Seven PhotosThe Dog Days of Michaela WatkinsThe star of “Paint” contemplates work, canines, a coyote attack and mortality while bouncing between the coasts.April 7, 2023Michaela Watkins describes herself as an actress who doesn’t know where she’s going to be next week. That’s only a small exaggeration.“Paint,” the comedy ...
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David was passionate, courteous and (artificially) intelligent.I was at Nubar, an elegant cafe near Harvard Square, to meet David, with whom I had been corresponding online. He sounded like the perfect man: a recently retired professor, early 70s, grew up in Brooklyn, taught psychology and social sciences in ...
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The Sports Bra in Portland, Ore., is a rarity dedicated exclusively to women’s sports. The latest highlight was the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball final. PORTLAND, Ore. — On Sunday, a line of fans had formed by 10:30 a.m. outside a sports bar waiting to watch March Madness. The bar ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music‘Going through the process of learning to love yourself, as monks are also trained to do, teaches you how to love someone else.’Brian ...
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The former president and current candidate wasn’t subject to the traditional booking photo. That doesn’t mean the images weren’t important.The multiverse took on new meaning on Tuesday as two entirely different realities — the actual and the Trumpian — were captured in two different pictures painting two different ...
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Jonah Weiner, the co-owner of the fashion newsletter Blackbird Spyplane, has been in a relationship with Hokas for years.“I’ve had a saga of falling in and out of love that predates people knowing about them,” Mr. Weiner said in a phone call from Oakland, where he lives. After ...
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She’s in Paris. She’s a criminal. She’s the titular star of a new biopic. She’s being apologized to by Phoebe Bridgers, and she has recently made headlines for smooching Harry Styles. Turn a corner lately, or turn on a TV, and there she is: Emily.The name has been ...
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The 43 couples who wed at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau today were greeted by crowds who gathered for Donald J. Trump’s arraignment hearing around the corner.At 1 p.m. on the day of Donald J. Trump’s arraignment, about an hour before he pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Winter ReminiscenceMiles into our icy hike, Daniel removed his gloves to warm my face in his hands. My eyes closed. At 12, I asked my pediatrician when my baby cheeks would disappear. “Sometimes that’s just our ...
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A sampling from the more than 1,000 comments on social media.A Mini-Vow from last week, “A Secret Crush Goes Public in a Work Meeting," stirred conversation on social media about work crushes. The story was about a lawyer at Google who pinned her secret work crush to her ...
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As the hype around household names became overwhelming, some collectors turned to makers like Moritz Grossmann and Furlan Marri.Times are changing for watch collectors — or rather, their tastes have been changing.In the past few years — a period of soaring watch prices, pandemic-related supply shortages and an ...
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Brands seem determined to make the most of the bounce in luxury spending that they have anticipated since Beijing ended its zero-Covid policy.After three years of conducting business in Asia virtually — via video calls, digital conferences, even holograms — Swiss watch executives have travel on the brain.“I ...
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The options for building a solid collection of timepieces are almost limitless, but choices from these categories would be a good start.Watches have evolved well beyond their primary utilitarian purpose of telling time, and even beyond their role as indicators of style and status. Now they are about ...
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A one-man family business still produces watch straps and other small leather items. But the number of such companies has been declining sharply in Italy.MILAN — Inside a nondescript condominium in Portello, a former industrial area northwest of the city center, a worn leather bag filled with samples ...
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