read More
/

A Private-School Sex Educator Defends Her Methods

After nine years at Dalton, why was Justine Ang Fonte suddenly being pilloried by parents?Sex education is a sensitive subject. But during nine years at the prestigious Dalton School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, seven of which she spent as the director of health and wellness, ...
Read More
/

Tiny Love Stories: ‘He Kissed It Better’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.How to Fix a BoobooOne night in the bath, my 3-year-old accidentally stabbed me in the face with a toy unicorn. Shocked, I yelled out, causing him to cry. I hastily wrapped him in his favorite ...
Read More
/

It’s Never Too Late to Learn How to Swim

“It’s Never Too Late” is a new series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms.Vijaya Srivastava’s first 68 years had been resolutely land-based. She walked the Berkeley Hills in the San Francisco Bay Area, spent time with her young ...
Read More
/

Constructing the Perfect Villain: The Bad Contractor.

In her latest crime novel, Megan Abbott takes on the contractor-client relationship. In her Queens apartment, she’s avoided renovation altogether.More perhaps than most, Megan Abbott knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men (and women, too). This explains Ms. Abbott’s ability to conjure the perfect bad guy ...
Read More
/

How Indian Americans Came to Love the Spelling Bee

Since 2008, a South Asian American child has been named a champion at every Scripps National Spelling Bee.Eighth graders aren’t generally known as dictionary aficionados. But Dhroov Bharatia, 12, has a passion for language.“Nothing can express an idea as effectively as a judicious use of words,” he said ...
Read More
/

Are Masks a New Signifier of Social Class?

Face coverings are coming off, though not for everyone.On a recent Sunday night at Le Bilboquet, a see-and-be-seen restaurant in the Hamptons, well-heeled diners nibbled on $475 tins of Osetra caviar. A handsome man showed off his gold Audemars Piguet watch to his sparkly female companion. A party ...
Read More
/

What to Do this Weekend

‘Summer of Soul,’ butter mochi and dark rosés.Welcome. It’s a holiday weekend in the United States, another milestone, where we might pause and consider where we were one year ago. What’s changed? Take a minute this weekend to consider where you were, what you were feeling, what was ...
Read More
/

A Juneteenth Wedding for Two Community Activists

Whitney Jean and Troy Alim II fell in love after meeting at a voter-registration drive in Chicago about five years ago.Troy Alim II didn’t mean to be rude when he interrupted a conversation Whitney Jean was having during a Chicago voter-registration drive in 2016. But when he overheard ...
Read More
/

Some People Flip Real Estate. I Flip Men.

Give me a fixer-upper and I’ll turn him into someone desirable — for someone else.I am a man flipper. I meet a man, fix him up and flip him to someone else. Unlike people who flip real estate — buying houses, renovating them and selling them for a ...
Read More
/

Should ‘Bachelor’ Stars Have Received P.P.P. Loans?

News that several cast members from the franchise applied for and received federal loans during the pandemic left many fans confused.Several contestants from “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” were asked this week to explain to their fans why they applied for government loans during the Covid-19 pandemic.The Bachelor ...
Read More

In Greece, It’s Almost Normal

In Athens and on the island of Paros, a visitor joins other international travelers in search of that idyllic European vacation they’ve been yearning for.The plaster-cast heads of Dionysus were back. The unblinking blue Mati evil eyes and Parthenon refrigerator magnets hung once more outside the souvenir shops ...
Read More
/

Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.
Did you find apk for android? You can find new Free Android Games and apps.