Every year has its breakout stars, and 2024 yielded a bumper crop: Glen Powell, Chappell Roan, Pommel Horse Guy.But only one had a body that was routinely compared to a potato. She was slippery, she was feisty, she was named after a type of pork meatball. She was, ...

As Mel Robbins tells it, the concept for her new self-help book, “The Let Them Theory,” came to her on the night of her son Oakley’s junior prom. Overcome by the realization that her youngest child would soon be leaving her, Robbins coped by micromanaging the scene. She ...

Teddy Blanks, the designer behind the memorable movie titles for films like “Nosferatu” and “Barbie,” has quietly become Hollywood’s go-to guy.Teddy Blanks, a neatly mustached 40-year-old man wearing ripped jeans and battered white sneakers, walked through Times Square one cold recent night to catch a screening of “Wicked” ...

Long scorned despite being cheaper and more accurate than their mechanical counterparts, quartz watches are finally getting some love.Wristwatch enthusiasts can be persnickety. They often have strong opinions about whether bezels should be bidirectional. They can cite the differences between ETA and Sellita movements. They will happily preach ...

Braids as tethers, visible face tape, hip-hop-inflected preppiness: Recent looks by the Grammy-nominated rapper have inspired fascination and at least one nail-art tribute.It wasn’t long after Natasha Shrestha, a seventh-grade history teacher in New York City, saw the cover for Doechii’s latest mixtape that she decided to claim ...

After a year of dating, Adrian Burrus and Quinn Sames began considering marriage. But when the presidential election results were announced, getting married became a priority.It was a provocative sign about racism that Adrian James Burrus was carrying that first caught Quinn Dipboye Sames’s eye at a Black ...

A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.I am in my pajamas, watching a Netflix documentary about space telescopes when I begin to think about my mother.“The iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones was literally ...

Dean Withers argues online with right-wing stars like Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro. His goal? To reach their young, male followers.In a YouTube video that was uploaded about a month before the election, a young, blond man in baggy jeans and a graphic T-shirt sits alone at the ...

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Brian ReaAlways TalkingWhen I was small, we lived above my father’s office in Bed-Stuy. My father said he would spot me and my mother out the window and wonder, “What could those two be talking about?” ...

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This article was originally published on Dec. 24, 2022.The holidays are the ideal time to see friends and family, reflect on the year that’s passed and, of course, sit down and watch that beloved seasonal classic you’ve already watched 38 times before. But how well do you really ...

A shoeless talk-show appearance leads a reader to contemplate the current rules around going barefoot in public, and our critic weighs in on naked feet in fashion and society.Is it really OK to go barefoot in public? I was shocked to see Angelina Jolie without shoes on “The ...

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The storybook holiday season in New York brings a certain coziness to Central Park, even as the landscape’s palette fades from autumnal reds, oranges and yellows to muted greens and browns. Stroll around and you are likely to spot telltale signs of wintertime in the city: couples bundled ...