Walking around Brooklyn with Nicolas Nuvan is an exercise in glad-handing. Passers-by stop, and Cheshire cat grins spread across their faces. Some ask him for a selfie, others shout his name from their cars to get his attention. Many simply wave. Street vendors offer him free food or ...

The president announced a fragrance line called Victory 45-47. Each bottle costs almost $250.As the United States Senate debated through the night on Monday, going back and forth on President Trump’s agenda, the president himself made an announcement. “Trump Fragrances are here,” he posted on Truth Social that ...

Shorts took on many forms at the men’s shows in Paris.The shorts discourse has evolved at men’s fashion week in Paris. “It’s literally a tale of two hemlines,” said Bruce Pask, the senior director for men’s fashion at Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus, while browsing the ERL ...

Over the past six months, those whose style has shaped the look of 2025 have worn attire across the spectrum, from feathered overcoats to flight suits to flared jeans. They have captured attention with furry bodies, distinctive teeth and magnetic presences on stages, screens and sidelines.Some of the ...

Jordan Roth, the scion of a New York real estate fortune, a convention-challenging fashionista and a social media habitué, spent 15 years as a Broadway macher, running one of the big three theater landlords. He programmed hits like “The Book of Mormon” and “Hadestown,” nurtured plays and musicals ...

He helped bring crowds of music fans to a remote Tennessee cow farm with Bonnaroo, and to San Francisco with the Outside Lands festival.Jonathan Mayers, a founder of the Bonnaroo music festival, a star-studded annual extravaganza held on a poplar-dotted Tennessee farm, and Outside Lands, a three-day musical ...

It was a night when thousands of 20-somethings were glued to their laptop screens for a battle whose stakes were both immediate and metaphorical, a contest between experience and youth, veteran versus vitality. Mike Tyson, a decorated, tested legend of boxing, was taking on Jake Paul. Mr. Paul, ...

Tanner Martin has documented his fight against colon cancer for hundreds of thousands of followers. His death was announced in a recorded video.“Hey, it’s me, Tanner. If you’re watching this, I am dead.”For the past several years, Tanner Martin documented his colon cancer diagnosis for hundreds of thousands ...

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Brian Rea‘A Memorable Weekend Adventure’People do crazy things for love. That may explain how I ended up on a Pennsylvania back road with a lamb peeing in my Subaru. It was five days before Eid al-Adha ...

For the first meeting of his book club for men, Yahdon Israel, a 35-year-old senior editor at Simon & Schuster, asked the participants to bring a favorite work of fiction. Not everyone completed the assignment.One man brought “Watchmen,” a graphic novel. Valid, technically.Another scoured his home bookshelf and ...

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Gay backers of Donald Trump say he is blind to sexuality. Not everyone agrees.For many gay rights activists, President Trump’s first five months in office have provided ample evidence of his antipathy toward their community, whether it be his administration’s sustained attacks on transgender people, its bans on ...

The second marriage for both is taking place in Venice, Italy, under a shroud of secrecy and amid a swarm of speculation.It may be the best semi-secret wedding money can buy.Next week, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and one of the world’s richest men, is set to ...

Barely old enough to hold the devices when they were popular, young social media users are longing for “nostalgia tech.”When Victoria Zannino was in middle school, back in 2013, her father gave her a precious hand-me-down in the form of a used BlackBerry. Back then, the device was ...