“I feel like a gazelle that’s just been born,” said one woman strapping back on the stilettos.As she dressed for her 26th birthday recently, Cleo Pac Monrose focused on making a statement. Ms. Monrose, a podcast marketer for Spotify, flicked the dust off her party clothes and the ...
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Antes los procedimientos quirúrgicos solían hacerse en secreto pero, en el mundo pos-Kardashian, la transparencia solo es una parte del proceso.Cuando Herluf Lund, un cirujano plástico certificado en Chesterfield, Misuri, comenzó a realizar intervenciones estéticas hace 30 años, la gran mayoría de sus pacientes querían que sus cirugías ...
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EDEN, N.C. — Sounds change with the seasons, of course, but this spring, among the usual mix of bird song and lawn mowers, there are notable silences in this town of 15,000 people.First, the whistle that used to signal the start of three daily shifts at the Karastan ...
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EDEN, N.C. — Sounds change with the seasons, of course, but this spring, among the usual mix of bird song and lawn mowers, there are notable silences in this town of 15,000 people.First, the whistle that used to signal the start of three daily shifts at the Karastan ...
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For years, Symone — the drag queen persona created by Reggie Gavin — has been collecting folders of memorable looks, with hundreds of references to Black women. There are photographs from Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar of Lil’ Kim, Whitney Houston, Grace Jones, Diana Ross, Tina Turner and Rihanna.She ...
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For years, Symone — the drag queen persona created by Reggie Gavin — has been collecting folders of memorable looks, with hundreds of references to Black women. There are photographs from Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar of Lil’ Kim, Whitney Houston, Grace Jones, Diana Ross, Tina Turner and Rihanna.She ...
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Swimming pools and summer TV.Welcome. Will this summer be a wild, maskless frolic, a Roaring ’20s montage of window sashes flung open, giddy reunions, spontaneous making out with strangers? In her essay for this week’s Times Magazine, the Canadian writer Mireille Silcoff examines how advertising has fueled the ...
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Kimberlee Stevenson was a fan of John Murray’s books. After they connected on social media, he became her biggest admirer.In March 2016, during a visit to the Major Hillard Library in Chesapeake, Va., Kimberlee Stevenson picked up a copy of “Until I Saw Your Smile” by J.J. Murray, ...
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Ben Wald was one of the first to join the Jewish Museum’s Young Patron Program after Jacqueline Spar followed up with him, twice.Benjamin Louis Wald did his best in January 2015 to get some art into his life, then Jacqueline Rebecca Spar stepped in.“A mentor suggested I keep ...
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Rachel Schallom and Brent Lobdell dated on and off for several years, and then there was a decision to change the dynamic.You might say that Rachel Schallom and Brent Lobdell met the old-fashioned way: Her best friend had a crush on his best friend, and so the two ...
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A librarian who identifies as queer wrestles with our tendency to classify both books and people.As a librarian who has dated both men and women, I couldn’t help but think of how my various loves would be categorized by the Dewey Decimal Classification. Stefan, for example, was an ...
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The march on June 27 will be mostly virtual. But not to worry: There are plenty of in-person events, performances and celebratory exhibitions throughout the city this month.Take a look at New York City’s Pride Month programming, and the pandemic-related clouds that shadowed Pride 2020 appear to be ...
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How women are fashioning the white dress to bring awareness to a variety of issues.On May 17, at 9 a.m., Vanessa Reiser was in position, and all decked out in a $3,500 bridal dress from Lovely Bride in Manhattan specially designed for her first one-woman run through New ...
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Lonely after emerging from quarantine or in a new city? Apps, private clubs and social networks are ready to fix you up with a new bestie.Dominique Williamson, 23, never had trouble making friends. “I have never been in a position where I didn’t have any girlfriends, to hang ...
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