Where Are All the Wild Things, Daddy?

A father worries that his favorite children’s books promise his daughter a vibrant natural world that will no longer exist.Once upon a time, in the room that would be my first child’s nursery, I wondered what to tell her about our vanishing world. Through the generosity of family ...
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‘Arab Divas’ at the Arab World Institute: Singers Who Took Center Stage

A multimedia exhibition in Paris offers a rich flashback to a period between the 1920s and the 1970s when many female performers took center stage.PARIS — The diva sings of love and unmitigated lust. Dressed in a scarlet evening gown with her hair pulled high, she cries out ...
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My Son Is Being Bullied, and I Don’t Know What to Do

A reader weighs her teenager’s shame against her own silence.My 14-year-old son and I went to watch my younger son play in a baseball tournament. My younger son is popular and athletic; my older son is not. He’s more creative and a little effeminate. When we walked onto ...
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The Espresso Martini Is Everywhere (Again)

As the world rebounds, so too does a storied ’90s cocktail.One need only look at our 21st-century devices — or out our old-fashioned windows — to know that 1990s nostalgia has reached, maybe even surpassed, fever pitch: A TikTok from Alicia Silverstone with a “Clueless” reference has more ...
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Reopenings and Road Trips

What to know before you go.Welcome. California officially reopened on Tuesday. In New York, restaurants and movie theaters are no longer required to space patrons six feet apart. The European Union is expected to open to American tourists on Friday. As regulations change rapidly, questions about travel abound: ...
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Gardeners, Take Heed: It’s a ‘Tick-y Year’

This year, it will be hard to avoid ticks if you’re spending a lot of time outdoors. Here’s how to keep that from interfering with your gardening.Substantial chunks of my many growing seasons have been spent on maintenance, crawling around under shrubs and trees, weeding and pruning, dividing ...
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Over Hill, Over Dale: Driving an E.V. on Colorado’s Scenic Byways

Will the battery hold out crossing a 10,666-foot pass? Where is the next charging station? Overcoming ‘range anxiety’ on Colorado’s highest mountains.Unless you are one of the estimated seven percent of Americans who own an electric vehicle, it’s pretty hard to take a scenic, emissions-free road trip. But ...
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Can Streaming Pay? Musicians Are Pinning Fresh Hopes on Twitch.

The gaming platform is becoming increasingly attractive to artists, who can earn money by cultivating fan tribes that express their loyalty through patronage.Each weekday at 8:30 a.m., after getting his twin 2-year-olds dressed, fed and set up with their nanny, Matthew K. Heafy decamps to an unoccupied bedroom ...
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Ferrari Is Racing Into Fashion

The Italian carmaker just had its first runway show. Was it any good? And what is the company thinking anyway?Last weekend, 100 of the Italian style world’s journalists and tastemakers were chauffeured in black vans to the Ferrari headquarters, a soaring glass factory designed by Jean Nouvel in ...
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Never Forget Me’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Marching in SolidarityBlack ink streaked Renny’s soggy poster, blurring the letters in “Black Lives Matter.” After a period of distance, we had reunited in his condo, making posters on top of the bed we used to ...
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Driving the States of Maine

For such an iconic and well-traveled thoroughfare, U.S. 1 is surprisingly unknowable. Various sites and sources disagree on when it was established and how long it runs, and pretty much everything except that it passes through 14 states on its way from Key West, Fla., to Fort Kent, ...
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The Original Ugly Sneaker Is Back

Remember the Isabel Marant wedge sneakers? Everyone wore them — inexplicably. Now the designer has a new version, with an even higher heel.One day, roughly 10 years ago, the French designer Isabel Marant found herself roadside, arguing her way out of a citation for blowing a red light.“I ...
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What Does It Mean to Be Crowned ‘Miss Juneteenth’?

In the month of June, as celebrations to commemorate the Juneteenth holiday begin, dozens of Black girls and women across the country will be competing for a singular title: Miss Juneteenth.Miss Juneteenth pageants have been held locally for decades but they have been growing in visibility as awareness ...
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‘C Is for Code Switching’ and Other Lessons

The artist Topaz Jones mined his personal education to create an award-winning visual album.The rapper Topaz Jones recently decided to cut the locs he had been growing since before high school. “This was the closest I’ve ever felt to a full rebirth,” he said.A friend had told him ...
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